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NXNE 2010 kicks into gear

June 15, 2010 Doug Groves Film, Iggy And The Stooges, interactive, Music, North By Northwest, NXNE, NXNE 2010, NXNEi, Toronto2 Comments

It was a different world when Toronto’s NXNE (North By Northwest don’t you know) started out in 1994 as a music festival, based on the model by sister event SXSW (South By Southwest, natch). Even in the early days, NXNE was an ambitious affair with dozens of venues and enough bands, and music lovers, to fill them up. Since then the festival has grown and evolved, adding the film component in 2001, and most recently introducing NXNE interactive. Although nothing so big is expected here, it was at SXSW interactive…

Raindance Presents “Gunless” – a discussion panel with film’s director and producer

June 14, 2010June 14, 2010 kingpinlei Gunless, Paul Gross, raindance, Raindance Canada1 Comment

Raindance presents film “Gunless” – a lively & intimate discussion with Writer/Director William (Bill) Phillips and Producer Niv Fichman. Post panel discussion enjoy key networking opportunities, free appetizers, 1 free “Wild West” inspired drink & a barrel smoking DJ. Wednesday, June 16th – 6:30 – 9:30pm The Spoke Club – 600 King Street West, top floor Itinerary: +Elliot Grove, Founder of Raindance Film Festival & the British Independent Film Awards joining us LIVE via Skype from London UK +Writer/Director William Phillips joining us LIVE via Skype from LA +Producer Niv…

Gigantic Review

June 14, 2010 Peter Brunton Dark Horse Comics, Eric Nguyen, Gigantic, review, Rick Remender1 Comment

Gigantic trade paperback Writer: Rick Remender Penciller: Eric Nguyen Colorist: Matt Wilson Totally Not Based On A Song By The Pixies Sometimes a comic book just leaps off of the shelf at you, for no good reason other than the sheer look of the thing. Gigantic is a great example. The cover art is gorgeous, deftly shaded pencil work picked out in bright colours, with a washed out light bloom effect, and, most importantly, a fucking huge robot dude being attacked by aliens with kanji script thrown all across the…

Walking Dead: Zombie School

June 13, 2010 Doug Groves AMC, Comics, Frank Darabont, Gale Anne Hurd, Image Comics, Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Zombie School, Zombies7 Comments

The folks over at AMC are certainly doing a good job of using the Walking Dead series blog as a production diary. Besides some of the make up work that they released images of, they’re including more and more behind the scenes featurettes and shorts. The latest is “Zombie School“, where the zombie extras are actually trained in zombie choreography. They’ve also put up the first production still (the image above, natch) and you can see the high res version, as well as the video, after the break…

NSFW – TCAF 2010 – Evan Dorkin Interview

June 9, 2010June 9, 2010 Doug Groves Beasts Of Burden, Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Evan Dorkin, Hectic Planet, interview, Milk and Cheese, NSFW, Show, TCAF, TCAF 20103 Comments

Evan Dorkin, creator of books such as Hectic Planet and Milk & Cheese, and writer of the new Beasts Of Burden, gives us more of his time than he probably expected. In this wide ranging, NSFW, funny, insightful, some would say meandering – Alex and Evan talk about everything from Bangladesh to pop culture, cross dressing to ELO, and even the state of comics today.

TCAF 2010 – Emily Horne & Joey Comeau of A Softer World

June 7, 2010June 8, 2010 Doug Groves A Softer World, Emily Horne, interview, Joey Comeau, Show, TCAF, TCAF 2010, web comic, webcomic3 Comments

As we continue our TCAF 2010 coverage, Alex interviews the creators of the photo-comic strip A Softer World at the 2010 Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Joey & Emily discuss their process, other projects, and their path to success on the web.

The Walking Dead enters production

June 3, 2010June 3, 2010 Doug Groves AMC, Comics, Frank Darabont, Gale Anne Hurd, Image Comics, Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Zombies2 Comments

It’s no secret that The Walking Dead is one of our favourite ongoing comics here at rgb HQ, so when it was announced a TV series based on it was in the pipeline, we couldn’t be happier. A TV series based on the book could be potentially awesome, if handled properly, and eveything seems to be lining up in that direction. Although AMC’s list of original series is short, their track record is impeccable, what with Mad Men, and the best show currently on TV, Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad in…

Sweet Tooth Volume 1 review

June 3, 2010June 3, 2010 Peter Brunton Comic, Jeff Lemire, review, Sweet Tooth, Vertigo11 Comments

Mad Science, and Mike Mignola’s Missing Sperm If you’ve ever fantasized about surreptitiously stealing biological samples from Bill Willingham, Mike Mignola, and Cormac McCarthy in an effort to create a bold new breed of deranged comics creator (and let’s face it, who hasn’t?) then you need not fantasize any longer. Some genius of a mad scientist (OK, technically mad engineer) has apparently done just that, and this creation’s name is Jeff Lemire. It lives in Toronto, of all places. The real deal here is that this guy Jeff Lemire has…

TCAF 2010 – Ryan North Interview

June 2, 2010June 2, 2010 Doug Groves Dinosaur Comics, interview, Ryan North, Show, TCAF, TCAF 2010, webcomic6 Comments

Alex interviews Ryan North, creator of the popular webcomic Dinosaur Comics, at the 2010 Toronto Comic Arts Festival Besides talking about Dinosaur Comics, Ryan gives us his take on what web comics mean for comics in general, as well as using social media to get the word out, without abusing your readers’ trust. Ryan also talks a little about his awesome Time Traveler Essentials Shirt, which you can see after the jump.

God2.0 001 – Next Week On Lost part 1

June 1, 2010July 30, 2014 Doug Groves Comic, dougplanet, god2.0, laroquod, rgbcomic, webcomic3 Comments

Click the image for the larger version! NEXT >> This is the first of what we hope to be a long line of God2.0 comics. Sometime in the near future, we hope to have a better way to view them as well. 🙂

TCAF 2010 Brandon Bird Interview

June 1, 2010June 2, 2010 Doug Groves Brandon Bird, TCAF, TCAF 20101 Comment

Brandon Bird’s unique pop culture art style frequently consists of taking well known figures and putting them in unexpected scenarios, or presenting them in an unexpected style. At TCAF this year, Alex had a chance to talk to Bird about comic style art, Law and Order, and Nicolas Cage.

New Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World trailer & on-set interview

June 1, 2010June 3, 2010 drsquid Comic, Edgar Wright, Film, interview, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Cera, movie, Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, trailer4 Comments

Yesterday, the second trailer for Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World was released after Edgar Wright had decided to withhold its premiere until his Twitter campaign reaped a desired 100,000 ‘likes’ on Facebook. It was a little disappointing to find out that he was clamouring for ‘likes’ on a site that many people have moved on from. And, naturally, the cynic in me suspected that, even if the goal hadn’t been met, the trailer would have come out all the same. This trailer gives us a much better look at the…