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Fan Expo Day 3: Videodrome Wrap Up

August 25, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Fan Expo, FXC 20080 comment

Fan Expo 2008 wrapped up yesterday, and we’re still reeling from it all. We’ve logged a lot of hours of footage, including what I think are some great interviews with guests from the show. Besides the already posted interviews with Tobe Hooper, Brian Bolland, Rocco and Shawn of Mega 64, Mike Pasley director of Frag, and others, we still have tons to come. Currently in the hopper are sit downs with Kevin Eastman, writer John Meadows, Major League Gaming co-founder and chairman Mike Sepso not to mention extended interviews with…

Fan Expo: Brian Bolland Interview

August 25, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Brian Bolland, Fan Expo, FXC 2008, interview, Killing Joke41 Comments

Alex sat down with Brian Bolland, legendary comic artist behind Batman: The Killing Joke, Judge Dredd and Animal Man. They discuss the recolouring of The Killing Joke for the recently released ‘Remastered‘ edition, Mr. Bolland’s process, including drawing on a Wacom tablet, as well as the British comics invasion and more. We also managed to score a signed copy of the ‘Remastered’ Killing Joke that we will be giving away in a contest. Check back for more details soon.

Fan Expo: Kevin Eastman to bring us another Heavy Metal movie in 2010

August 25, 2008August 27, 2008 Danny X 2 Comments

Kevin Eastman, co-creator of the iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and current owner and editor of Heavy Metal Magazine, is planning on bringing another Heavy Metal Movie to the big screen. The story was broken by Variety Magazine on March 13 2008, but Eastman was kind enough to give us a few more details on the production, including some director talk. The new film will include a series of vignettes, each of which will be done by a different director. Until now, only Eastman, David Fincher, and Blur Studios’ Tim…

Fan Expo Day 2: We brought CAMERAS!!

August 23, 2008July 25, 2009 Danny X Fan Expo, FXC 20081 Comment

Our second day at Fan Expo is in the can. Some features we have to bring you include: One-on-one video interviews with Star Trek Voyager’s Kate Mulgrew, legendary director Wes Craven, cult favourite Henry Winkler, and the 2nd man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin. Legendary comic book artist Brian Bolland (The Killing Joke) sits down in front of the camera to discuss a little bit of everything. He also gave us a little present that we’ll be giving away very soon. More on that later. Tons and tons of insider…

Fan Expo Day 1: Through a Convention Centre, darkly

August 22, 2008July 25, 2009 Danny X Fan Expo, FXC 20080 comment

August 22, 2008 – 11:48 PM: Day 1 of Fan Expo is over, and what a day it was. It all started out with what was easily the finest example of poor planning and organization as we, along with several other members of the press, sat in a little room on hard plastic chairs for 5 straight hours on the promise that our press badges were going to be delivered to us “any minute now”. It absolutely has to be said that, considering its size and importance in the Convention…

Fan Expo: Indie Comic publisher “Fantasy Prone” wants to take you to a whole new world…with dinosaurs

August 22, 2008July 25, 2009 Danny X Fan Expo, Fantasy Prone, FXC 2008, interview7 Comments

In “United Free Worlds”, mankind discovers a new planet in our solar system and decides to colonize it. This is, apparently, a mistake. The book was written by Blake Leibel (Director & Writer, Spaceballs: The Animated Series) and drawn by Jason Raines (Director, Spaceballs: TAS). Fantasy Prone president Lawrence Longo and staff writer Jeff Wood were kind enough to take a couple of minutes to discuss the book with us. Check the video out here. (It’s labeled “rgb Fan Expo B”.) rgbFilter will be giving away prize packs including UFW…

More WATCHMEN eye candy from ComicCon

August 12, 2008August 12, 2008 Danny X 2 Comments

Our friends over at SuperHeroHype have posted the high-rez images of the Watchmen posters that were unveiled at ComicCon San Diego last week. Normally I’m no fan of showing too much of a hyped movie, especially one as touchy as Watchmen, because it only serves to build things up in one’s mind and leads to greater disappointment when things don’t pan out as one expects. If it were up to me, my entire marketing campaign would cost 50 bucks…and would consist of nothing more than a couple quick glimpses of…

Apocalipstix Interview With Ray Fawkes and Cameron Stewart

August 8, 2008April 17, 2009 Doug Groves 0 comment

This past Wednesday, we at rgbFilter went to the Toronto launch party for the new comic The Apocalipstix by writer Ray Fawkes and artist Cameron Stewart. Ray and Cameron were kind enough to give Alex some time to talk to them about the comic, and other projects they have coming up. It was a great night, presented by Chris from The Beguiling. After an intro and book signing session, the party continued with a couple of great bands, Dame and Terror Lake. There will definitely be more coverage of the…

Join us at the APOCALIPSTIX Graphic novel launch party

August 2, 2008August 2, 2008 drsquid 2 Comments

rgbFILTER will be covering this event for our podcast and we hope you will join us for what we are sure will be a great party. Details below about the event from the facebook event page THE APOCALIPSTIX is the new graphic novel by Toronto authors Ray Fawkes and Cameron Stewart, and fresh from their sold out pre-release at the San Diego Comic Convention these two top graphic novelists return to “play” their hometown with a book launch party featuring bands, prizes, and more THE APOCALIPSTIX: RAGNAROCK PARTY will feature…

Fanboys declare Dark Knight as the ‘Greatest Movie Ever!’

July 21, 2008July 25, 2009 drsquid Batman, imdb20 Comments

Not only has The Dark Knight achieved a record highest opening weekend ever (an estimated $155 million, beating Spiderman 3’s opening in 2007), but the film is now “officially” the “Greatest Movie of All-Time”. As of midnight, Monday, over 46 000 users of The Internet Movie Database have given The Dark Knight an average score of 9.5. This puts it in the top spot of IMDB’s Top 250 Movies as Voted by Our Users list. What are these people smoking? The Dark Knight is a very good movie, and not…

Video Comics All The Rage

July 14, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves video5 Comments

Is it just a matter of synchronicity, or something else? In the last couple of months, I’ve seen quite the increase in the idea of ‘video comics’, where traditionally drawn comics are turned into semi-animated stories. The original artwork is scanned in, voice actors recite the dialogue, and traditional camera techniques applied, such as faking depth of field, panning and zooming and so on. MTV just announced the video comic adaptation of the traditional print book “Invincible” which will air on MTV2, as well as be available targeted at iTunes…

Hypothecast

May 13, 2008July 25, 2009 Doug Groves hypothesis1 Comment

Paul, a sometime contributor to rgbFilter (and part of the rgbFilter podcast team) has released a short version of the first episode of Hypothecast. The podcast is a discussion of the process of making his Hypothesis web comic using photographs, Photoshop filters, and Comic Life. A more complete version of the video, along with a number of other goodies, will be available in limited print edition of Hypothesis. As full disclosure, I’m in this podcast, and will be contributing to the first volume of Hypothesis.