This week on Off The Shelf, Ryan is joined by Brian Saur to take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week of June 2nd, 2015, and chat about some follow-up and home video news.
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IFC and Paramount / Shout! Factory: The Duke Of Burgundy, Reality, Clouds Of Sils Maria, Yoshishige Yoshida pre-order up at Arrow UK Wac – 6/23 – Hugo The Hippo! + Wac reveals their Entire June Slate on their Youtube Channel Scream Factory to release Wes Craven’s Shocker Kl Studio Classics to put out The Oblong Box (Poe adaptation with Vincent Price and Christopher Lee) Cohen Media: Under The Sun Of Satan (no date yet) Sony Pictures Classics: The Salt Of The Earth (July 14th) Cinema Guild: Jauja (July 21st)
New Releases
Apollo 13 – 20th Anniversary Edition Beetle Bailey...
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Episode Links & Notes
Follow-up
Ikarie Xb–1 is Czech, not Polish! Seiki Player
News
IFC and Paramount / Shout! Factory: The Duke Of Burgundy, Reality, Clouds Of Sils Maria, Yoshishige Yoshida pre-order up at Arrow UK Wac – 6/23 – Hugo The Hippo! + Wac reveals their Entire June Slate on their Youtube Channel Scream Factory to release Wes Craven’s Shocker Kl Studio Classics to put out The Oblong Box (Poe adaptation with Vincent Price and Christopher Lee) Cohen Media: Under The Sun Of Satan (no date yet) Sony Pictures Classics: The Salt Of The Earth (July 14th) Cinema Guild: Jauja (July 21st)
New Releases
Apollo 13 – 20th Anniversary Edition Beetle Bailey...
- 6/3/2015
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
Last week's Mad Men episode didn't bother to hide its 2001: A Space Odyssey fixation; it was named 'The Monolith," for Pete Campbell's sake! The spirit of Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke presided over this week's episode — "The Runaways" — as well, however, and not just the scene where Michael Ginsberg lip-reads a conversation between Lou Avery and Jim Cutler in the glassed-in box that house's the firm's state-of-the-art computer. 2001 eventually develops into a fable about a machine that, given a semblance of human consciousness, develops some of the less admirable,...
- 5/12/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Above you'll find the first comic that artist Bill Watterson has created since he retired Calvin & Hobbes in 1995. It is actually a poster that he created for a documentary film called Stripped. The doc explores the creation of these comic strips and their transition from newspapers to digital. It features interviews with the creators of Garfield, Cathy, For Better or For Worse, The Oatmeal, Penny Arcade, and even Watterson himself, who rarely gives interviews.
Watterson spoke to The Washington Post and explained the poster he did for the movie:
“Given the movie’s title and the fact that there are few things funnier than human nudity, the idea popped into my head largely intact. The film is a big valentine to comics, so I tried to do something really cartoon-y. I had thought of having it colored with off-registered printing dots like newspaper comics, but Dave asked if I’d paint it instead,...
Watterson spoke to The Washington Post and explained the poster he did for the movie:
“Given the movie’s title and the fact that there are few things funnier than human nudity, the idea popped into my head largely intact. The film is a big valentine to comics, so I tried to do something really cartoon-y. I had thought of having it colored with off-registered printing dots like newspaper comics, but Dave asked if I’d paint it instead,...
- 2/27/2014
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Last year, Calvin & Hobbes and the comic strip's creator Bill Watterson got their own documentary called Dear Mr. Watterson. Now a new documentary called Stripped goes a little more broad by focusing on Jim Davis, Cathy Guisewite, Mort Walker, Mike & Jerry, Matt Inman and Jeff Keane, the names behind comic strips like Garfield, Cathy, Beetle Bailey, Penny Arcade, The Oatmeal and Family Circus respectively. And there's plenty more cartoonists interviewed in this documentary looking into the art of comic strips. We love how it spans from the oldest newspaper strips to today's online comics. In addition, the poster below is the first comic strip illustration Watterson has made in 18 years. Check it out! Here's the first trailer for Dave Kellett and Frederick Schroeder's Stripped via The Film Stage: And here's the poster for the documentary, created and illustrated by Bill Watterson: Stripped is written and directed by Dave Kellett and Frederick Schroeder.
- 2/27/2014
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Archie Comics star Kevin Keller joins the It gets Better campaign today, and a social media blitz is occurring, on Tumblr, FacePlace, and Twitter.
Below you can see Dan Parent, the writer and artist of Kevin, explain the genesis and growth of this groundbreaking character.
Hopefully, the enormous success of Kevin’s coming out will prompt other comic characters to do the same. Richie Rich, Beetle Bailey … Little Dot.
The post It’s Kevin Keller Day! appeared first on thebacklot.com.
Below you can see Dan Parent, the writer and artist of Kevin, explain the genesis and growth of this groundbreaking character.
Hopefully, the enormous success of Kevin’s coming out will prompt other comic characters to do the same. Richie Rich, Beetle Bailey … Little Dot.
The post It’s Kevin Keller Day! appeared first on thebacklot.com.
- 7/9/2013
- by snicks
- The Backlot
The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and special items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.
12-gauge Comics
Anti #2 (Of 4), $3.99
3D Total Publishing
Digital Painting Techniques Volume 4 Sc, $49.99
Aam Markosia
Lexian Chronicles Omnibus Gn, $39.99
Long Gone Gn, $15.99
Sleaze Castle Etcetera Volume 1 Incomplete Final Cut Gn (not verified by Diamond), $49.99
Abrams
Star Wars Art Illustration Hc (Limited Edition), Ar
AC Comics
Men Of Mystery #87, $29.95
Ace Books
Patricia Briggs Cry Wolf Volume 1 Alpha And Omega Tp (not verified by Diamond), $22.95
Action Lab Entertainment
Order Of Dagonet #1, $4.99
Alterna Comics
Blood For Stone Gn, $9.99
Horror In The West Gn, $9.99
Amp! Comics For Kids
Lio Volume 1 There’s A Monster In My Socks Tp, $9.99
Anarchy Comics
Dark Revelation #2 (Of 3), $3.99
Antarctic Press
Gold Digger Halloween Special #8 (2012), $3.99
Steampunk Halloween 2012 #1, $3.50
Archie Comics
Kevin Keller #5 (Dan Parent Variant Cover), $2.99
Kevin Keller #5 (Dan Parent...
12-gauge Comics
Anti #2 (Of 4), $3.99
3D Total Publishing
Digital Painting Techniques Volume 4 Sc, $49.99
Aam Markosia
Lexian Chronicles Omnibus Gn, $39.99
Long Gone Gn, $15.99
Sleaze Castle Etcetera Volume 1 Incomplete Final Cut Gn (not verified by Diamond), $49.99
Abrams
Star Wars Art Illustration Hc (Limited Edition), Ar
AC Comics
Men Of Mystery #87, $29.95
Ace Books
Patricia Briggs Cry Wolf Volume 1 Alpha And Omega Tp (not verified by Diamond), $22.95
Action Lab Entertainment
Order Of Dagonet #1, $4.99
Alterna Comics
Blood For Stone Gn, $9.99
Horror In The West Gn, $9.99
Amp! Comics For Kids
Lio Volume 1 There’s A Monster In My Socks Tp, $9.99
Anarchy Comics
Dark Revelation #2 (Of 3), $3.99
Antarctic Press
Gold Digger Halloween Special #8 (2012), $3.99
Steampunk Halloween 2012 #1, $3.50
Archie Comics
Kevin Keller #5 (Dan Parent Variant Cover), $2.99
Kevin Keller #5 (Dan Parent...
- 10/7/2012
- by Adam B.
- GeekRest
This week at the finest purveyors of sequential art: Hold me closer, tiny blah blah; Jingoistic pulp at its finest; Two-way wrist radio not included; Maybe I was born to die in Berlin.
Dancer #1–I still have not read anything by Nathan Edmondson, though I’ve mentioned him in this here column once, if not twice. If I remember correctly, though, I ordered this because Image had a flurry of intriguing crime titles solicited in Previews. Or maybe I didn’t order it for that self-same reason–I get so many books as it is, and I’ve consistently been three weeks behind since March or so. Anyways, this sounds like a peach: A retired assassin is in Milan with his ballerina girlfriend when (natch) his past comes back to haunt him in the form of an unknown sniper. It may have been done, but I always like the juxtaposition...
Dancer #1–I still have not read anything by Nathan Edmondson, though I’ve mentioned him in this here column once, if not twice. If I remember correctly, though, I ordered this because Image had a flurry of intriguing crime titles solicited in Previews. Or maybe I didn’t order it for that self-same reason–I get so many books as it is, and I’ve consistently been three weeks behind since March or so. Anyways, this sounds like a peach: A retired assassin is in Milan with his ballerina girlfriend when (natch) his past comes back to haunt him in the form of an unknown sniper. It may have been done, but I always like the juxtaposition...
- 5/16/2012
- by Jimmy Callaway
- Boomtron
This week, the nation’s pundits have focused on a controversy on the comics page. Garry Trudeau’s long-running strip, Doonesbury, has a storyline about a woman in Texas seeking an abortion after the passage of the state’s invasive and insulting new laws. A number of newspapers have declined to run the strip because of the subject matter and the language. A number of others decided to run the strip on their op-ed page rather than the comics pages.
You can find a decent sampling of editorial responses to the controversy here.
Since he started the strip for his college paper in the late 1960s, Trudeau has followed a group of characters, students at Walden College, their extended families and their friends. By 1970, it was a sensation, syndicated in newspapers around the country. From the beginning, it reveled in political arguments, whether among Trudeau’s characters or real political figures,...
You can find a decent sampling of editorial responses to the controversy here.
Since he started the strip for his college paper in the late 1960s, Trudeau has followed a group of characters, students at Walden College, their extended families and their friends. By 1970, it was a sensation, syndicated in newspapers around the country. From the beginning, it reveled in political arguments, whether among Trudeau’s characters or real political figures,...
- 3/16/2012
- by Martha Thomases
- Comicmix.com
Continuing a great and long-standing tradition, about 90 of our top newspaper comic strips will be commemorating the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on and in Boston Ma, New York City NY, Newark NJ, Shanksville Pa and Washington DC by producing special strips, with each cartoonist making his or her individual comment on the event.
Strips that will be participating include Agnes, Apt. 3-g, Archie, Arctic Circle, Ask Shagg, B.C., Baby Blues, Barney & Clyde, Beakman And Jax, Beetle Bailey, Between Friends, Big Nate, Bleeker The Rechargeable Dog, Blondie, Brewster Rockit: Spaceguy!, Buckets, Buckles, Candorville, Chuckle Bros, Crankshaft, Curtis, Daddy’s Home, Deflocked, Dennis The Menace, Dick Tracy, Dog Eat Doug, Dogs Of C-Kennel, Doonesbury, Dustin, Edge City, Elderberries, Fastrack, Fort Knox, Freshly Squeezed, Funky Winkerbean, Gasoline Alley, Grand Avenue, Hagar The Horrible, Heart Of The City, Heathcliff, Heaven’s Love Thrift Shop, Herb And Jamaal, Hi And Lois, Home And Away,...
Strips that will be participating include Agnes, Apt. 3-g, Archie, Arctic Circle, Ask Shagg, B.C., Baby Blues, Barney & Clyde, Beakman And Jax, Beetle Bailey, Between Friends, Big Nate, Bleeker The Rechargeable Dog, Blondie, Brewster Rockit: Spaceguy!, Buckets, Buckles, Candorville, Chuckle Bros, Crankshaft, Curtis, Daddy’s Home, Deflocked, Dennis The Menace, Dick Tracy, Dog Eat Doug, Dogs Of C-Kennel, Doonesbury, Dustin, Edge City, Elderberries, Fastrack, Fort Knox, Freshly Squeezed, Funky Winkerbean, Gasoline Alley, Grand Avenue, Hagar The Horrible, Heart Of The City, Heathcliff, Heaven’s Love Thrift Shop, Herb And Jamaal, Hi And Lois, Home And Away,...
- 8/31/2011
- by Mike Gold
- Comicmix.com
Krazy Kat & The Art of George Herriman A Celebration
By Craig Yoe
176 pages, Abrams ComicArts, U.S. $29.95/Can. $35.95
As a kid, my first exposure to Krazy Kat were the 50 animated shorts that were produced between 1962-1964 and ran with Beetle Bailey and Snuffy Smith cartoons in a thirty minute block. I found the cartoons charming if a little odd and it was years later before I finally saw some of George Herriman’s wonderful comic strip work. While a comic genius, I knew little about him or how the world perceived his amazing creation.
Thankfully, Craig Yoe, a man with a keen eye for pop art and culture, has assembled a work dedicated to Herriman’s art but also serves as a biography. I now know that the Herriman was born as a light-skinned, Creole African-American in Louisiana before moving west where he did his professional work. In California, he...
By Craig Yoe
176 pages, Abrams ComicArts, U.S. $29.95/Can. $35.95
As a kid, my first exposure to Krazy Kat were the 50 animated shorts that were produced between 1962-1964 and ran with Beetle Bailey and Snuffy Smith cartoons in a thirty minute block. I found the cartoons charming if a little odd and it was years later before I finally saw some of George Herriman’s wonderful comic strip work. While a comic genius, I knew little about him or how the world perceived his amazing creation.
Thankfully, Craig Yoe, a man with a keen eye for pop art and culture, has assembled a work dedicated to Herriman’s art but also serves as a biography. I now know that the Herriman was born as a light-skinned, Creole African-American in Louisiana before moving west where he did his professional work. In California, he...
- 7/28/2011
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
First off, I’m back! I ran down to lovely Lexington, Va to talk to OUTLaw, the Glbt student organization at Washington & Lee University. They were great people, and didn’t throw rotten vegetables at me, so I think we had a really great talk about bullying, suicide, and Glee. Many thanks to Emerald, David, Chad, Anthony and everyone else for having me.
Mike O’Malley has a great interview about playing Burt Hummel and how much the show means, and how he and Chris Colfer go about all those heavy scenes. But what really got me was when he was discussing the sex education talk Burt and Kurt had, and how sex ed talks between parents and kids focus on the bad things. “And look — parents don’t want their kids having sex. If they did, they’d teach them technique! I don’t care how open-minded you are.
Mike O’Malley has a great interview about playing Burt Hummel and how much the show means, and how he and Chris Colfer go about all those heavy scenes. But what really got me was when he was discussing the sex education talk Burt and Kurt had, and how sex ed talks between parents and kids focus on the bad things. “And look — parents don’t want their kids having sex. If they did, they’d teach them technique! I don’t care how open-minded you are.
- 3/30/2011
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
Our friends at Titan Books have been very good to us and give us loads of competitions for you, our lovely readers to win! We’ll no doubt have more coming in the following months but in the meantime, they’ve sent me their whereabouts at San Diego Comic Con (Sdcc) 2010.
I put up a post a week or so ago about the brand new Drew Stuzan book, The Art of Drew Struzan which is coming out September 24th. Well Stuzan fans, he’s going to be at Sdcc this year to do some book signing. He’ll be in Autograph Alley (AA19) on Saturday 24th at 11am.
There’s rather a lot more going on for Joss Whedon, Sucker Punch and Tank Girl fans, all of which will have a prescence at Comic-Con 2010.
Titan Books’ brand new website went live yesterday and you can check it out for all the movie goodness here.
I put up a post a week or so ago about the brand new Drew Stuzan book, The Art of Drew Struzan which is coming out September 24th. Well Stuzan fans, he’s going to be at Sdcc this year to do some book signing. He’ll be in Autograph Alley (AA19) on Saturday 24th at 11am.
There’s rather a lot more going on for Joss Whedon, Sucker Punch and Tank Girl fans, all of which will have a prescence at Comic-Con 2010.
Titan Books’ brand new website went live yesterday and you can check it out for all the movie goodness here.
- 7/20/2010
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
On July 16, 2010, in Columbus, Ohio, the Postal Service™ issued a 44-cent, Sunday Funnies commemorative stamps honoring five of our most beloved comic strips: Beetle Bailey, Calvin and Hobbes, Archie, Garfield, and Dennis the Menace, in a pressure-sensitive adhesive (PSA) pane of 20 stamps, designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland.
Presumably, the logic is that if you collect comics, you can probably be lured into becoming a stamp collector too... and I've heard worse ideas to balance the federal budget.
Presumably, the logic is that if you collect comics, you can probably be lured into becoming a stamp collector too... and I've heard worse ideas to balance the federal budget.
- 7/19/2010
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
Screen legend Katharine Hepburn and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa are being commemorated by the United States Postal Service in 2010.
Katharine Hepburn's stamp is part of the "Legends of Hollywood" series. This four-time Best Actress Oscar winner's stamp will go on sale May 12, 2010.
The Mother Teresa stamp is being held back until Aug. 26, 2010, when it will be released on Mother Teresa's birthday. This remarkable woman won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work in India.
Other stamps include:
A Sunday Funnies series that features Archie, Beetle Bailey, Calvin and Hobbes, Dennis the Menace and Garfield, available in July.
Ten more "Flags of Our Nation" stamps will be released in April. This set covers the states of Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and North Carolina.
A series of two stamps honoring the Negro Leagues Baseball will be available in June.
Katharine Hepburn's stamp is part of the "Legends of Hollywood" series. This four-time Best Actress Oscar winner's stamp will go on sale May 12, 2010.
The Mother Teresa stamp is being held back until Aug. 26, 2010, when it will be released on Mother Teresa's birthday. This remarkable woman won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work in India.
Other stamps include:
A Sunday Funnies series that features Archie, Beetle Bailey, Calvin and Hobbes, Dennis the Menace and Garfield, available in July.
Ten more "Flags of Our Nation" stamps will be released in April. This set covers the states of Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and North Carolina.
A series of two stamps honoring the Negro Leagues Baseball will be available in June.
- 12/31/2009
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
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