Tad

May 3, 2012 9:45 am This Giant-man look is one of the worst costume designs ever. You know how there're costumes that only a really good artist can make look good? This is not one of them. No one made this look good.

April 14, 2012 11:07 am Coupla things: @j206 - I hope you don't have to guess. I've seen all sorts of techniques used in digital comics and frankly, simplifying layouts is not one that tops the list. I assume there's some sort of quick look feature, the equivalent of paging through a comic at a store so a potential reader can make an informed decision. About marketing - if you're a Wednesday comic shop guy and patrol various comic websites, the marketing isn't for you, or at least shouldn't be. The companies know you'll find out about them. Any marketing should be pointed at the non-comic shop reader. There are way more Smallville TV fans than LCS visitors.

March 20, 2012 4:48 pm I got up a little after my normal work day wake up and made the drive from Moorpark to Anaheim in record time -- evidently just ahead of the hurricane-like storm moving down the coast. I made one of those cross your fingers driving decisions that worked out: I made a big circle around to approach the resort parking from the west, opposite the freeway. Score! But as for Anaheim hosting major conventions? People, Disneyland is not moving away anytime soon. There will be traffic. The con itself was great. In Artists Alley the creators seemed to do lots of business yet still have time to actually chat. I managed to visit with Mike Mignola when he had no line at all! Also met the brothers Houghton, creators of Reed Gunther, The Bear Riding Cowboy and had a great visit. Bought a book from Humberto Ramos, THE DARE DETECTIVES from Archaia Press and did a signing with the Darkwing Duck/Muppet artists, James Silvani and Amy Mebberson. I wish I had booked a night at a hotel to spend a second day without the drive hassle. I kept an eye out for Romo. Didn't know he had been washed out by the rain.

March 5, 2012 11:36 pm These characters WERE rejuvenated. That's how you got Barry Allen and Wally West.

March 5, 2012 4:39 pm My pet peeve, and it even happened in my own shows, are giant, empty rooms with no props for the characters to interact with. I say fill the meeting room with awesome Kirby machines. Looking forward to the new Spider-man show although I thought the last one was "Spectacular."

February 18, 2012 3:51 am A professionally made, digital font doesn't mean that the spacing between the letters and between the words will be correct. A letterer has to nudge the letters into place. It's all in the details, including italics, when to use BOLD and what kind of bold and the choice of fonts for sound effects.

February 14, 2012 2:48 pm The first time I remember being struck by Severin's work was when he took over Nick Fury, Agent of Shield from Jack Kirby. Suddenly the stories seemed part of the "real" world no matter how outrageous the conceits. I'd like to see some sort of memorial collection of his work published.

November 19, 2011 11:36 am People should check out his blog for another 24 characters. Awesome stuff. http://benbalistreri.blogspot.com/

October 27, 2011 2:26 pm Unless you're going to have some radical cosmetic surgery, you are never going to be an accurate representation of your comic hero. Halloween is a celebration of the imagination, dark or otherwise. For one day a year, I say we let everyone into the club.

October 27, 2011 11:17 am Covers are like movie posters. Both can sport tag lines to lure you in. Nothing wrong with that. There will be bad cover copy just like there are badly drawn or poorly composed covers without words. You wanna see words, you check out Marvel covers of the seventies. You'd get the title, some dialogue, descriptive copy and some sort of reference to the Marvel bullpen or true believers. That's when it was definitely out of control.