Posts tagged with 'Blake_Robinson'

    • ACTION WORDS

      POSTED BY BLAKE ROBINSON COMPILED BY: CHRIS RUDOLPH EDITED BY: STEVEN NELSON, SEPTEMBER 19 2007 12:10 PM | PERMALINK

       

      SPAK! SKREEEEESH! KRONG!

       

      Did you know that comic book publishers employee a person whose sole responsibility it is to sit around developing newer, more visceral action words? Well, it's true. Honestly.

      OK, not really, but poring through the literally tens of comic books that we do each day, got us thinking about these little bits of comics that make our lives so much more exciting.

      Where do they come from? Is there any limit to how many times "KERSPLAT!" can be used in a series? We...

    • Cormac McCarthy on Toy Story 3

      POSTED BY , JULY 31 2007 10:37 AM | PERMALINK

       

      So I'm a few days behind the curve on this one, but it's no less valid. This past weekend while stumbling down St. Mark's fueled by bourbon and red bull (and Chinese food), I happened across the latest issue of Village Voice.

      Contained within was a combination of two of the things most dear to me in all of creation: comic and Cormac McCarthy. Comic artist Ruben Bolling's McCarthy-esque imagining of "Toy Story 3" was, while not perfect, a fitting homage to the great word smith:

      An Oprah-fueled...