Showing posts with label comic books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comic books. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Meg Fox a Wonder Woman with Armani



This is truly a WONDER WOMAN!!!

All the world's waiting for you, and the power you possess.
In your satin tights, Fighting for your rights, and the old Red, White and Blue.
Now the world is ready for you, and the wonders you can do.
Make a hawk a dove, Stop a war with love, Make a liar tell the truth.
Wonder Woman, Get us out from under, Wonder Woman.
All our hopes are pinned on you, and the magic that you do.
Stop a bullet cold, Make the Axis fall, Change their minds, and change the world.
You're a wonder, Wonder Woman.



As we reported in January, Oscar-worthy actress Megan Fox signed on as the face (and body) for Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani Jeans. Need we explain the ad? Just stare and smile.



The campaign photos were shot by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott in L.A. And for the ladies, there's an alternate Armani ad starring soccer-playing pretty boy Cristiano Ronaldo. We try and make everyone happy. View both after the jump.



and this other version... hehehehe

Friday, March 12, 2010

Kick-Ass: Creating The Comic, Making The Movie

If you're face-pulpingly excited for the arrival of gritty superhero epic Kick-Ass next month, then you can help the wait go by faster with a new art book, crammed with Kick-Ass facts.

In Kick-Ass: Creating The Comic, Making The Movie, out now from Titan Books, Mark Millar takes us inside the process of crafting his super-violent, fucked-up take on superheroes in the real world. If you can get past Millar's typically hyperbolic tone, you'll find his revelations pretty fascinating — including the fact that Dave Lizewski might be Millar's most autobiographical character yet, with his dead mother and struggling single dad. Millar even thought about trying to become a superhero himself, as a teenager. But Dave's actually named after the winner of a contest. Millar also explains how the earliest drafts of Kick-Ass were only about the psychotic Big Daddy and his daughter Hit-Girl, but the story only took shape when he came up with a new main character, Dave. Oh, and you learn first hand why people who see Millar working on his early comic-script drafts think he must be a serial killer plotting a murder spree.




Just as fascinating, and easier to look at, are John Romita Jr.'s early designs for some of the characters in Kick-Ass, including a Big Daddy who looked a bit different:

Director Matthew Vaughn talks about how the studios all loved the idea of Kick-Ass but said no to making it, and explains the process of making such a big film without any studio support.


Also, you learn from the movie's writer Jane Goldman why Big Daddy doesn't swear, and yet his daughter Hit Girl swears like a sailor. (He made her watch a lot of action movies.) There are incredible amounts of detail layered on in this movie's world, and when you look at Romita Jr.'s individual illustrations that became Big Daddy's "villains wall," you realize just how much love went into this thing, and how insane everybody involved with it had to be to make it happen.

Most of all, you just get overwhelmed with the awesomeness of all the art, from storyboards to comic art to movie concept art to finished details that you won't notice in the actual film. The costumes, especially, undergo an epic journey from Millar's early scribbles to the colorful pastiches in the final movie. For people who are interested in the development of superheroes in comics and movies, most of all, this book will be a vital touchstone.


Saturday, September 12, 2009

Are You The Next Graphic Novelist?

A graphic novel is a narrative work in which the story is conveyed to the reader using the comics form. The term is employed in a broad manner, encompassing non-fiction works and thematically linked short stories as well as fictional stories across a number of genres. Graphic novels are typically bound in longer and more durable formats than familiar comic magazines, using the same materials and methods as printed books, and are generally sold in bookstores and specialty comic book shops rather than at newsstands.











Cover art for the 1987 U.S. (right) and U.K. (left) collected editions of Watchmen, published by DC Comics and Titan Books

The evolving term graphic novel is not strictly defined, and is sometimes used, controversially, to imply subjective distinctions in artistic quality between graphic novels and other kinds of comics. It suggests a complete story that has a beginning, middle and end, as opposed to an ongoing series. It can also imply a story that is outside the genres commonly associated with comic books, or that deals with more mature themes. It is sometimes applied to works that fit this description even though they are serialized in traditional comic book format. The term is sometimes used to disassociate works from the juvenile or humorous connotations of the terms comics and comic book, implying that the work is more serious, mature, or literary than traditional comics.



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