Finally Caught Up
Catching up from the weekend yesterday means I left out a few items for space; let’s get them the attention they deserve, along with a few new things for today.
- The buzz around Buzz! is beginning to build, as the previously-mentioned original graphic novel from Ananth Panagariya (pretty words) and Tessa Stone (pretty pictures) approaches release. The spelling-bee-as-combat-sport story drops in a few weeks time, and the creators took the time to talk to Caleb Goellner at Comics Alliance about the power of words, words-as-pictures, and pictures-as-words. Good stuff.
- John Allison’s Bad Machinery has had a slow build for the past few years; a lot of fans of his previous Tackleford-set series never made the leap to the new protagonists and their mystery-solving ways, but those that have joined up in the meantime have become well attached to the wonder-teens¹. Now Publishers Weekly is getting in the love, naming the first Bad Machinery print collection to Best Books of 2013 (Children’s Fiction) list; I’d argue for an “all ages” designation rather than “children’s”², but there’s no arguing with the inclusion of The Case of the Team Spirit.
- Dean Trippe and Jim Zub get a little love from The AV Club, in the form of the latest comics review round-up, which appreciates both Something Terrible and Samurai Jack, respectively. Well done, Messers Z and T.
- Animators at Dreamworks will have another reason to appreciate their career path³, as the Stripped team head studioward for a Very Special Reason:
Today, Dreamworks is having us over to screen @strippedfilm for their animators & staff, as an inspiration film. How cool is that!
Pretty damn cool, Stripped co-director, co-producer, co-almost-everything Dave Kellett, pretty damn cool. I want to see this movie like you can hardly believe.
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¹ I, for one, appreciate how Lottie, Shauna, and Mildred are the centerpiece of the story; teen boys get all the attention in much of mass media that has teens as characters.
² Especially considering the fact that Delilah Dirk and Boxers & Saints also appear on the list, which is clearly not for children qua children. It’s really a YA list at the very least.
³ Apart from I’m a professional animator which, I know every job has its challenges and sucky days, but from here that’s pretty damn magical.
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