L. Frank Baum’s classic children’s story The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published 109 years ago and still inspires attempts to adapt it to other media. While the 1939 MGM movie tends to define the story in the minds of many, subsequent adaptations do stick closer to the original book than to the movie, including [...]

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I like the art of Adam Hughes very much, but this statue is bad: http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/03/24/batgirl-statue-adam-hughes/ Not comics, but this seems to be the season for Leiji Matsumoto movies: CG Captain Harlock — http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-03-24/captain-harlock-new-cg-pilot-images-staff-revealed Live Action Uchu Senkan Yamato (a.k.a. Star Blazers in the US) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jExoH_JjMZg Galaxy Express 999 is one of my all-time favorite manga. [...]

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A bored, punk-dressing god of death and a genius high school boy are the main characters in Death Note, written by Tsugumi Ohba and drawn by Takeshi Obata. The boy, Light Yagami, receives from the god a notebook with which he can kill people simply by writing their names in it. A plot with many [...]

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Comics are increasingly read as bits and bytes, on PCs and handheld devices. Blank creators Brothers of the Silence are publishing the comic in Flash on their site, and as image files on Facebook and several other sites. “Brothers” Ian LeWinter and Don Richmond talk about creating the comic and promoting it via social media [...]

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Tim and Mulele review two Web comics that have little in common besides the nationality of their creators! Amya, a recently-started, manga- an fantasy-influenced comic; and Hark, a Vagrant, featuring contemporary, humorous takes on historical events. Then Mulele critiques Tim’s recent artwork, and discussion of how to draw facial expressions ensues (view full post to [...]

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Though Asterios Polyp made the point that comics and (written) music are similar, doing a comic about music is not such an easy task. But Reinhard Kleist beautifully presents the music, and life, of a country music legend in Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness, recently released in English. How does it compare with the [...]

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For the past few weeks, every time I stumble across any interesting links in my comics website lurking, I’ve been emailing them on to Tim and Mulele (I’m guessing they don’t visit the same news websites I do). Tim has been encouraging me to post these on the Deconstructing Comics site, but I have been reluctant [...]

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