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 Cash biopic Walk the Line? Tim and Paul review.
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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 because I would just be regurgitating links I stole from other people’s lists of links. So, I’ve finally conceded, and in a flagrant abuse of administrative power will post a link to a video completely unrelated to comics in any way, and stolen from Tom Spurgeon’s www.comicsreporter.com —
Star Trek Convention 1975. If you love Star Trek in any way, this will take your breath away:
And now for some real links —
Ditko compositions: http://abstractcomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/ditkos-spider-man-part-1-aka-hey-look.html
Balak’s digital comics: http://balak01.deviantart.com/art/about-DIGITAL-COMICS-111966969
The many faces of Lum (Urusei Yatsura): http://www.tcj.com/manga/so-many-lums
Basement collection: http://www.seriejournalen.dk/blogs.asp?blogid=18&id=478#artikel478
More Ditko: http://comicscomicsmag.blogspot.com/2010/01/rom-64.html
Traditional Comics: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeXCsvUlzSc
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