#142 Spyros Evangelos Armenis

8/25/08 Spyros Evangelos Armenis

SpyrosGreece is the word! Athens-based Spyros talks to Tim about comics in Greece: what’s available, what’s popular, and why quitting your day job is simply out of the question for Greek creators.

#141 “Dr. Slump” and “Cromartie High School”

Dr. SlumpGag manga! Tim talks to manga translator Kumar about two hilarious Japanese comics series, “Dr. Slump” by Akira Toriyama, and “Cromartie High School” by Eiji Nonaka.

8/18/08 “Dr. Slump” and “Cromartie High School”

ERIC’S “TAKE THE DARK KNIGHT TO THE IMAX!” COMICS NOW! NEWSLETTER

VOL. 10 #10 – October 2008

INTRODUCTION
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Now that I live in a larger city instead of the tiny, little, backwater town
in the Appalachian Mountains that I used to, I now have access to an IMAX
theater. So it was that at 8:00am Sunday a few weeks ago, I decided to
check out the new Batman movie in all of its IMAX glory (certain action
sequences and interstitials were filmed in IMAX’s super-large 70mm film
format goodness.

The Dark Knight is absolutely spectacular. In fact, the supporting cast is
so excellent that you might not notice that there isn’t a whole lot of
Batman time in the film. In addition, Heath Ledger is freaking spectacular
as The Joker (and this scripting of the Joker is the most accurate of the
villain to date).

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