This Thor cartoon, a mere 17 minutes long, has more going on, and is more fun, than any number of full-length animated features. What it lacks in animation quality it more than makes up in story, music, and voice acting. The scene in Don Blake’s office with the Enchantress is very funny.
BEHOLD! Thor the God of Thunder…
Scott McCloud, creator of the independent comic book series ZOT! and author of the book Understanding Comics, has created an online comic book for Google, explaining the new Chrome browser.
Chrome sounds interesting, mostly because of its independent tabs, but I’ll wait a bit before jumping on it. Computerworld’s review of Chrome is very good. Ever have a page in one tab lock up, resulting in a crash of the whole browser, or forcing you to crash it? Sure you have, so if you have at least a gig of memory you will like independent tabs.
McCloud, who grew up in Massachusetts, changed the spelling of his name from McLeod when he started working in comics. I know this because his mother’s apartment happens to be around the corner from my mother-in-law, in the retirement community where they live. I assume Scott wanted to avoid confusion with comic book artist Bob McLeod, who was already established in the business at the time McCloud came on the scene.
In memory of comic book artist Jack Kamen, here are a few minutes with him from the DVD Tales from the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television.
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Inventor Dean Kamen‘s father Jack has died. He was one of the illustrators of the notorious EC line of comic books in the 1950’s. At the first link you’ll find my Kamen-related items, including an example of Jack’s work.
Erik Salholm in Ireland, whose blog is called O.K. EROK!, has linked to my “In Search of Steve Ditko” posts, and I’m going to link to his “Little Superman in McCay Land” post.
This secret project is very different from the other secret project. All I’ll say about that one is it involves TV. This one involves comic books, and it relates to the header I just put up. I’ll put it here too, for later when the header has changed.
I don’t know yet when this happen. It involves D.F. Rogers, and Paul Howley it involves you too, so write and I’ll tell you what’s up (no, you don’t have to do anything, it’s about something you did ten years ago).
