http://www.nijomu.com comics, art, and other mental meanderings by Nick Mullins Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:24:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I mentioned before, don't expect any Carnivale posts for awhile. Probably until the end of October. The short story I'm working on is called "Defrost" and I have three pages of it done and it'll be about 20 pages total. I'm still going back and forth about the ending ... http://www.nijomu.com/?p=1501 Hey, Jason has a blog, Cats Without Dogs. And it's in English for those of us who can't read Norwegian and have trouble with complex French. And he has a cool little comic about Darth Vader and Tom Waits. http://www.nijomu.com/?p=1499 This is another Final Girl Film Club review. In this film, Chuck Norris stops the Book of Revelations from happening. Doesn’t that sound cool? Can’t you just picture Chuck giving a roundhouse to the anti-christ? Or taking down the many-eyed goat while the streets erupt in fire and the angels blow ... http://www.nijomu.com/?p=1494 I was at the de Young last week and saw these. First off, these are not assemblages of clothes; these are photographs (or photos of photographs…). In person, they look 3D, a photographic trompe-l'oeil. As you can probably guess, what struck me about this piece is that it is intended ... http://www.nijomu.com/?p=1490 I just learned from Same Hat! that Satoshi Kon, the director of Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika, and Paranoia Agent, just died of cancer. At the age of 46. It's heartbreaking and it's a huge loss. If you've never seen the work of Satoshi Kon, then I suggest you treat yourself. ... http://www.nijomu.com/?p=1488 This will probably be the last Carnivale post for a few weeks. http://www.nijomu.com/?p=1485 Yeah, I haven't posted much in awhile, especially any Carnivale updates. Mostly this has been due to the distractions of summer and increased parental responsibilities. But there will be fewer Carnivale updates for a little while for another reason. I've been asked by the Nashville Review to do a story ... http://www.nijomu.com/?p=1482 Awhile ago in the local art and office supply store, I saw that Pentalic had a new cover for its "Paper for Pens." I wondered if the paper itself had changed, but I didn't try it out. My experience with the old "Paper for Pens" was that while it advertised ... http://www.nijomu.com/?p=1479 • It Was the War of the Trenches by Jacques Tardi. If you've read novels like All Quiet on the Western Front or poems like Hardy's "The Man He Killed" or Owen's "Dulce and Decorum Est" then you have some idea of the tone Tardi strikes in this graphic novel. ... http://www.nijomu.com/?p=1476 If you go to the Wilson page at Amazon, you can listen to a nice interview with Dan Clowes. http://www.nijomu.com/?p=1474