Thursday, July 8th, 2004
It’s the 10th year anniversary of Giant Robot magazine. I remember picking up the first issue of Giant Robot at Tower Records, which was back then one of the few mainstream places one can buy underground zines. The first issue, with the sleeping sumo wrestler on the cover as you see me holding above, was a true zine. Its irreverent pages, filled with esoteric Asian-American cultural references, were photocopied and stapled together by hand. By the fourth issue (the one on the right above), it had acquired a sleek 4-color cover but kept its interior pages rough-looking and in black and white (screened at 60 lpi). Nowadays, the magazine is a glossy, full-color rag but it has somehow stayed true to the spirit of its zine days.
(nytimes article via cheesedip)
Tags: asian, giantrobot, magazine, towerrecords, underground, zines
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Thursday, July 31st, 2003
Just saw Daredevil on DVD. Man, that was one baaad costume. Marvel’s on a roll. What’s next? Well, there’s The Punisher and The Fantastic Four. Other upcoming comic flicks are DC’s Watchmen and Dark Horse’s Hellboy.
Superhero comics have been adapted to film for decades. But what about other types of comics, specifically underground comix? The first of its kind, as far as I’m concerned, is Dan Clowes’s Ghost World which came out in 2000. Its director, Terry Zwigoff, released a 1994 documentary, Crumb, about underground comic artist Robert Crumb’s strange life and dysfunctional family (once, I saw his brother Maxon panhandling on Market St. in San Francisco). This time, one of Crumb’s comic books, American Splendor, gets adapted to the screen and will be shown in theaters on August 15.
Now what I want to know is will Gerry Alanguilan’s Wasted the Movie ever be finished?
Update: upon further reading, I discover that Crumb did not exclusively illustrate American Splendor. The book written by Harvey Pekar has been illustrated by other artists such as Frank Stack, Joe Sacco and Colin Warneford. Also, The Wily Filipino blogged about this movie way back in January.
Tags: americansplendor, comics, crumb, danclowes, daredevil, dvd, fantasticfour, film, ghostworld, hellboy, marvel, maxon, pekar, punisher, rcrumb, robertcrumb, sanfrancisco, underground, wasted, watchmen
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