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Wolk, Parker and Lieber at Powell’s tonight!

By Periscope Studio, on August 1, 2007, 9:38 am in: Douglas Wolk, Jeff Parker, Jonathan Case, Steve Lieber / Comments are closed

Sorry, I don’t have part two of the con report yet.

From the calendar at Powell’s Books:
The first serious, readable, provocative, canon-smashing book of comics criticism by the leading critic in the field, Douglas Wolk’s Reading Comics (Da Capo Press) illuminates the most dazzling creators of modern comics — from Alan Moore and Alison Bechdel to Dave Sim and Chris Ware — and introduces a critical theory that explains where each fits into the pantheon of art. This event includes a panel discussion on graphic novels, featuring Wolk, Whiteout artist Steve Lieber, and a late addition to the line-up: Agents of Atlas author Jeff Parker!

Karl Kesel sends along one of his con sketches:

And we asked Jonathan Case about his con experience and in his radio-trained voice, he replied:”It was a big opportunity for me to meet people on both the publishing and creative side of the business, folks like Jeff Smith and Brett Warnock. It was great to get such a positive response to my work!” He’s only got a few of his excellent Seafreak preview booklets left, but if you blog about comics and would like one, email us your address at periscope.studio(at)gmail.com and we’ll send one out.

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A little peek at the Whiteout movie.

By Periscope Studio, on July 3, 2007, 9:20 am in: Douglas Wolk, Jeff Parker, Jonathan Case, Sea Freak, Steve Lieber, whiteout movie / Comments are closed

Extra TV made a visit to the Whiteout set and shot this interview with Kate Beckinsale. Turn down the sound on your computer so you don’t have to hear the creepy-ass voice-over guy. This was actually filmed one of the days I was there. And hey, as long as Warner Bros is showing a bit of the look of the film, I guess I might as well put up a few of my sketchbook doodles from the set:

Kate Beckinsale and Gabriel Macht, in character.

Executive Producer Don Carmody

A tech waitiing for instructions.

Director of Photography Chris Soos

Director Dominic Sena. When his focus got intense, he’d sort of “conduct” along with the action, moving his hands like there was an orchestra in front of him.

Those Newsarama and Scans Daily links also have comics in them for you to read.

Here’s a sharp review of a favorite webcomic of mine- Planet Saturday, by Pittsburgh-based illustrator Monty Kane.

Douglas Wolk writes us:

Hi, my dear Portland friends–

As most of you know, I’ve got a book that comes out this week:
“Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean.” There’s
going to be a release party for it, too: a First Thursday event this
Thursday evening, July 5, from 6 to 10 PM. It’s at Floating World
Comics, an awesome little comics-and-art-book store at 20 NW Fifth
Ave. #101, between Burnside and Couch; their number is 503.241.0227.
The “Reading Comics” release party doubles as an art opening and book
release party for Jeremy Tinder’s book “Black Ghost Apple Factory.”
It should be a good time.

Jeremy also made a poster for the party, which you can see here.

Here’s a sketch from Jonathan Case of a character from his GN in progress, Sea Freak.

-Steve Lieber, posting for Periscope.

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Appreciating Comics panel at the library.

By Periscope Studio, on June 27, 2007, 11:56 pm in: Colleen Coover, Douglas Wolk, Dylan Meconis, Gail Simone, Jenn Manley Lee, library, Sara Ryan, Scott McCloud / Comments are closed

The Appreciating Comics panel was a huge success. Big crowd. Great questions. Fun. Informative. All that. The moderator was Douglas Wolk, and the panelists were Colleen Coover, Dylan Meconis, Scott McCloud, Jenn Manley Lee, and Gail Simone.

Big scramble for seats. It was standing room only, and they wound up turning a lot of people away.