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...interesting and closely-watched comix events of the year takes place this week when new publisher First Second releases its inaugural lineup of books. An imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a trade publishing division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing group, First Second will be uniquely dedicated to new works of graphical literature. (Full disclosure: First Second has hired me to edit a book project due in 2008.) Unlike previous ventures into the graphic novel medium by traditional publishers, which tended to be more like timid toe-dips into an unfamiliar pond, First Second has an ambitious and smart lineup of books...
Vampire Loves by Joann Sfar ought to be the break-out hit for First Second. If the filmmakers Eric Rohmer (Pauline at the Beach) and Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride) ever teamed up on a graphic novel, it might well resemble this funny take on the complex love life of a sensitive vampire ("I bite with one tooth so that it looks like a mosquito bite") and his friends. Sfar imagines a world being shared with our own, but made up of ghosts, monsters and witches who do things like rent cruise ships so they can be with their...
...talent, he didn't. Two: Wood's cluelesss movies played in theaters; Bettie's were sold under the counter, mailed in plain brown wrappers. Yet she has been elevated to pulp goddess. The beatification process began in 1980, when artist Dave Stevens created a Bettie character in his graphic novel The Rocketeer. Jennifer Connelly gave her full-figured life in the 1990 movie version, and the cult was under way. A talking Bettie Page tattoo (voiced by Jodie Foster) anchored an episode of The X Files. Robert Foster, in his book The Real Bettie Page: The Truth About the Queen...
...same reaction as Jackson. This, they thought, is the kind of exuberant, self-aware tastelessness that can unite everyone at the summer box office. Not only did they demand that the title stay, they wanted violence, profane monologues from Jackson--the Olivier of the F bomb--and graphic snakebites. And they made sure the filmmakers knew it--not through any organized e-mail campaign but with bizarre spasms of Snakes-inspired creativity. "We were fortunate," says director David Ellis. "We had the ability to listen to the audience before we finished, so we could totally deliver exactly what they dream...
...universes, Gaiman knows the importance of detail - and it is his ability to commute between them and the real world that has expanded his fan base far beyond the fantasy-fiction clichés of teen goths and pimply geeks. Whether through film adaptations of his best-selling fiction, graphic novels, children's books or screenplays, Gaiman is a hot commodity these days. Today he's in London for just 24 hours to check on the progress of Wolves and visit the set of Stardust, the film version of his 1997 romantic fairy fantasy, which director-producer Matthew Vaughn (Layer...