The New York Comic Con 2007 was last week and The Review Zoo was there. We talked to creator of the webcomic turned print Superfrat, Tony DiGerolam.
He was a good guy and inducted me into the SuperFrat Fraternity. I am Brother Beebo, named so after Beebo the Supermonkey. Check out the interview at the link below. Read the rest of this entry »
The Dabel Brothers, under the banner of Marvel comics, have come out with several comic titles based on best-selling sci-fi and fantasy authors’ novels. Dabel Brothers Productions has been around since 2002, and their most recent line-up of novel adaptations started in the summer of 2006, but I didn’t discover them until I went to the con this weekend.
I just wanted to say a word about a program we encountered at the con, called Drawn to Diversity. When I first saw their booth, I thought they were representing another comic book title – I was pleasantly surprised to discover that they’re a group devoted to exploring the cultural significance of modern art (even if it’s not widely recognized as art). I appreciate what they’re trying to do, since I was the co-prez of a multicultural club back in high school.
Created by the students of
Their first year, they spread awareness of comic books, the art form’s history, and its cultural significance. This year, they started exploring the world of newspaper comics. Of course, they won’t stick to comic books and newspaper – they plan on exploring diversity in advertising, Disney animation, and Saturday morning cartoons, amongst other topics. The two college representatives I spoke to were really enthusiastic about the program. If you’d like them to speak at your school or business, would like to support them, or are interested in them for any other reason, contact Dan Napolitano via their website.
The Review Zoo spent the weekend at the 2nd annual New York Comic Con. Nearly every entertainment medium was represented – traditional superhero comics (of course), graphic novels, books, manga, video games, card games, anime, movies and even theater. Random costumed characters wandered. All around were booths catering to otakus and citizens of the geekdom with posters, hats, clothing, signed original art, figurines in every size, and more free swag than Stan Lee could shake his pencil at. (And make no mistake, Stan Lee was there – and so were the auditions for Who Wants to be a Superhero?)
The reviewers here at tRZ have enough new and upcoming stuff to keep our keyboards busy for several weeks. We took a ton of pictures and did several video interviews – those’ll be up soon. I’ll also be posting a review or two later today, so I hope you’ve got us bookmarked – you know you’ll want to come back.
[thumb:12:l]Let it never be said we on the East Coast and in NY don’t do weird well. While I have a long -standing gripe with New York as a whole, they’re stealing away the Nets to Brooklyn in a few years, both their football teams still play in Jersey and we don’t have one, and Staten Island is being a part of New York when really it should be Jersey, but I nearly silently tolerate it because Manhattan has theater. On and Off Broadway that is awesome and crazy. And being that this show is Off Broadway, ticket prices are lower then ones on Broadway, and even cheaper if you hit up a site like BroadwayBox.com like I did, and get yourself a discounted rate.
Evil Dead: The Musical seems to combine the first two Evil Dead movies into one big show. Having never seen any of the Evil Dead movies besides Army of Darkness, I was familiar with the character of Ash and Bruce Campbell and some of the things he’s been in but the first two Evil Deads remain a bit of a mystery for me.
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We got a chance to talk to the creators of a hot import comic Brodie’s Law on the 2nd Day of the NY Comic Con. Check it out. Read the rest of this entry »
I was fortunate enough to get some more one on one time with Ms. Andrea Grant today and talk to her a little more indepth about her new book, Minx, from her company Copious Amounts Press. Check out the video from the con. Read the rest of this entry »
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