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"(Hollywood Gang Productions)has optioned rights to graphic novel The Last Christmas from Image Comics.

Written by Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan, the novel revolves around Santa Claus, who turns his back on Christmas and goes into seclusion after nuclear war has destroyed the world. When the North Pole gets attacked, Santa must battle zombies and renegades to save the remaining survivors, and ultimately, the holiday."

Variety reports on the sale of The Last Christmas, illustrated by Rick Remender.

"Meconis' illustrations give us a square-jawed man with a speech impediment who drinks, chain-smokes and works in his shirt sleeves. The image of him on the night he conceives of his famous experiment is marvelous. Working late on Christmas Eve, Harlow accidentally locks himself in the monkeys' cage. The animals crawl all over him, nestling against his shoulders, and the annoyed look on his face is priceless."

The L.A. Times reviews Jim Ottaviani and Dylan Meconis' Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love. (They also say she's an OEL manga artist, but it's a great review otherwise, so what the hell.)

Labels: Dylan Meconis, Jim Ottaviani, Rick Remender

And Kieron's color work-up on the final inked version. Eventual colors by Tony Moore.


More at the Crawl Space blog.

Labels: Kieron Dwyer, Rick Remender

"This is no lecture, no set of rules. They say we teach best what we most need to learn, and in my case this is proof positive. I feel the need to stop being judgmental and hypercritical. To set aside rivalry and competition and focus on the great stuff going on in comics right now. To be more supportive of people and focus more on what made me want to be in comics in the first place: fun and imaginative storytelling."

Rick Remender has an essay on positivity up at Newsarama.

"What do you think makes somebody a good illustrator, as opposed to a good comics artist (and vice versa)?"

Dylan Meconis, Vera Brosgol, Kris Dresen and others discuss fine art, illustration, comics art and more at Dylan's LJ.

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Periscope's own Rick Remender interviewed at The Word Balloon
http://media.libsyn.com/media/wordballoon/WBrickremender0607.mp3

And here's Tuesday's and Wednesday's excerpts of Derek Kirk Kim's and Jesse Hamm's Good as Lily
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/06/comics_lily_2.html
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/06/comics_lily_3.html

I'll leave it to you folks to guess what the URL for Thursday's excerpt will be.

Labels: Good as Lily, Jesse Hamm, Rick Remender