#comic-books

#comic-books

Writer Neil Gaiman (center) makes music with FourPlay (L-R: Peter Hollo, Shenton Gregory aka Shenzo Gregorio, Lara Goodridge and Tim Hollo) Chris Frape/Riot Act Media From The Sandman and Lucifer to Good Omens, Neil Gaiman has written novels and comics that have been adapted into plays, TV series and films.

I New York.Dylan.The New York Magazine logo.As one of the most well-known graphic designers of the past century, Milton Glaser and his work have long been ubiquitous in culture.If you assumed you'd seen it all, you'd be in good company.I thought I had laid eyes on most everything Milton designed, says Beth Kleber, the founding archivist of the Milton Glaser Design Study Center and Archives at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

Thousands of Torontonians and tourists are expected to take over downtown Toronto for one of the city's biggest pop culture conventions this year.Toronto Comicon features all things sci-fi, horror, anime and gaming.From Friday to Sunday, fans and families can find comic books and collectibles, cosplay as their character of choice and meet their favourite artists and writers.

Warner Bros. released the official trailer for during Sunday's Super Bowl LVII, and Michael Keaton's confirmed return as Batman (from the beloved Tim Burton era) pretty much set the Internet on fire.For many, Keaton was the definitive Batman for decades until The Dark Knight trilogy (with Christian Bale donning the cape) kicked off in 2005.

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email The rough collie faces an uncertain future following a steep decline in the breed's popularity to record their lowest numbers in more than 75 years.The dog breed is now close to being classed as at risk by The Kennel Club, which monitors breeds with declining numbers in the UK.

The Talking France podcast is back with a new episode that ranges from pension strikes and property taxes to comic books, film stars and what to order in French restaurants.Published: 26 January 2023 08:41 CET Host Ben McPartland is joined by Local France editor Emma Pearson, journalist Genevieve Mansfield and political expert John Lichfield to look at what we've been talking about in France this week.

One of the unexpected joys of On Writing (and Writers), a new compendium of C.S. Lewis's assorted thoughts on literature, comes in the title's parenthetical phrase: Lewis's views on his fellow writers may be an afterthought in this book, but it turns out they were firmly held and sometimes deliciously spiteful.

It provides "Organizational memory".Especially in larger teams, folks end up solving the same problem multiple times, repeating mistakes, and not really learning from them
It helps new hires get up to speed.Making them more productive more quickly, and helping them integrate faster into the team
It generates greater autonomy among design and dev.

In 1963, Marvel Comics published the first issue of The X-Men.It was a series about a group of mutant outcast superheroes and their teacher, Professor X, which would later spin off into other books, TV shows, and several movies.In 1978, the company changed the name to The Uncanny X-Men;it would go on to be the longest running X-Men comic in the franchise.

If people can clock your sexuality from the lilt of your voice and the enunciation of your words, you may have what comedian Guy Branum calls "a truly, magnificently gay voice."The Washington Post broke down the stereotypical "gay voice" in 2015, when the documentary Do I Sound Gay? came out: "A man speaks at a higher pitch, and in a more melodious fashion.

Ray Monk's Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius.Oliver Sacks's Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain.The 1619 Project, created by Nikole Hannah-Jones and edited by Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstein.Barbara Ehrenreich's Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy.Brenda Hillman's In a Few Minutes Before Later.

In its economic heyday of the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was a curious phenomenon of Hollywood celebrities showing up in Japanese commercials: Arnold Schwarzenegger hawking instant noodles, Harrison Ford pitching Kirin beer.To this day, Tommy Lee Jones still appears in a long-standing series advertising canned coffee.

Works by Andy Warhol are to be shown in Dublin as part of Ireland's largest display of pop art.
he Pop Art Pioneers exhibition at Gormleys will showcase 2 million euro worth of works by Warhol and fellow US artists Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring and Robert Indiana.It will feature Warhol's silkscreen portraits, Lichtenstein's The Den, Haring's graphic designs and Indiana's LOVE artworks.

(Image credit: Illustrations by Sonia Leong)
Manga artists make it all look so easy.The manga art style looks effortless but most of us have asked the question, 'how do I draw manga?' at some point.It's a style of art that most artists have been inspired by in some form, whether it's the stylised character design, subtle colouring or sense of motion.