Colored a sketch, taking a break from drawing my comic.
Super Mario Adventures by Charlie Nozawa
I loved the old comics that appeared in Nintendo Power, and Super Mario Adventures might have been my favorite out of all of them. This was one of the reasons why. Princess Toadstool was awesome.
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In a restrained and startlingly beautiful new memoir called Landscapes of the Metropolis of Death, the historian Otto Dov Kulka allows himself, after 70 years of reticence, to recall his life as a little boy in the grotesque quasi-normality of the “family camp” Auschwitz-Birkenau – an institution designed to provide Red Cross officials with living evidence that the inmates of Polish camps were happy and healthy and well looked after, though in reality they were destined for extermination like everyone else.
In a pivotal chapter Kulka prints translations of three poems, written in Czech from the point of view of a young female prisoner. One of them declares that “I’d sooner die a coward than have blood on my hands,” and others speak of the prospect of leaving nothing to be remembered by: there will be no “wreaths or wrought-metal grilles” for those about to die, or for “betrayed youth” – but perhaps “no monument is needed.” These are fine poems, but more than that too. They were written, as Kulka explains, on flimsy letter paper and thrust into the hands of a Kapo by a girl about to walk into a gas chamber. Later they were passed to Kulka’s father, and, by a series of chances, saved from the destruction that engulfed almost everything else.
No one will ever know who the poet was, what she looked like, who she loved or where she came from: her name has been wiped from the historical record, along with any facts or memories or anecdotes that might distinguish her from six million other victims of mass murder. Maybe it’s because I’m a sentimentalist that I feel twinges of reverence for the words on those frail pieces of paper. Maybe my fellow atheists will accuse me of religion-envy, but I cannot help lamenting the impossibility of an individual commemoration for the lost poet. The fact that no trace remains seems like an aggravation of a crime against humanity, a gratuitous exacerbation of injustice.
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Haven’t drawn Raven in…man, it must be years. TTGo! offered an opportunity. It’s a cute little show.
If this just lets me make Pantha endlessly beat the crap out of Superboy Prime, that might be worth the price alone.
I’m looking forward to Studio Trigger and Hiroyuki Imaishi’s new project, Kill La Kill, like nothing else. Studio Trigger has a lot of former Gainax talent, and I’m a big fan of Imaishi, so I’m pretty excited just on the talent involved alone.
“Of course, I knew it all along. Being the wife of a mad scientist, it was obvious what would scare those repressed nerds the most.”
“What?”
“Emotion.”
I’ve always wanted to see this ever since I saw a trailer for it a while back, because the animation looked impressive. It wasn’t ever licensed over here, though, and I hadn’t heard much of it since.
But it happened that I just found out that the Japanese BluRay had English subtitles, so I decided to take a chance on it and imported it.
I’m glad I did, because it was a fun movie. The animation was really nice, very stylish - it reminded me of FLCL. The movie does go by at a breakneck pace, but it throws so much supernatural and mythological stuff (taking place at a school in Hell with different monsters as students, run by an awesome Elvis-impersonating devil) at the wall so fast, it’s hard not to like the free-wheeling, quirky spirit behind it.
Official stream upload of Trigger’s Little Witch Academia. Director: Yoh Yoshinari Character design: Yoh Yoshinari Script: Masahiko Otsuka Production: Studio…
If you haven’t seen it yet, you really need to. It really is such a great short! The animation is fantastic, and it has a charming story.
(It makes me really wish I could’ve worked on something like it… can’t the US have a Young Animator Training Project-type thing of its own?)
RIP Roger Ebert
(Pictures Source: Buzzfeed)
This really hit me hard. Roger Ebert was someone I really looked up to, ever since I was a kid always taking out the Sun-Times movies section to read his reviews. I still have well-worn copies of some his books I loved to read. He had such a deep knowledge and great passion for film that was always evident in his writing.
I think it may have been his review of Princess Mononoke that made me go see it, and it became such a huge influence for me. His reviews could be perceptive and enlightening, and even in his reviews of terrible movies you could learn how movies work. And I learned a lot about film from his reviews - what makes a great movie, and what great ones to go see. I always dreamt of making a movie that would get a good review from him - even if I didn’t agree with him all the time, I held his opinion in high esteem for his great knowledge, passion, and insight.
^ So here’s some of the reasons why this pisses me right the hell off
1) This ‘I reject the word mutant, it’s everything I hate, oh look I’m just like you, I’m certainly not one of those dirty muties WE ARE ALL ONE TRIBE’ bullshit that Alex is blah blah blah-ing about during his tedious…
Bless this commentary. I want Alex to look into the eyes of people with visible mutations and tell them that they are just human and that they shouldn’t band together by their shared experiences of prejudice. This is the same as the color blind, trans phobic, “we’re all human” bullshit spouted by people today. Telling people that their experiences don’t matter to preserve the unity of “humans.”
It makes me wish Marrow wasn’t depowered, forgotten, and in limbo, because she would be able to provide that crucial experience. She lived in poverty in the underground tunnels of Manhatten with the Morlocks - those mutants who, like herself, couldn’t as pass as normal because of the extremity of their visible mutations and had to hide underground. She’s long since had to deal with being “ugly” and “monstrous,” especially in comparison to the mutants who could pass as normal with more glamorous powers - the “Beautiful People.” She also survived the mass murder of her people by a group of assassins that were mutants, and was practically forced into, as a kind of child soldier, an extremist group (Gene Nation) that was formed from the trauma of that massacre and prejudice against mutants in general.
She’s still working as an advocate for the Morlocks, too. A writer could easily add her perspective in. Because, yeah, it’s easy for Havok to say everything can just be smoothed over because he’s a pretty white guy and can blend in fine. Marrow, with all of her bones sticking out of her as a permanent, lasting reminder of her mutation, and the less visually appealing Morlocks? Not so much.
I WOULD SELL MY FUCKING SOUL TO GET THIS INTO A FULL LENGTH SERIES
I WOULD MAKE A *CONTRACT* FOR GODS SAKE
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Couldn’t help it:
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