Dash Shaw on His Influences and the Process of Creating ‘My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea’
My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea is more than just another animated comedy full of high school angst. Written and directed by Dash Shaw with a voice cast that includes Jason Schwartzman, Reggie Watts, Maya Rudolph, Lena Dunham, John Cameron Mitchell, and Susan Sarandon, the film enjoyed an acclaimed run on last fall’s festival circuit, premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival and going on to screen at Fantastic Fest and the New York Film Festival. As the film arrives in limited release courtesy of Gkids, we spoke with the filmmaker about the inspiration behind and process of bringing the semi-autobiographical, small-budget high school adventure comedy to the big screen.
The Film Stage: Thanks for speaking with us. We’re about the same age and I think I recognize a few of the influences in the film from comics, cartoons, books and movies. What were you watching...
The Film Stage: Thanks for speaking with us. We’re about the same age and I think I recognize a few of the influences in the film from comics, cartoons, books and movies. What were you watching...
- 4/15/2017
- by John Fink
- The Film Stage
1963 #1-6 (1993)
Written by Alan Moore
Drawn by Rick Veitch, Dave Gibbons, Steve Bissette, Don Simpson, John Totleben and Jim Valentino
Colors by Marvin Kilroy and Tony Tollin
Published by Image Comics
If such a thing could be called it, 1963 is minor Alan Moore. In 1993, Image Comics was still a very young company created by the “hot” artists of the time when Jim Valentino, always the most old timey alternative rebel of the Image crew, got Moore, Steve Bissette, Rick Veitch, John Totleben and a bunch of their friends to create 1963, a pastiche on the early days of Marvel comics. The Fantastic Four becomes Mystery Incorporated. Iron Man becomes the Hypernaut. Spider-Man becomes The Fury, and the Avengers become The Tomorrow Syndicate. Image’s slick and calculated characters took a backseat to Moore and company’s retro insanity. To create a whole package, even the ads and editorial pages recreate the feeling of a bygone age.
Written by Alan Moore
Drawn by Rick Veitch, Dave Gibbons, Steve Bissette, Don Simpson, John Totleben and Jim Valentino
Colors by Marvin Kilroy and Tony Tollin
Published by Image Comics
If such a thing could be called it, 1963 is minor Alan Moore. In 1993, Image Comics was still a very young company created by the “hot” artists of the time when Jim Valentino, always the most old timey alternative rebel of the Image crew, got Moore, Steve Bissette, Rick Veitch, John Totleben and a bunch of their friends to create 1963, a pastiche on the early days of Marvel comics. The Fantastic Four becomes Mystery Incorporated. Iron Man becomes the Hypernaut. Spider-Man becomes The Fury, and the Avengers become The Tomorrow Syndicate. Image’s slick and calculated characters took a backseat to Moore and company’s retro insanity. To create a whole package, even the ads and editorial pages recreate the feeling of a bygone age.
- 9/30/2015
- by Scott Cederlund
- SoundOnSight
In Brandon Cronenberg’s directorial debut, Antiviral – two competing companies in the thriving field of celebrity disease transfusions make it their business to harvest viruses from famous people and infect customers with clones of that virus, so they have, in essence, fallen ill from their favourite celebrity. If that wasn’t enough to send shivers down your spine, there’s also a black market for meat formed out of cloned celebrity muscle cells. Antiviral is a satire of celebrity fandom – a cold and clinical look at consumerism, modern technology, and the stuff that is making us a little less human. This isn’t much of a horror film, but it does conclude with an abrupt piece of ghoulishly vampiric symbolism. Now Cronenberg and Dp Karim Hussain have teamed up once again to direct the music video for “Shoulder and Whispers,” which looks like the pilot episode of a Canadian version of American Horror Story.
- 4/9/2015
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and specialty items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.
3D Total Publishing
Sketching From The Imagination An Insight Into Creative Drawing Sc, $29.99
Aam Markosia
Atomic Sheep Gn, $18.99
Abrams Comicarts
Art Of Rube Goldberg Hc, $60.00
AC Comics
Golden Age Glamour Volume 1 Tp, $34.95
Adhouse Books
Delusional Hc, $24.95
Amp! Comics For Kids
Snoopy Cowabunga Tp, 9.99
Andrews McMeel
Squared Away A Doonesbury Collection Hc, $25.00
Anomaly Productions
Shifter Volume 1 Hc, $19.99
Ape Entertainment
Genie The Genius #2 (Of 3), $2.99
Arcana Studio
Dead Reckoning Volume 1 Contagion Gn, $19.95
Gene Simmons’ Comics Anthology Volume 2 Sc, $19.95
Gloom Gn, $19.95
Archaia Entertainment
Old City Blues Volume 2 Gn, $12.95
Archie Comic Publications
Archie 1000-Page Comics Jamboree Tp, $14.99
Sonic The Hedgehog Mega Man Worlds Collide Volume 1 Tp, $11.99
Aspen Comics
All New Soulfire #1 (Cover A Kenneth V. Marion), $1.00
All New Soulfire #1 (Cover B Kenneth V.
3D Total Publishing
Sketching From The Imagination An Insight Into Creative Drawing Sc, $29.99
Aam Markosia
Atomic Sheep Gn, $18.99
Abrams Comicarts
Art Of Rube Goldberg Hc, $60.00
AC Comics
Golden Age Glamour Volume 1 Tp, $34.95
Adhouse Books
Delusional Hc, $24.95
Amp! Comics For Kids
Snoopy Cowabunga Tp, 9.99
Andrews McMeel
Squared Away A Doonesbury Collection Hc, $25.00
Anomaly Productions
Shifter Volume 1 Hc, $19.99
Ape Entertainment
Genie The Genius #2 (Of 3), $2.99
Arcana Studio
Dead Reckoning Volume 1 Contagion Gn, $19.95
Gene Simmons’ Comics Anthology Volume 2 Sc, $19.95
Gloom Gn, $19.95
Archaia Entertainment
Old City Blues Volume 2 Gn, $12.95
Archie Comic Publications
Archie 1000-Page Comics Jamboree Tp, $14.99
Sonic The Hedgehog Mega Man Worlds Collide Volume 1 Tp, $11.99
Aspen Comics
All New Soulfire #1 (Cover A Kenneth V. Marion), $1.00
All New Soulfire #1 (Cover B Kenneth V.
- 11/11/2013
- by Adam B.
- GeekRest
The following is a list of all comic books, graphic novels and specialty items that will be available this week and shipped to comic book stores who have placed orders for them.
3D Total Publishing
Sketching From The Imagination An Insight Into Creative Drawing Sc (not verified by Diamond), $29.99
Abrams
Star Wars Frames Hc, $150.00
Abrams Comicarts
Tintin The Art Of Herge Hc, $45.00
Alternative Comics
Look Straight Ahead Gn, $19.95
Amigo Comics
Rogues #5, $3.99
Amp! Comics For Kids
Snoopy Cowabunga Tp (not verified by Diamond), 9.99
Amulet Books
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Volume 8 Hard Luck Hc, $13.95
Andrews McMeel
Dilbert I Sense A Coldness To Your Mentoring Tp, $12.99
Get Fuzzy The Fuzzy Bunch Tp, $12.99
Antarctic Press
Ghost Cop #1 (Of 3), $3.99
Last Zombie The End #5 (Of 5), $3.99
Steampunk Halloween 2013 #1, $3.50
Arcana Studio
Devil Is Due In Dreary Tp, $12.99
Steam Engines Of Oz #3, $3.99
Steam Engines Of Oz Volume 1 Tp, $19.95
Archie Comic Publications
Afterlife With Archie #1 (Francesco Francavilla 2nd Printing...
3D Total Publishing
Sketching From The Imagination An Insight Into Creative Drawing Sc (not verified by Diamond), $29.99
Abrams
Star Wars Frames Hc, $150.00
Abrams Comicarts
Tintin The Art Of Herge Hc, $45.00
Alternative Comics
Look Straight Ahead Gn, $19.95
Amigo Comics
Rogues #5, $3.99
Amp! Comics For Kids
Snoopy Cowabunga Tp (not verified by Diamond), 9.99
Amulet Books
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Volume 8 Hard Luck Hc, $13.95
Andrews McMeel
Dilbert I Sense A Coldness To Your Mentoring Tp, $12.99
Get Fuzzy The Fuzzy Bunch Tp, $12.99
Antarctic Press
Ghost Cop #1 (Of 3), $3.99
Last Zombie The End #5 (Of 5), $3.99
Steampunk Halloween 2013 #1, $3.50
Arcana Studio
Devil Is Due In Dreary Tp, $12.99
Steam Engines Of Oz #3, $3.99
Steam Engines Of Oz Volume 1 Tp, $19.95
Archie Comic Publications
Afterlife With Archie #1 (Francesco Francavilla 2nd Printing...
- 11/4/2013
- by Adam B.
- GeekRest
The 2013 Eisner Award Winners have been announced at San Diego Comic-Con with Chris Ware leading the wins for his celebrated work Building Stories, alongside Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ Saga which also won a number of awards.
The Eisners are awarded each year at the San Diego Comic-Con and are the most prestigious awards in the comics industry, being the comics equivalent of the Oscars.
The Eisners are named after Will Eisner, one of the most celebrated artist/writers in comics whose works included creating the superhero series The Spirit as well as his masterpiece, A Contract with God, one of the best books of the 20th century.
This year saw artist/writer Chris Ware pick up the lion’s share of the awards for his book/construction project Building Stories, winning Best New Graphic Album, Best Writer/Artist, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design.
Also among the winners...
The Eisners are awarded each year at the San Diego Comic-Con and are the most prestigious awards in the comics industry, being the comics equivalent of the Oscars.
The Eisners are named after Will Eisner, one of the most celebrated artist/writers in comics whose works included creating the superhero series The Spirit as well as his masterpiece, A Contract with God, one of the best books of the 20th century.
This year saw artist/writer Chris Ware pick up the lion’s share of the awards for his book/construction project Building Stories, winning Best New Graphic Album, Best Writer/Artist, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design.
Also among the winners...
- 7/21/2013
- by Noel Thorne
- Obsessed with Film
Comic-Con International has released the complete list of nominees for the 2013 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. The winners of the award will be revealed during the annual ceremony held at Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 19.
Official Press Release
Comic-Con International (Comic-Con) is proud to announce the nominations for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2013. The nominees, chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges, reflect the wide range of material being published in comics and graphic novel form today, from crime noire to autobiographical works to cartoon adventures.
Three titles lead the 2013 list with 5 nominations each. Chris Ware’s critically acclaimed Building Stories (published by Pantheon) has nods for Best Graphic Album–New, Best Writer/artist, Best Coloring, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design. Also garnering 5 nominations are Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s Fatale (published by Image) and Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Hawkeye (published by Marvel...
Official Press Release
Comic-Con International (Comic-Con) is proud to announce the nominations for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards 2013. The nominees, chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges, reflect the wide range of material being published in comics and graphic novel form today, from crime noire to autobiographical works to cartoon adventures.
Three titles lead the 2013 list with 5 nominations each. Chris Ware’s critically acclaimed Building Stories (published by Pantheon) has nods for Best Graphic Album–New, Best Writer/artist, Best Coloring, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design. Also garnering 5 nominations are Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s Fatale (published by Image) and Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Hawkeye (published by Marvel...
- 4/17/2013
- by Adam B.
- GeekRest
Comic-Con International is proud to announce the nominations for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards of 2013. The nominees, chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges, reflect the wide range of material being published in comics and graphic novel form today, from crime noir to autobiographical works to cartoon adventures. Three titles lead the 2013 list with 5 nominations each.
Chris Ware’s critically acclaimed Building Stories (published by Pantheon) has nods for Best Graphic Album–New, Best Writer/artist, Best Coloring, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design. Also garnering 5 nominations are Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s Fatale (published by Image) and Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Hawkeye (published by Marvel). Both are nominated for Best Continuing Series, Best New Series, Best Writer, Best Penciller/Inker, and Best Cover Artist. (Fatale also shares the coloring nomination for Dave Stewart.)Close behind with 4 nominations are Boom!/kaboom’s Adventure Time (Best New Series,...
Chris Ware’s critically acclaimed Building Stories (published by Pantheon) has nods for Best Graphic Album–New, Best Writer/artist, Best Coloring, Best Lettering, and Best Publication Design. Also garnering 5 nominations are Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips’s Fatale (published by Image) and Matt Fraction and David Aja’s Hawkeye (published by Marvel). Both are nominated for Best Continuing Series, Best New Series, Best Writer, Best Penciller/Inker, and Best Cover Artist. (Fatale also shares the coloring nomination for Dave Stewart.)Close behind with 4 nominations are Boom!/kaboom’s Adventure Time (Best New Series,...
- 4/16/2013
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
Tower
Directed by Kazik Radwanski
Canada, 2012
Most of us have vivid memories of getting our wisdom teeth extracted. Chances are, you’ve had a spring break or part of summer vacation ruined by the procedure—or enhanced, depending on your prescription. However, when Derek (Derek Bogart, The Blue Seal) discusses, in his oddly inflected voice, the possible removal of his wisdom teeth with a dentist, he isn’t high school- or college-aged. He’s thirty-four. He also doesn’t commit to the operation.
First and foremost, Tower is a character study. Primacy of plot might work well for Aristotle, but he’s not the only game in town. Besides, plot must take a backseat in Tower because it’s taken a backseat in Derek’s life as well. Prematurely bald and resembling Chester Brown, Derek lives in his parent’s basement, works part-time at his uncle’s construction company, and...
Directed by Kazik Radwanski
Canada, 2012
Most of us have vivid memories of getting our wisdom teeth extracted. Chances are, you’ve had a spring break or part of summer vacation ruined by the procedure—or enhanced, depending on your prescription. However, when Derek (Derek Bogart, The Blue Seal) discusses, in his oddly inflected voice, the possible removal of his wisdom teeth with a dentist, he isn’t high school- or college-aged. He’s thirty-four. He also doesn’t commit to the operation.
First and foremost, Tower is a character study. Primacy of plot might work well for Aristotle, but he’s not the only game in town. Besides, plot must take a backseat in Tower because it’s taken a backseat in Derek’s life as well. Prematurely bald and resembling Chester Brown, Derek lives in his parent’s basement, works part-time at his uncle’s construction company, and...
- 9/1/2012
- by Dave Robson
- SoundOnSight
Jacques Doillon’s most recent film—known in English, if it is known at all, as either The Three-Way Wedding or In the Four Winds—has never, to my knowledge, been shown in the States since its release in France in the spring of 2010. According to Jordan Montzer in Variety, Doillon’s “oeuvre reaches new heights of faux-kinky gobbledygook in [this] low-budget chamber piece.... With a pitch that could have provoked untold laughter in the hands of a Larry David, pic somberly reveals the ego-tripping, backstabbing and, well, butt-slapping that occurs when two thesps spend a day at the country home of a misanthropic playwright. What ensues is far from enjoyable, and adequate perfs won’t carry Doillon’s pretentious banter further than French ears.”
That last part may have proved to be right, but I’ve always loved the highly unusual and borderline grotesque poster for the film. I had...
That last part may have proved to be right, but I’ve always loved the highly unusual and borderline grotesque poster for the film. I had...
- 12/16/2011
- MUBI
Chester Brown's Louis Riel has entered Canada Reads' semifinal. The Harvey Award-winning Drawn and Quarterly publication has been included in the list of ten books. Five will be chosen to enter a debate in which celebrity panelists defend their chosen titles. Last year, Jeff Lemire's Essex County Trilogy became the first graphic novel to enter into the finals of the competition. Louis Riel chronicles the life of the 'Father of Manitoba', a politician who fought for (more)...
- 11/7/2011
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
It seems like San Diego Comic-Con 2011 is right around the corner, and it's going to be one hell of a glorious weekend of geek awesomeness. Comic-Con International has unleashed the full schedule for Friday July 22nd, once again we have a full day of fun and excitement. There's so much I want to see here, including The Amazing Spider-Man, The Walking Dead, Total Recal, Batman: Year One, Locke & Key, Haywire, Raven and more!
I've gone through the list and put exclamation points next to all of the events that we want to cover. Let us know what panels and events you would like to know about and we will try and get them covered for you! If you are actually going to be at the con, what will you be checking out?
GeekTyrant will once again be at Comic-Con in full force this year, bringing you the best maximum super rad coverage.
I've gone through the list and put exclamation points next to all of the events that we want to cover. Let us know what panels and events you would like to know about and we will try and get them covered for you! If you are actually going to be at the con, what will you be checking out?
GeekTyrant will once again be at Comic-Con in full force this year, bringing you the best maximum super rad coverage.
- 7/8/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
In sad, but not entirely unexpected news, Harvey Pekar, best known for his long-running American Splendor underground/indie comic book series, passed away early this morning at his home in Ohio. Pekar had been suffering from multiple illnesses, including prostrate cancer, asthma, high blood pressure, and depression. He was 70.
Pekar began American Splendor in 1976 to document non-superheroic, everyday life, including his own, in his native hometown, Cleveland, Ohio, often with a caustic, acerbic, self-deprecatory wit. Pekar's work attracted some of the most-respected and well-known names in underground and mainstream comics, including Robert Crumb, Alison Bechdel, Chester Brown, Greg Budgett, David Collier, Dean Haspiel (The Quitter), Josh Neufeld, Joe Sacco, Eddie Campbell, Gilbert Hernandez, and Ty Templeton. American Splendor's last issue appeared in 2008.
Outside of underground comics, Pekar was best known for a recurring stint on the David Letterman show in the late 1980s. NBC eventually banned Pekar from appearing...
Pekar began American Splendor in 1976 to document non-superheroic, everyday life, including his own, in his native hometown, Cleveland, Ohio, often with a caustic, acerbic, self-deprecatory wit. Pekar's work attracted some of the most-respected and well-known names in underground and mainstream comics, including Robert Crumb, Alison Bechdel, Chester Brown, Greg Budgett, David Collier, Dean Haspiel (The Quitter), Josh Neufeld, Joe Sacco, Eddie Campbell, Gilbert Hernandez, and Ty Templeton. American Splendor's last issue appeared in 2008.
Outside of underground comics, Pekar was best known for a recurring stint on the David Letterman show in the late 1980s. NBC eventually banned Pekar from appearing...
- 7/12/2010
- by Mel Valentin
- Cinematical
Bruce McDonald isn't really a household name, especially outside Canada. Let's try to change that. McDonald is a versatile, ambitious filmmaker with a rock and roll spirit who has been experimenting in features and TV for more than twenty years. In 1991 or '92 I saw his film Highway 61, an oddball road trip music comedy written by and starring Don McKellar, and it launched me into fandom for McDonald. Since then I've been impressed by films like Hard Core Logo, The Tracy Fragments and Pontypool. And I'm eternally on the hook for McDonald's long in development adaptation of Chester Brown's comic book Yummy Fur, which could be one of the most beautiful, wrong stories to hit the screen. We knew that he would be shooting a 'women in prison' flick called Lucky Ho later this summer. (Is the title a reference to the Shaw Brothers flick Dirty Ho?) Now...
- 4/2/2010
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Before getting a chance to sit down and talk with Dean Haspiel (American Splendor, The Quitter, Billy Dogma) at the Alternative Press Expo, I met him at the Isotope Comics Lounge on the eve of Ape weekend for a pre-ape Isotope in-store bash. Currently, Haspiel is but one artist that is part of a larger collective of storytellers at Act-i-vate.
Recently, October saw the recent release of The Act-i-vate Primer by Idw Publishing, featuring new and original stories. While at the Isotope, I discovered Haspiel is as gracious and as nice as I could have imagined just sitting and talking with him as he signed and sketched a head shot of Harvey Pekar in my copy of The Quitter.
That night talking generally about the unique positivity that courses through the comic industry, Haspiel signs my Pekar sketch advising me to “never quit.” It’s good advice.
Needless to say,...
Recently, October saw the recent release of The Act-i-vate Primer by Idw Publishing, featuring new and original stories. While at the Isotope, I discovered Haspiel is as gracious and as nice as I could have imagined just sitting and talking with him as he signed and sketched a head shot of Harvey Pekar in my copy of The Quitter.
That night talking generally about the unique positivity that courses through the comic industry, Haspiel signs my Pekar sketch advising me to “never quit.” It’s good advice.
Needless to say,...
- 10/26/2009
- by Joey Pangilinan
- The Flickcast
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