November 18th, 2008 by Jeff Kocan | No Comments
Hi there! Now that I’m not freaking out about the election anymore, I hope to return to my regular, sporadic posting schedule. Last time around, I was trying to figure out the main characters for my minicomic. While we were asked to start coming up with story ideas and work on some rough outlines, we [...]
June 9th, 2008 by Jeff Kocan | No Comments
This weekend was the big Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art festival, aka MoCCA, and I started the weekend Friday night at Rocketship:
That’s where Norwegian comics master Jason debuted his new collection, Pocket Full of Rain. A small gallery of original pages was set up at the front of the store, accompanied by a work [...]
March 19th, 2008 by Jeff Kocan | No Comments
Just a quick follow-up to my last post: This morning, news hit that Michael Cera is in final negotiations to play the lead in the film adaptation of Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life, the first book in Bryan Lee O’Malley’s series. I’m not a huge fan of the word nerdgasm, but that’s about as accurately [...]
March 13th, 2008 by Jeff Kocan | No Comments
The Scott Pilgrim series, written and drawn by Bryan Lee O’Malley, isn’t the most philosophical or complex or beautifully drawn comic I’ve read since getting back into these things, but I can’t think of one that I’ve enjoyed more. Four volumes of a planned six have been released so far (they come out roughly once [...]