Gary Scott Beatty is someone whose work I’ve been following with real interest for the past few years. Not that I ignored him before that. Rather, it’s his recent activities, especially as a small press publisher with a singular vision that makes total sense in today’s fluid market, that’s proven to be particularly interesting. What...
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Books: Tom Kaczynski on Beta Testing the Apocalypse
The release of Tom Kaczynski’s latest book couldn’t have been better timed. Published by Fantagraphics late last year right around the time of the highly anticipated (not to mention greatly misunderstood) Mayan “end of days,” Kaczynski’s Beta Testing the Apocalypse collected a number of previously published shorter comics, along with a brand new graphic novella....
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Flying High: Interview with Arctic Air’s John Reardon
In the first season of the CBC drama Arctic Air, TV audiences were introduced to the struggling airline located in Yellowknife (the capital and largest city of the Northwest Territories in Canada) and the team of people risking everything, even, in some cases, their lives, in order to keep the business from going under. Among...
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On the Hunt: Interview with The Following’s Shawn Ashmore
As the good guy mutant Bobby Drake/Iceman in the hit X-Men feature film franchise, Shawn Ashmore battled a bevy of superhuman baddies. In his current role of FBI Special Agent Mike Weston in the new Fox TV crime thriller The Following (premiering Monday, January 21 at 9:00 p.m. EST/PST), the handsome and talented actor is...
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Lucky Lady: Gabrielle Bell on The Voyeurs
As the title of her award-winning series, Lucky, suggests, Gabrielle Bell has lived what some might call a charmed life…and with good reason. Her work as both a cartoonist and diarist has been widely praised by critics, fans and her fellow professionals alike. One of her tales was adapted for a film by director Michel...
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Book Review: The Dark Knight Manual by Brandon T. Snider
Designed by Jon Glick and featuring text by Brandon T. Snider, Insight Editions’ The Dark Knight Manual is a scrapbook-like hardcover book featuring tons of photos, inserts, character files, diagrams, case notes and more—all of it pertaining to the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight trilogy. Loaded with reproductions of blueprints, maps, “handwritten” Post-It notes, and stickers,...
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Own Your Niche: An Interview with Business Expert Stephanie Chandler
It is always interesting to me how our lives intertwine with others. Way back before I even considered leaving the US to live in the Caribbean, let alone returning to the states, I was contacted by a woman who wanted to feature my business story in a book she was writing about the ins and...
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Comics: JR Han on JR Comics and Monkey King
Dreamers, the world’s full of them. But someone possessed of a vision, as well as the willpower and fortitude to work their way through all obstacles to finally achieve their ultimate goal? Well, that, my friends, is what’s known in the comics business as “Living the Dream.” And right now, JR Han, the mastermind behind...
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Q & A with Awake’s Howard Gordon and Kyle Killen
For most of us, distinguishing between reality and fantasy is no big deal and part of daily life, but for Awake’s Detective Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs) that has recently become much more difficult. Following a tragic car accident, the police officer suddenly finds himself living in two separate realities. In one “reality” his teenage son...
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Dustin Clare Returns as Gannicus in Spartacus: Vengeance
In January 2011, the STARZ cable network premiered Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, a prequel to its hugely successful 2010 series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. This miniseries told the story of Gannicus, the first gladiator to become champion of Capua representing Quintus Lentulus Batiatus. The character was played by Australian actor Dustin Clare, who reprises...