This review of “Apollo 10 1/2” was first published on March 13, after its screening at SXSW.
Richard Linklater digs into his own salad days for “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood,” an animated feature that fondly recalls the NASA moment in a way that’s more reminiscent of “Amarcord” or “Crooklyn” than of “First Man.”
As a kid who was born in 1960 and grew up in the suburbs of Houston, like the film’s young hero, Linklater had a front-row seat to the race to the moon. In this delightfully evocative exercise in nostalgia, he captures the way that children will remember historic events in the context of what else was on TV, which siblings got to sit on the couch, and how your favorite song made you feel.
The story here is ostensibly about young Stan (voiced by Milo Coy), a schoolboy recruited by NASA (because of his...
Richard Linklater digs into his own salad days for “Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood,” an animated feature that fondly recalls the NASA moment in a way that’s more reminiscent of “Amarcord” or “Crooklyn” than of “First Man.”
As a kid who was born in 1960 and grew up in the suburbs of Houston, like the film’s young hero, Linklater had a front-row seat to the race to the moon. In this delightfully evocative exercise in nostalgia, he captures the way that children will remember historic events in the context of what else was on TV, which siblings got to sit on the couch, and how your favorite song made you feel.
The story here is ostensibly about young Stan (voiced by Milo Coy), a schoolboy recruited by NASA (because of his...
- 4/1/2022
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
The 2020 Eisner Awards were presented by Phil Lamarr as part of Comic-Con At Home, the digital remote replacement for this year’s pandemic-canceled San Diego Comic-Con.
The big winners on the night were women creators, winning outright or a share of almost two thirds of the awards. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-o’Connell took home three awards: Best Publication for Teens, Best Writer, and Best Penciller/Inker. Invisible Kingdom from G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward; Lynda Barry’s Making Comics; Usagi Yojimbo’s Stan Sakai; and the juggernaut that is Raina Telgelmeier each took home two awards. Other notable wins included David Walker, Chuck Brown and Sanford Greene’s Bitter Root’s Best Continuing Series; Best Limited Series to Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertrom for Little Bird; Emma Rios for Best Cover Artist for her work on Pretty Deadly; and...
The big winners on the night were women creators, winning outright or a share of almost two thirds of the awards. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-o’Connell took home three awards: Best Publication for Teens, Best Writer, and Best Penciller/Inker. Invisible Kingdom from G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward; Lynda Barry’s Making Comics; Usagi Yojimbo’s Stan Sakai; and the juggernaut that is Raina Telgelmeier each took home two awards. Other notable wins included David Walker, Chuck Brown and Sanford Greene’s Bitter Root’s Best Continuing Series; Best Limited Series to Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertrom for Little Bird; Emma Rios for Best Cover Artist for her work on Pretty Deadly; and...
- 7/26/2020
- by Jim Dandy
- Den of Geek
This is not a graphic novel. It’s not even graphic non-fiction in a narrative form. It’s related to Lynda Barry’s last few books, What It Is and Picture This , but it’s less conventional and concerned with telling a story than those two books were.
Luckily, it has a title that tells us what it is: Syllabus .
Barry has taught courses in storytelling and creativity — that sounds vague, because they were inter-departmental courses that were about brain science as much as how to draw and write — for several years, mostly at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This book is something like a blended experience of being in those classes, or perhaps particularly “The Unthinkable Mind” class from spring of 2013. It contains what seem to be Barry’s actual handouts and worksheets from that course, along with exercises from the students that year, organized chronologically to cover that whole semester.
Luckily, it has a title that tells us what it is: Syllabus .
Barry has taught courses in storytelling and creativity — that sounds vague, because they were inter-departmental courses that were about brain science as much as how to draw and write — for several years, mostly at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This book is something like a blended experience of being in those classes, or perhaps particularly “The Unthinkable Mind” class from spring of 2013. It contains what seem to be Barry’s actual handouts and worksheets from that course, along with exercises from the students that year, organized chronologically to cover that whole semester.
- 4/14/2018
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
There’s a great Lynda Barry cartoon that I’ve never forgotten. The moral of it is that if you’re with the wrong person, there’s nothing you can do, and if you’re with the right person, there’s nothing you can’t. The top frame has a woman rattling off various ways she could change herself (“maybe if I got implants;…
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- 2/12/2018
- by Gwen Ihnat
- avclub.com
Jennifer Hayden is a middle-aged New Jerseyan, telling stories here about her growing kids and family life — so why did it take me so long to get to a 2011 book so close to my own life and experience? (I’m generally all over that stuff: don’t we all love to be validated by art that reflects the way we see the world?)
Well, I did see her big graphic novel The Story of My Tits (spoiler alert: the story is cancer) a few years back, and I’ve had Underwire on my shelf at least since then. This book-a-day run gave me a good excuse to pull it down, and I realized this was a compilation — it collects a strip she did for Dean Haspiel’s Act-i-vate collective, strips done around the same time she was working on the big book.
So this book has thirty pieces — a few...
Well, I did see her big graphic novel The Story of My Tits (spoiler alert: the story is cancer) a few years back, and I’ve had Underwire on my shelf at least since then. This book-a-day run gave me a good excuse to pull it down, and I realized this was a compilation — it collects a strip she did for Dean Haspiel’s Act-i-vate collective, strips done around the same time she was working on the big book.
So this book has thirty pieces — a few...
- 2/6/2018
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
Big Screen
Comics Alliance reviews the new mutant twinkies inspired by X-Men Days of Future Past. No, really
Self Styled Siren Farran's first novel "The Missing Reel" is coming out this year. If you've ever read her site you know this is a big deal since she's a wonderful writer. She promises lots of film references in this romantic comedy set in the 1980s at a NYC revival house.
The Dissolve Ridley Scott might direct The Martian starring Matt Damon. Mars movies always flop but Hollywood is eternally optimistic
Why So Sad, Batman makes the only smart use of the first photo of Ben Affleck as Batman
Out director Bryan Singer profiled, he declines to comment on the legal battles involving sexual assault claims but there's quite a lot of commenting on perceptions of his sexuality
Av Club Wolverine Remixed. 'Snikt' with a dance beat
The Film Stage See a...
Comics Alliance reviews the new mutant twinkies inspired by X-Men Days of Future Past. No, really
Self Styled Siren Farran's first novel "The Missing Reel" is coming out this year. If you've ever read her site you know this is a big deal since she's a wonderful writer. She promises lots of film references in this romantic comedy set in the 1980s at a NYC revival house.
The Dissolve Ridley Scott might direct The Martian starring Matt Damon. Mars movies always flop but Hollywood is eternally optimistic
Why So Sad, Batman makes the only smart use of the first photo of Ben Affleck as Batman
Out director Bryan Singer profiled, he declines to comment on the legal battles involving sexual assault claims but there's quite a lot of commenting on perceptions of his sexuality
Av Club Wolverine Remixed. 'Snikt' with a dance beat
The Film Stage See a...
- 5/14/2014
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
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
A two-evening cycle in Los Angeles, Seeing and Awakening: New Films by Nathaniel Dorsky at Redcat on Monday — Pastourelle (2010), The Return (2011) and the world premiere of August and After — and A Quartet of Recent Films by Nathaniel Dorsky at the UCLA Film & Television Archive's Billy Wilder Theater on Friday — Sarabande (2009), Compline (2009), Aubade (2009) and Winter (2008) — is the occasion for an appreciation by Manohla Dargis in the New York Times:
Because the films are silent and don't come with explanatory on-screen text, you can luxuriate in the visual complexity of the images. You may, amid all this loveliness, worry about what it all means. Although Mr Dorsky gestures in certain interpretive directions, notably with his titles — "Compline" is the name of the final prayer of the day in the Roman Catholic Church — he never forces you down this or that path. Then again, what can the image of eye-poppingly purple flowers mean?...
Because the films are silent and don't come with explanatory on-screen text, you can luxuriate in the visual complexity of the images. You may, amid all this loveliness, worry about what it all means. Although Mr Dorsky gestures in certain interpretive directions, notably with his titles — "Compline" is the name of the final prayer of the day in the Roman Catholic Church — he never forces you down this or that path. Then again, what can the image of eye-poppingly purple flowers mean?...
- 4/14/2012
- MUBI
Most contemporary art-comics look like they were more fun to make than they are to read, but the trend toward overpriced collections of page-long mixed-media scrawling has produced a few exciting hybrids of comics and fine art. Lynda Barry's offbeat collection What It Is (Drawn & Quarterly) makes a fine case in point. In short illustrated essays, Barry reminisces about how her interest in art and writing developed from childhood to young adulthood, and she muses about how and why creativity becomes a more self-conscious, unnatural act as we get older. In between the essays, Barry presents page after page of striking collages on which she's written questions designed to get readers to pick up pens and make their own art. What It Is borders on the shapeless and even pretentious, but Barry's down-to-earth prose style and earnest interest in a deeper understanding makes the book cumulatively moving. It isn't.
- 5/19/2008
- by Tasha Robinson, Noel Murray, Donna Bowman
- avclub.com
Freestyle Pictures has tapped scribe Matt Nix to adapt Sensei, a novel by author John Donohue. Freestyle's Adam Platnick is producing. Sensei is a crime thriller set in the world of martial arts. It revolves around a Brooklyn cop who has to team up with his estranged brother to solve a series of murders involving martial arts masters across the United States. Dana Jackson Will Shepherd the project for Freestyle, which has a financing deal with Constantin Film and whose credits include Resident Evil. Nix wrote Cock, to which he is attached to direct. He also wrote Cruddy, an adaptation of the Lynda Barry novel that has Betty Thomas attached to direct. The deal is in the low-six figures. Nix is repped by Endeavor and Bondesen/Graup.
- 3/11/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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