Posted on August 7, 2014
The popular Blu-ray focused website has just reviewed the 2013 Tarzan release. They were disappointed with occasional graphical stutters and so-so supplemental materials, but happy with the overall video and audio quality. Read the full text here.
Posted on August 6, 2014
AV Club has just put up a great article looking back the the history of superhero comics in the U.S. It focuses primarily on Jim Starlin’s work on Warlock, but gives a pretty comprehensive idea about the origin of many contemporary archetypes and tropes. The introduction reads:
Superhero comic books descend from the pulps. That is, they are a product of a massive surge in genre fiction produced in the early decades of the 20th century. Look at your favorite superheroes today, and you can still see the traces of this lineage. It’s not as if fantasy, science-fiction, or detective stories hadn’t existed before 1900, but so many of the expectations and conventions that genre fans take for granted today were only created and codified after the turn of the century. Many of the people who got in on the ground floor of the Golden Age of comics had experience with pulp magazines like Amazing Stories and Weird Tales as writers, editors, or devoted fans.
It’s a great piece Tim O’Neil, so we highly recommend it to all fans of our comics and Edgar Rice Burroughs classics. Check it out here.
Posted on August 3, 2014
During this year’s Comic-Con, the Inkpot Awards were given to Chuck Dixon, Kelley Jones, Graham Nolan and Brian Stelfreeze. Congratulations to all the recepients!
The Inkpot Awards are annual awards given to contributors to the world of comics, science fiction/fantasy, film, television, animation and fandom services, as the official website explains.
Posted on August 2, 2014
Dynamite Entertainment has just announced that they have signed Ron Marz for a new ongoing John Carter: Warlord of Mars comic series launching in November. Marz is a veteran of the comic industry having written and edited a number of prolific titles such as Green Lantern and Silver Surfer. He expressed great enthusiasm for working on the new John Carter, stating it is a job he has been “wanting to do since [he] was twelve years old.” Dynamite Entertainment, too, shares Marz’s excitement.
The new comic series stars the science fiction and fantasy hero John Carter who mysteriously finds himself in the alien world of Barsoom. Struggling to adapt and fight new enemies, great challenges and adversary will require John to become a true Warlord. The original series debuted with an Edgar Rice Burrough’s novel in 1912, an inspired many future adventure classics from Flash Gordon to Star Wars and Avatar.
You can read the full article at All-Comics. Don’t want to wait till November for the new comics? New John Carter: Warlod of Mars comics are available online right now!
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Posted on July 28, 2014
The Library of American Comics, a website dedicated to archiving and preserving comic strips from American newspapers, has just been awarded three Eisner Awards. One of those went to Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips, receiving the Best Archival Comic Strip Collection title.
Considered the “Oscars” of the comic world, the Eisner Awards are given out annually at the San Diego Comic-Con. They are named after the pioneering graphic novelist Will Eisner and span over two dozen categories.
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Posted on July 25, 2014
If you look at Ron Ely’s acting credits, there’s a huge gap between 2001 and 2014.
Ely was happy to take the long break from his career working in TV and films, which dates back to 1958.
“I stepped out of acting to raise a family and be able to spend more time with them here in Santa Barbara,” Ely says. “Now, all the kids are through college with advance degrees. My family asked me ‘what are you hanging around for?” I started looking around and this film came up. It felt so good making the movie, I wish I had never left.”
Read the full story at: V News
Posted on July 23, 2014
PopMatters reviews the Tarzan – In The City of Gold (Vol. 1): The Complete Burne Hogarth Sundays and Dailies Library, providing and interesting retrospective on the genre. Jeremy Estes’s review reads more like an interesting and in-depth article about the world of Tarzan and pulp comics. It goes through the history of the franchise and covers the various of media which featured the king of the jungle. The main gripe of the author is that “Tarzan’s world never opens up” and despite its diversity and number of reincarnations, it never transcends its original premise. At the same time, however, the collection covers mostly the early days of Tarzan, and an age when many of the conventions and archetypes were the standard.
Read the full review at: PopMatters
Posted on July 22, 2014
Posted on July 21, 2014
Dum Dum is the annual meeting of the Burroughs Biibliophiles, the ERB Fan Club organized in 1960 as a non-profit charitable organization to further the writings and legacy of ERB. The name comes from the meeting call of the apes in the jungle who would pound the earth: dum dum, dum dum
Room rates and other activities will be determined by the number
of registrants.
If you plan to attend, please contact Brad Vinson:
bvinson@ag.tamu.edu
Posted on July 20, 2014
The next iteration of the King of the Jungle movie, produced by Warner Brothers and directed by David Yayes known for his work on Harry Potter, is well underway. After some holdbacks such as casting issues or scheduling problems, the new title is finally moving forward, and new details about the shoot are emerging. Warner Borthers has released a synopsis in a press release this week:
It has been years since the man once known as Tarzan (Skarsgård) left the jungles of Africa behind for a gentrified life as John Clayton III, Lord Greystoke, with his beloved wife, Jane (Robbie) at his side. Now, he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the Belgian, Captain Leon Rom (Waltz). But those behind the murderous plot have no idea what they are about to unleash.
If the short synopsis is anything to go by, the next Tarzan will be taking the classic story but putting some new, modern spins on it.
Source: ScreenRant
