Check out that awesome back cover! I got a box of comps in the mail, it’s so weird to see everything printed full size. Plus the paper is thicker, and it makes the book look more impressive. I sat back and weiged it in my hand thinking, “Damn, I drew all that!”

Totally blew my mind!

PIXU
2 part mini series
by: Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos, Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá.
Limited signed and numbered special edition, 1000 copy print run.

Part one will be released on the San Diego Comic Con International. Part two will be out in September. This is not going to be distributed by Diamond. If you’re not going to San Diego and you want to save your copy of PIXU, it will only be available through KHEPRI.COM. They are already taking pre-orders.

SDCC 2008

A few weeks back, the ladies and I went to watch the hottest comic-based movie since “Batman Begins“:

IRONMAN!!!!!!

So I was a bit skeptical when going to watch this movie due to my disappointment from Marvel’s other movies: Spiderman 3 (wtf was with that dance number…), and X-Men 3 (except when certain people started dying…). I never been a big Iron Man fan growing up and the little bit I read about him and the Avengers in the Civil War saga, I didn’t have much an impression of him.

But the trailer for the movie was the most hottest thing I have seen in awhile so I swore that I’ll give Iron Man a chance. Despite the kids chit-chatting in the theater, the movie was absolutely awesome and hot and sexy and hot. And by HOT, I mean:

Beside the man-candy, the movie was full of funny and very clever dialogue, great cast and awesome script/story. Usually when a comic or book is translated into a movie, half the time it feels like the story is rushed since they’re trying to squeeze an entire history or book into a 2 hour movie. The end result is that I’m left wondering what the story is about (i.e. Golden Compass… UGH) or having very little symphaty for the characters. But Iron Man managed to pull it off perfectly; by the end of the movie, I feel like I known this character for a long time.  I am definitely looking forward to watching the next installment. And The Dark Knight——!!!!!! This summer is definitely a good season for COMICS.

FYI: I also updated my comic space page… finally!

For some who may not know, My Cage has celebrated it’s first year in syndication in May! Whoo hoo! The strip is featured in various newspapers around the country and just this past week, has been picked up by the  Honolulu Star Bulletin. If you live in Honolulu  be sure to check out our interview by Gary Chun in the Sunday paper June 1st!

My Cage is distributed by King Features Syndicate and began it’s run May 6 of 2007. If it’s not in your paper, you can sign up at King Features Daily Ink website and subscribe to all their strips and view all the archives.

If you would like to check out some of the strips and even info on how to write to your newspaper, visit our MySpace page: www.myspace.com/mycagecomic.

Also if you’d like to know more about the writer, Ed Power and myself, Melissa DeJesus on our work on the strip, check out our blog at www.mycagecomic.blogspot.com.

Enjoy ~~<3

DOING THE DEMO: LOOKING BACK, II

An interview with Brian Wood by Chris Arrant, covering in deatil books 4-6. This is a great series of interviews, check them out if you have time.

As I mentioned earlier in the blog, here are the photos I took from the “I want to Believe: Cai Guo-Qiang’s Exhibit” at the Guggenheim Museum.

An amazing array of pieces - I’d have never believed that the same man was responsible for all this. The photos alone can not do justice to the sheer power of Cai’s work - especially the cars that are hanging from the ceiling, lights blaring. I was most impressed with his gunpowder work:

There are video clips throughout the museum that demonstrates how he makes work of art through gunpowder. There is also clips of his firework displays. Personally, I never been a big fan of fireworks but this man makes it seem like it’s a work of art. Look out for his firework displays for this year’s Olympics in Beijing!

Enjoy the photos!

DEMO has been getting quite the amount of attention lately!
Check out Chris Arrant’s article as he chats with Brian Wood, going through the twelve issues of DEMO story-by-story.

For those that live in the NYC area, take advantage of all the museums and events here!

Currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts, which (Robin Ha, Mel and I went to last weekend), there is an exhibit: “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy“, which does a great job fusing high fashion and the comic medium to the general public. This exhibit is definitely a welcome sight to bring comics to a bigger audience, who may only associate the comic medium to the confines of comic book stores and some geek’s basement. Hopefully with more exhibits like this, we can get the people to finally acknowledge comics as an art medium.

And the costumes are amazing; I particularly liked the fashion based on Batman and X-Men. They’re also selling books on the exhibit - and other comic related books and products in the Met store so be sure to check them out!

Also check out the amazing exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum: “I want to Believe: Cai Guo-Qiang“. That post and photos (which I managed to secretly take) will be up soon! Ciao~

-hwan

 Comic Book Resources has a great interview with Brian Wood about the reprinted DEMO graphic novel at Vertigo! Check it out!

‘Demo’s’ an incredibly important book to Becky and I, both as a personal creative work and also as a milestone in our careers. We both want more people to read it, to see what its all about, to see what we’re all about.