Nice Artwork by Rob Baily!
Trailer Chicken With Plums
Based on a graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi.
The year is 1958, the city Tehran. Celebrated violinist Nasser Ali Khan (Mathieu Amalric) has an unexpected encounter with a longlost love, but she fails to recognize him. He returns home, has an argument with his wife and, most troublingly, discovers that his prized violin has been broken. He’s unable to replace it, can’t conceive of life without the consolation of music, and soon finds that he can’t get out of bed, where he lies locked both in dreams about his childhood and projections of his own children’s futures. His reveries lay somewhere between fantasy and oblivion, and quickly assemble into a kind of thriller, riddled with flashbacks and flash-forwards (as well as a vision of a naked Sophia Loren), that illuminates his peculiar persona and the source of his despair.
Geometric Pop Culture Illustrations by Liam Brazier
more pics here
Things I Like: IPad Comic App Operation Ajax
Operation Ajax is the first true-to-life spy thriller in a new genre of interactive comics experiences, which is an adaptation of Stephen Kinzer’s nonfiction book All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror.
Things I Like: Samandal Comic Magazine
Samandal is a magazine dedicated to comics. Based in Beirut, they have contributors come from all over the world. The goal of Samandal Comics Magazine is to provide a platform for comics artists to experiment and display their work, generating a steady stream of contemporary reading material for comics fans.
The magazine has released 9 issues and the soon to be released 10th issue is coming out. Issues 1, 2 and 3 are available for free download on their website and features unique stories from a variety of different artists and writers. The rest of the issues are available for sale in various places depending on where you are at.
Silent Protest
Despite the recent uprising in streets all over Iran, the people adopted other forms of resistance:
:: Iranian banknotes uprising
:: Art and graffiti as signs of social protest
:: Persepolis 2.0: Post-Election uprising in comic style
:: Plain Cloth hunting by social knowledge
Current Time Waster: Online Free Games
- Battlefield Heros: A WWII Comic Style 3D shooter (My Favorite)
- Battleforces: a round based strategy game like the good old table game RISK
Bayou Last year I discovered Zudoca Comics, an online web comic site with lots of cool graphical novels. Here I found this great comic “Bayou” which tackles racism and violence in 1930s Mississippi. Click on the image for reading Bayou
