AN ENDING HAS A START

Soooooo...

This site is being shuttered. I am not out of the blogging game altogether, but it's been forever since I had an actual functioning website. Squarespace seemed like a pretty decent place for a functioning tech illiterate to set up shop, so that's what I did.

http://confessions123.com/

It's pretty basic, but that's how I like it. All future blog posts will be there, and this one will remain only as an archive, with this update staying at the top of the page to redirect folks.

Come by and check out the new digs. Also, note that I will soon be selling Natalie Nourigat artwork through the new locale, so you're going to want to stay tuned for that.

http://confessions123.com/


Current Soundtrack: Pet Shop Boys, "Vocal"

SKIP TO THE END

Surprise! New movie reviews!

I haven't had a substantial amount of movie reviews to warrant an update the last couple of weeks, but with my full review of The Purge being posted at the Oregonian, it was time.

Sooo...go see The Purge with Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey. Let me tell you why.

Though, if I had to direct you toward one film, it would be Noah Baumbach's Frances Ha.

My recent Indie & Arthouse columns:

* May 23, 2013: Douglas Fairbanks as The Thief of Bagdad; Paul McCartney gives us a Wings Rockshow; the Experimental Film Festival 2013.

* May 30, 2013: Take a visit to Skull World; look at the making of two different forms of art with Becoming Traviata and Bel Borba Aqui; get gay married for a greencard in I Do.

* June 7, 2013: underground crime fiction by way of Flamingos; the activist-focused environmental documentary Elemental; and Stress Position, an agitprop art school prank.

And for recent DVDs, you could do worse than Save the Date with Alison Brie and Lizzy Caplan, co-written and featuring artwork by cartoonist Jeffrey Brown.

Current Soundtrack: Jessie Ware, Devotion

Phoenix Comicon 2013: Jamie Rich

I LOVE BAD WITCHES, NOT MY F**KIN' PROBLEM

Since this cover is now showing up at Amazon, I can share!

Spell Checkers, vol. 3: Careless Whisper is on sale in October.

The cover is by Joëlle Jones and colorist Warren Wucinich.

Interiors by myself, Joëlle, and Nicolas Hitori de. Published by Oni Press.

Current Soundtrack: A$AP Rocky, naturally

LIKE THE LEGEND OF THE PHOENIX, ALL ENDS WITH BEGINNINGS

Phoenix Comic Con is this weekend. Joëlle Jones and I are guests of the show, and we will be attending on all four days, sitting at the Oni Press booth. Fittingly, that is apparently tables 664 through 666!

Come find us. In addition to our Oni books, we will have other goodies, including It Girl and the Atomics trades and comic book, Helheim prints, and Ms Jones will even have some original art.

In order to make it easier to track us down, we are actually having an official signing schedule. That way, you'll know when we are expected at the table and when we are at panels. We might be hanging about during our free time, too, but then again, we might also be getting some lunch! (You'd be surprised how many comics folks forget to eat lunch at conventions.)

Thursday (May 23) 

Signing: 4:00-8:00pm

Friday (May 24) 

Oni Press Panel [Jamie/Joëlle]: 12pm, Room 125B

Signing: 

1:00-5:30

Bleeding Cool Fan Awards [Jamie and Joëlle are presenting awards]: 6:00, Room 132

Saturday (May 25) 

Writing With a Female Voice Panel [Jamie]: 10:30 am, Room 125A

Signing: 

11:30-3:00

4-6:30

Sunday (May 26)

Music Influence on Comics Panel [Jamie]: 12pm, Room 124A

Signing: 1:00-4:30

* * *

By the way, Joëlle did the con variant for the first issue of Boom! Studio's new Mike Carey comic book, Suicide Risk. You definitely want to seek that out at the show.

Current Soundtrack: Depeche Mode, "Soothe My Soul" remixes

TOO COLD, TOO COLD

NEW IN THEATRES...

* The Iceman, a biopic about one of America's most notorious contract killers. Michael Shannon lends the role intensity, but the script only touches the material gingerly.

* Indie & Arthouse for the Oregonian, 5/17/13: a rare noir Fallguy; Luis Bunuel directs Catherine Deneuve in Tristana; and Guy Pearce sends 33 Postcards

Current Soundtrack: Vampire Weekend, Modern Vampires of the City

SHE'S ALWAYS IN MY HAIR

The cover to It Girl and the Atomics #12, by Michael and Laura Allred. A great way to close the series. Look for it in July!

Diamond ID: MAY130558
On Sale: July 17, 2013

More info here.

Current Soundtrack: Daft Punk, Random Access Memory

LET ME RIDE

On sale today, It Girl and the Atomics #10, the first issue drawn by Natalie Nourigat. 

In stores, and online. Download it here.

Lettered by Crank!, colored by Allen Passalaqua, and that nifty cover, of course, is by Michael & Laura Allred.

Read a six page preview.

Or, if you're inclined, let Comic Bastards tell you how good it is.

And since we're sharing, how about this awesome pin-up from Megan Levens for the second trade paperback, due out in the Fall...

Current Soundtrack: Little Boots, Nocturnes

THE PARTY & THE AFTER PARTY

NEW IN THEATRES...

* The Great Gatsby in 3D has two-wasted dimensions. Shtick and spectacle from Baz Luhrmann.

* Sightseers, the new film from Ben Wheatley, a rebel in search of applause. Take a tour of misanthropy.

* Indie & Arthouse for the Oregonian, 5/10/13: a two-week film noir festival at Cinema 21; Rock Hudson starring in John Frankenheimer's whacky psych-out Seconds, and the political/social documentary The Mosque in Morgantown.

THIS WEEK IN BD/DVD REVIEWS...

* Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, a 1973 disjointed road-trip romance from Alan J. Pakula.

* Wake of the Red Witch, a seafaring, bodice-ripping potboiler with John Wayne.

Current Soundtrack: Teleman, "Cristina/In Your Fur;" Wardell, "Opossum"