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New York Comic Con 2011 Overview Part 2
Quick clarification… as the Tom Morello concert was over before 8 PM I ducked into Jim Hanley’s and got to get an awesome drawing from Eddy Barrows as part of a signing and say hello to long time friend Ian … Continue reading
Posted in New York Comic Con
Tagged cartoon, comedy, corbin bernsen, ddp, debi mazar, diamond dallas page, event, events, frankie muniz, good vibes, new york comic con, panels, photography, pizza man, TV and Movies
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New York Comic Con 2011 Overview Part 1
To get a clearer idea of where my head was in a jumbled state and the factor of this being possibly a serious mishmosh, let’s set some background. I’m working from memory mostly, with the notes of my schedule for … Continue reading
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Tagged act-i-vate, Comics, designer toys, first, jester, max Payne 3, Music, New York Comic Com, Rockstar games, sketchbot, super pro k.o., Tito Na Rua, tokidoki, Tom morello, ubisoft, video games, wrestling, wwe
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Some additional NYCC notes to be aware of before the show!
Bob Camp, one of the co-creators of Ren & Stimpy has been doing production background art for an upcoming mobile game called Tanks of Fury. They’ll be handing out cards with QR codes for a free demo. LEGO will giving … Continue reading
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Tagged events, freebies, information, new york comic con, notes, signings, toys
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Beer, Glorious, Beer!
I am not much of a beer drinker is what I tell people when I go out drinking. This isn’t exactly true. I just really can’t find enjoyment in what most people drink when they say beer. They usually mean … Continue reading
Posted in Food and Culinary
Tagged alcohol, beer, beer brewing, beer sampling, booze, creativity, culinary, jersey city, jersey city brew club
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Oh, my Pasta!
Whenever I’m out with a friend and decide its time to get a nice meal I have three types I’d gear for, Thai, Indian and Italian. The problem with Italian is that I feel weird paying for pasta dishes which … Continue reading
Posted in Food and Culinary
Tagged brooklyn, brooklyn heights, culinary, delcious, food, new york city, oh my pasta, pasta, restaurant, restaurant review, review
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She Went to Hell and took us with her
Hello, Chuck Palahniuk, it’s me Reid Harris Cooper. I just wanted to let you know that your newest book is compelling and successfully fills many of the holes it creates along the way, creating interesting characters and a vivid image … Continue reading
Posted in Book Expo America, Books
Tagged book review, Chuck Palahniuk, damned, demons, hell, review, reviews
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Games That Tell Tales
As TellTale Games truly expands their line of excellent produced games in the end of 2011 and beginning in 2012 with magic based on the Jurassic Park movie franchise, and two very popular the Comic books in Image Comics The … Continue reading
Posted in Video Games
Tagged aardman, adventure, adventure games, back to the future, back to the future the game, badge of carnage, bone, Comics, dan connors, dave grossman, doc brown, doublefine, fables, graham anabelle, grickle, guybrush threepwood, hector, homestar runner, jeff smith, kevin brunner, mike stemmle, monkey island, sam & max, sam and max, steve purcell, straandlooper, strong bad, telltale, telltale games, the walking dead, tim schaefer, vertigo, video games, wallace and gromit
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Overview of Brooklyn Book Festival 2011
The Brooklyn Book Festival which just completed its sixth year was quite intense. Full of free panels with many scheduled at the same time and all taking place while there’s an actual book festival within Columbus Park it is a … Continue reading
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Tagged books, brooklyn book festival, church, events, recipeproject, stainglass
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BBF2011: Funny Ha-Ha-Comedy in Comics
This panel featured four very talented comics creator with various pedigrees and creators of very different types of comics all that would fall under humor in the format of sequential storytelling. Keith Knight, a syndicated strip cartoonist he is famous … Continue reading
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Tagged (th)INK, act-i-vate, books, brooklyn book festival, comedy, Comics, hark a vagrant, heidi mcdonald, jennifer hayden, kate beaton, keith knight, knight life, michael kupperman, the beat, the k chronicles, underwire
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BBF2011: Eoin Colfer x Walter Mosley – GUMSHOES
We start with a reading of work. First Walter Mosley reads from his forthcoming January 2012 “All I Did Was Shoot My Man”, the next Leonid Mcgill book. It was a spirited reading of chapter 1 and definitely whetted the … Continue reading
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Tagged books, brooklyn book festival, eoin colfer, panel, speakers, walter mosley
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