Archive for the 'comics' Category

How Comic Book Sounds Become Movie Sounds

"As both sound designers emphasize, it wasn't simply a matter of producing the perfect sound in the studio and calling it a day. In many cases, maximum fidelity to the original static onomatopoeia was abandoned. That's because making these effects work in the context of a movie was as much about the mixing process and getting them to fit with all the other sonic chaos that's happening in a given scene."
 

For Spring Hath Sprung the Cyclotron

Overview of different styles of lettering for different characters' speech in Pogo.
 

Freud: In the Uncanny Realm of the Unconscious!

A little light lunchtime reading.
 

Picturebox Inc.

Never got around to linking to this before, but I did the front-end development for this site and collaborated on the design with Circle and Square, with Nathan Hamblen providing able and patient JS and back-end development.
 

The H-BOMB and YOU

Scanned civil defense comic from 1954 distributed to DC and MD area residents. Angel and I came up with some likely sequels, amongst which were: "Guys Peeing in the Street and You," "Kids These Days and You," "Truancy and You," and "Backtalk and You."
 

A model of Scrooge McDuck’s money bin

Continuing today's unintentional simulacrum theme.
 

Spider-Man and Planned Parenthood

"Spider-Man's getting ready to give kids the real truth about birth control and chew bubble gum. And he's all out of bubble gum." via bb