Via Sean.

…it might have gone something like this. Via Peter Serafinowicz, voice of Darth Maul and maestro of Look Around You.

Harvey Awards Animation from Monkey and Tiger on Vimeo.

Written, voice acted, and BLAMIMATED by Kristofer Straub with art by Scott Kurtz. This video was played at the start of the 2009 Harvey Awards, and people seemed to laugh.

[Link via Journalista!]

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Once you get past a disturbing R-rated film about a naked woman whose shower attacks her with a radioactive coating, you’ll see Hugh Jackman telling Katie Couric a bit about a possible fifth outing for him as Wolverine. We also learn that Katie doesn’t do comic book, but that’s not a big surprise. Video taken from Couric’s new @katiecouric web show. You can watch the whole interview with Jackman here.

Thanks to CBS for the link.

Back in the late ’80s, Morley Safer sat down with the MAD crew.

(Via Twitter.)

UPDATE: This is probably where the Tweets originated from, Mark Evanier.

Offered without comment.

Yes. Yessssssssssssss.

Meltdown has video of the Grant Morrison/Clive Barker summit. Marz Richards provides a transcript at the same link.

The phrase “Lego Spinal Tap” is perhaps the most promising uttered in the English language since “reclining chair,” right? Well, not if you are stinky LEGO.

Okay, let’s back up a bit. It seems that a few years ago a teenager named Coleman Hickey made a stop motion video of Tap’s “Tonight We’re Gonna Rock You Tonight” using Legos. Luckily, the surviving members of the band realized that this was all that was holy under the sun and wanted to include the video on a new concert DVD, the NY Times reports. But the LEGO Company would not allow this.

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[Link via Evan Narcisse]

Why does no one dance like this anymore???

{Via Topless Robot}

Danielle Corsetto’s cartoons CNN appearance was canceled last night, but Becky Cloonan did appear on MTV the other night. So that’s a net win for us, right?

The eternal battle.

It’s kinda shaky-cam, DIY level quality video, but damned if it isn’t Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth, and hearing these two speak is one of the great comics experiences you can have.

Alan Moore, Joe Quesada, Dan Didio, Paterson Joseph and Rich Johnston are mesmerizing!

PS: We posted this Sunday but moved it up just in case you missed it. Surely when the history of Comics in the Aughts is written, this will be the apotheosis. Go here so you can make it FULL SCREEN. The bigger the better.

Up until now, Hugh Jackman has been able to keep his love of musical theater and his love of slicing people with his claws separate, but don’t think those of us who share those twin loves haven’t fantasized about WOLVERINE: THE MUSICAL. Now, Erik Beck from Indy Mogul and Mark Douglas, from Barely Political, have made our dreams come true..sort of. If the SPIDER-MAN musical takes off, this one could really work, we think.

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Well, here’s a comics double play — the new DC referencing song from Art Brut in a homemade vid that shows Jeff Lemire’s cover for the new album. Enjoy.

Shot In The Back Of The Head from Moby on Vimeo.
Like it says. David Lynch directed an animated video for the new Moby song.

Or should we say cartoonist David Lynch, whose “The Angriest Dog in the World” ran for several years in various LA alt.weeklies, and comics supporter Moby have collaborated on an animated video. See, we can find a comics connection for ANYTHING.

PS: “The Angriest Dog in the World” is still being produced, but for the subscription portion of Lynch’s website. See, he’s even figured out how to make money from webcomics!

Via Diamond, a PSA for Free Comic Book Day by…Hugh Jackman, with a WOLVERINE trailer following.

Also coming: A more generic “Support comics” PSA from Jackman.

First off: Can Hugh Jackman get any dreamier? He’s certainly not afraid to be associated with musical comedy, so comics are no reach for this leading man. It’s a really nice coup for Diamond.

Second: Back in The Dark Ages, for decades, comics folk thought that a “Milk Board”  — an industry advocacy arm that would put together promotional efforts featuring celebs who said they read comics — might help raise the profile of the medium to the general public. In fact, entire organizations were formed to work towards this milk board, before petty differences or inertia would inevitably end the efforts.

And now, it’s almost like the Milk Board came to us.

So, once again….yay us!

SECRET IDENTITIES, a new superhero anthology by Asian creators examining various aspects of Asian culture and stereotyping, has been putting out videos to promote the book…here’s the latest one.

The book hits stores next week.

Kramers Ergot in Brooklyn from james gaddy on Vimeo.
Print magazine presents a video on the Brooklyn stop of the KRAMERS ERGOT tour.

Cartoonist/Nickelodeon Magazine editor Dave Roman writes to say that JC Roberts (brother of Scott Roberts) animated a music video based on TEEN BOAT, the mini-comic series created by Roman and John Green. It features a new wave song written and performed by yet another cartoonist, Abby Denson(who also appears as a character in the video).

A new stop-motion entertainment in the manner of the now-seminal Twister Toyfare Theater, Credits: Animator and head writer Alex Kropinak, co-writers Jon Gutierrez and Sean T. Collins, voice actors Ben Morse and Ryan Penagos.

The “Next Door Neighbor” webcomics anthology has been running at SMITH Magazine for some time, with contributions from everyone from Harvey Pekar to K. Thor Jensen and back again. Chronicling tales of nightmare neighbors — and we’ve all got one of THOSE — the series is edited by Dean Haspiel. Babelgum, an online video site, now has a nice piece on Haspiel, NDN and the Deep Six Studio up.

We all have a next-door neighbor and a next-door neighbor story. With this realization in mind, comic book artist, Harvey Pekar collaborator and founder of webcomix collective Act-i-vate, Dean Haspiel approached storytelling site SMITH magazine. The result: a yearlong anthology of diverse, shocking and heartfelt true-life webcomix published biweekly by both emerging and celebrated writers and artists. We visit Dean, and contributors Joan Reilly and Joe Infurnari, at their communal workspace deep in industrial Brooklyn and discuss the importance of place and community – real life and virtual.

You’ll have to go to the link to watch the video.