It just goes to show that complaining about things on the Internet can lead to fame and fortune: Particularly if you’ve written and published a book featuring special effects-ready monsters prior to complaining about something on the Internet.
Zhang Ziyi to play cartoonist in new movie: A fictional cartoonist, but I think that’s close enough to excuse linking to a story about Zhang Ziyi, and thus justify the half hour I then spent looking at pictures of her on the Internet.
Cartooning for The New Yorker is a lot like cooking potatoes: So says Prisna Boonsinsukh, who doesn’t draw cartoons for the New Yorker, but does cook potatoes.
Best headline about Natalie Portman getting a role in a Marvel movie?: I think so.
“In the simplest terms, Wonderland is Alice in Wonderland without Alice”: The Girls Entertainment Network reviews Tommy Kovac and Sonny Liew’s Wonderland graphic novel. Quite positively, as it turns out.
“What truly galls, though, is recent news that two of our brightest exports, Ryan Reynolds and Seth Rogen, are set to play the dullest of Yankee super dudes”: Canadian Peter Howell decides that there’s “something slightly more worthy of getting our red-and-white knickers knotted over” than the fact that the movie opening the Toronto International Film Festival isn’t a Canadian film. The slightly more worthy issue? The “second-class status that our Canuck superheroes have been relegated to by Hollywood’s imperialist Americans.”
