Showing posts with label Bryan Lee Omalley. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bryan Lee Omalley. Show all posts
'Scott Pilgrim VS The World' trailer
"Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour" Cover & Release date revealed!
Scott Pilgrim Saves Giant Robot (sorta)
Giant Robot Magazine, the asian diaspora pop culture/ arthouse publication is looking for help to keep the magazine going at full strength in a hostile publishing market. "Reducing pages, going from bimonthly to quarterly, or becoming an online entity are not options," says co-publisher Martin Wong "and our editorial and production staff of two full-timers and two part-timers (intact since issue 18) is already as lean as can be." In an effort to assist, ghettoManga-Award-winning cartoonist Bryan Lee O'malley hooked up the fresh Scott Pilgrim piece below for auction on ebay:
Click Here to bid on this piece. Proceeds will go to the Giant Robot Donation Drive. In addition to O'Malley's auction contribution, the donation drive is bolstered by original art and print incentives from such fresh jokers as James Jean, David Choe and more! to peep the swag and donate to the cause, click here.
holla!
samax.
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Scott Pilgrim movie Vlog is live!
here's the production vlog for the film adaptation of the ghettoManga Award-winning OGN series Scott Pilgrim. Scott Pilgrim single-handedly justifies Canada's existence. this movie better rock, or the state of Michigan's gonna conquer Canada and hand it over to Sara Palin. and who KNOWS what that psycho would do with all the power of CANADA at her disposal!!!! so hopefully, it'll be good...
-gM
And The Cupid Goes To...
okay, so i finally finished writing the blog posts for the 2008 ghettoManga Award Winners!the awards usually drop in february, but with the new baby and freelance project, came late this year. awards are handed out for excellence in comics, hipHop, art and popular culture. nominees were selected by myself and anyone who wanted to write in, and winners were selected by fan votes. thanks again to all the people who contributed or voted (and especially to all the nominees for goin' hard in '08!) in the biggest gMa's yet!
this year's Winners will each receive a greeting card with the gMa trophy design ("Cupid" seen here) on it and their name and the award they won (assuming i can get a mailing address for them). eventually, we will start giving out actual trophies...
anyways, here are the winners.
Comic of the Year
Proof
Hardcover/TPB of the Year
Freakangels
OGN of the Year
Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
Emcee of the Year
Jay Electronica
Rapper of the Year
Talib Kweli
Vocalist of the Year
Erykah Badu
HipHop/Rap Group of the Year
The Roots
Artist/Illustrator of the Year
Jim Mahfood
Cartoonist of the Year
Bryan Lee O'malley
Video of the Year
Honey by Erykah Badu
Album of the Year
Eardrum by Talib Kweli
Movie of the Year
The Dark Knight
Champion of Children Award
Power Pack
Man/Woman of the Year
Barack Obama
peace,
-samax
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From Good, to Bad, to REALLY Bad!
okay, so i finally got my hands on Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Universe, volume 5 of the series by Bryan Lee O'malley. for those just joining us, Scott Pilgrim revolves around the social life of it's twenty-something title character and his adorable supporting cast. it's a lot like Charlie Brown, but with more sex and fight scenes. Its unique blend of action, romance, slice-of-life and humor is-like the immortal Slinky- fun for both girls and boys.
so anyways, similar to vol 3, Scott Pilgrim Vs The Universe is much, much darker than the uparching Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together (for which O'Malley snagged ghettoManga Cartoonist of the Year and OGN of the Year in 2008)... O'Malley meticulously takes apart the good vibes Scott and Ramona brought into this issue from the last volume. the pressures of moving in together would be hard enough on them, but now the unspoken circumstances of Ramona's breakup with evil-exboyfriend Gideon are casting a shadow over Scott and Ramona's future... and did i mention Scott has to repeatedly battle the Katayanagi Twins and their increasingly tough Robots? yeah, there's that too... 
The Darker tone of this volume makes it less fun to read than the last one, but it's still top notch. Scott's repeated references to Clairemont-era X-men storylines echo the concept of this volume that things get much worse before they get better. Even when Scott vanquishes the Twins, there's little cause to celebrate because of... well, you get the idea!when this volume ends, the stage is set for the ultimate battle with Gideon, so you probably wanna read all five previous joints so you can be ready to complete the collection when volume 6 drops!
holla!
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Cartoonist, OGN of the Year
Scott Pilgrim, Vol 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together
the ghettoManga Cartoonist of the Year Award for 2008 goes to Bryan Lee O'Malley writer/artist of the OGN series Scott Pilgrim. Part four of the series Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together was voted the 2008 OGN of the Year.Explaining the appeal of Scott Pilgrim is not difficult. it's a book about a twenty-something slacker who falls in Luh... Luh... who really likes this delivery girl Ramona who just so happens to take short cuts through Scott's dreams (there's a really good subspace portal that passes through there...). the problem is he can only date Ramona if he agrees to vanquish Ramona's Seven Evil Ex-boyfriends, but that's okay, 'cause Scott also happens to have MAD fightin' skills!
as you may have noticed, Scott Pilgrim is filled with hijinx, action, and small to medium doses of mushy stuff! in Gets It Together, Scott and Ramona wrestle with the L word (no, not lesbian!), Scott's band gets a chance to record, and Scott is stalked by a mysterious swordsman... good times! OH! and Scott faces off with another of Ramona's Evil Exes who's a little different than the others. the events of this volume force Scott to grow up (a little... he ACTUALLY gets a JOB!), preparing for his eventual meeting with Gideon, the evilest Ex of them all in part 6!
O'Malley takes advantage of the OGN format (popularized by the mass importing of manga) as well as anyone i've ever read. the pacing and storytelling in Scott Pilgrim would be very, very difficult to pull off in any other format. O'malley's art is deceptively cartoony, like a cross between Schulz's Peanuts, Waterson's Calvin and Hobbes and your favorite fighting video game. O'Malley combines humor, action and adolescent sweetheart drama as well as anyone since Stan Lee and Romita on classic Amazing Spiderman. peep this CBR interview with Bryan Lee O'Malley for more, but really, just buy the books. the 200 plus page joints are available for ten bucks apiece on Amazon, and well worth the look!peace.
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Somebody Buy Me This!
okay, times are tight, but i GOTS ta have that new Scott Pilgrim!!! yep, Scott Pilgrim vs The Universe
drops next week (Feb 4th), and i reeeeeeally want it, so if you buy it for me, I'll hook you up with something fresh! if one of YOU doesn't buy it for me... i'll uh, buy it myself. but, if you read this review on CBR and i think you'll agree i deserve it!that's all...
-gM
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