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Creating Captain America

With Captain America: The First Avenger out on July 28 in Australia, here’s a look at how the hero – and his arch-nemesis – came about. Hint: it involves ice cream…

June 30, 2011
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Osama Bin Laden Killing Is Being Turned Into A Graphic Novel

As if war dogs and night vision contact lenses weren’t enough, the killing of Osama bin Laden is going to be stylised in a wannabe Frank Miller-style art. It’ll focus on SEAL Team 6 and take some liberties with fiction.

June 15, 2011
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An Early Peek At The Steve Jobs Comic Book

From the people that brought you the Mark Zuckerberg comic book comes the boringly named (yet still enticing!) Steve Jobs: The Co-Founder of Apple, a pulp biography in pictures. A few of which PC World has gotten an early look at.

May 28, 2011
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Use Your LEGO Helmet To Listen To Comic Books

In case LEGOs aren’t cool enough for you on their own, how about if we throw a gold-visor space helmet, USB drive, and some comic books into the mix? That’s the ingenious thinking behind Jonathan Robson‘s concept design for the LEGO Audio Comic.

May 18, 2011
Software

Dark Horse App Shoves Hellboy And Axe Cop Into Your iPad

Dark Horse. It’s the largest independent comic book publisher in these here United States, and its stable of titles ranges from Hellboy to The Guild to Conan to heart-warming child-written internet sensation Axe Cop. And now it’s on your iPad.

April 26, 2011
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Lego Helmet Makes Comics Books’ Zaps! Pows! Bangs! Even Louder

What better way to encourage a kid to begin reading, than by fashioning a Lego minifig helmet with padded speakers that read the comic books’ blurbs aloud? Naturally part of the deal is that said kiddywink must read the comic book as well, thus getting some education along with the enjoyment.

February 25, 2011
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Facebook Hero: Zuckerberg Gets Immortalised In Comic Books

Gizmodo AU

The adventures of Mark Zuckerberg, the one and only Facebook king, philanthropist and unlikely gazillionaire – is now coming to the world of comics. And what’s more, it actually looks like something worth reading…in the toilet.

December 9, 2010

Visit The Manhattans Of Our Wildest Imaginations

New York. Gotham. Metropolis. We’ve all been there, either in real life or in our dreams. And these gorgeous travel posters from Justin Van Genderen invite us there again, with an elegant beauty that makes me want to believe.

October 8, 2010
Entertainment

BOOM! How Comic Book Sounds Become Movie Sounds

The right sound can come to define a comic book character as much as any form-fitting costume or superpower. Here’s how three of the most renowned onomatopoeias in comic history BAMF’d their way from word balloons to the big screen.

August 12, 2010
Entertainment

"How To Batman" Teaches You Everything You Need To Know

Batman has been very busy, improving the world of Gotham City with his latest how-to videos. Learn how to dress for an interview, how to feed goats or how to make a western movie, from everyone’s favourite raspy-voiced vigilante.

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