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APE AFTERMATH 2006 Featuring the Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics Award Ceremony w/ Daniel Merlin Goodbrey & Rob Osborne |
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The Isotope Communique
Saturday, March 25, 2006
 New James Jean InterviewWith The Hundreds With illustrations for mainstream media giants like Time, Spin, and Rolling Stones magazine, gorgeous cover art for Fables and Green Arrow, and the mind-blowing solo-project that is Process Recess, James Jean has painted his way in to the hearts of the comic industry. And as with anyone we love, we always want to know more. So go click the pretty picture below to read a new James Jean interview at The Hundreds Chronicles: 
Thursday, March 23, 2006
 When Peer Pressure StrikesWill The Man of Steel Give In? While researching public information films the BKV Caballero who goes by the name "insertnamehear" unearthed an amazing public service announcement from 1980 starring Superman. You've seen him fight monsters, aliens, and even Lex Luthor... but what will Superman and the kids do when faced with the power of cigarettes? Superman Vs Nick O Teen  Matt Fraction & Steve SandersThe Five Fists of Science The PDF fever is spreading! Today Last of the Independents and Rex Mantooth author Matt Fraction announced he is hosting a 22 page preview of his hotly anticipated new graphic novel The Five Fists of Science. You'll definitely want to check it out. Starring the super-genius team of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla in an all-out retro-scientific war against Thomas Edison... and also featuring the death of Isotope proprietor James Sime at the hands of a yeti! Download the preview here
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
 Isotope Guerrilla Cult Theatre PresentsJack Nicholson in The Wild Ride In this too-cool-for-school 1960 vehicle for emerging star Jack Nicholson as hot-tempered juvenile delinquent Johnny Varron, the world is filled with greasers, dopers, rebels, dropouts, hot-rodders, and beat generation punks on a never-ending high octane bender. And the cat known as Johnny Varron is the king of cool. The only thing Johnny likes to do more than haul ass in his supercharged hotrod and tangle with the fuzz... is copin' a feel on his best friend's girl! Shopkeeper: Do you have ID? Johnny: Yeah... Shopkeeper: May I see it? Johnny: No.     Directed by two-time loser Harvey Berman and edited by infamous Monte "Two-Lane Blacktop" Hellman, a true 60's underground classic! Isotope Guerrilla Cult Theatre Presents: The Wild Ride
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
 Exalted Gods of SpacerockThis Friday 3/24/06 Now this doesn't happen very often! Space rock guitar deity Helios Creed returns to San Francisco for a rare acidpunk pioneer reunion show with his long-since-dissipated former band, the legendary Chrome. Completely unique and utterly ahead of their time, Chrome's persistently overdriven sound fused searing rock with a futurist psychedelia collage of found sounds, white noise, tape manipulation, and more super-sustained, distorted guitar effects than your ears have ever heard. Without a doubt Chrome was the band that made psychedelic music cool again in the early 80's and put the rock in spacerock With a Helios Creed solo set and a full Chrome set this show is not to be missed! Chrome & Helios Creed @ Annie's Social Club 917 Folsom St. Friday, March 24th
Monday, March 20, 2006
 New Narrative ArtComing This May As part of the Isotope's on-going quest to get you and ourselves sneak peeks at upcoming books before they're available in stores, this week we bring you the new anthology Blurred Vision. This book caught our eye immediately with a gorgeous D. Dominick Lombardi cover (part of the "Post Apocalyptic Tattoo Series"), and a list of cutting edge contributors whose work impresses. This is definitely a new publisher we're going to be keeping our eye on. "But what does this book look like on the inside?" we thought, "And if we want to see what's inside, surely our friends on the Isotope Communique will also want to!" The fine folks at Blurred Books put together a great package for us to share with you... check it out, won't you?  Featuring strange and beautiful new work by cartoonists K. Thor Jensen, Eve Englezos, Matt Madden, Hans Rickheit, Michael Teague and more Blurred Vision boasts 102 pages of surreal goodness. Blurred Vision by Various 102 Black & White Pages for $14.95 From Blurred Books Diamond Order Code: MAR06 3069 Shipping this May. Download and enjoy a first-look 10 page preview here
Sunday, March 19, 2006
 Bringing World Dominationto APE AFTERMATH You know him, you love him... he's Rob Osborne, the one man cartooning juggernaut of irrepressible talent, single-minded determination, and never-ending charm who has conquered the comic industry's hearts and minds with his unrelentingly entertaining works, Sunset City and 1000 Steps to World Domination, on his path to his larger goal, complete domination of the planet. And now, the inaugural winner of the Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics will return to the site of his first conquest. Expect to see Osborne at APE AFTERMATH on April 8th when he and Daniel Merlin Goodbrey present this year's winner the coveted prize on the Isotope's new eight foot high stage. Watch this space for more special APE AFTERMATH announcements to come... With that in mind, it's pretty incredible to see what results you get when you do a Google search on the word "Isotope." Ranked right behind the Wikipedia definition of the word and the worldwide leader in stable isotope separations? Not too shabby, especially considering our money goes not to search engine optimization... but advanced comic pimping optimization.  (click to enlarge) So, how did we get this enviable position? That's the power of love, baby. That's the power of love.
Saturday, March 18, 2006
 Ennis + RobertsonEquals Awesome Since February the Isotope staff has been downright giddy waiting for the official announcement of the The Boys, a five-year magnum opus by two of our favorite industry giants... Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. From what we're told Ennis is as pumped up about the series as we are and from the previews we've seen it's pretty apparent that Robertson's art has never looked better. The Pulse has the inside scoop on the series that's sure to be on the top of our "must read" pile through to 2011. Go check it out. |
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