Original Generations Commercial

Shown above is a commercial from Japan for Original Generations on the PS2. The actress looks so cute in that mecha cosplay outfit!

Japanese James Bond Poster

While looking around this cool poster website I came across this great print promoting the James Bond film Casino Royale in Japan. I love the wild look of the design, it’s quite playful for a cold war spy movie.

Mister Toast

Shown above is a promo for the World of Mister Toast! I discovered the works of Dan Goodsell on Flickr, although you can also follow his adventures on his blog, and of course his book (co-authored with Steve Roden) Krazy Kids Food! is one of my favorites.

Create Your Own Simpsons Avatar

The latest trend on Flickr is for folks to show off their very own Simpsons avatar. To create your own avatar just visit the official website for the Simpsons movie.

Space Invaders vs. Hello Kitty

Shown above is the Sanrio Hello Kitty x TAITO Space Invader Double Mascot Charms to decorate your fanboy (or fangurl) cell phone strap. To me it looks like Hello Kitty has been taken over by the Borg!

The Bitter Stickgirl

The Bitter Stickgirl is from Singapore, China and she has some enteratining comics on her blog which are worth checking out.

Sexist Disney Rejection Letter circa 1938

Snow White is so much about dreams coming true, so there’s something very sad about getting a sexist rejection letter from Disney with her character so well positioned on the Disney letterhead of that era:

“Women do not do any of the creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen, as that work is performed entirely by young men. For this reason girls are not considered for the training school.”

By the way the good news is that Miss Mary V. Ford went on to become an animator during World War II…

Modern Battlestar Galactica Minimates

If the new Galactica is to gritty for your tastes these cutie-pie Minimates might change your mind about the show. You can pre-order them here:

BigBadToyStore.com

Found via Toy News International.

Bring Back Shat!

Set phasers on RANT!So you’re telling me that Harrison Ford is still young enough to play mast moving Indiana Jones, but Williams Shatner is too old to play Admiral Kirk? Us Star trek fanboys should demand justice! Just take a look at Ford, they didn’t even update his costume: It’s now twenty years later (maybe the 1950’s?) and he’s still wearing the same clothing! We’ve lost so many of the original Star Trek cast, can’t we have one more flick with Kirk and Spock? I’ll settle for a small scene, or even a bit part…

Recent Japanese Commercials

Yummy yummy bread chips! Dogs jumping rope! A Harry Potter chess game! And mega teriyaki burgers! What else could you want? Although I think the animated stop motion soy bean commercial my favorite.

More Kill Bill?!

You know I loved Kill Bill, but I’m not sure we need more of it:

Producer Pledges Two More Kill Bill Installments

“According to E. Bennet Walsh, an Executive Producer of Kill Bill, Tarantino has formulated the plots for two sequels and may be heading back to China to film them. Part 3 would revolve around the revenge of two members of the Crazy 88s. Part 4 would focus on the daughters of Beatrix Kiddo and Vernita Green getting square, as was previously rumoured. Some even claim that the (previously unrevealed) daughters of Elle Driver and Gogo Yubari would also be featured.”

Found via ifitsmovies.com

Drawing an Anime Girl with HTML

That’s pretty darned amazing!

Found via Narutard.

MoCCA 2007: Studio Kaiju

Shown above is the some team members of Studio Kaiju at MoCCA 2007. Being a long time anime fan, the Kaiju crew caught my eye right away. Kaiju is an interesting group because not only are they doing their own posters, books and t-shirts but they also create these very silly but amazing live action performance videos. The videos looks like an odd mash of a WWF wrestling match and a Godzilla film:

Below is a poster created by Kaiju’s designer-at-large Vinnie Arnone. You can’t quite see all the details in the below image but the poster looked fantastic up close, it featured all of these amazing little charcter designs:

MoCCA 2007: Rabid Rabbit

When I first got to MoCCA I was sort of blown away by everything around me, so I snapped the above photo (because the giant bunny got my attention). A while later I came back to find that the table in question belonged Rabid Rabbit, a collective of artists that met via the School of Visual Arts MFA program. The artist in the above photo is Ben X. Trinh, not shown in the photo to his right was S. Y. Choi who handed me the cute postcard seen below:

MoCCA 2007: Half of the Rowdy Boiz

Artist Alex Cahill poses with a copy of Posion the Cure #1 at MoCCA 2007, not shown here is writer Jad Ziade the other half of the Rowdy Boiz who run New Radio Comics.

MoCCA 2007: Musikoff @ Manual = Mauled!

Above is the table of Manual Comics at MoCCA 2007, I’m not sure who the guy is on the left (my journalism skills are pretty lacking these days – sorry!) but the fellow on the right is illustrator Brian Musikoff (aka B Musikoff). Brian was very excited about their series Mauled! which features a special tragedy theme for each issue:

MoCCA 2007: The Love Bound Train

Seen above is the crew behind the Love Bound Train at MoCCA 2007. The first thing that caught my eye at their booth was they had an animation playing that featured the theme of finding love on the L train, I quickly asked asked if they lived in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (my current hometown) and of course the answer was yes. I just loved looking at all the cool creative stuff that was jammed on their table:

They’re still working on launching their full website, but they do have a shop open were you can buy all sorts of interesting goodies:

MoCCA 2007: Four from the House of Twelve Comics

Shown above are some of the crew from the House of Twelve Comics at MoCCA 2007. Sadly I didn’t get the name of the guy on the left, but the other crew members seen here are (left to right) Miss Lasko-Gross, Jennifer Gonzalez, and Cheese Hasselberger (El Presidente of the house). Seen below is the cover of issue #3 by Miss Lasko-Gross:

Below is a panel from Jennifer Gonzalez’s book Too Negative #9:

Editor’s Full Disclosure: I’ve known Jennifer for years, and I just discovered that Cheese Hasselberger worked with me on a CD-ROM eons ago…

MoCCA 2007: E. J. Barnes

E. J. Barnes is an illustrator from Amherst, Mass. as she was showing off copies of her noir inspired comics at MoCAA 2007. Below is a sample page from her book Confessions of an American Ling Master (which contains cool stuff like occult references, squalor and bad science):

… I’m impressed with E. J. because not only is she an illustrator/animator, but she also has a full degree in Chemistry!

MoCCA 2007: Calavera Comics

Shown above is the crew from Calavera Comics at MoCCA 2007. I didn’t get a chance to look at their comics, but what blew me away was the wonderful graphic posters and t-shirts that they had on hand. They also have a cool blog worth visiting as well.

MoCCA 2007: Abby Denson of Abby Comix

Shown above is Abby Denson, creator of Tough Love and Dolltopia at MoCCA 2007. I’ve known Abby since, well *cough* I won’t embarrass her here. Check out her website:

AbbyComix.com

Seen below are some panels from Jamie Starr: Teen Drag Queen:

MoCCA 2007: It’s Never Too Late!

Shown above is a quick shot from the first day of MoCCA 2007 in New York City. If you’re in town Sunday and LOVE comics I’d suggest heading down to the Puck Building to check out the show. I only had a few hours to walk through the show today, but it was packed wall-to-wall with some amazing small press comics. But what made the show amazing is that’s it’s low enough enough so you can hang out and chat with the artists and see some upcoming talent.

Below is the cover from the MoCCA guidebook, on Sunday we’ll follow up with further coverage…

Feilong: The China Game

Not to toot my own horn, but Very Memorable Design has just launched a game for the Asia Society:

Feilong: The China Game

By the way the questions are pretty darn hard (some on a college level) so it may take you a few times to win. But if you manage to finish you get to win a wallpaper of Feilong himself! And if you love the online game you can also buy the original board game which goes much deeper (and has cute little plastic dragons to boot).

Shown below is some of the initial designs for the dragon character in the game which were illustrated by Gwen Singley (who’s one of the most talented illustrators that I’ve ever known):

The M Man

I love the illustrational look of the above animated mini-film made by brothers Greg and Myles McLeod. Here’s some background info on this animation-duo from their website:

The Brothers McLeod

“Greg and Myles have been writing and directing animations since 2000 and their work has appeared on BBC ONE, MTV, Nickelodeon USA, Channel 4, E4, Channel Frederator and nokiashorts.com. Their surname is pronounced MacCloud for those not versed in Norse-Scottish history…”

I also loved their illustration work as well: