R. Fiore « The Comics Journal

I saw Stanley Kubrick’s movie of A Clockwork Orange again recently, and it brought to mind some thoughts while not specifically germane to comics are germane to morally ambiguous entertainment, which comics tend to be. (I’m assuming you’ve all…

Well, My Guy Won

Posted by R. Fiore on March 7th, 2010 at 7:46 PM

Logorama wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short. Last time I checked, the link in the link still had the full version of the movie streaming.

About That There Avatar Movie

Posted by R. Fiore on March 6th, 2010 at 1:57 AM

Some disappointment was expressed that I posted on Avatar (which Price Waterhouse might be anointing with a Best Picture Oscar e’en as we speak) with no more to say than a one line joke. If I did have something to…

If They Don’t Win It’s a Crime

Posted by R. Fiore on February 22nd, 2010 at 9:47 PM

There’s only one movie I’m rooting for at the Oscars, and that’s Logorama, a French Best Animated Short nominee. It’s a priceless cop movie send-up set in a Los Angeles composed of and populated by trademarks, product icons…

Being Too Ironic

Posted by R. Fiore on February 21st, 2010 at 10:30 PM

R. Fiore’s observations about the comics section of The San Francisco Panorama (McSweeney’s No. 33).

A Tale of Two Conventions

Posted by R. Fiore on February 19th, 2010 at 12:01 AM

T. Hodler has an interesting post on the Comics Comics website (looking very snazzy in its new digs, incidentally) touching on among other things the kinship between science fiction and comics fandom, which put me in mind of…

Well, I Went and Saw Avatar

Posted by R. Fiore on February 5th, 2010 at 4:42 PM

Took me out of myself for a couple of hours.

Watching (The) Watchmen Again

Posted by R. Fiore on February 4th, 2010 at 11:32 PM

My favorite Onion News Network clip is “Iron Man Trailer to Be Adapted Into Full-Length Film,” which relates how “Fans are worried that the feature film adaptation of the beloved trailer won’t live up to the original 90-second story’s…

Adventures in Nomenclature: Literal, Liberal and Freestyle

Posted by R. Fiore on January 31st, 2010 at 8:16 PM

Whenever I hear comic art described as “realistic” or “cartoony” the first thought that comes to mind is that there has to be better ways to describe these things. Realistic seems to me a poor term for comics that are…