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The Point Radio: 'Avatar' Acting In A Virtual World
10 hours ago
The biggest hurdle James Cameron had to face in getting Avatar to screen was waiting for technology to catch up with his imagination, but even harder was the job actors like Zoe Salanda had to face acting in an almost virtual set. We talk to them today as Avatar continues to build big box office. Meanwhile, Neal Adams turns in an amazing cover and
Fox takes a shot at Chuck.
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Review: 'The Best American Comics: 2009', edited by Charles Burns
12 hours ago
The Best American Comics 2009
Edited by Charles Burns; Series Editors Jessica Abel and Matt Madden
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, October 2009, $22.00
Long ago, the wise minds at the “Best American” series of annuals at Houghton Mifflin – now covering everything from sportswriting to mystery stories – realized that they didn’t need to wait for the calendar year to turn, if that was bad timing for their deadlines. They could simply declare some other standard 365-day period to be their “year” and stick with it. And so this book has 2009 in its title – since that’s the year it was published, and consumers are noticeably reticent to pick up a book that appears to be outdated – but collects Charles Burns’s choices for the best comics of the year that ran from September 1, 2007 through August 31, 2008. (And why shouldn’t that year be just as legitimate as the one that begins on January 1st, or September 19th, …
- Andrew Wheeler
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