WE COULDN'T MAKE THIS UP IF WE TRIED

Another dose of real-life news from the internet which, when meshed together, creates the framework for an ingenious screenplay concept.

Dateline: Februrary 25, 2010

A woman so fat she can stop bullets teams up with a cop who has to kill a crazed chimpanzee and then uses music to deal with his pain. Together they steal a commercial jetpack and help Kirstie Alley’s dream booty call come true.

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SCAVENGING DAILY NEWS HEADLINES TO CREATE STORY CONCEPTS

Dateline: Feb.24, 2010

A Lingerie model runs one of the world's largest drug cartels while her husband is an undercover Mossad agent spying on Hamas. Together they take on an evil vice principal at their daughter's school who has been spying on her via her laptop camera.

PKD'S ELECTRIC ANT: THE COMIC

MAY, 2010 --
PHILIP K. DICK’S ELECTRIC ANT #2 (of 5)
Written by DAVID MACK
Penciled by PASCAL ALIXE
Cover by PAUL POPE

FROM THE MIND OF SCIENCE-FICTION LEGEND PHILIP K. DICK -
David Mack and Pascal Alixe continue their charged and visually stunning adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Ant. When most people have crises of identity, a therapist might advise them to look inside themselves for answers. But after Garson Poole, CEO of Tri-Plan Industries, wakes up in a hospital and is told he is not human, but, in fact, a robot known as an Electric Ant, he goes looking for answers by opening up his chest panel and literally looks inside himself. But what lies in there is more profound and terrifying than anyone is prepared for…
32 PGS./Parental Advisory $3.99

THIS MAKES ME SMILE

For years now, my friend Scott Laumann and I have been talking about creating Thomas Kinkaid style paintings with grafitti and poverty and real-life to counter-act the Disney-fied fantasy of the "painter of trite".

Thank goodness Banksy had the vision to beat us to it.

Bravo.

FRANK MILLER: THE PUNISHER -Original Art

This gorgeous orginal Frank Miller ink drawing of The Punisher was given to me by my dear friend, Lito. At the moment it's in our spare bedroom because I ran out of wall space to hang it, but it's gorgeous to look at, isn't it?

Thanks, Lito!

TEMPLESMITH: ORGINAL ART

Here's a peek at some of the great orginal art I own from artist Ben Templesmith. Ben was the artist for 30 DAYS OF NIGHT and he also works on several other titles for IDW comics.







You can see the progression of pencil sketches of the main character's face (Jenn) and then the basic outline painting, then the finished black and white, and then the final photo-shopped version with the effects added in later. Truly an amazing work. I personally feel that this is the very best example of Ben's artwork I've ever seen. And not just because it's my character.

Below is another original ink drawing from Ben that came along with all of this other great stuff you see here. This one below is an ink original of John Constantine from the book, HELLBLAZER. (It was also a film called CONSTANTINE with Keanu Reeves).



I'll post more orignal art later from Adijin and Frank Miller.

LICHETENSTEIN GIRL

This is the coolest thing you will see all day.

Guaranteed.

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