Rocket Llama Crew at San Diego Comic-Con 2010: Panels on Digital Comics, Action Chicks, Batman’s Empty Nest, & More

Papa Llama | July 12, 2010

FRIDAY, JULY 23 11:30-1:00 Comics Arts Conference Session #6: Digital Comics— Nick Langley (Rocket Llama) gives a brief history of webcomics and evaluates online economic experiments from subscriptions to micropayments – with Brock Heasley (Super Fogeys, Zuda Comics’ Monsterplex). 2:00-3:30 Comics Arts Conference Session #8: Where Are the Action Chicks?— Katrina Hill (ActionFlickChick.com), Jill Pantozzi [...]

Why Is a Kid Batman’s Crimefighting Partner?

Papa Llama | July 12, 2010

I’m getting ready to do a panel at Comic-Con later this month to discuss Batman’s crimefighting partnerships. Last year Dr. Robin Rosenberg and I got to discuss the psychopathy of the Joker with creator Jerry Robinson, “The Laughing Fish” author Steve Englehart, The Dark Knight executive producer Michael Uslan, and TV’s original Batman himself, Adam [...]

Interview: Ti West (Dead & Lonely, House of the Devil) Pt. 2

Alex Langley | October 28, 2009

Previous posts: Review: Dead & Lonely on IFC.com Interview: Ti West (Dead & Lonely, Cabin Fever II) Pt. 1 Spoilers! If you’ve been watching the IFC web series Dead & Lonely, then you’ve seen episode one end with a view of the red haired girl Lee’s fangs identifying her to us as the vampire and [...]

Interview: Pluck Creators Gabe White and John Amor (Zuda Competitors)

Papa Llama | October 14, 2009

After Walter Williams, creator of danger-prone clay hero Mr. Bill, became a full-time staff writer for Saturday Night Live, he said writers would arm wrestle to see whose skits would air. Instead of making online cartoonists arm wrestle, each month DC Comics’s Zuda line of online comics pits the creators of 10 different 8-page webcomics [...]

Could Karen Gillan Be the Young Donna Noble?

Papa Llama | May 30, 2009

The pretty young Doctor gets a pretty young redhead for his traveling companion when Dr. Who resumes next season. 21-year-old Karen Gillan will play the character whose name has not yet been revealed by the BBC. So the question arises: Could she be the young Donna Noble?