Month: August 2015

Peggy Bechko Dishes “The Origin of Planet of the Eggs”

by Peggy Becko

armed - trnsp bkgrndOur fearless leader, Larry Brody, suggested I do an article on how the newly launched comic series, Planet Of The Eggs,  created by myself and my writing/illustrating partner, Charlene Brash-Sorensen, came to be. We’ve just published Volume 1, number one, “Cracked Open,” and number 2 already is in the works, with many more issues to follow.

It’s a bit of a long story, as many undertakings of this kind are.

A couple of years ago I was thinking about eggs. Don’t ask why; I don’t really know why. Eggs were suddenly a fascination of mine. And that led me to think about what if (that old writer’s partner – what if) there was a civilization of eggs that didn’t hatch, but awakened to fulfill some unknown story line. What if they had faces, character, personality, but were eggs? What if it was a place not ours, but much like ours in appearance and what if I could turn it into a comic book? read article

So Dilbert’s a Writer Now

The most famous tech nerd in comics does a lateral and becomes…OMG, is he really one of us?

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Why TV Is Not the New Film

Just yesterday we ran across this fascinating article. It contains a number of interesting and provocative and perceptive observations, and although it seems to be based on a basic assumption we don’t share (that film is inherently more artful than TV) it gave us a lot to think about that we’d like to share.

another madmen picby Mike S. Ryan

As much as I love Breaking Bad, The Wire, Mad Men and Twin Peaks, as great and as groundbreaking as those shows were, they still are not cinema.

The recent explosion of quality long-form cable series has taken the TV form to a new level of artistry and craftsmanship. A show like Mad Men is not only thrilling because of its commentary on its era, but because of the zeitgeist energy created by everyone watching the show, talking about it and sharing opinions on social media. Today, perhaps more than ever, a new season of a quality show becomes a cultural event. Combine that with journalism‘s “recap culture,” in which newspapers, magazines and websites devote pages to summaries of the prior night‘s shows — all the while shrinking or even eliminating film reviews — and it’s pretty easy to understand why cinema feels somewhat inadequate in comparison. read article

Web Series: WELCOME TO OUR MANSION

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Today’s special treat is this humble lesson in creating a web series. In this case, it’s WELCOME TO OUR MANSION a comedy from Houses on Wheels Productions.

First we have the series itself: read article

munchman: Nikki Finke New Fiction About Showbiz Website is Now Open for Beeswax

Hollywood Dementia Capture

No longer so infant but still muy terribe, famed Hollywood gossip columnists Nikki Finke, outsted creator of Deadline.Com (yeah, that’s a whole nuther story for a nuther day), is back with Hollywood Dementia, a new website presenting original fiction about all aspects of the Industry.

We could go into all kinds of detail about the site, but Nikki herself does that very well on its opening page, HERE. What’s more important to us, and to those of you who frequent TVWriter™ is this: read article