Geek Media Round-Up: August 22, 2011

Art

• Art of the Genre: Top 10 Fantasy Artists of the Past 100 Years
• How many of these robots can you name?
• New Spider-Man paper toy for download.
• Portal Balloon Art
• Winter Is Coming is a mash-up of A Game of Thrones and Calvin and Hobbes.

Comics

• Interview: Alvin Lu, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Viz Media, talks about the company’s Plans now that Borders is closed. (Part 2)
• Interview: Comic Book Resources interviewed Chip Kidd, who accuses Mike Mignola of false modesty at 15:05.
• Interview: JManga Reveals More Details About JManga’s Online Manga Website
• Interview: Mike Mignola: Why I Killed Hellboy
• Interview: Morgan Spurlock discusses his Comic-Con doc
• Interview: Tony Bedard Assembles The “New Guardians”
• Interview: Vera Brosgol of Anya’s Ghost talks Ectoplasm and Teen Smoking
• ‘Conan’ Director Marcus Nispel Creates Comic Book Series ‘The Chosen’
• The 10 Most Brutal Moments in ‘The Savage Sword of Conan’!
• Terry Moore has been posting some of the sketches he’ll have for sale in Baltimore
• The Top 10 Crime Comics of the Last 20 Years
• The Top 10 Most Underrated X-Men

Cross-Media

• 10 Greatest Feuds in Star Wars History
• 10 Monsters Who Would Make Pretty Good Bosses
• The Ten Greatest Moments in Star Trek Slash Fiction
• The Weekend Playlist: 10 Songs About SF/F/H Books

Film

• Interview: Ain’t it Cool News talks to Marti Noxon about Fright Night
• Interview: David Tennant dons guyliner and metal gear to steal his scenes in remake of 80s cult fave Fright Night
• Interview: Director Craig Gillespie on putting the ‘vicious’ back in ‘vampire’
• Interview: Jason Momoa, the New Conan the Barbarian
• Interview: Katee Sackhoff discusses her role as a future version of the Black Cat in the animated feature Spider-Man: Edge of Time.
• Interview: Marti Noxon Talks Screenwriting and the wasteland of ‘Fright Night’
• Interview: Producer Andrew Kosove Comments On New Blade Runner Film
• Interview: Ron Perlman & Leo Howard talk about Conan The Barbarian
• News: Big Announcements from Browncoats: Redemption.
• News: Ridley Scott, now finishing post-production on Prometheus, the not-exactly prequel to Alien is now planning “a prequel or a sequel” to Blade Runner.
• Behind the Social Marketing of ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’
• DreamWorks Hoping to Make ‘Fever’ Franchise Their Own ‘Harry Potter’
• New Avengers pics from the Cleveland set.
• TotalFilm picks the 30 Greatest Twist Endings in movie history.
• What Was R2-D2 Really Saying? Why did Artoo bleep and whistle? SFX Blogger Steven Ellis reckons they were actually just bleeping out his original comments…

Internet

• What’s the secret of PostSecret’s success?

Literature

• Interview: CNQ interviews William Gibson
• Interview: John Scalzi talks to T.C. McCarthy about his debut novel, Germline
• Interview: Lev Grossman on Writing The Magician King, Narnia and the Line Between SF and Fantasy
• Interview: Neil Gaiman at the Edinburgh International Book Festival
• Interview: Neil Gaiman on libraries, Dr Who, fanatical fans and his dreams
• Interview: Suvudu interviews Naomi Novik, author of Tongues of Serpents.
• Interview: Tor.com interviews Kate Elliott of Cold Magic.
• News: Liberty Turns Page On Takeover Bid, Instead Invests in Barnes & Noble
• Daniel Polansky’s Low Town and Other Bad Neighborhoods in Fantasy Fiction.
• The Golden Era Of Books Isn’t Over. The Golden Era Of Books Is Now
• Making Room for Readers: “It’s a mistake to rarify reading…”
• The Movie Odds for This Year’s Hugo Class
• The Top Ten Books That Influenced J.R.R. Tolkien

Science

• 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence: After studying how trees branch in a very specific way, Aidan Dwyer created a solar cell tree that produces 20-50% more power than a uniform array of photovoltaic panels. Aidan’s essay titled The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees is a winner of the 2011 Young Naturalist Awards run by the American Museum of Natural History who describe the awards as “a research-based science competition for students in grades 7-12 to promote participation and communication in science.”
• String theorists suggest space wormholes possible

Television

• Interview: Neil Gaiman: ‘I’ve wondered about the Tardis since I was three’
• News: J. Michael Straczynski Negotiating To Bring Back Babylon 5!!!

Video Games

• Handheld Games Museum

Writing

• 12 Essentials For A Successful Author Website
• What Do I Look Like, a Protag? Describing Your First Person Narrator

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