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Thursday, 28 May 2015
Tilda Swinton To Be "The Ancient One" In Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange’??
Hahahahahahahahahaha--oh. You're being serious?
Talk about sticking it to the fans. Great actress but just WTF????????????????
Tilda Swinton is in talks to co-star with Benedict Cumberbatch in Marvel’s “Doctor Strange"
Scott Derrickson is directing the comicbook movie.
Cumberbatch will play Stephen Vincent Strange, a former neurosurgeon
who becomes the next Sorcerer Supreme and primary protector of Earth
against magical and mystical threats. Marvel Comics vets Stan Lee and
Steve Ditko co-created the character in 1963. Strange’s mentor is a
Tibetan mystic known as the Ancient One, who is training pupils to be
the next Sorcerer Supreme. In the comics, the character has been a male,
and Marvel Studioswas initially searching for a male actor. Given Swinton’s interest in the film, however, the studio has now rethought the role.
“Doctor Strange” will debut on Nov. 4, 2016.
The news was first reported by the Hollywood Reporter.
Above: Dr Stephen Strange and The Ancient One when he still had a willy. A todger. A John Thomas. A...get it right?
Lovely bit of Ditko art. I've been thinking this for a while... all the new art work I've been seeing from Marvel seems very similar. Great stuff... but very 'samey'. Kirby, Ditko, Heck, Infantino etc. were all unique. Where did all the unique talent go ? As for movies.. let them do what they want. After all - when all is said and done, they'll just re-boot it anyway. So, if Swinton is great in the part - wonderful. If Cumberbatch does a good Dr. Strange; lovely. If not. OK.
WK's Spiritual in Art is a very good book - I think 1920s . I wonder what he would have thought of some of the graphic layouts employed by such as Frank Bellamy , Gene Colan , etc . as opposed to the traditional rectangular panel approach . There seem to be many references to the ideas , employment of time within a picture surface , tensions that were in his book , Point And Line To Plane .
Ah, Stransky, Stransky, Stransky. Computers. Apart from a few Small Pressers I've met, all comic artists use drawing tablets and colourists use programs for drawing tablets. Click-click. Done. Great art. Nice colour but...meh. The same with animated films. The Invincibles was a great little movie BUT I watched it once and do not want to see it again. It was too clean, too antisceptic. Like all these one-after-another Disney or similar CGI "animated" films. Kids may love it but they also love 1001 Dalmations and The Jungle Book. It's tech NOT art. You look at some hand drawn animated films -still some out there and there were a couple good ones from France at the same time as The Invincibles but they couldn't compete with Disney's publicity machine and the stupidity of the media). These days, spending a few grand on a drawing table or tablet or what ever you want to call it is nothing to what I call "play boy artists". I have heard one after another almost have nervous breakdowns because their table stopped working or computer blew. I even got used the the "chortle of disbelief/shock" when I said I pencilled and inked on paper using A PENCIL and A PEN. "You pencil...on paper? ANDE you ink...on paper?" also: WHAT?! You colour using inks???" It is called "Old School" and it is a dying art in itself. Try buying new comic art pages and you get a print out not an actual page with pencil scratches, pen marks or dirty finger prints. I think that answers Sepp's question, too.
I have some of Bib's originals and they are my prized possessions . He proudly embraced the thumb marks and the white outs . It is artwork with Bib's soul there and they are wonderful . I love the fact of the Marvel Artist Editions which are scans , where they still exist , of the original artwork and would love to get hold of one or two choice volumes . I may be trying out a tablet for the first time regarding computer colouring , but I am also going back to watercolour and ink and coloured pencil . As for the initial drawing , that stays pencil on paper . It's the way I started , I can't see that changing . Any other way just feels wrong !
Your comments are appearing with attachments of previous comments and I've got one "suspicious email" notice. Having been to one of my other blogs today I see why. Blocks of text spam added to comments. Weird.
I have some of Bib's originals and they are my prized possessions . He proudly embraced the thumb marks and the white outs . It is artwork with Bib's soul there and they are wonderful . I love the fact of the Marvel Artist Editions which are scans , where they still exist , of the original artwork and would love to get hold of one or two choice volumes . I may be trying out a tablet for the first time regarding computer colouring , but I am also going back to watercolour and ink and coloured pencil . As for the initial drawing , that stays pencil on paper . It's the way I started , I can't see that changing . Any other way just feels wrong ! on Tilda Swinton To Be "The Ancient One" In Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange’??
in response to Ah, Stransky, Stransky, Stransky. Computers. Apart from a few Small Pressers I've met, all comic artists use drawing tablets and colourists use programs for drawing tablets. Click-click. Done. Great art. Nice colour but...meh. The same with animated films. The Invincibles was a great little movie BUT I watched it once and do not want to see it again. It was too clean, too antisceptic. Like all these one-after-another Disney or similar CGI "animated" films. Kids may love it but they also love 1001 Dalmations and The Jungle Book. It's tech NOT art. You look at some hand drawn animated films -still some out there and there were a couple good ones from France at the same time as The Invincibles but they couldn't compete with Disney's publicity machine and the stupidity of the media). These days, spending a few grand on a drawing table or tablet or what ever you want to call it is nothing to what I call "play boy artists". I have heard one after another almost have nervous , by Terry Hooper-Scharf.
So it looks like a big block of text. Confuses me.
So - I have some of Bib's originals, they are my prized possessions and he proudly embraced thumb marks and white outs as part of his style. It is artwork that shows Bib's soul and they are all wonderful. Speaking of artwork showing all the faults, I must try to get hold of one or two of the Marvel Artist Editions, which are printed from scans of the originals - where they exist - and show all the faults inherent, as it were, when looking at the original art. Regarding your criticism of computer art, I agree that much of it looks too clean and characterless. I am trying out a tablet for the first time, but the initial drawing stays pencil on paper. It's the way that I started many years ago and any other way feels wrong. Now, is that an improvement? Please let me know how that reads. I apologise, but I really would appreciate it. Thanks Terry and best wishes.
No, no, Sepp -don't duplicate the post! The other was okay. Its still there but if you comment and its more or less the same thing the programs don't like it. What spammers do is post the same comment twice or 3-4 times so if text is repeated from an already published comment a little bell goes off (it works with spam as I had to delete ten of the same message on another blog earlier -we bloggers live on the edge). You need to put together a Bib blog so you can show the art, too!
As I said earlier : Huhhohwhauhh ? . . . or a word/utterance to that effect .
ReplyDeleteWhat about James Hong ; he's still around isn't he ? Wouldn't he make a good male Ancient One ?
ReplyDeleteHe's around 85-86 years old. That'll do!
ReplyDeleteLovely bit of Ditko art. I've been thinking this for a while... all the new art work I've been seeing from Marvel seems very similar. Great stuff... but very 'samey'. Kirby, Ditko, Heck, Infantino etc. were all unique. Where did all the unique talent go ? As for movies.. let them do what they want. After all - when all is said and done, they'll just re-boot it anyway. So, if Swinton is great in the part - wonderful. If Cumberbatch does a good Dr. Strange; lovely. If not. OK.
ReplyDeleteI'm just thinking about the words of Wassily Kandinsky . " Every age gets the art it deserves " .
DeleteThe age of mass production and no soul. Right. I think you have a good point there.
ReplyDeleteWK's Spiritual in Art is a very good book - I think 1920s . I wonder what he would have thought of some of the graphic layouts employed by such as Frank Bellamy , Gene Colan , etc . as opposed to the traditional rectangular panel approach . There seem to be many references to the ideas , employment of time within a picture surface , tensions that were in his book , Point And Line To Plane .
DeleteAh, Stransky, Stransky, Stransky. Computers. Apart from a few Small Pressers I've met, all comic artists use drawing tablets and colourists use programs for drawing tablets. Click-click. Done. Great art. Nice colour but...meh. The same with animated films. The Invincibles was a great little movie BUT I watched it once and do not want to see it again. It was too clean, too antisceptic. Like all these one-after-another Disney or similar CGI "animated" films. Kids may love it but they also love 1001 Dalmations and The Jungle Book. It's tech NOT art. You look at some hand drawn animated films -still some out there and there were a couple good ones from France at the same time as The Invincibles but they couldn't compete with Disney's publicity machine and the stupidity of the media). These days, spending a few grand on a drawing table or tablet or what ever you want to call it is nothing to what I call "play boy artists". I have heard one after another almost have nervous breakdowns because their table stopped working or computer blew. I even got used the the "chortle of disbelief/shock" when I said I pencilled and inked on paper using A PENCIL and A PEN. "You pencil...on paper? ANDE you ink...on paper?" also: WHAT?! You colour using inks???" It is called "Old School" and it is a dying art in itself. Try buying new comic art pages and you get a print out not an actual page with pencil scratches, pen marks or dirty finger prints. I think that answers Sepp's question, too.
ReplyDeleteI have some of Bib's originals and they are my prized possessions . He proudly embraced the thumb marks and the white outs . It is artwork with Bib's soul there and they are wonderful . I love the fact of the Marvel Artist Editions which are scans , where they still exist , of the original artwork and would love to get hold of one or two choice volumes . I may be trying out a tablet for the first time regarding computer colouring , but I am also going back to watercolour and ink and coloured pencil . As for the initial drawing , that stays pencil on paper . It's the way I started , I can't see that changing . Any other way just feels wrong !
DeleteYour comments are appearing with attachments of previous comments and I've got one "suspicious email" notice. Having been to one of my other blogs today I see why. Blocks of text spam added to comments. Weird.
ReplyDeleteMine or Stransky's ? Odd .
DeleteSepp -yours. This is how it looks -
ReplyDeleteI have some of Bib's originals and they are my prized possessions . He proudly embraced the thumb marks and the white outs . It is artwork with Bib's soul there and they are wonderful . I love the fact of the Marvel Artist Editions which are scans , where they still exist , of the original artwork and would love to get hold of one or two choice volumes . I may be trying out a tablet for the first time regarding computer colouring , but I am also going back to watercolour and ink and coloured pencil . As for the initial drawing , that stays pencil on paper . It's the way I started , I can't see that changing . Any other way just feels wrong ! on Tilda Swinton To Be "The Ancient One" In Marvel’s ‘Doctor Strange’??
in response to Ah, Stransky, Stransky, Stransky. Computers. Apart from a few Small Pressers I've met, all comic artists use drawing tablets and colourists use programs for drawing tablets. Click-click. Done. Great art. Nice colour but...meh. The same with animated films. The Invincibles was a great little movie BUT I watched it once and do not want to see it again. It was too clean, too antisceptic. Like all these one-after-another Disney or similar CGI "animated" films. Kids may love it but they also love 1001 Dalmations and The Jungle Book. It's tech NOT art. You look at some hand drawn animated films -still some out there and there were a couple good ones from France at the same time as The Invincibles but they couldn't compete with Disney's publicity machine and the stupidity of the media). These days, spending a few grand on a drawing table or tablet or what ever you want to call it is nothing to what I call "play boy artists". I have heard one after another almost have nervous , by Terry Hooper-Scharf.
So it looks like a big block of text. Confuses me.
So - I have some of Bib's originals, they are my prized possessions and he proudly embraced thumb marks and white outs as part of his style. It is artwork that shows Bib's soul and they are all wonderful. Speaking of artwork showing all the faults, I must try to get hold of one or two of the Marvel Artist Editions, which are printed from scans of the originals - where they exist - and show all the faults inherent, as it were, when looking at the original art. Regarding your criticism of computer art, I agree that much of it looks too clean and characterless. I am trying out a tablet for the first time, but the initial drawing stays pencil on paper. It's the way that I started many years ago and any other way feels wrong. Now, is that an improvement? Please let me know how that reads. I apologise, but I really would appreciate it. Thanks Terry and best wishes.
ReplyDeleteNo, no, Sepp -don't duplicate the post! The other was okay. Its still there but if you comment and its more or less the same thing the programs don't like it. What spammers do is post the same comment twice or 3-4 times so if text is repeated from an already published comment a little bell goes off (it works with spam as I had to delete ten of the same message on another blog earlier -we bloggers live on the edge). You need to put together a Bib blog so you can show the art, too!
ReplyDeleteEVERYONE -NO MORE COMMENTS ON THIS POSTING UNLESS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT TILDA SWINTON AND DR STRANGE!
ReplyDelete