Mo Willems Doodles (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
If you're in NYC on Thursday Nov 12 at 7 PM and are looking for a new Calendar and some cartoons, then I've got good news for you. The fine folks at ASIFA-East (the society of animators) are unveiling their new benefit calendar, featuring 12 months of cartoons and drawings by leading East Coast animators (I got to do December).Additionally, they'll be screening contributors films, including this
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
He’s a genius, the voice of a generation, a connoisseur of fishsticks, a motherlovin’ lyrical wordsmith! And now, Destiny herself has opened her doors to Kanye — and by that, I mean he is getting his own graphic novel. Via Midtown Comics, under the Independent section of their Graphic Novels: THROUGH THE WIRE is a graphic memoir [...]
Chicago Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
"Through the Wire: The Words and Lyrics of Kanye West" is an 80-page graphic memoir that recreates 12 of West's songs using illustrations by Bill Plympton. West chose some of his more autobiographical songs for the book, including "Through the Wire," "Heard Em' Say," "Touch the Sky," "Gold Digger" and "Jesus Walks."
HipHopRX.com (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Hip Hop artist and music producer Kanye West is reportedly prepping for his next studio album. This follows not too long after his VMA incident and also after losing out on the tour with Lady GaGa, as reported on HipHopRX.com. According to reports, the rapper is currently stated to be working with Soulja Boy, amongst [...]
Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Guns On The Clackamas is a Hollywood spoof about the most troubled production in film history.
PopCultureShock (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
…with celebrated animator Bill Plympton. Unlike the recent Tori Amos graphic novel Comic Book Tattoo, this sounds like it’s just Kanye West’s lyrics accompanied with Plympton’s pictures, so it can’t even be called a graphic novel, really (and Plympton confirms this in the article). Still, it’s worth mentioning here. See also:more about the naval academy comic [...]...
ProHipHop - Hip Hop Marketing & Business News (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Kanye West - Through the Wire Lots of hip hop books on the way including Kanye West's Through the Wire, featuring Kanye's "word and lyrics" with illustrations by Bill Plympton. It's due November 10th on Atria. Related ProHipHop Coverage: Kanye West: Glow In The Dark Tour...
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Kanye West is making quite the assult of the world of literature. Earlier this year he released Thank You And Your Welcome , a ragingly-essential, ghost-written 52 page book of aphorisms and witticisms from the Chi-Town wordsmith. October 20th sees the release of Glow In The Dark, the super-fancy picture book of his last tour and now he's teaming up with cult cartoon hero Bill Plympton for Through...
Hypetrak (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Through the Wire is a graphic memoir that illustrates the lyrics of twelve Kanye West songs to tell his story, from his decision to drop out of college to pursue his dreams in music, through his days spent folding chinos at the Gap while struggling at night to make a name as a producer, through [...]
LimitedHype (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Having been a fan of Bill Plympton’s work far longer than West’s, we jumped at the opportunity to snatch one of these up on pre-order. While we never got around to reading Thank You and You’re Welcome, West’s first foray into literature or the more recent Glow In The Dark, we find the artwork by [...]
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
This is disappointing. Aardman are teaming up with Tate, the organisation behind four of the UK's best art galleries, to create a public-funded, crowdsourced animated feature film which will be released in 2011 or 2012. The disappointing bit? That the source crowd will be made up of primary school age children. If, like me, you're over eleven years old, you can't take part. Thankfully, though, the...
MTV Newsroom (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
By James Dinh While Kanye West may be taking a break from music for a bit, you'll soon be able to find him in your local bookstores. Not only is he dropping "Glow in the Dark" tomorrow, the rapper will release "Through the Wire (The Words and Lyrics of Kanye West)" on November 10. While "Glow [...]
Vulture (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
If we were in charge of assigning an artist to visually interpret the lyrics of Kanye West, we're not sure that famed animator Bill Plympton would've been the first person to come to mind. That said, someone did decide to pair these two, and the world will be able to see the results when their book, Through The Wire , comes out on November 10. Oh, and if you're curious as to who we would've picked,...
The Daily Swarm - Headlines (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
“We Were Once A Fairytale” – Kanye West Dir: Spike Jonze from Yooj‽ – Recording Live From No on Vimeo . The Daily Swarm 6/25/09 : June 25, 2009 Kanye West, Spike Jonze debut bizarre short “Nightmares” film at LAFF ALEX SHERMAN Kanye West was rolling deep at the Los Angeles Film Festival tonight, surprising the audience with the premier of a short film by Spike...
Animation Blog (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Philadelphia based Anthony F. Schepperd has created a Flash animation to savour in Wail To God a music video for Ape School . To say it is unrestrained is an understatement as ape boy lusts after the ladies with a fervour that eats him up. A gentle cuffing from the cops is no deterrent. As has been noted in various reviews already, Anthony is decidedly in the Bill Plympton school of elasticity as faces...
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