Great unboxing video for our Kill Shakespeare board game
Board game specialist has just posed an unboxing video for our Kill Shakespeare board game, coming out this month! Take a look (and try to resist admitting that his assistants are the cutest of all-time!).
Anthony talks Oscars!
With the ending of the Toronto International Film Festival, Oscar season is in full-swing! A big area of interest for me is the annual Oscar race and I've done interviews on a number of media shows to discuss the politics and campaigning around this season.One show I've been on a number of times is The Stephen Holt Show (the self-prescribed Oscar Messenger), based in New York. Stephen was in Toronto last week for TIFF and I sat down with him at the beginning of the fest (just before heading out to Baltimore) to talk Oscars. Here is part one of the interview (Part 2 is here):
Librarians, here we come!
One of the more unique - and enjoyable - conferences I attended last year was the American Library Association Annual Conference (held in Anaheim last June). It's a huge smorgasbord of some of the most influential readers and people in the publishing industry - the librarians!I'm excited to attend this year's Annual Conference again, which will be held this weekend in Chicago (at the McCormick Place convention Centre, where we've attended C2E2 the last two years). I will be representing Kill Shakespeare at the event, which will be open this Friday (the 28th) and go until Monday (July 1st).
For those attending the show, I will be in the Artist Alley section of the show, at Booth 2461. Make sure to swing by and say hello and I'll probably be able to give you a sneak peak at the final issue of The Tide of Blood (but if I show you I may need to kill you afterwards...).
One of the other things that will be happening is a silent auction through the weekend. Andy Belanger has donated an original page of art from our original series, which is up for auction. Details about the silent auction can be found here. (Updated - June 25 - the page on the site was ruined in transit so we will be bringing another page for the auction instead.)
Here's a video interview I did at last year's show, talking about my experiences at libraries growing up:
Conor on stage with Neil Gaiman (Video)
As mentioned last weekend I had an amazing time out in Orlando where I got to be part of the International Association for the Fantastic Arts' annual conference.One of the real treats was getting to be IN a play with Neil Gaiman. The play was called "The Sum of Your Experience" and the lovely dirtectrix, Carrie J. Cole, sent me a link to a video of the show.Bill Clementine, a noble IAFA member, shot the video and edited it for this clip and the narration is provided by Brett Cox.(And if you don't know which one is me and which one is Mr. Gaiman? I'm the handsome one - GRIN)We did this after just one hour of rehearsal - so I think it's pretty amazing we didn't screw up too many lines (I combined two lines once but Neil covered like a champ -- see if you can spot my screw-up).Enjoy!
Trailer for The Tide of Blood released!
With the launch of the Kill Shakespeare: The Tide of Blood in just under two weeks (February 20th!) we're quite happy to release our official teaser trailer.Designed by young filmmaker Adrien Benson, and produced by our amazing marketing intern Keith Morris, the trailer is a nice teaser of the journey that our characters embark upon in this series. The music is a piece entitled "Moon Interpretation" by Jeremy Gulino.Check it out - and spread the word by sharing it on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere!
Favourite Films of 2012
Conor and I were asked this week to appear on Global TV's The Morning Show to talk about our favourite (and least-favourite) films of 2012. Joining us was the uber-astute moviegoer Daniel Reynolds (a really great guy - and very smart viewer) in a roundtable format.
Our picks? You can check out the clip below to watch and find out. However, I'll hint a couple things - we talk about Sarah Polley's good and bad efforts, Ben Affleck's chest, and Ridley Scott's scripts...
Anthony and Andy discuss The Tide of Blood (video)
Here is a video taken of Andy and I at New York Comic-Con in October where we discuss the new series arc, THE TIDE OF BLOOD...
Andy and Conor talk comics, stage at NYCC (video)
Here is a video from Newsarama (taped at New York Comic-Con last month) that features Andy and Conor talking about the new comic series, the stage show, left-column readers, and most importantly... side boob...
A fan has fun going through Kill Shakespeare in this video
Shea, a voracious comic book reader, has done a number of extensive reviews of books over the last few years. She recently stepped up and did a full review (and full synopsis of Kill Shakespeare) on her website video section, Spoilerific!.SPOILER ALERT! Shea goes through the entire comic book story here so if you haven't read it, perhaps you shouldn't go through all of it with her.Overall she does like our series. She makes a number of funny remarks - and doesn't like every element about the series - but I did enjoy her enthusiasm about it. There are a few mis-interpretations but she does raise a couple really good questions about specific elements. I found it quite enjoyable.(And her friends that did cameos are also pretty fun.)Here's the video:
Anthony Interviewed at ALA
Here is an interview that I did with the fun Kat Kan for the American Library Association while in Anaheim this past weekend... I talk about Kill Shakespeare, the genesis of the project, and thoughts on libraries (and having KS in libraries)...(I hope that sound of the baby crying/laughing in the background isn't too distracting for you...)
Wayne & Shuster: Flavius Maximum, Private Roman Eye
One of my earliest influences of Shakespeare was the great Canadian comedy duo Wayne & Shuster. They did some great comedy bits of Shakespeare (including Shakespearean baseball). But my favourite is "Rinse the Blood Off My Toga", which is a private eye take on the murder of Julius Caesar. Today, being the Ides of March, I thought would be an appropriate day to post the clip on our site. Take a look at it - I guarantee you'll enjoy it!
Ryan Gosling learns about Kill Shakespeare
A couple of weeks ago our friend Stephen Holt, journalist and blogger (check out his excellent Oscar season analysis, Oscar Messenger) called us up and let us know about an interview that he he just finished with Ryan Gosling. Gosling was promoting his Golden Globe-nominated film Blue Valentine and Stephen, halfway through the interview, decided to talk about Kill Shakespeare with the thespian. You can see the complete interview here:Thanks to Stephen for being such a big fan of the comic series and for continuing the spread the word!
SDCC Day 3: An impromptu video improv...
On Friday evening at Comic-Con we dined with John Hogan and Carol Fitzgerald of BookReporter.com and GraphicNovelReporter.com... The evening started out really cool as we ate at a family Italian restaurant by the name of Doppa De something (Conor made fun of the fact that all Italian sounds like that). We dined with great people like Gina Gagliano (sp?) at First Second Publishing, teacher Bill McGrath, and librarian Eva Volin.Eva dragged us away from our dessert that evening to do a quick video hit - which has just showed up on YouTube. You can watch the video here.And because we had done so many interviews that day, those that know us will see that Conor and I switched roles for this interview (Conor's idea, I must admit)... It made sure that we didn't answer in the same media bites we normally would...
SDCC Day 2: Chillin' on a yacht...
We spent a bit of the afternoon earlier today hangin' on a yacht, just hanging with uber geek Jeff Katz from GeekWeek.com and a host of others. We talked about Comic-Con, comic books, film, business, rock and roll, and everything else. Jeff is a great guy and tells it like it is - very refreshing in any entertainment industry.Watch live video from geekweek on Justin.tv
Kill Shakespeare in One Minute!
This has definitely made my week!A would web guru by the name of Shea at sheakoshan.net has put together a one-minute video of the first issue of Kill Shakespeare #1. It's absolutely fantastic! I love it - a nice combo of summary, synopsis and humour (as well as a Shakespeare quote or two).I hadn't heard of her website but upon taking a look through it think that she's got a good feel for story and also a good sense of humour. You can check out the video below, or the web page directly by clicking on the logo.
Conor at the Silver Snail
Last November we took a stroll by the Silver Snail in downtown Toronto, Canada, to film a clip for our website. In this clip Conor talks about his love of comic books and the influences behind the Kill Shakespeare series.Conor used to work at the Silver Snail a number of years ago and it was during that time that we really began to realize how many great stories are being told in comics. That triggered the idea of putting Kill Shakespeare together as a comic book series... and here are, a few weeks away from the release of the first issue!
Our editor doubles as PR rep
Just found an online video interview with our editor at IDW Publishing, Tom Waltz. It's a brief clip in which he's asked about the upcoming series "Kill Shakespeare"...
I unfortunately can't imbed the video file onto this site but you can check out the video by clicking on the Comics Continuum logo...
