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EVENTS: Last Day in Vietnam events planned in Portland

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Next week sees the release of the brand-new hardcover edition of Will Eisner’s classic work Last Day in Vietnam. This beautiful new edition arrives in stores on March 6, on what would have been Will’s ninety-fifth birthday. In conjunction with the book’s release, there will be two Portland-based events in partnership with Dark Horse Comics and its sister company, Things From Another World, in support of Will Eisner Week, an annual celebration promoting graphic novels, literacy, free-speech awareness, and the legacy of Will Eisner.

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SDCC’11: Lady Luck revealed as Justice League member

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When the ‘Toon Tumbler Facebook page revealed the art for their Comic-Con exclusive, many people started scouring the ‘net for a rundown of who would be on the team.  The one character that was a mystery was the woman pictured below Green Arrow and Hawkman.

During the New 52 panel on Saturday, Geoff Johns revealed her to be Lady Luck.

Lady Luck?

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SDCC’11: The Spirit gets Artist’s Edition

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On this third day of San Diego Comic-Con 2011, IDW Publishing was proud to announce yet another impressive addition to the company’s lauded Artist’s Edition series, with WILL EISNER’S THE SPIRIT: ARTIST’S EDITION. This fifth book in IDW’s series, WILL EISNER’S THE SPIRIT: ARTIST’S EDITION will be only the second edition in the larger, Golden Age size and will available in 2012.

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Art Appreciation Moment of the Day: Francesco Francavilla

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Today (March 06) is the day Will Eisner would have turned 94 years old. To celebrate the cartoonists birthday, many artists are offering up their take on Eisner’s The Spirit.  Francesco Francavilla posted his, and it looks great.

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SDCC’10: A Contract with God getting big screen treatment

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Legendary comic book master Will Eisner’s groundbreaking graphic novel “A Contract with God” is being adapted into a live action feature film, it was announced this evening at Comic- Con International 2010 by the film’s producers. In what is considered by many to be one of the most influential graphic novels ever written, in “A Contract with God” Eisner utilizes the comic book format in an innovative and pioneering way to explore stories and memories from his childhood growing up in a New York City tenement. Each tale captures the brutality, fragility, and tenderness that exists among people living in close quarters in challenging economic times.

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Comic-Con Mag Features Octopus

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Here is the cover to the latest Comic-Con magazine featuring Samuel L. Jackson as the Octopus on the cover.

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I know the first thing out of many commenter’s mouths will be the fact that readers never saw the face of the Octopus in The Spirit comics. As I said over a year ago, the biggest problem with seeing Jackson’s face on screen is the demand for face time. It would be so much nicer if he would have played the entire role in shadow. His voice is famous enough to let audiences know it is him.

via Comic-Con International

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Two More Getting into The Spirit

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Variety is reporting two very attractive actresses – Paz Vega (top) and Jamie King (bottom) – have joined the cast of The Spirit.

Vega will play the knife-wielding Plaster of Paris, and King will portray Lorelei, a phantom siren.

I always thought Will Eisner’s women dripped of sex in the pages of the comics, and it looks like Miller is surrounding himself with real life beauties for the movie.

via Variety

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Sarah Paulson is Ellen Dolan

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sarahpaulson.jpgAccording to the Hollywood Reporter, Sarah Paulson has signed on to Will Eisner’s The Spirit movie to be directed by Frank Miller.  Paulson will play Commissioner Dolan’s daughter Dr. Ellen Dolan.

Paulson joins leading ladies Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson in the film noir about a rookie cop who returns from the dead to fight crime as the Spirit from the shadows of Central City. However, while Mendes and Johansson are playing femme fatales, Paulson is playing the hero’s true love, Dr. Ellen Dolan, the police commissioner’s daughter.

Remember Paulson as Bunny Yeager in the Notorious Bettie Page? Yummy.

via Hollywood Reporter

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Gabriel Macht is The Spirit

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macht.jpgFrank Miller has selected Gabriel Macht to star in his adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit movie.

Macht will play the title character, a man who has faked his own death so he can battle crime from the shadows of Central City. He runs up against the Octopus, a villain who’s bent on wiping out the entire city and kills anyone unlucky enough to see his face.

Macht had to audition with all the other actors who wanted to role.

“We think Gabriel has a devilishly charming quality, and the dry wit that embodies the Spirit, and we wanted to do this with someone who can embody this character for the next few years, because we anticipate we’ll be making more than one Spirit movie,” said Lionsgate prexy of film production Mike Paseornek.

The picture will begin shooting in October, and is expected to be in theaters in 2009.

According to Miller, the story he is adapting is the 1950s Sand Saref – which I reviewed yesterday.

via Variety

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The Spirit will be 1950′s Sand Saref

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sandsaref.jpgIn an interview with Variety, Frank Miller announced the forthcoming movie adaptation of Will Eisner’s The Spirit will focus on the Sand Saref storyline, which made its debut in newspapers in 1950.

The story focuses on early germ-warfare, the Spirit’s first love who turned to a life of crime, espionage, and romance. The Spirit adventures had already been running in papers for 10 years before this storyline appeared.

“I’ve been writing every word of it myself and storyboarding every frame,” he says. “This is a real work of love, and it’s become my life completely.”

The Sand Saref storyline appears in DC’s Will Eisner’s Spirit Archives Volume 20.

via Variety