Posted by Anthony Del Col,
May 21, 2013 – 10:57 am
I will be traveling to the home country of Mr. Shakespeare himself this week. Departing tomorrow, I will be attending the MCM London Comic-Con this upcoming weekend (May 24 – 26) in London this weekend. I will be in the Comics Village the entire weekend so if you – or anyone that you know – will be attending swing by to say hello and pick up a book or issue (or two).
I will then be heading over to Oxford to teach a Shakespeare class and take in some other meetings.
I’m looking forward to revisiting England. Last year’s trip was amazing – attending the Bristol and Kapow! shows, visiting Oxford and, of course, Stratford-upon-Avon. And it’ll be great to reconnect with friends from last year’s show – and make new ones.
Check out the video that Conor and I shot at Shakespeare’s Birthplace last year…
Posted by Anthony Del Col,
April 15, 2013 – 1:34 pm
Vlogger Shea Koshan often puts together one-minute summaries of comics that she likes (she did one for the first issue of our original series three years ago) and she’s back with a video synopsis of the first issue of The Tide of Blood.
What do you think of her summary? Feel free to post comments on her YouTube page or her Twitter site and let her know.
Posted by Conor McCreery,
April 2, 2013 – 10:35 am
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).
Posted by Anthony Del Col,
February 14, 2013 – 12:01 pm
Conor and I appeared on Global TV’s Morning Show again this morning, this time discussing “guy-friendly” Valentine’s Day/romantic films. We appeared again with our excellent co-panelist Daniel Reynolds, a film/basketball blogger.
It was a fun segment where we each listed two films that guys would enjoy on this day. What exactly were our picks? Check out the video footage below…
Conor mimes a heart while Anthony and Daniel look on
Posted by Anthony Del Col,
February 10, 2013 – 1:05 pm
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!
Posted by Anthony Del Col,
February 1, 2013 – 11:42 am
Yes, for one weekend in late March there will indeed be a Kill Shakespeare bar…
As a part of FableTown and Beyond (March 22-24) a spot known as Brad’s Place will be going back in time to become the Kill Shakespeare Bar, which will host all the attendees. It’s a pretty cool olde english-y type of pub that hopefully will inspire some great conversations, laughter, and perhaps even a bar fight or two (but that’ll only be between myself and our intern extraordinaire Keith Morris, I predict, though I’m sure that I have many other enemies…).
Here is a quick screen grab from the YouTube clip, also show below.
As the Fabletown and Beyond website says:
“Every convention has the one bar where everyone ends up hanging out. But, as far as we know, no convention has opened it’s own private bar, specifically for the event. We’re rather proud to be the first. During the entire three days of the show, we’ll have the Kill Shakespeare bar open for the exclusive use of our attendees. It’s in the Lord Essex room of the Kahler Hotel, operated by your host, Brad Thomte (of San Diego Fables Panel fame), as a place where you can enjoy good drinks, good food, and unprecedented small-group access to our wonderful and erudite guests. Buying them a drink in order to ply them for inside information on your favorite Mythic Fiction books is not only allowed—it’s ordained.”
Posted by Anthony Del Col,
October 20, 2012 – 12:34 am
One of our most loyal – and most fun – journalists that we’ve done interviews with is Stephen Holt, the New York-based Oscar pundist. I always try to do an interview or two with Stephen in the midst of the Toronto Film Festival and Stephen has now become a regular at the New York Comic-Con.
Stephen has been billed as “The Oscar Messenger” and, as a follower of the Oscar season, I always enjoy chatting with him about his predictions and thoughts on the Oscar race. Here is a video taken during Comic-Con last weekend, and you can also check out an interview that Stephen does with both myself and Conor here.
Posted by Anthony Del Col,
September 1, 2012 – 3:41 pm
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.)
Posted by Conor McCreery,
August 22, 2012 – 6:43 pm
Going to conventions as much as we do you get the great opportunity to meet other creative entrepreneurs, and one of the real pleasures of the job is being able to share their work with your own fans and supporters.
It was a long journey from script to screen...
So without further ado…
One of the most interesting events that should be on top of your “things to do at FanExpo”, is the Bad Kids Go To Hell screening.
Based on the bestselling Bad Kids Go To Hell graphic novel, which is kinda a ‘John Hughes meets Halloween’ idea, the film is going to premiere at the FanExpo on Saturday night.
You can meet Matt and “Bazza” the two creators of the book and film at Booth #802 (they are special guests of the Silver Snail) and see the film at 6:30 PM in room 715. Check the boys’ newsletter for a special “Detention Slip” that can get you into the film.
... but Bad Kids the film is debuting at FanExpo on Saturday at 6:30!
Matt and Barry (Baz’s REAL name) are great guys that we met when we first started promoting Kill Shakespeare – their comic-to-screen journey is one we’re working hard to emulate – so for any of our fans who also loves a good old-fashioned 80’s style sex and scare story you should make a point of checking out the Bad Kids journey.
Posted by Anthony Del Col,
June 27, 2012 – 2:52 pm
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…)
