Real scientists like ERB books

Posted on August 14, 2014

Huffington Post has just put up an interesting article interviewing 15 different real-world scientists about their literary preferences. From cosmology and physics professors at MIT to astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, these men of science shared what their favorite sci-fi and fantasy books are. Among them, Dr. Jane Goodall from the UN Messenger of Peace listed the Tarzan of the Apes classic. It is great to hear the ERB stories inspired such creative and important minds!

Full article at Huffington Post

Behind the scenes of Tarzan movie with Kellen Lutz

Posted on August 8, 2014

Tarzan MovieBlu-ray review at Blu-Ray Definition

Posted on August 7, 2014

The popular Blu-ray focused website has just reviewed the 2013 Tarzan release. They were disappointed with occasional graphical stutters and so-so supplemental materials, but happy with the overall video and audio quality. Read the full text here.

Comics Retrospective and Jim Starlin’s Warlock

Posted on August 6, 2014

AV Club has just put up a great article looking back the the history of superhero comics in the U.S. It focuses primarily on Jim Starlin’s work on Warlock, but gives a pretty comprehensive idea about the origin of many contemporary archetypes and tropes. The introduction reads:

Superhero comic books descend from the pulps. That is, they are a product of a massive surge in genre fiction produced in the early decades of the 20th century. Look at your favorite superheroes today, and you can still see the traces of this lineage. It’s not as if fantasy, science-fiction, or detective stories hadn’t existed before 1900, but so many of the expectations and conventions that genre fans take for granted today were only created and codified after the turn of the century. Many of the people who got in on the ground floor of the Golden Age of comics had experience with pulp magazines like Amazing Stories and Weird Tales as writers, editors, or devoted fans.

It’s a great piece Tim O’Neil, so we highly recommend it to all fans of our comics and Edgar Rice Burroughs classics. Check it out here.

Inkpot Awards at 2014 Comic Con

Posted on August 3, 2014

During this year’s Comic-Con, the Inkpot Awards were given to Chuck Dixon, Kelley Jones, Graham Nolan and Brian Stelfreeze. Congratulations to all the recepients!

The Inkpot Awards are annual awards given to contributors to the world of comics, science fiction/fantasy, film, television, animation and fandom services, as the official website explains.

Ron Marz signed for new John Carter Comics

Posted on August 2, 2014

Dynamite Entertainment has just announced that they have signed Ron Marz for a new ongoing John Carter: Warlord of Mars comic series launching in November. Marz is a veteran of the comic industry having written and edited a number of prolific titles such as Green Lantern and Silver Surfer. He expressed great enthusiasm for working on the new John Carter, stating it is a job he has been “wanting to do since [he] was twelve years old.” Dynamite Entertainment, too, shares Marz’s excitement.

The new comic series stars the science fiction and fantasy hero John Carter who mysteriously finds himself in the alien world of Barsoom. Struggling to adapt and fight new enemies, great challenges and adversary will require John to become a true Warlord. The original series debuted with an Edgar Rice Burrough’s novel in 1912, an inspired many future adventure classics from Flash Gordon to Star Wars and Avatar.

You can read the full article at All-Comics. Don’t want to wait till November for the new comics? New John Carter: Warlod of Mars comics are available online right now!

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Russ Manning’s Tarzan strips take top prize at the Eisners

Posted on July 28, 2014

The Library of American Comics, a website dedicated to archiving and preserving comic strips from American newspapers, has just been awarded three Eisner Awards. One of those went to Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Tarzan: The Complete Russ Manning Newspaper Strips, receiving the Best Archival Comic Strip Collection title.

Considered the “Oscars” of the comic world, the Eisner Awards are given out annually at the San Diego Comic-Con. They are named after the pioneering graphic novelist Will Eisner and span over two dozen categories.

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Ron Ely returning to acting

Posted on July 25, 2014

If you look at Ron Ely’s acting credits, there’s a huge gap between 2001 and 2014.

Ely was happy to take the long break from his career working in TV and films, which dates back to 1958.

“I stepped out of acting to raise a family and be able to spend more time with them here in Santa Barbara,” Ely says. “Now, all the kids are through college with advance degrees. My family asked me ‘what are you hanging around for?” I started looking around and this film came up. It felt so good making the movie, I wish I had never left.”

Read the full story at: V News

Tarzan – In The City of Gold (Vol. 1) reviewed on PopMatters

Posted on July 23, 2014

PopMatters reviews the Tarzan – In The City of Gold (Vol. 1): The Complete Burne Hogarth Sundays and Dailies Library, providing and interesting retrospective on the genre. Jeremy Estes’s review reads more like an interesting and in-depth article about the world of Tarzan and pulp comics. It goes through the history of the franchise and covers the various of media which featured the king of the jungle. The main gripe of the author is that “Tarzan’s world never opens up” and despite its diversity and number of reincarnations, it never transcends its original premise. At the same time, however, the collection covers mostly the early days of Tarzan, and an age when many of the conventions and archetypes were the standard.

Read the full review at: PopMatters

Connection between John Carter and Planet of the Apes

Posted on July 22, 2014

Award winning composer Michael Giacchino wrote the score for both films.

There is another Planet of the Apes / ERB Connection:
These ain’t no chimps. There is the odd Bolgani in the film but the Apes as depicted in this film bear a marked resemblance to the Burroughs Mangani.