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Alfredo "Freddy" Lopez, Jr. in his studio Photo: JERRY LARA / SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS-NEWS Sunday’s edition of the San Antonio Express-News featured an excellent profile of up-and-coming comics and fantasy artist Alfredo “Freddy” Lopez, Jr. The article From fanboy to fantastic – Comic artist Alfredo Lopez Jr. opening eyes around town for the depth [Read it all...] The Art of Alfredo Lopez, Jr. Our favorite journalist at the San Antonio Express-News, René Guzman, will have a great article in the Sunday edition of the paper profiling one of our favorite local artists. Alfredo “Freddy” Lopez, Jr. has been making the rounds, showing his works at local galleries, ArtSlam! San Antonio and [Read it all...] Join Doctor Who Fans Unite at the Overtime Theater Friday night for a screening of the classic Doctor Who tale The Time Warrior. This storyline features John Pertwee as the third Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith and The Brigadier. A terrifying clash between the past and future threatens the entire human race and plunges the Doctor and [Read it all...] This Spurs Silver Surfer T-shirt is part of a line of shirts produced by Marvel Comics and the NBA. COURTESY PHOTO Our good friend Rene Guzman at the indispensable Geek Speak blog just showed us our first look at the new NBA/Marvel Comics crossover shirt and it is wicked cool. Marvel has partnered with [Read it all...] René Guzman, head geek over at the San Antonio Express-News, has provided an excellent piece of Halloween candy. Guzman recently interviewed the iconic Mad Magazine cartoonist Sergio Aragonés regarding the release of a new collection of his art entitled MAD’s Greatest Artists: Sergio Aragonés: Five Decades of His Work. You’ll have to check the actual [Read it all...] Chepo Peña's take on "El Borracho" If you missed Friday’s edition of the San Antonio Express-News, you missed a great article about artist Chepo Peña’s Star Wars-themed Lotería cards. René A. Guzman, master of the MySanAntonio.com Geek Speak blog, put some questions to Peña, an Austin-based artist, graphic designer and musician. Since [Read it all...] John Picacio in front of his illustration of Elric. LISA KRANTZ / EXPRESS-NEWS The San Antonio Express-News ran a long feature on artist John Picacio Sunday. Picacio was interviewed by the EN staff writer and Geek Speak blogger extraordinaire René Guzman. The story was in two parts. The first, entitled “Artistic alchemy by John [Read it all...] With the new movie Inception lighting up the cineplexes there is a lot of buzz about so-called Smart Action movies. A movie with edge of your seat thrills that also works your brain. Is this possible? Several sites have put up lists, including this dreadful one at IGN. We asked some folks who might better [Read it all...] Your humble missionaries don’t just love SF and Fantasy…we love music too. And we especially love it when these two worlds collide. We’ve run articles before about our favorite SF album cover art and turned up many of the usual suspects: Iron Maiden, Yes, Hawkwind, Molly Hatchet. But these albums all came out years…nay, decades…ago. [Read it all...] If you were flipping through the San Antonio Express-News the other day, you might have seen Rene Guzman’s interview with legendary comic book artist Joe Kubert about his new graphic novel Dong Xoai, Vietnam 1965 from DC Comics. Now in his eighties, Kubert has been working in the comics field since he was ten or [Read it all...] |
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