The push goal I was most excited for when webcomic Penny Arcade went to Kickstarter to go ad-free for a year was their pitch for a new reality show as season four of Penny Arcade: The Series. They would invite…
After seeing the beautiful Art of Video Games exhibit at the Smithsonian in D.C. last spring, I was wondering which major US gallery would be the first to take the plunge and add video games to their permanent collection. The…
Litographs are an attempt to create a tangible form of digital book distribution. Danny Fein came up with the idea of creating word art inspired by classic books using the entire text of the book. Meaning, the image of Alice…
Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, Morgan Spurlock’s documentary on San Diego Comic-Con, came and went without much fanfare. It was a portmanteau documentary, telling a handful of stories about people attending the convention for various reasons. It did a…
I write here not to question the validity of the United States Olympic Committee’s trademark of the term “Olympics” or variants thereof. The US court system decided years ago that they are allowed to hold a trademark on a term…
The TinTin comics are a worldwide phenomenon. Just look at the international receipts for Steven Spielberg’s TinTin movie. The film only did in $78million in America, but took in $297million internationally. That’s almost four times as much overseas than in…
Last week, I wrote about an art project based on the conceit of finding the remains of an Ancient Roman film projector and animation slides. Turns out my intro might not have been that far from the truth. How would…
Full disclosure: I wrote about this already for my Director’s Live gig. I’m doing a more thorough look at this story here. I think it deserves more attention than a firm max of 100 words can allow. How would your…
I’ll be the first to admit that there are problems with existing Intellectual Property Right Laws–from here IPR laws. They’re long, they’re confusing, they’re weighed heavily in favor of big corporate interests, they’re not enforced often enough, and they’re so…
Last week, I announced a giveaway inspired by the Smithsonian Museum of American Art exhibit The Art of Video Games. Today, I can announce the winner with her story. Congratulations, Kerri. I’ll e-mail you later today to get your shipping…
Over the weekend, I visited Washington, D.C. with my brother. We did most of the usual tourist things: memorials, museums, tons of photographs. After a bad experience with some nasty staff at the National Gallery of Art, we decided to…
I really liked the season 5 premiere of Mad Men. The drama between Joan and her mother was especially intriguing. There’s a strange dynamic there that brings out the worst in Joan, even when she’s away from her mother’s clutches.…
The Week in Media will hopefully be a weekly feature at Sketchy Details. The idea is to encapsulate what media subjects captured all the attention this week in comic art. Is there any topic in entertainment as big as The…
Sure took them a long time, didn’t it? After the story of Tori LaConsay’s fight against H&M blatantly stealing her artwork broke, social media blew up. People were blogging it, tweeting it, and assaulting the H&M Facebook page with anything…