Results tagged “comic”

Spawned by one too many Mary Kay Letourneau-like stories coming out of the state, a new bill is waiting for Senate approval in Olympia. The "Student Protection Bill" would expand the crimes for which Washington State teachers could lose their certification. The proposed bill also seeks to encourage more oversight at the local level, asking school districts to report teachers who have displayed "boundary issues," which would not necessitate legal action. It also hopes to encourage inter-district information sharing, and would allow school superintendents to file profession-practice complaints about teachers in districts outside their own.

Evergreen State College alumni and fourth-season winner of Last Comic Standing, Josh Blue is coming to the Kirkland Performance Center (KPC) this Saturday. We're looking forward to an evening of self-deprecating humor, as Blue’s comedy stems from his personal experiences of living with cerebral palsy. Blue hopes to dispel stereotypical myths about the "disabled" through stand-up comedy and what he calls "reverse teasing." (His comedy routine is not recommended for children under 16 years old, by the way.)

Seattlest's house was broken into last week. The burglar absconded with our PowerBook, our D80, some watches, our wife's jewelry box (high sentimental value, low retail value), and our peace of mind.

The Simpsons make the transition to the big screen a couple weeks from now (July 27th to be exact) and we have to say that we're not as psyched for the feature film as much as we would have been, say, ten years ago. Now that the show is approaching its (dear god) 19th season, it's just not as good as it used to be. Yeah yeah yeah, that's totally a crotchety old man cop-out and the same could be said about "kids these days" and "their infernal noise," but somewhere along the way, the Simpsons veered from uber-literate scripts with witty storylines that were ironical and satirical, yet still cohesive and emotionally sound to the utter nonsense which can only be derived from a brick of hash, a pound of vicodin, and the Random Plot-o-tron 3000™. The result? Homer becomes Defense Secretary! The Simpsons go to Siberia! Bart gets monkey pox! All of which can be so tiringly hit or miss.

Comic Book Party: Fantagraphics celebrates the grand opening of their new retail & gallery space with an opening reception. Live music by The Rhaes. There's also an exhibit around the corner at Belle & Wissel, Co. to make the trip a twofer.

Kirsten Anderson emailed Seattlest to remind us that Tales of the Rat Fink, the new film about hot rod legend Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, opened tonight at the Grand Illusion. From their website:

From the award-winning director of Comic Book Confidential and Grass comes Tales Of The Rat Fink, Ron Mann’s wildly inventive biopic about influential Renaissance man Ed “Big Daddy” Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-twentieth century culture with his customized cars, “monster” T-shirts and America’s alternative rodent – “Rat Fink.” Ed Roth helped fuel the “Kustom Kulture” / Hot Rod movement of the 1960s in Southern California and Hot Rodding grew from crude backyard engineering where performance was the bottom line into a refined artform where aesthetics were equally important. Mann’s largely animated documentary features the voice talents of John Goodman, Ann-Margret, Brian Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Matt Groening, Robert Williams, Stone Cold Steve Austin and the ever lovable Smothers Brothers.

Seattlest doesn't find this picture funny at all. We know firsthand how hard those awkward years of high school can be. The pimples, the pants that didn't fit right, the God-awful hours spent wishing Heather Cannon would think of us as more than that creepy guy staring at her. If you think this picture is funny, well, you're a bad person.

Last weekend Confounded Books closed its doors for good, and this weekend the rest of the comic industry is doing its best to ensure it doesn't encounter the same fate. Saturday is Free Comic Book Day, organized as a celebration of the history of the comic form, but really a smart attempt to get new feet heading to comic book shops. There's no catch. Walk in and get a free comic book. It's a great idea and one that we fully support, since it combines two things Seattlest loves: free and stuff. If you're curious where to go, just go to the event's page, which has a shop locator to help you out. Might we recommend Comics Dungeon, one of the 43 Things we Love About Wallingford?

It's rained--hard--five out of the last six weekends. And after a week of beautiful weather, it's supposed to cloud over Saturday and rain Sunday. Along with the byplay of their weekend, the Seattlests answer the question "Why does God hate Seattle?"

Comic book fans from around the world woke up today to breaking news of an imminent re-match between award-winning Canadian cartoonist Seth (aka Gregory Gallant) and local comic book publisher and Comics Journal executive editor Gary Groth. Their previous battle from the late '90s left many spectators wondering if another round of their incendiary exchanges would incite Groth's well-documented flair for explosives and firearms, provoking Mr. '30s Fetish to respond in kind.

What's better than comic books? Why, free comic books, of course! Tell your action figures to make way on that shelf, cause the Fourth Annual Free Comic Book Day takes place this Saturday, May 7. What does that mean? It means you and all your Seth Cohen -wannabe friends can choose from among 30 different special edition comic books, absolutely gratis.

The weekly newspapers we cover in "We Also Read the Weeklies" are by no means the only weekly newspapers worth reading in the city. There's only so much of the Seattlest review team to go around, after all, and there is a lot of quality media in Seattle to cover. Every once in a while something bubbles up from a paper outside of our weekly reading sphere that we've got to throw our $0.02 in on, though, or at least point out to reading public at large.