Recent content by gojacool

I learned that after reading Art Spiegelman's "Maus". Sadly, I've also tried to read more than my share of graphic novels that were nothing more than pretentious crap. It's very hit and miss, I think. But if you guys recommend Sandman, I'll read it! I'm certainly not above it. I based my...

OK, I'll take a look. :) I don't want to be ripping off somebody without even knowing it. After looking around reader reviews on Amazon, however, it still strikes me that my tone and Gaiman's tone are very much different. Even though the Sandman comic books seem to have very different styles, I...

Thanks. Looking quickly as a Gaiman's Sandman FAQ page, it seems to me that the tone of my project is radically different from Sandman. Sandman seems to have a serious manga-feel to it, which is completely at odds with my surrealist, abstract, tounge-in-cheek Douglas-Adams version of telling...

Hi group, I'm writing a screenplay for my next home-made li'l movie, in the surreal comedy style, and I'm pretty satisfied with the story and equally confident in my ability to write appropriate dialogue, but I'm having trouble figuring out the most effective way of organizing the following...

Thanks a lot. That was the vibe I was going for, and the performances, to their credit, really brought it out. I know there are a lot, but it's easier for me to see the purely technical problems than the problems with the narrative drive, acting, directing, shooting, editing etc - the creative...

Oh, and by the way, just so you know - the accents are profusely faked. We are in fact able to speak. We are not having embolisms. Thank you.

Hi, I've made this movie, which is a bit out of the ordinary and would probably fall in the genre "surreal cheese". I'd love to hear any comments and reactions to it. It can be downloaded here (15 min. runtime) www.knellotron.com/~vpl/gojacool_the-binkeeper.avi A ham-fisted, Photoshop hackjob...