Archive for January, 2002

“Heroes” Auction Takes Place…

January 18th @ 7:43 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • Kevin was the auctioneer for Marvel’s “Heroes” auction in New York City last night (he’s jumping coasts like a madman!) and all went quite well. Here’s a report from someone who was there and had a blast:
Hi, Kevin,

You did a wonderful job this evening at the auction. I realize this is a public billboard. Does everyone know that Kevin Smith came to New York this evening to be an auctioneer for drawings and paintings from Marvel’s Heroes Publication? “Heroes” commemorates the rescue workers and their efforts during the World Trade Center Disaster.

I’m still trying to figure out how the estimated price of the piece you bought was $250? It makes the ultimate visual statement, beautifully rendered (The image, a painting by Brian Stelfreeze, is the appearance out of the carnage of the helmetted insulated firefighter outstretching his hand down toward the viewer. A saviour!)

Yes, folks, on January 17th, 2002, the auctioneer became bidder who ultimately sold and bought, contributing many more thousands of dollars to the Twin Towers Fund, and then staying around to sign autographs and speak with everyone who wanted to say hello to him.

I’m proud to have met Kevin Smith.

Congrats and thanks to Marvel and all who participated for their charitable efforts.

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Roadside Attractions #2 Online!

January 18th @ 7:42 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Ming

  • Ming speedily got these clips online so you could check them out ASAP! Surf over to the View Askew website HERE for a nice Quicktime, RealVideo, or streaming RealVideo copy of the appearance. See Kevin as he visits some of the strangest places in the west (including that huge dinosaur from “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure”). We’ll have some local copies up at the site later as well if you have trouble viewing these due to heavy web traffic.

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Preorder Your SIGNED Jay & Silent Bob DVDs NOW!

January 17th @ 8:14 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Ming

CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!!!!

  • That’s right, folks, Jay & Silent Bob’s Secret Stash is the ONLY place to get a Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back DVD, SIGNED by Kevin Smith himself! This HUGE 2-disc Special Edition DVD is LOADED with extras, such as a commentary track, uncut music videos, the Comedy Central special, AND don’t forget, over an HOUR of deleted and extended material. WOW. This one’s setting itself up to be the greatest View Askew DVD yet, so you don’t wanna miss it. Surf over to the Stash website NOW and get your order in! Preorders will ship on the date of release, February 26, 2002.

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Vulgarthon 3 Stories & Pics Continue!

January 17th @ 8:13 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • Don’t forget, our Vulgarthon 3 page is always on the move, with new stories & pics added all the time. Some great stuff’s coming in now, including more shots of the new Stash, stuff from the theater, more shots with the celebs there, and of course, some excellent tales from the event. Whether you were there or not, you’ll definitely wanna check out our V3 coverage right HERE.

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View Askew NewsBites™

January 17th @ 8:12 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Wigger, Prolauk & TV's Grady

  • Kevin logged another great “Roadside Attractions” segment on Leno last night – Be sure and stop back here at News Askewlate tonight (around 11 PM or so) or tomorrow, as we’ll have the clip encoded and online for ya. Thanks Will!
  • Mile High Comics has a preview of the first three pages of Green Arrow #11 HERE.
  • Attention Aussies: Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back will be shown as part of Hoyts’ movie marathon, on Sunday January 27, before the film’s debut the following Thursday.It will be the first film in Marathon 1 (also featuring Scary Movie 2 and The Others – all Dimension), and will be shown at most Hoyts cinemas, at about 11ish. Be there!
  • In the newest issue of PSM Magazine (Sony Playstation), the Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back DVD is number 1 on their most wanted DVD list. Good stuff. It’ll certainly be worth that title, too.

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Kevin On Leno TONIGHT!

January 16th @ 6:53 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • That’s right, folks, Roadside Attractions PART 2 happens tonight on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, where Kevin himself will take you on a tour of some fun area attractions in this great land of ours. The last one was a blast, so don’t miss this one. The Tonight Show airs at 11:30 EST. Here’s Kevin on that and another piece of news that so many of you have been writing in about lately:
Tonight’s “Tonight”

I’m in L.A. for the “Tonight Show” taping. At 11:30, you can check out the second installment in the “Roadside Attractions” segments. Tune in, if you can.

Next month, we’ll be skipping the “Roadside Attractions” for the short we shot last month, “The Flying Car.”

I know this is belated, but thanks, all, for making this year’s Vulgarthon a whole mess of fun (yes – that was a puke joke). We all had a blast on this end, and from the feedback, it would seem you all had a blast as well. You’re a good bunch of folks, folks.

And on the subject of the boy…

What can you do, y’know? It’s Mewes. At least he’s consistent.

Thanks, Kevin…And again, just so you all know (or a reminder), there’s just certain stuff here that we don’t do at the site, and that’s post about other folks’ personal problems. Over the years, we may not have learned much, but we do like to let our family have some privacy in their personal affairs. Plus, it’s obvious that you all find out what you need to at other outlets, regardless, you don’t need to read it here as well. Thanks for understanding.

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View Askew NewsBites™

January 16th @ 6:52 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Troy Murray, Moog, Mike, Mysterio, Sublime & Poolboy

  • Kevin appeared on CBS’s Early Show this morning, chatting about comics on film, and also to show off some of the Secret Stash. We missed it, so if for some reason anyone’s got it on video, let us know so we can share it with the world.
  • Congrats to Pete Tyler, who picked up the Panasonic DVD player and View Askew DVD collection, courtesy of View Askew and Universal Music. It’s great to see a News Askew reader winning a contest! See? News Askew readers really do win. Man, that sounds cheesy.
  • Catch a screening of Jay & Bob in the UK, February 1st 2002, at the Duke of Yorks Cinema in Brighton.
  • A scooper discvoered that “The Digital Video Filmmaker’s Handbook” by Maxie D. Collier features a few mentions of Kevin’s work in it: “Film’s like CLERKS and SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT weren’t visual masterpieces, but the characters won the love and disdain of many viewers.” The book also comes with a DVD that has a preview for hollywoodonset.com in which they have a scene of Kev talking at what appears to be a convention of some kind.
  • Interestingly enough, Bryan Johnson and Malcolm Ingram were going to make a C.H.U.D. (classic 80’s horror flick) sequel. Check out Bryan’s post:
Malcom, uber producer Scott Mosier and I had a meeting the other night about the movie and let’s say making a CHUD sequel was going to be a lot more trouble than it was worth. We decided to pass on the deal but we’re still working on something similar so if it’s crazed cannibal action you’re after, stay tuned.
  • Check out a new “Clerks” wallpaper at this website and our own Files Askew.
  • Radford University will join the colleges around the country to screen Jay and Bob Strike Back this weekend (Friday 1/18 – Monday 1/21). Tickets are $1 for students and $2 for non students. The movie will be playing at the McGuffey Auditorium.
  • Mysterio’s first Vulgarthon 3 report IS still coming to AICN – They’re just a bit backed up over there. Watch for report #1 later tonight, and #2 at the end of the week.

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Kevin’s Upcoming Comic Projects…

January 15th @ 8:12 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Kerry Frey & Hoser

  • With the long-awaited Bluntman & Chronic now on shelves, and Green Arrow in its final month with Kevin on board as writer, folks are looking ahead to what’s next on Kevin’s slate in the comics world. Newsarama ran this excellent piece on what to expect in 2002 and beyond:
When this past summer, DC and Kevin Smith announced his next project for DC would be a Brave and the Bold ongoing series with his entire Green Arrow creative team in tact – artists Phil Hester and Ande Parks and cover artist Matt Wagner – Smith speculated his Green Arrow run would end around issue #15. Last week the writer made it official, confirming for the record his and cover artist Matt Wagner’s last issue will indeed be #15. As previously reported, issues #11 and #12 will be stand-alone stories, while issue #13-15 make up one final three-part story arc, featuring a new supervillain of Smith’s creation.

Smith declined to tell Newsarama anything specific about the villain, saying, “And ruin the surprise? Heavens no. But I’ll tell you what someone else said about him..

“Matt Wagner (who’s come up with just about the most astonishingly artistic comic book cover I’ve ever seen for issue #13) had this to say about the new villain in our recent email exchange about what the cover image featuring the villain should be…”

“And a cool character he is! Like I said, the concept was BOLD AND SIMPLE enough that the image just popped right up. In fact, I’m f*****g surprised that no one’s ever thought to call a character that before. Seems like a natural and the natural ideas are always the best.” Smith did not know whether Hester and Parks would also be exiting with issue #15, and a spokesperson for DC was unable to confirm what their last issue would be either. As it turns out, there looks to be some downtime between the end of Smith’s Green Arrow run and his starting on Brave and the Bold, as the writer tells Newsarama the launch of his upcoming new Marvel ongoing series Black Cat (more on that in a moment) comes first, making a timetable for Brave and the Bold too early to say.

Back to Green Arrow, Smith told us he was not aware of his replacement being found by DC yet, and asked if he had any input in the selection process, Smith replied, “They haven’t asked yet, so I don’t imagine they’re going to.”

As to Black Cat, Smith informs us plans for that series have changed slightly as well since its was announced this past summer.

Originally the series was to be launched with a special Spider-Man/Black Cat one-shot leading into the new ongoing series, but as of this moment, that one-shot has been changed to a four-issue Spider-Man/Black Cat mini-series leading into the solo Black Cat ongoing series.

Smith said they’re gunning for a May debut of the mini-series – in time of course of the Spider-Man film – and describes the mini-series as “packed”.

“Aside from our main story, we’ve got something happening to Peter that’s going to rock his world and change all the books forever,” he teased.

Smith isn’t giving away too many details about the ongoing series either, saying just that it will be “darker and edgier” than people might expect, and although the series was recently described by a comics publication as dealing with the mystical/magical aspects of Felicia Hardy’s ‘bad luck’ powers, he said that is not accurate, and that the series will be more in the vein of his work in Daredevil, “at least more so than Green Arrow was.”

It’s going to be exciting to see what Kevin does with these projects, as it seems he’s got a ton of surprises in store and he’s yet again shaking up the worlds in which these characters live. Good stuff. We’ll keep you posted on the progress of all this stuff!

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“Angry Naked Pat” Coming To The Big Screen & DVD!

January 15th @ 8:11 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Jake Gentry, Allan Sears & Josh Tafoya

  • This just in from Brian Lynch via his ANGRY NAKED PAT website…Big news for the guy. Not only is Pat finishing up season 1, but he’s also got a movie in the works, AND a jam-packed DVD that was announced at Vulgarthon (and will be released by Don May Jr.’s Synapse DVD). Here’s Lynch:
QUITE POSSIBLY THE BIGGEST ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT ANP LIKE EVER.

Hope you like today’s episode. And I hope you like next Friday’s conclusion. And the two after that. Aaaaaaaand the two after that.

Because after those, the first season of Pat is OVAH. Done. Ka-Put. A little while after you see new episodes.

Why?

The schween is headed for the big screen.

Yep. Bob and I are headin’ up a full-length, animated Pat movie. It’ll probably be called something to the effect of ANGRY NAKED PAT, be about, let’s say eighty minutes long, and we’re hitting festival circuits.

Everyone is comin’ along. Mugsy, Kevin, Monkey Man, Geek, Nigel 7, they’ll all join the fun. We might fudge with continuity a bit, as a movie means more people that HAVEN’T seen the internet shorts, so, for instance, Pat might get Monkey Man for the first time AGAIN, Nigel 7 may be a HUGE BLACK GUY, who knows, but the end result will be…

…a full length epic Pat movie.

Anyone who went to Vulgarthon knows how well Pat works on the big screen, with an audience. And we’re gonna make it the funniest animated film since SOUTH PARK, and maybe even better than ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE.

Hope this excites everyone as much as it does me.

This means five more new episodes of Pat before you don’t hear from him for a while. We’ll keep you updated here, post scenes, screenplay bits and stuff, this will be Pat central.

And all you guys can sit back and know that you were the first people to enjoy the cartoon.

You can check out his entire post HERE.

DVD supersite the Digital Bits had this to say about the Angry Naked Pat DVD announcement:

Oh… and at the View Askew Vulgarthon 2002, Don May, Jr. announced a two-disc set of Hollywood Brian Lynch’s Angry Naked Pat webtoon (check it out at this weblink). The disc will feature a lot of cool bonus material and maybe even an exclusive toon created specifically for this DVD. If you ever found the secret commentary on A Better Place, you know this is going to be a hugely funny disc.

Congrats to Brian Lynch, Bob Cesca, and all involved on all this wonderful news.

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Drawing Flies Unused Concept Art, More…

January 15th @ 8:10 pm | No Comments » | Scooped by Sigmund, John Couture



  • We’ve got some rejected concept art for what might have been with the Drawing Flies DVD, hitting shelves next month.
    It’s interesting to see what stages stuff like this can go through before arriving at its final look. Here’s one of the
    creators of said artwork (seen above) and why it didn’t make the grade:
Thought you might like to see what wasn’t chosen for the Drawing Flies cover. The cover that was chosen (the one you posted
last week) was overseen by Malcolm (I emailed him our progress daily) and is kind of a halfway point between art and
commerce. He wanted to make sure that the cover “best represented” his film and make sure that it was not misleading or
exploitive in any way. We are all very happy with the finished product however…

What about all the ones we made that were not chosen?

1st up, The “Lambs” cover. This one was my idea. It came out nice but, it makes the movie look like a parody of Silence of
the Lambs and really had nothing to do with the movie. This one was shot down quick.

The next two (one was a really rough sketch, the second was the one we turned in) is what we called the “Jaws Concept”.
Because we had limited tools, we thought it might be a cool idea to do an “illustrated concept” (like the Dogma and
Mallrats Special Edition DVDs). The “Jaws cover” was the first of two illustrated concepts that we came up with (you
will see the second illustrated cover in a future email). I knew Kevin Smith had a thing for Jaws (The TS and Brodie names
in Mallrats kinda gave that away). So, we gave it a shot. It just didn’t work and both Malcolm and Kevin gave a swift NO to
that tagline that I came up with (an understandably so, looking back now, I hate it) None the less, neither of these covers
were good enough so they got the axe.

All this stuff comes to us courtesy the “The Drawing Board Art Studio” in Berlin, NJ, who did all the cover work for
the DVD and VHS. Thanks, guys! Any other movie companies looking for someone to do key art for their films can email them
at drawingboardart@aol.com.

ALSO – This might be of interest to some of ya – The latest press release on the Drawing Flies DVD advertises:
“4 Easter Eggs (featuring Kevin Smith sharing some embarrassing stories)”. Look for the disc in stores on FEBRUARY 26, 2002!
We’ll be working on nabbing advanced copies for review here at the site as well.

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