Caturday: Sponge Loving Kitteh Edition
I love the reaction shot at the very end.
There’s a Magic Meathands show tonight where we’re teaming up with the improv group In Rare Form. One of our fans loves both of our groups, so he conspired to get us to perform together on the same night. See? Dreams do come true!
- On Wednesday, I took a look at a comic that is only available digitally. Digital exclusive comics offer a great opportunity to bring in new readers or pull back in a lapsed regular reader. So does it work? Find out as a I examine the Transformers: Autocracy digital comic.
- Yesterday, I profiled the fascinating story of an artist that started drawing comics in the ’40s and ’50s and is now one of the most respected portrait artists in the country. Find out how Everett Raymond Kinstler went from the Wild West to the White House.
Caturday: Fast Exiting Kitteh Edition
Music fans: Ten on the Tenth is happening NOW! You have until tomorrow at 9 AM Pacific / 12 noon Eastern to post 10 songs that fit the theme of love.
Speaking of now, tonight is a fully improvised comedy show with the Magic Meathands (including me!) and Jump Start Comedy at the Mary Pickford Studio in West LA. Tickets are $7 ($3 for kids 12 and under), and the show starts at 8 PM.
Meanwhile, at The Comics Observer:
- The first Intro to Comics column explains why comics are worth checking out.
- An example of great comics: Darkness by the French artist Boulet. It’s a recent story improvised in 24 hours.
Caturday: Playing Catch Edition
Here’s a round-up of me on the internet this week:
The Comics Observer launched this week:
- Read Welcome to The Comics Observer to see what it’s all about
- Read At Whatever Cost – Furious Theatre combines a play and graphic novel to create No Good Deed for special coverage by Cindy Marie Jenkins
- On Wednesday, it’s the first official Intro to Comics column, where I’ll explain why comics are worthy of your attention.
Meanwhile, Ten on the Tenth gets tweaked: Announcing the Updated Rules! If a day isn’t enough time for you to think up 10 songs that fit a given theme, you’ll like how it will be run this month and going forward.
And the improv comedy team The Magic Meathands have some Ch-ch-ch-changes to our performance schedule. Short version: We’ve got a show next Saturday night at the Mary Pickford Studio in West Los Angeles, but we say good-bye for now to our monthly Friday show at the Westside Comedy Theater.
Oh and if you’re in Hollywood this weekend, you can go buy some of Joni Mitchell’s furniture. No kidding!
Caturday: Kitteh and Puppeh Make Out Edition
Coming back to life after getting walloped by a killer cold this past week. Finally feeling like I might be able to string together enough words to form some semblance of a thought.
Next week, my new comics blog launches! The name? The Comics Observer. You’ll be able to check it out next Wednesday at ComicsObserver.com. If you’ve enjoyed my comics coverage here, like the Facebook page or follow on Twitter to learn more and keep up with the latest.
Caturday: Anomymous Kitteh Edition
Yes, the “Friday is Brought to You by ___ Kitteh” has been moved to Saturdays because Saturdays are Caturdays.
If you’re in LA, there’s an improv comedy show with the Magic Meathands, teaming up with Darwin’s A-Team, tonight at 8 PM at the Mary Pickford Studio. Details are on the Magic Meathands blog and our Facebook page.
About Corey
Corey Blake does things on the Internet, and sometimes even in person.
As a comic book pundit, advocate and educator, he runs the web-magazine The Comics Observer, which covers the sequential art form and its place in our culture, both locally and internationally. It exists as a gateway to curious non-readers or new comics readers interested in the full spectrum of comics, as well as a place for longtime readers looking for a new perspective. He also advises for the award-winning documentary and comics advocacy movement Dig Comics.
As a comedic performer/actor, he specializes in being a goofball.
Corey is an active member of the Los Angeles-based improv comedy ensemble The Magic Meathands. He helped form the sketch comedy group Foe Pa following a memorable stint with The 3rd Floor: LA. Corey has been seen in online videos from The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour (Best Web Comedy-Episodic, Clicker.com), The Starmind Record, and Poopdog Entertainment, short films Tough Love (Official Selection, Festival de Cannes’ Short Film Corner) and Hattie Needs Rehab (Excellence in Performance, Extreme Filmmaker 48 Hour Film Festival), the feature film Chasing Happiness, and the pilot for the children’s show “Imagination Station”, as well as on stage in an award-winning Los Angeles production of Chekov’s Three Sisters and Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Corey Blake also has experience behind the camera. He writes comedy sketches and directs and produces videos for the Magic Meathands Originals sketch web-series. He wrote for the sketch comedy groups Foe Pa and The 3rd Floor: LA. He was a writer for the musical comedy Mission: Improbable, which he also helped produce. Additionally, he helped produce the award-winning documentary Dig Comics (Best Documentary, Comic-Con Int’l: Independent Film Festival; Official Selection, Festival de Cannes’ Short Film Corner) and demo trailer for Voices From Chornobyl.
As if all of that wasn’t enough, Corey also runs the monthly Ten on the Tenth for music fans.
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Corey Blake on Tumblr- Does IDW’s digital exclusive comic succeed in bringing in... February 16, 2012
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- The Slap and Tickle Holiday Show reunites Jeff Lewis and Corey Blake December 12, 2011
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- Web-Series Makes Use of Comic Book Talent December 7, 2011
- Friday is Brought to You by Figure Skater Grabbing Kittehs December 3, 2011
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