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PROJECT HAIRCUT! donations are coming in slowly but surely. I am quite touched and pleased at the amount of donations I am receiving. Thank you so much! And for those who haven't donated yet...fret not! You have plenty of time. The cut will be on Saturday, April 19th. So start throwing Benjamin's my way the way I throw them at the strippers when hopped up on bourbon and Captain Crunch.
For more info, get to clicking the link above!
I have a tacky habit during interviews on my podcast, Comic News Insider. If the artist has drawn zombies in their book I always end with, "Will you draw me as a zombie in a future issue?" They all usually laugh and agree. But, to this day...I haven't seen it happen.
Well, that day has come my undead friends! The awesome Ethan Nicolle, creator of the just as awesome graphic novel, Chumble Spuzz, followed through on his promise! He drew both Joe and I as zombies and it will appear in his upcoming comic due out in July. I will definitely keep you posted! Meanwhile, go buy Chumble Spuzz. Do it!
I think there will be a zombie Jimmy coming up in the next chapter of my favorite web comic, The Zombie Hunters by Jenny Romanchuk. That's what she told me and I believe her! Of course, you'll be immediately notified.
My zombie self will soon be taking over the comic world! Braaaaaaaaiiiiiinnnnssssssss!!!!!
As you all know, PROJECT HAIRCUT! is going to happen. (Click on the link for info.) And I've been raising money for both Locks of Love and Comic News Insider. People have been quite generous and I'm very grateful to you all. If you haven't donated yet, there's still time!
On that note...I sent out a mass email to friends new and old alike. An old one replied a little something like this. "Hey Jimmy! Sorry you're cutting your hair. I'll donate for sure. I'll send you $20 and you send me $20 for a benefit thing I'm working on. Better yet, let's keep our $20's and put each other down for $20!"
Wow. Really? While that benefit may be worthy, the friend chose to tell me about it when I'm asking for donations for my own? And you just assume that we'll put each other down. This person has known me for over 20 years and knows what a big deal this haircut is to me. If I had an extra $20 to give for every email I sent, I wouldn't be asking for donations! Sheesh!
Verdict? Lame.
Thanks to those that give or at least offer well wishes without asking for something in return. Give til it hurts, kids!
Comic News Insider: Episode 133 is now available for free download! Click on the link or get it through iTunes! Sponsored by Dynamic Forces.
Reviews: Ghost Whisperer: The Haunted #1, Tangent Superman's Reign #1, Everybody's Dead #1
It's
the SUPER SIZED CNI! We go our longest yet at just under 2 hours.
Yikes! But, it's all good stuff. Listen to it in installments! Jonathan
Hickman (The Nightly News) joins us for a lengthy interview covering Pax Romana, Transhuman, Red Mass For Mars
and more. We also talk the marvel boy controversy (viral marketing or
real?), burlesque, and for some reason, a lot of French related news.
More New York Comic-Con (NYCC) pimpage! CNI will have signings, interviews, the charity raffle and PROJECT HAIRCUT!. Yep. Jimmy is cutting his hair live at the show! The hair will be donated to Locks of Love and we'll be collecting donations. You can send donations via PayPal. Enter Jimmy's email address: jimmyaquinox69@gmail.com and send millions! Half of the funds raised will go to Locks of Love and the other half will help cover costs here at CNI.
And...a CONTEST! Win a pair
of tickets to NYCC!! Create your own superhero! Listen for details and
submit those entries to our email! Ya got 2 weeks, ya mooks! Get going!
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Thanks for listening!
I got this in the mail (snail mail!) yesterday along with a donation from one of my Comic News Insider listeners. Jenny lives in France and yes, she's a she! (And quite cute as well.) This is her rendition of how the whole PROJECT HAIRCUT! event will go down. Hmmm...that could be a possibility!
Thanks Jenny! Bisous!
Click on the link above and give 'til it hurts!
Jimmy
Aquino here. Your friendly neighborhood podcaster. I'm co-host of COMIC
NEWS INSIDER (CNI), the podcast about comic books, sci-fi, animation
and pop culture with news, reviews and interviews from some of the
biggest names in comics and TV/film. I'm also a big ol' hippie! I've
had long hair for about 20 years and usually get it trimmed annually.
Well, I've finally decided to chop it off! Not all of it, but a good
chunk. And to feed my massive ego even more, I'm making an event out of
it! Jimmy Aquino
Comic News Insider: Episode 132 is now available for free download! Click on the link or get it through iTunes! Sponsored by Dynamic Forces.
Reviews: Comic Book Comics #1, Screamland #1, Serenity: Better Days #1
It's our St. Paddy's Day Drunken special! Except we're not drunk and it's not special. Jimmy saw the new Vampire Cowboys Theatre production of Fight Girl Battle World last week and loved it! He interviewed stars Melissa Paladino, Maureen Sebastian, and Paco Tolson. They discuss the show, creative cursing and their own ventures into nerd-dom. And...Vampire Cowboys generously offers us 2 tickets to the show this weekend! You have to listen to hear the question and email us your answer in by this Thursday, March 20th at 12 p.m. We'll then get you in touch with the Vampire Cowboy folks to set up what night you can attend this weekend.
News includes a Superman search, Wizard World L.A., Paley Fest report, Buck Rogers, Harry Potter, and an animated Britney Spears. We also pimp out the upcoming New York Comic-Con and the events we will have going on including signings, interviews, the charity raffle and Project Haircut. Yep. Jimmy is cutting his hair live at the show! The hair will be donated to Locks of Love and we'll be collecting donations. You can send donations via PayPal. Enter Jimmy's email address: jimmyaquinox69@gmail.com and send millions! Half of the funds raised will go to Locks of Love and the other half will help cover costs here at CNI.
212 501 6246
www.myspace.com/comicnewsinsider
www.comicspace.com/comicnewsinsider
www.comicnewsinsider.com
Thanks for listening!
Oh yeah. Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day. Or as we in the bar biz call it, "Amateur Night". Being 1/2 Irish (yes, I really am!), I represented with my green tie at work. A far cry from back in the day when my Granny and Moms would dress me head to toe in green with buttons all over saying, "Kiss me, I'm Irish!" and "Erin Go Bragh (Ireland Forever)". I lived in Jacksonville Beach, Florida and was a pretty dark kid. You know, since the other half of me is Filipino. I'd go to school, age 7 or 8, all greened up. And get made fun of by the other kids. "You're not Irish! You're brown!" Or even, "You're not Irish, you're adopted!" I would run home crying and kick our pet Leprechaun in his golden nuggets.
It wasn't until years later that I learned the true meaning of the day. It wasn't the color green. Sorry Green Lanterns!
It was beer. Lots and lots of beer. Hope you all enjoyed pretending to be Irish for the wrong reasons yesterday! May St. Patrick bless you with snakes and hangovers.
