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The Poe Twisted Anthology

2011-07-29T03:49:00.000-07:00

For the last few months I've been working on this project for Red Stylo Media, The POE TWISTED Anthology! It is a collection of comics and art works inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. Here is a link to their website which will have more info...

http://redstylo.com/poe-twisted-anthology

I have one story where I wrote and illustrated titled the Tell Tale Cat (Edgar Allen Poe-lice to some...)

The Tell Tale Cat is based on The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Tell-Tale Heart. It tells the story of officers Lansdowne and Harrington, following them around as they have to deal with the characters from the before mentioned stories. You may remember The Black Cat and The Tell-Tale Heart both featured the police at the end of the story, well this is their version of what happened. This sweet baby will be put out on digital release August 24th and regular release sometime afterwords!

The other story I worked on was Eldorado, written by Sherezada Windham-Kent, illustrated by me!

This western/zombie epic follows the mysterious rider on his search for Eldorado. Sherezada Windham-Kent is a writer and filmmaker who directed Everything I Needed to Know About Zombies I Learned From the Movies. This baby will be released August 14th.

I should also mention that with the digital releases they will come with special features including some original sketches, alternate covers, and an introduction by yours truly, among other such things.

I should also also mention that I'm also doing the coloring for another story in the series titled Absolution, written by Jason Ciaramella and illustrated by Enrique 'Zeke' Savory, Jr. Jason Ciaramella is the 2011 Eisner Award nominated writer of The Cape
from IDW, I highly recommend it! But more on this later.

So to get the full anthology (also featuring work from my buddies Mark Mullaney, who you know from Cormack Cook Colossal Cinema Collection fame, and Andrew Jerz, who you know from your restraining order) the printed copy will come out August 21 and the digital release will be August 31! Here is the cover for the anthology illustrated by Master Jerz (the middle circle is a shot from Eldorado).

More to come...

-Alex

Fish Stick Guy Cover

2011-04-27T19:14:00.000-07:00

My buddy Steve Grzesik created the comic Fish Stick Guy, which I did the cover for (and some pinup art inside) and he will be selling issue #1 at Boston Comic Con this weekend (April 30th and May 1st). You can also pick up a copy up at Larry's Wonderful World of Comics. Larry's I should mention, put the whole project together along with buddies from their weekly drink and draw (more info here).

The cover itself is a parody of the famous Iron Man cover "Demon in a Bottle!"

This issue is instead titled "Demon in a Frialator!"

I will be at Boston Comic Con helping to promote the comic and I hope to see you there!

Here are the pin ups...

Fish Stick Guy as a Zombie

Fish Stick Guy knocking out the Gorton's Fisherman (this one was originally a parody of the cover of Captain America #1 where he is knocking out Hitler).

-Alex

Skull Kickers #5 featuring me!

2011-01-31T18:53:00.000-08:00

If your unaware I'm in the latest issue of Image Comics Skull Kickers!

Here are the details of how it went down

So in the comic itself there are two runner ups (Ken Bonin and Matt Denham) and then me as the WINNER! The caption under my illustration reads

"Alex Cormack has a wild battle scene that delivers the goods, Skullkickers-style!"

So without further ado here it is...

So stop what your doing, go out and buy it, chop chop!

South Pole on sale at Larry's Comics!

2010-12-23T07:46:00.000-08:00

If you have some last minute Christmas shopping look no further! South Pole is on sale at Larry's Comics, 66 Lakeview Ave, Lowell MA. It's one of the best comic shops around, and is now the best cause you can get yourself a copy of South Pole for $5.00! So come one and come all and pick up a copy!

http://larryscomics.net/

South Pole playing at the Squeaky Wheel Dysfunctional Holiday show

2010-12-18T05:57:00.000-08:00

Tonight at 8:00 p.m. at Squeaky Wheel (712 Main Street, Buffalo NY) they will be playing South Pole as apart of their Dysfunctional Holiday Show! For more info check out the website...

http://www.squeaky.org/

L.A. Movie Awards, Awards South Pole!

2010-12-17T07:53:00.000-08:00

South Pole won the Award of Excellence in animation, Best Animated Characters, and the Best Animated Screen Play Awards at this seasons LA Movie Awards!

Thanks LA

The Cormack Cook Colossal Cinema Collection Re Playing TONIGHT!

2010-12-15T04:49:00.000-08:00

Due to popular demand, the Cormack Cook Colossal Cinema Collection will be replaying at the Coolidge Corner Theater 290 Harvard St Brookline tonight! There will be two showings, 7 and 8 p.m. so be there!

SNOB Film Festival talks up South Pole

2010-10-01T07:30:00.000-07:00

Just got a newsletter from the SNOB festival talking up South Pole

Sound good to me, see you there!

South Pole to play at SNOB Film Festival

2010-10-01T07:28:00.000-07:00

South Pole is playing at the SNOB (Somewhat North of Boston) Film Festival in Concord NH playing November 19th -21st! It's been selected as a "Must See" so come on up!

Alex Cormack now apart of KJA Artists

2010-08-29T14:00:00.000-07:00

I just joined up with the British illustration agency KJA Artists! Here is a link to their site...

http://www.kja-artists.com/

and here is a link to my page,

http://www.kja-artists.com/portfolio.asp?key=220&st=1&en=18

South Pole to play at the Long Island International Film Expo

2010-05-25T17:02:00.000-07:00

Their Site

South Pole will be playing at the Long Island International Film Expo (LIIFE for short) Friday July 16! it should be awesomely outrageous.

Morph Mush Mash playing at Squeaky Wheel's 7th Annual Outdoor Animation festival "Great Disaster"

2010-05-25T16:36:00.000-07:00

Morph Mush Mash (or MorphMushMash) will be playing at the "Great Disaster" Squeaky Wheel's 7th Annual Outdoor Animation festival in Sat., Jul. 24th @ 8:00 pm Location: Days Park in Allentown NY! So be there!

Here is a link to their website

they're excited!

Cormack Cook Colossal Cinema Collection sells out!

2010-01-17T08:38:00.000-08:00

Thanks to everyone who came to the show and to everyone who got turned away at the door. The show was a great success thanks to everyone who submitted and to the Coolidge Corner Theatre. Here are some pictures of the event thanks to Tim Finn...

The poster outside the Theatre

The entrance the screening room

the place beginning to fill up

Yours truly handing out programs

Ashley and I addressing the crowd (even the ones who had to sit on the floor cause we ran out of seats)

South Pole will soon be available on DVD, It will have special features including a deleted scene, and a short or two that was shown at the show.

Thanks again to everyone who helped out to make this all work out!

CORMACK COOK COLOSSAL CINEMA COLLECTION!

2009-12-01T14:20:00.000-08:00

CormackCookColossalCinemaCollection.blogspot

December 10th from 7-9 pm at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline MA,

the Cormack Cook Colossal Cinema Collection Festival will be shown!
The Festivals main event will be my latest animation "South Pole"

Hope to see you at the show, for more info please click here...

CormackCookColossalCinemaCollection.blogspot

The 2009 California International Animation Festival Playing "A Night with Nixon"

2009-12-01T14:11:00.000-08:00

The 2009 California International Animation Festival in Modesto played “Great Dates in History: A Night with Nixon” this September.

Thanks Everyone!

London International Animation Festival to play MorphMushMash!

2009-08-03T03:04:00.000-07:00

During the Late Night Bizarre showing MorphMushMash will be played with a bunch of other wacky animation!

expect to see these guys in line

Animation Block Party plays Nixon

2009-08-03T02:58:00.000-07:00

This years Animation Block Party played "A Night with Nixon," Great time this year... also heres a pic of yours truly in the program along with Ashley Cook (who did Nixon's dates voice) and Jordan Baker Caldwell CEO of Bag of Apples (look them up)

Thanks again guys!

Melbourne International Animation Festival plays MorphMushMash

2009-08-03T02:18:00.000-07:00

Played in June during the "Late Night Bizarre" showings, as you can see here...

Thanks Melbourne!

Australia International Animation Festival to play MorphMushMash

2009-05-12T13:57:00.000-07:00

The Australia International Animation Festival will be playing MorphMushMash.

Here is a link to their schedule (i'm under the late night bizarre)

http://www.aiaf.com.au/2009/wagga/index.html

sorry, but I had to do it...

"AUSTRALIA!"

Night with Nixon awarded with best Animated short at Fresno

2009-04-27T20:17:00.000-07:00

"A Night with Nixon" was awarded the Independent Film Maker Audience Award for Best Experimental/Animated Short at the Fresno Film Festival this year!

Thanks Fresno!

"Nixon" shown at South Beach Animation Festival

2009-04-27T20:04:00.000-07:00

Nixon shown at this years South Beach Animation Festival, oh yeah!

cool beans!

Fresno Film Festival to play Nixon

2009-03-31T15:57:00.000-07:00

April 18 "Great Dates in History: A Night with Nixon" will be playing at the Fifth Annual Fresno Film Festival in Fresno CA (which makes sense)

Heres a link to their site

http://www.fresnofilmworks.org/

See you there

-Alex

Burnout mentioned in the Weekly Dig

2009-03-26T04:51:00.000-07:00

Local Newspaper here in Boston discussed the Block Party Animtion Festival this weekend and had this to say about yours truly,

...with Alex Cormack's Burnout, probably the most intense paper cutout death-race to date.

I must agree,

Heres a link to the rest of the article and hope to see people at the show!

http://www.weeklydig.com/%5Bcatpath%5D/200903/animation-block-party

Kent Film Festival to play Night with Nixon

2009-03-02T18:02:00.000-08:00

"Great Dates in History: A Night with Nixon" will be showing at the Fourth Annual Kent Film Festival March 26-29, 2009,

Heres a link to the shows schedule http://www.kentfilmfestival.org/programs.html

See you there

-Alex

Burnout to play in Boston

2009-01-18T19:46:00.000-08:00

Animation Block Party is bringing its show to Boston and Burnout will be shown amongst other animations. The show will be March 27-28, midnights at the Coolidge Corner. it should be awesomley outragious

Pro Bowler Stephen Gostkowski is wearing my shirt

2009-01-18T18:53:00.000-08:00

Pro Bowler Stephen Gostkowski is seen here wearing the Barstool Sports Randy Moss T-shirt that I designed

The man has taste

The Doc Oa™ and the Know Thing Challenge Animation September 2008

2009-01-18T18:32:00.000-08:00

David Schwartz the creator of the Doc Oa™ which is an organizer binder, He contacted me to create characters and animation for his presentations to schoolsand for his website...

... this is actually the long cut, it originally was about half the length but Mr. Schwartz was so happy about the animation we added another half and then put it all together as one piece. In the following weeks I created a few illustrations for the Doc OA™ website and documented some presentations and examples of the Know Thing Challenge which can be seen here...

Boston University presents Digi Life Media August 2008

2009-01-18T18:21:00.000-08:00

Digi Life Media is a company which creates digital copies of books to be read aloud by the computer for the blind and visually impaired. Boston University who promoted the commercial, and Digi Life Media contacted yours truly to create this commercial with some of the actual employees of the company in it.

Starting Gate Promotions logo commercial June 2008

2009-01-18T18:15:00.000-08:00

Starting Gate Promotions contacted me to create a log for their company an soon after needed a quick promotional commercial. So, check them both out here...

Burnout is showing at the Animation Block Party Festival

2008-07-21T16:05:00.000-07:00

My animation Burnout will be playing this friday (the 25th of July) at the Animation Block Party in New York. It should be awesomely outrageous. Here is a link to their website to check out details.

http://www.animationblock.com/

so drive don't walk to see me on the relatively big screen!

-Alex

My Work shown at the Senior Animation Show

2008-07-06T19:18:00.000-07:00

The Art Institute of Boston (where I graduated) presented The 2008 Senior Animation Show at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. The show was Thursday, May 15th, from 7pm - 9pm with my work shown last (like Hendrix at Woodstock).

The show was the opening screening of my latest animation "Great Dates in History: A Night with Nixon," the kids loved it.

The Coolidge Corner Theatre is located at 290 Harvard Avenue in Brookline, MA.

Sorry this post is late, but everything that was shown can be seen on my animation page.

-Alex

Drinking and Drawing animation

2008-04-07T19:26:00.000-07:00

Here is the link to the drinking and drawing animation,

starting at 4 to 5, 8 to 10 and 58 to 59 is all me,

enjoy

Find more videos like this on Channel Frederator RAW

-Alex

Dan Meth and Frederator Studios Drinking and Drawing

2008-04-03T10:45:00.000-07:00

The video isn't out yet but it will feature animation by yours truly. How this worked was that a bunch of animators/illustrators were brought together to make a film. You would get up to the light box and there would be something already started and you would continue.

I'm the guy on the right working away. This picture was on Boston.com, the website for the Boston Globe. Once the animations are made you'll be the second to know.

-Alex

"Soon Forget" receives critical acclaim from the Sketch Report

2008-01-02T07:00:00.001-08:00

After the SASDVF (Short Attention Span Digital Video Festival) The Sketch Report's Michael Gelobter wrote a review of the night. Here is an exert from the article

...The best film this year, in my opinion, was Alex Cormack's “Soon Forget.”
Based on the soundtrack of a Pearl Jam song of the same title, Alex clearly illustrates the narrative. Furthermore, he subtly and powerfully accentuates the concept by employing 3-dimensional construction in a piece about emptiness. Everything in the video, from the characters to dollar bills, are built as boxes, which emphasizes the hollowness expressed in the soundtrack.

you can read the rest of the article here at...

http://thesketchreport.blogspot.com/

5 Animations Shown at the Short Attention Span Digital Video Festival October 26th 2007

2008-01-02T06:03:00.000-08:00

5 animations were played at the Short Attention Span Digital Video Festival at the Lesley University Theater on October 26th. The films featured are “Great Dates in History", "Soon Forget", "It's the Great Trochanter Charlie Brown", "Employees Must Wash Hands", and "Three Guys in the Desert." The festival included films from all over the world.

-Alex

Randy Moss T-Shirt design now available at BarstoolSports.com September 14h 2007

2008-01-02T05:57:00.000-08:00

This past August Barstool Sports asked yours truly to design an anti Dan Shaughnessy t-shirt. I made an illustration for the shirt which they liked but Barstool decided to drop the Shaughnessy idea but then commissioned me to create an illustration of Randy Moss for another t-shirt. Here is the original drawing and the completed shirt, now available at BarStoolSports.com.

Animated Commercial for Thomas Heinle August 11th 2007

2007-12-15T11:57:00.000-08:00

On June 16th I received an email from Linda Killion from Thomson Heinle asking if I would be interested to create a commercial for their new series of Text Books Stand Out. From there on out I created characters (loosely based off the Stand Out cover) , storyboarded, created a background, found and created sound, conducted original music, and animated the below commercial.

The commercial is now being used in presentations throughout the country and will soon be on their website.

Great Dates in History Animation on NESN's Sox Appeal website June 20th 2007

2007-12-15T11:53:00.000-08:00

Great Dates in History: How George met Martha is featured on NESN's Sox Appeal website. Produced by Scout Productions, Sox Appeal is a dating show where contestants will go on dates with three people at Fenway park and will choose a winner by the ninth inning.

A few months ago Shaun Baker from Scout Productions contacted me and asked if I would be interested in creating any cartoons for the Sox Appeal website, the result was and is Great Dates. Sox Appeal will air in mid July on NESN and Great dates can be found under the Video section, then under Fans if you want to check it out there, http://www.sox-appeal.com/home.html

-Alex

Back from the Dead Comic on BarstoolSports.com June 11th 2007

2007-12-15T11:49:00.000-08:00

Another Comic up on BarstoolSports.com accompanying an Uncle Buck article...

Back from the Dead?

5 games in 2 weeks. Seems scary to many, but there really is no reason to panic regarding the Yankoffs surge from 14.5 back to 9.5 back, currently. Consider the following:

Since losing 5 in a row last month, the Yankoffs have gone 9-2. The last 3 home wins came against the pathetic Pirates who are 11 games under .500. The Pirates bullpen killed them in all 3 losses. They nearly won the 1st game and hung around until the later innings in the last two games, before A-Fraud and Co. finally started to pile on some runs.

In that same stretch the Red Sox went 4-7, however, the losses can be blamed almost exclusively on a lack of hitting. Except for JD Drew and Tek in AZ, they bats have been ice cold. Meanwhile, the Sox starting pitching was excellent, giving quality starts in almost every game.

"Clemens is who we thought he was!" The Rocket went 6, throwing over 100 pitches in his 1st outing. Giving up 3 runs to Pittsburgh, he was far from sharp and showed some concern regarding his previous injury in the post game press conference. A 6 inning, 100 pitch start, isn't going to cut it when the line ups get tougher and isn't doing that exhausted pen any favors.

Coming up next for the Yankoffs is a pair of inter-league series vs. Arizona and the Mets. After that they go on the road for 9, where they had better clean up the Rockies, Giants and O's, before having to come back home for their toughest home stretch, maybe of the year: 10 against Oakland, Minnesota and the Angels. The Red Sox, on the other hand, have a great chance to get back up double digits with home sets against the sub .500 Rockies and Giants before a 9 game road trip against Atlanta, San Diego and Seattle.

-Uncle Buck

Well, with the benefit of hindsight, the Sox won the series

-Alex

Celtic Comics on BarstoolSports.com June 4th 2007

2007-12-15T11:41:00.000-08:00

After the Tom Brady comic, the author of the article Uncle Buck asked if I were interested in making some more comics for the upcoming NBA draft. One would be before the draft (Danny Ainge bingo) and then another for afterwards depending what spot the Celtics received. came up they were doing a live update to see where the Celtics would place. Well, they placed at fifth and at the time it looked like it was all over for the C's. In the end though it all worked out.

-Alex

Tom Brady Comic on BarstoolSports.com April 2nd 2007

2007-12-15T11:37:00.000-08:00

Barstool Sports is a free newspaper in Boston that covers sports and other such news events throughout the city. Uncle Buck, who is a writer for the paper asked me to create the above comic for the below article. The comic was then featured on their website along with the before mentioned article...

Brady Boston Herald/Inside Track - First, let's discuss Peyton: The Super Bowl champ, as you know, hosted last week's "SNL" and, in his monologue, told a story about visiting a Boston veterans hospital and being taunted by a Pats fan named Joe O'Malley. "What do Tom Brady and the circus have in common?" Peyton said Joe asked him. "They both have two more rings than you." Well, according to former ESPN.com writer Dan Shanoff, that was not how the joke originally went. In the dress rehearsal, Burlington home gal Amy Poehler was dressed in a Pats jersey and she is the one who delivered the "two more rings than you" line.

To which, Peyton replied "That's not the ONLY thing he'll have two more of . . ." Oh, ouch! SNL spokesguy Marc Lepis confirmed that the joke was axed before Peyton & Co. went live from New York.

"Yes," he said. "The monologue changed from dress to air. As do many sketches." Perhaps all the Pats fans in the cast revolted. Or maybe Bundchen's denial that she is also sporting a Brady Bump made the whole thing moot. Who knows. What we do know is that Peyton says smack talk about rings motivates him to come back next season and "kick y'all's ass."

Maybe the joke was pulled because it is dumb. If it had happened when the rumor of a 2nd baby was going on then maybe. Or maybe if he used the "Trouble with protection" line on Tommy then it could have worked...

The Track also reported that Giselle took a shot at Bridget Moynahan in a foreign magazine saying, "I don't know when it's going to happen (have kid, start family)," Gi continues. "Everything in life has to be planned. I'm very old-fashioned. I believe in being married and going to your husband and saying 'Let's have a kid.'"

-Uncle Buck

Look out for more comics on Barstoolsports.com

-Alex