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Fatman On Batman
''Fatman on Batman'' is a podcast and video series in which hosts, filmmaker Kevin Smith and writer Marc Bernardin explores their geeky interests, originally focusing on the DC comic property Batman. The podcast was retitled ''Fatman Beyond'' after Smith's weight loss. The show is part of the SModcast Podcast Network. Show History Paul Dini joined Kevin Smith for the first Fatman Beyond, originally called "Fatman on Batman" was released on June 1, 2012. The episode focused on Dini's experience writing for '' Batman: The Animated Series''. Many of the early episodes centered on ''Batman: The Animated Series'' featuring guests that worked on the series. While Smith has been a lifelong fan of the Batman, he maintains a strong connection to ''Batman: The Animated Series''. Smith often notes that Batman, as voiced by Kevin Conroy and written by Dini, is his touchstone for Batman. During the progression of ''Fatman on Batman'' Smith has been joined by a variety of guests including past ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Smith
Kevin Patrick Smith (born August 2, 1970) is an American filmmaker, actor, comedian, comic book writer, author, YouTuber, and podcaster. He came to prominence with the low-budget comedy buddy film ''Clerks'' (1994), which he wrote, directed, co-produced, and acted in as the character Silent Bob of stoner duo Jay and Silent Bob, characters who also appeared in Smith's later films ''Mallrats'' (1995), ''Chasing Amy'' (1997), ''Dogma'' (1999), ''Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back'' (2001), ''Clerks II'' (2006), ''Jay and Silent Bob Reboot'' (2019), and ''Clerks III'' (2022) which are set primarily in his home state of New Jersey. While not strictly sequential, the films have crossover plot elements, character references, and a shared canon known as the "View Askewniverse", named after Smith's production company View Askew Productions, which he co-founded with Scott Mosier. Since 2011, Smith has mostly made horror films, including ''Red State'' (2011) and the "comedy horror films" ''Tus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara Strong
Tara Lyn Strong (née Charendoff; born February 12, 1973) is a Canadian-American actress. She is known for her voice work in animation, websites, and video games. Strong's voice roles include animated series such as ''The New Batman Adventures'', ''Teen Titans'', ''Teen Titans Go!'', ''Rugrats'', ''The Powerpuff Girls'', ''The Fairly OddParents'', ''The Proud Family'', ''Xiaolin Showdown'', ''Ben 10'', ''Chowder'', ''Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!'', '' My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic'', ''Unikitty!'', and '' DC Super Hero Girls''. She has also voiced characters in the video games ''Mortal Kombat X'', ''Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3'', ''Jak and Daxter'', '' Final Fantasy X'', '' X-2'', ''Blue Dragon'', and '' Batman: Arkham''. She has earned Annie Award and Daytime Emmy nominations and won an award from the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. Early life Strong was born Tara Lyn Charendoff in Toronto, Canada, on February 12, 1973, the younger daughter of Syd and Lucy Charendoff. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Lee
Stan Lee (born Stanley Martin Lieber ; December 28, 1922 – November 12, 2018) was an American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. He rose through the ranks of a family-run business called Timely Publications which would later become Marvel Comics. He was the primary creative leader for two decades, leading its expansion from a small division of a publishing house to a multimedia corporation that dominated the comics and film industries. In collaboration with others at Marvel—particularly co-writers/artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko—he co-created iconic characters, including superheroes Spider-Man, the X-Men, Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp, the Fantastic Four, Black Panther, Daredevil, Doctor Strange, the Scarlet Witch, and Black Widow. These and other characters' introductions in the 1960s pioneered a more naturalistic approach in superhero comics, and in the 1970s Lee challenged the restrictions of the Comics Code Authority, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeph Loeb
Joseph "Jeph" Loeb III () is an American film and television writer, producer and comic book writer. Loeb was a producer/writer on the TV series '' Smallville'' and ''Lost'', writer for the films ''Commando'' and ''Teen Wolf'', and a writer and co-executive producer on the NBC TV show ''Heroes'' from its premiere in 2006 to November 2008.Cynthia Littleton. "'Heroes' duo get the ax" '' Daily Variety''; November 2, 2008 In 2010, Loeb became Executive Vice President of . A four-time |
Christopher Drake
Christopher Drake is an American film, television and video game composer. Drake was selected by director Guillermo del Toro to provide the music for the first two 75-minute animated films, '' Hellboy: Sword of Storms'' and '' Hellboy: Blood and Iron'' released by Starz Media in 2006 and 2007. Drake also collaborated with del Toro in rescoring one of his early films '' Geometría'', included in The Criterion Collection edition of del Toro's '' Cronos''. In 2008, Drake joined composers Robert J. Kral and Kevin Manthei in writing music for Warner Bros.'s '' Batman: Gotham Knight'' (2008). Following ''Gotham Knight'', Drake scored the fourth in the line of DC Universe Animated Original Movies, ''Wonder Woman'' (2009). Drake wrote the scores for the animated films '' Superman/Batman: Public Enemies'' (2009), '' Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths'' (2010), '' Batman: Under the Red Hood'' (2010), ''All-Star Superman'' (2011), '' Green Lantern: Emerald Knights'' (2011), '' Batman: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Johns
Geoffrey Johns (born January 25, 1973) is an American comic book writer, screenwriter, and film and television producer. Johns's work on the DC Comics characters Green Lantern, Aquaman, Flash and Superman, has drawn critical acclaim. He served as Chief Creative Officer (CCO) of DC Entertainment from 2010 to 2018 and as President and CCO from 2016 to 2018. He is the co-founder and former co-chairman of DC Films and former co-runner of DC Extended Universe until 2018. In film, he was a producer or executive producer of ''Green Lantern'' (2011), '' Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice'' (2016), ''Suicide Squad'' (2016), ''Wonder Woman'' (2017), ''Justice League'' (2017), '' Shazam!'' (2019), ''Birds of Prey'' (2020), co-wrote and produced the story for ''Aquaman'' (2018) and wrote the screenplay for ''Wonder Woman 1984'' (2020). Johns' involvement with DC Entertainment as producer, writer and executive has helped turn the DC Extended Universe franchise into the eleventh-highest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison, MBE (born 31 January 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer, screenwriter, and producer. Their work is known for its nonlinear narrative A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional (memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travel literature, travelogue, etc.) or fictional (fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller (ge ...s, humanist philosophy and counterculture, countercultural leanings. Morrison has written extensively for the American comic book publisher DC Comics, penning lengthy runs on ''Animal Man (comic book), Animal Man'', ''Doom Patrol'', ''JLA (comic book), JLA'', ''Action Comics'', and ''The Green Lantern'' as well as the graphic novels ''Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, Arkham Asylum'' and ''Wonder Woman: Earth One'', the meta-series ''Seven Soldiers'' and ''The Multiversity'', the mini-series ''DC One Million'' and ''Final Crisis'', both of which served as centrepieces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyle Higgins
Kyle Higgins (born June 12, 1985) is an American comic book writer and film director. He is best known for his work on the ''Batman'' franchise at DC Comics, namely writing the miniseries '' Batman: Gates of Gotham'' and for the ''Nightwing'' and ''Batman Beyond'' titles, the ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' franchise at Boom! Studios, and '' Radiant Black'' at Image Comics. Early life Kyle Higgins was born June 12, 1985, and grew up in Homer Glen, Illinois. At the age of seven, Higgins saw the 1978 feature film ''Superman'', which began his passion for both comic books and filmmaking."Filmmakers" theleaguefilm.com. Retrieved June 23, 2014. After two years of studying film and creative writing at the |
Scott Snyder
Scott Snyder is an American author. He is known for his 2006 short story collection ''Voodoo Heart'', and his comic book writing, including ''American Vampire'', ''Detective Comics'', ''Batman (comic book)#The New 52, Batman'', ''Wytches (comics), Wytches'', ''Swamp Thing#Relaunch, Swamp Thing,'' and Justice League#DC Universe, ''Justice League''. Early life At the age of nine, Snyder attended a summer camp where one of the counselors read Stephen King's ''Eyes of the Dragon'' to him over the summer, an experience that Snyder says "really jump-started my love of story-telling." He was also influenced by the writing of Denis Johnson, Raymond Carver, Rick Bass, Joy Williams (American writer), Joy Williams, Elizabeth McCracken, Elizabeth McKracken, Stephen King, Tobias Wolff, and George Saunders. In comics, he has named Alan Moore and Frank Miller (comics), Frank Miller as his favorite writers. Snyder graduated from Brown University in 1998 with a degree in creative writing, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diedrich Bader
Karl Diedrich Bader (born December 24, 1966) is an American actor and comedian who is best known for his comedy roles. He has appeared as a series regular in television sitcoms ''The Drew Carey Show'', ''American Housewife'', and '' Outsourced'', along with notable recurring roles in '' Better Things'' and ''Veep.'' His film credits include ''The Beverly Hillbillies'', ''Office Space'', '' EuroTrip'', and ''Napoleon Dynamite''. He has also had a prolific voiceover career, playing characters such as Hoss Delgado in ''The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'', Zeta in ''The Zeta Project'', Tank in the film '' Surf's Up'', and provided the voice of Bruce Wayne / Batman in multiple animated films and television series, beginning in 2008 with '' Batman: The Brave and the Bold''. Early life Karl Diedrich Bader was born in Alexandria, Virginia, on Christmas Eve, 1966, the son of Gretta Bader (née Margaret Marie Lange; 1931–2014), a sculptor, and William B. Bader (1931–2016), a foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Garman
Ralph Garman (born November 17, 1964) is an American actor, comedian, saxophonist, drummer and radio host best known as the host of ''The Joe Schmo Show'', for his voice work on the Fox animated series ''Family Guy'', former entertainment reporter and impressionist for the ''Kevin and Bean'' morning show on Los Angeles radio station KROQ-FM, and his podcast with co-host Kevin Smith ''Hollywood Babble-On''. Garman can currently be heard on his daily podcast, "The Ralph Report" on the ''Patreon'' platform. Early life Garman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School and then La Salle University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication arts. Career Garman was a regular reporter on the long-running Playboy TV series Sexcetera, which explored avant-garde sexuality in a lighthearted manner. He hosted ''The Joe Schmo Show'', and was an entertainment reporter and impressionist for the ''Kevin and Bean'' morning show on Los Angeles radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
