Category: Comic Con News and Interviews

2018 San Diego Comic Con: Interview with Hale Appleman of The Magicians

2018 San Diego Comic Con
Day 3 (July 21, 2018)

At this year’s San Diego Comic Con, we got a chance to speak with the cast of  The Magicians. In this interview, we sat down with Hale Appleman (Eliot Waugh) who spoke on a wide range of issues including  the Eliot Monster and who he’d like to work with in Season 4.

After the jump, check out transcribed excerpts from the interview with Hale, as well as video of the full interview!

“John McNamara asked me, ‘yeah, can you play him as a 9 year old without any empathy or impulse control?’ and I said ‘sure’ and then they were like, ‘wait, uh, what’s happening here?!?'” – Hale Appleman

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2018 San Diego Comic Con: Interview with Summer Bishil of The Magicians

2018 San Diego Comic Con
Day 3 (July 21, 2018)

At this year’s San Diego Comic Con, we got a chance to speak with The Magicians‘ very own Summer Bishil (she plays Margo Hanson, the current High King of Fillory and the show’s resident sassy badass). In the interview, Summer talked about a wide range of issues including Season 4, her new alter ego of “Janet,” and what it’s like as an actor dealing with the weighty issues the show portrays.

After the jump, check out transcribed excerpts from the interview with Summer, as well as video of the full interview!

“So, it’s always interesting on The Magicians …”- Summer Bishil

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New York Comic Con, Where Marvel Reigns Supreme

If you were at New York Comic Con last week, you would have noticed a couple of recurring themes over the course of the 4 day fan and industry fest: comic books and CosPlay are alive and thriving in NY; Kevin Smith will appear at everything that occurs in the NY/NJ Metro area; pretzels and water require a small mortgage; and Marvel is a dominating behemoth in every facet of entertainment and media.  We’re not even going to talk about the mammoth Marvel block on the Show Room Floor, where Marvel comic writers gathered to sign books and where Marvel and The Weeknd kicked off their joint comic book collaboration, Starboy. The truly awe inspiring thing was the breadth of Marvel’s Panels & Presentations.

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