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Yahoo
6 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
Former GA deputy accused of attacking 3 women, 2 of them are police officers
A former Walton County Sheriff's Deputy is accused of attacking three women. Two of the victims are Georgia police officers. Police said Alex Ross assaulted the women at the Georgia Peace Officer Standards & Training (POST) Council Office because he was upset about information he received regarding his post certification. 'We heard someone yelling, 'Help, help, help,'' Lt. Tim Allen with Austell Police Department told Channel 2 Cobb County Bureau Chief Michele Newell. Those cries came from the office, which is located in the same building as the Austell Police Department. 'When (officers) got there, the gentleman had his hand on the officer's gun, trying to get it out the holster. They were able to subdue him,' Allen said. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] Aside from the two victims who were police officers, the third victim is a civilian POST employee. 'He had been there at Georgia Peace Officer Standard Training Council inquiring about his post certification. (He) wasn't happy with something that (he) was told, so he punched one of the staff members, which happens to be a certified peace officer,' Allen said. According to the warrant, Ross continued his attack by striking another Georgia peace officer and punched a civilian employee in her eye, causing bruising and swelling. All three victims were hospitalized. 'One of the police officers had a fractured bone in her face from the punch,' Allen said. Ross is facing numerous felony charges, including violation of oath by a public officer. 'It was definitely that took us all by surprise, but we were very grateful for the reaction from everybody cause it definitely could have gone the wrong way,' Allen said. Ross resigned from the Walton County Sheriff's Office in 2022, rather than be fired. Newell contacted Georgia POST to learn more about this incident and is waiting to hear back. TRENDING STORIES: At least 2 people shot after gunfire breaks out at graduation in Forest Park Kid detained after sparking massive police presence over fake threat at Gwinnett hospital Gwinnett man charged with posing as mortgage broker in $152,000 scheme [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Forbes
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
The Next Wave Of Comic Book Movies: Creator Documentaries
Legendary comics storyteller Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is set to be the subject of a feature length ... More documentary. Though comics and superheroes have been at the center of the franchise entertainment boom of the past twenty years, large chunks of the global audience remain in the dark about the artists and creators who initially brought these characters to life. That's about to change as a wave of new documentaries are under development, often via crowdfunding campaigns, to bring their stories to a wider audience. Following on the heels of 2024's Frank Miller: American Genius (about the iconoclastic auteur behind Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City, The 300 and Daredevil), new projects spotlighting Jack Kirby (Captain America, The Avengers, most of the rest of the Marvel universe, and the American comic book industry as we know it), Steve Ditko (Spider-Man, Doctor Strange), painter Alex Ross (Marvels, Kingdom Come) and trailblazing publisher/activist and artist Denis Kitchen (Kitchen Sink Press, underground comix) are all in various stages of production. You might not imagine that people who spent most of their time indoors slaving over a drawing table meeting intractable deadlines would make for very good subjects of a feature film. Indeed many of these folks were anonymous for a reason: temperamentally, they are or were artists first, preferring the company of their supplies and their muse to the spotlight enjoyed by more gregarious industry figures like the late Marvel empresario Stan Lee. This is arguably why these figures deserve their moment in the sun, even if the glow is unlikely to be as bright as that which shines on their creations. Each creator contributed immensely to American art and culture, while laboring in an industry that, until recently, produced very little financial rewards or respect. Kirbyvision, with Ricki Stern ('Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,' 'UFOs: Investigating the Unknown') in line to direct, is under development by a group led by Dan Braun and Josh Braun of Submarine Entertainment ('The Andy Warhol Diaries,' 'Wild Wild Country'), with Mike Cecchini, Ron Fogelman and Christopher Longo. This film promises to be a long-overdue look at the visionary storyteller Jack Kirby, who burst on the scene as one of American comics' first marquee-name artists in the 1940s, created the visual vocabulary of superhero comics with his dynamic work on titles like Captain America and Sandman, launched or invigorated a half-dozen new genres including romance and crime comics, and, in one of the great second acts American culture, brought the whole constellation of Marvel characters to life in the 1960s, including the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Thor, Silver Surfer, The X-Men, the Avengers and the Black Panther. After moving to DC in the early 1970s to do what many fans consider his greatest work, followed by a coda at Marvel and some independent comics in the 1980s, Kirby and his family spent decades fighting for the rights to his artwork, credit, and financial compensation they believed were his due. A legal case with Marvel was finally resolved in 2014, twenty years after Jack's death. 'If there were a Mount Rushmore of 20th century pop culture luminaries, Jack Kirby should be the first one to be carved into the mountain,' said Josh Braun. 'Kirbyvision will let audiences experience the full scope of Jack's limitless imagination, creativity and heart.' The project enjoys the full support of the Kirby family and the Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center. Kirby is also the subject of a huge retrospective show running at the Skirball Center in Los Angeles, providing further evidence of his cultural reach. Kirby's compatriot in the rise of Marvel in the 1960s was Steve Ditko, whose idiosyncratic style defined the initial look of Spider-Man and Doctor Strange. Ditko's strong views about culture and philosophy kept him well out of the public spotlight at his own insistence, earning him a reputation as a recluse. But following Ditko's death in 2018 at the age of 90, his family began sharing photos, home movies, artifacts and anecdotes that cast new light on both his personality and his career. In conjunction with this effort, Steve Ditko: A Documentary promises to build on the scholarship of Ditko biographer Zack Kruse (Mysterious Travelers) and the wealth of new information coming from the family estate with a film that 'not only honors Steve Ditko's prolific body of work by expands on our understanding of the man himself.' Kruse set to direct and coproduce alongside Matt White, who has previously collaborated with Whoopi Goldberg and Snoop Dog. Another artist who changed the visual iconography of American comics is Alex Ross, who came along in the 1990s using a fully-painted illustrative style that gave his books a realism unprecedented in a medium that typically relied on simplification and cartoony-ness to tell stories. The Legend of Kingdom Come, produced by Ross's agent Sal Abbinanti and directed by Remi Atassi, tells the inside story of one of Ross's signature works, the Kingdom Come mini-series (later graphic novel) written by Mark Waid, which provided a chilling new context for the classic DC universe. After a Kickstarter campaign that raised over $463,000, the film screened at Chicago's Music Box Theatre earlier this month, ahead of a major retrospective of Ross's artwork set to open at the Dunn Museum in Libertyville, Ill. A documentary about underground comix publisher Denis Kitchen, Oddly Compelling: The Denis Kitchen Story, is also looking to Kickstarter to get it over the finishing line. Kitchen is an artist, publisher, historian and free speech champion who got his start in the underground comix movement in the 1960s, publishing work by Robert Crumb, Trina Robbins, Howard Cruise and S. Clay Wilson. He was a friend, publisher and agent for pioneering comic book creators Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman, and successfully transitioned his Kitchen Sink Press imprint into a mainstream independent comic publisher in the 1970s, 80s and 90s. One of Kitchen's most important contributions to the medium and the industry was the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit organization he launched in the 1980s to combat efforts to censor comics and their creators, and which has carried on into the present day. Buried beneath Kitchen's advocacy work and entrepreneurship is his own work as an artist and storyteller. He has recently published several collections of drawings and a career retrospective. According to the campaign announcement, Filmmakers Soren Christiansen and Ted Intorcio have captured hours of in-depth interviews with notable friends and colleagues of Kitchen, as well as archival footage, new animations of Kitchen's artwork, and his own reminiscences. The film hopes to be in release in Fall, 2025.
Gizmodo
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
The Sublime Superhero Art of Alex Ross Is Getting Its Own Exhibition
Alex Ross: Heroes & Villains will celebrate the renowned comics artist's Marvel and DC work at the Dunn Museum this summer. Alex Ross is one of the most iconic comics artists of the modern age, his influential paintings giving retro spins on the heroes of the Marvel and DC universes emblazoning comics covers, murals, merch, and more over the past few decades. Now, this summer, you'll be able to see it up close and in person. io9 can exclusively reveal your first look at Heroes & Villains, a new exhibit that will debut at the Dunn Museum in Illinois this summer that follows Ross' Marvel-focused exhibit at the museum, Marvelocity, back in 2019. Featuring over 100 pieces of original art spanning across the last 20 years of Ross' career in comics, it'll mark the first time both his DC and Marvel work has been formally displayed together, making for a veritable smorgasbord of superheroic figures. 'I am thrilled to join with the Dunn Museum again for this new exhibit. To see so many of my original paintings on display all in one place is very special,' Ross said in a press release provided to io9. 'It gives me a new perspective on the breadth of my work and I hope visitors enjoy the experience.' As well as pieces from across Ross' tenures at DC and Marvel, when Heroes & Villains opens Ross will debut 3 brand new portraits made to celebrate the occasion, which will remain exclusively on display there throughout the exhibition's run. Alex Ross: Heroes & Villains will open to the public at the Dunn Museum from June 29, 2025, through to February 16, 2026. Tickets for special preview night the evening prior to public opening on June 28, A Night With Alex Ross, are available here.
CBC
06-02-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Hoodie sales support scholarship for African Nova Scotian high school students
The new hoodie features the African Nova Scotian flag, and the names of 48 Black communities across the province. Quentrel Provo and Alex Ross are the two men behind the initiative. They spoke to Mainstreet Nova Scotia host Jeff Douglas.
