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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28

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Cartoonist/Kentucky Colonel/3x Eisner Award nominee (the Crogan Adventures, the Creeps). Former college professor, former social studies teacher. History buff, but certainly no expert. Hopkins County, KY. He/him schweizercomics.com

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 18h

I had a great talk with Alex about the project on which I'm currently working, as well as a bunch of in-the-weeds process stuff. If you're looking for something to listen to today, give it a spin!

J Alex Morrissey @jalexmorrissey.com · 7d

The super-talented, Chris Schweizer joins me for an in-depth conversation about his upcoming web-serialized graphic novel, OUTLAW’S APPRENTICE. We discuss story creation, writing, lettering, structure, panel and page format, crowdfunding, AND how the book will look in print.

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 22h

I saw Starship Troopers thirteen times in the theater over a two week stretch (I worked there, so it was free). Most of 'em solo. I still see movies solo at the theater.

Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 22h

I wonder if that took him out of the running as much as might marquee draw

Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 22h

Same in True Grit; the Captain Finch role is absorbed into Damon's character.

Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 1d

And yes, I am aware that The First Wives Club is not, on its surface, the likeliest candidate for a teen date movie

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 1d

I was reasonably sure that I did not date much at all until right around the start of my senior year but according to the movie's release date I took three young ladies to see The First Wives Club around the start of my sophomore year, so I guess that my recollections of teen romance are way off

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 1d

Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it.

TRUE GRIT (2010)
Recast: John Goodman as Rooster Cogburn

Bridges did a good job, but frequent Coens collaborator Goodman was born to play the "one-eyed fat man." With his comedic timing, the role would've had a bit more humor.

Kimber Johnson @kimberjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it.

The Snowman (2017)
Recast: Detective Harry Hole with Michael Shannon
How it's fixed: Shannon’s unhinged intensity turns this icy mess into a psychological horror. You feel the frostbite and existential dread.

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 1d

Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it.

Mine is "The Godfather- Part 3," recasting Sophia Coppola (great director, but should not have been given this role) with Jennifer Jason Leigh.

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 1d

Mighty Ducks 3 opened a couple of weeks later and that broke the stranglehold that The First Wives Club had on the under-17 demographic

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 1d

These was a one or two week stretch where there was only one movie that wasn't rated R in our theater and it was The First Wives Club so when I was fifteen I saw The First Wives Club three times because it was the only movie you could take a date to at our movie theater at fifteen.

three women in white suits are dancing in a room

ALT: three women in white suits are dancing in a room

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Tiffany Babb @explodingarrow.bsky.social · 1d

Holy stretch goal, Batman! At $10,000 dollars, EVERY physical backer of The Comics Courier issue 3 will receive this AMAZING STUNNING SPECTACULAR @schweizercomics.bsky.social print in their package!

Keep those pledges coming in at comicscourier.com

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Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 2d

I'm so very glad!

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a dark and stormy night... ⛈️ @uncannykk.bsky.social · 3d

Just thinking about how happy I am for Mary and Stack and looking for art of them, and came across this beautiful work.

Chris Schweizer @ NYCC A-28 @schweizercomics.bsky.social · 20d

Worked up a poster for Sinners - that cross section of horror movies, period pieces, and roots music checks an awful lot of my boxes, and heavens but it was beautifully made.