Kung Fu Secrets

Kung Fu Secret: Their Big Knives

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Few weapons are as iconic for the martial arts as the Chinese Dao and yet, the term can be applied to a very wide range of weaponry.

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Dim Mak on Kickstarter– A Touch of Death?

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I’ve found that I’m not the only creator standing at the cross-roads of Kung Fu and Comics! Today we look at the fabled Dim Mak (點脈): the Kung Fu strike and the kickstarter comics which has taken that name!

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Tiger Talk with Geof Darrow pt.2

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In part two of our free-wheeling conversation with Eisner Award winning Comic Artist/Concept Artist Geof Darrow we discuss illustration and work with movie directors. Geof highlights some the pros and cons of his illustration work still done 100% on paper. Early experiences working with Moebius and film directors like Ridley Scott and Tsui Hark.

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TIGER TALK with Special Guest: Geof Darrow

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It was a rather random opportunity which lead to Interviewing the legendary Geof Darrow, creator of The Shaolin Cowboy and concept artist behind such films as The Matrix. After some days of preparation and two pages of neatly typed out questions, we met over zoom an immediately discarded any pretense of a formal interview to enjoy a free-wheeling conversation which covered his comics & movie work, tales of interesting people he’s met and a surprisingly in-depth conversation of the many Kung Fu & Samurai films which we both love and consider influences.

Many of those details will be covered in the official interview at KungFuMagazine.com

But below you’ll find some of the enjoyable tangents we took which might be more of interest to comic and movie aficionados in particular.

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Wood Prophecy: album release & live events!

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The Wood Prophets are a Taimu Shakuhachi Quartet playing Wood God Hymns and forest anthems: soothingly feral new music at the intersection of Zen nature meditation, rural blues, jubilee gospel and sacred Renaissance polyphony.

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A Brief Visit to the Shaolin Wushu Guan

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Shaolin Temple’s original founding is probably the most mythologized aspect of its history. One of its earliest written sources is a Tang-Period (618-907) short story on a historical Shaolin monk named Sengchou 480-560. Beyond that, we often say the temple was founded by Ba Tuo around 495 BCE, and has been home to such disciples as Hui Guang and Seng Chou, the earliest known martial arts monks. Imagine; kung fu training has been held in this hall for generations since.

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A Tiger’s Tale: 10 page preview

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Read: A TIGER’S TALE the first 10 pages.

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