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November 25, 2009
November 11, 2009
- Warrior women—from Wonder Woman to Elektra to Xena to Ripley—have won a die-hard fan following among women in the last decade because, in addition to being sexy, they are strong, in control, smart, and successful. Lara Croft may have originated as pure male fantasy—a buxom video game character with impossible proportions—but on the big screen, she is, as one critic put it, ...
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August 22, 2009
- Many writers, if not most, would love to see their work show up on the big screen or the small. We're in love with Hollywood, after all, where storytellers get paid well even if they're sometimes treated like second class citizens. In TV, writers are accorded more respect, in general, than they are in the movie business. Lately, comic books and graphic novels are booming in movies and TV. ...
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August 10, 2009
- Faithful readers will recall that for my last appearance in The Comics
Journal its Table of Contents credited my interview of legendary underground
cartoonist S. Clay Wilson to someone else entirely. Now, in TCJs latest war
against celebrity journalists, the final tweakings of its spectacular splash
page of my newest article, "How Michel Choquette (Almost) Assembled the Most ...
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August 2, 2009
- Grove Press, the independent publishers of Kiran Desai’s Booker Prize-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss and bestsellers Man Gone Down and Peace Like A River, will publish Willow’s memoir The Butterfly Mosque in Spring 2010. Stay tuned for details!
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July 15, 2009
- Find out what's hot in the world of publishing with this selection of recent industry news.COMIC BOOKS Are you attending Comic-Con (next month in San Diego) in the hopes of meeting publishers? Publishers Weekly has a list of great questions to ask here. The First Asian American Comicon went off without a hitch at New York City's Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA); attendees appreciated the ...
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June 6, 2009
- Well, the first round of voting my comic KOGOSHII came in at #3 thanks to all who voted and gave their support. I still need your votes to make it to #1 before the end of the month If you haven't voted yet, please do here:http://zudacomics.com/node/1254 If yout have, THANK YOU! we can't do this without you. If you still want to help be sure to post blogs, tweets, etc with the weblink and help ...
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May 18, 2009
- Wow! I hope you will forgive my bad pun for the title of my blog. I actually have submitted my RED ROOM AUTHOR PAGE BLOG to be made available on the Kindle service from Amazon.com. So if any of you out there have purchased Amazon's expensive e-reader, then you can hear me wax idiotic about a myrad of topics. I did this for two reasons. First, I love new media. Not just because "it's ...
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March 4, 2009
- When I was a kid, I was obsessed by EC comics. Tales From the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, Shock SuspenStories, Crime SuspenStories, Weird Science, Weird Fantasy, Frontline Combat, Two-Fisted Tales. My parents wouldn’t let them in the house. In 1955, the Comic Book Code gutted EC’s line and I turned my attentions elsewhere. But into adulthood I regularly dreamed of discovering ...
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December 9, 2008
- For anyone here who was alive and reading comics in the 1940s, skip to the pictures link below. If you're not part of that demographic, read this. Anyway, James Ritchey III and I are working on a revamp of the old character a la James Robinson's Starman, dealing with the legacy of the Golden Age bleeding into the current age and how heroism and adventure has become a different animal now in so ...
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