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Wednesday Runaround

Published Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:06:28 -0600

Last updated Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:58:48 -0600

Weeks after the death of Shel Dorf, Mark Evanier reports that another San Diego Comic Con founding father, Ken Krueger, has died. Evanier remembers one event that, for him, changed the nature of comic conventions;

Someone asked, "What should we do with him?" and Ken instantly replied, "Call the police."

That may seem like the most obvious answer in the world but at that moment, it hadn't occurred to anyone but Ken. It hadn't occurred to the rip-off artist/thief, either.

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Are comics for kids after all? Bonner Springs City library creates a Junior Graphic Novel section for 6-11 year olds.

To build the section, Voell said she ordered several titles but also pulled some books from the teen section and some from the junior fiction section – books, she says, that weren't getting checked out very often. They now seem to be in their proper place, as the section has become hugely popular among area youths and pre-teens.

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How do you describe Joe Michael Straczynski in the popular press these days? Apparently, "the author of the best Spider-man comics of the past decade".

Nice.

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The Chicago Tribune gives Lance Briggs' comic geekdom a thorough working over with three separate articles. The first looks at his geek cred and his new comics website, quoting Larry as saying

I love comics, but outside of my agent, who is an even bigger fan than I am, though that is completely coincidence — I didn't find out until a few months after we met and he saw one of my books — aside from him, there are not many people I can talk to about this.

Come to Bleeding Cool, Lance, come to Bleeding Cool… then the paper give his design-a-comics-character competition a massive publicity boost. And five reasons why Lance Briggs is more than a casual comics fan, including

He buys more single issues than trade paperbacks. Even die-hards wait for the paperbacks, which often collect a number of issues based around a certain story line in a handy, cheaper package. But you do have to wait, and Briggs can't wait.

It's good, but I want to see evidence that he's cosplayed as a Jawa.

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The Onion's Best Comics Of The Decade list (come on guys, you haven't allowed time for Blackest Night #6 to come out yet) has issues. Sean T Collins gives it a good fisking. I'd hate to see what he'll make of the Bleeding Cool list, 24 or which will be Avatar books, and the other one will be a copy of Wizard.

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/Film reports that the graphic novel In The Small is getting the movie treatment produced by Francis Lawrence, who is also on Sgt Rock.

Looks like that cover sticker worked!

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Everyone seems to be reporting that Peter Jackson is saying that Steven Spielberg has finished shooting the first Tintin movie (though I'm sure I heard that a while back) and now it's time for the two year CG rendering to start…

Remember folks, the screenplay is by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright Jr and Joe Cornish. Reasons to be cheerful.

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And MTV find out that Inglourious Basterds was inspired by Sgt Fury And His Howling Commandoes.

Come on Marvel Studios, you've got Branagh, now get Tarantino.

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