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Monday Runaround – Following Harlan's Fingers

Published Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:41:35 -0500

Last updated Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:41:44 -0500

HarlanWatch: Would you like to buy Harlan Ellison's first typewriter?

Harlan wrote his earliest stories on that Remington, as well as producing his fanzine, DIMENSIONS, and a comparison of the typefaces from that Remington and DIMENSIONS issue #15 (August-October 1954) authenticate that they are indeed the same.

BanWatch: Boyd Tonkin remembers the last book to be banned in Britain, the graphic novel Lord Horror.

EvangelicalWatch: The Almighty Bible graphic novel hits the iPad.

StripWatch: Blondie saved, W.T.Duck for the Fail.

IndiaWatch: A new Gandhi comic book has been created by children in orphanages after a series of workshops.

RichWatch: My cartoon for Guido Fawkes taking on the Lib Dem conference by way of Dr Strangelove.

This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.

They say I am a work in progress. The fools.

Beau Smith Joins The Library of American Comics

Industry veteran, noted raconteur, and self-described "manly man" Beau Smith is joining IDW's Library of American Comics as Marketing Director. His new post reunites Beau with Dean Mullaney. The dynamic duo shook up the industry in the 1980s at Eclipse Comics where Dean was the publisher and Beau, the marketing director.

Apple Said to Negotiate With Publishers Over Digital Newsstand

Apple Inc. is developing a digital newsstand for publishers that would let them sell magazines and newspapers to consumers for use on Apple devices, said two people familiar with the matter. The newsstand, designed particularly for the iPad, would be similar to Apple's iBook store for electronic books, said the people, who declined to be identified because the negotiations are private. The newsstand would be separate from Apple's App Store, where people can buy some publications now, they said. Apple's effort is aimed at luring more consumers to the iPad and helping publishers sell subscriptions, rather than single issues.

Talk Over Balloons: writer Fred Van Lente

Assistant editor Nate Cosby, who started it in WORLD WAR HULK, and carried it over into iHerc and we ran with it. That's why in the climax to SACRED INVASION, when Herc takes out the god of the Skrulls, we made the SFX "NATECOSBOOM" as a tribute to him (and that's now his Twitter handle, 'cause he's a nerd).

Ex-Bankers Start Fund to Invest in Media – NYTimes.com

The idea behind firms like Raine, which is modeled, in part, on the boutique investment bank Allen & Company, is that their deal-making contacts will give them exclusive access to prospective investments, which could include global comic book brands and new sports leagues.

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