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Saturday Runaround – Tintin! Tintin! Tintin!
TintinInIndiaWatch: How does Tintin sell in India?
"So what is Tintin's enduring appeal for us? Book-store managers say the perennial demand for Tintin comics in India never dips. In 2010, 35 years after the first Indian translation of Tintin in Bengali appeared in the children's magazine Anandamela, it was translated into Hindi by film-maker and writer Puneet Arora for Om Books International. Haddock's "billions of blue blistering barnacles" became "karodon karod kaale kasmasate kachhuwe" (millions and millions of black squirming tortoises)—and in a year, says Ajay Mago, publisher, Om Books International, all the 5,000 copies of the 14 titles that went to book stores had been sold."
TintinAndThePiratesWatch: IFC checks into the legality behind the Complete Tintin Comics App.
"So, it's increasingly apparent that Gaurav Khanna and anyone else involved with "Tintin: The Complete Collection" is a bottom-feeding pirate. A comic book scanner with the audacity, balls and lack of common sense to put the fruits of his piracy out in public where he can easily be tracked down by an angry rightsholder. We all know that piracy exists, and you can likely easily find torrents for all of the Tintin books in the App, if not one big one that has them all prebundled. The bigger issue, however, is: Why doesn't a legal version of this already exist?"
TintinInTheCongoWatch: The Daily Mail looks to Tintin In The Congo.
"And Waterstone's itself sounds no less hysterical. Not content with hiding the book away from impressionable young eyes — among the vampire, sci-fi and horror comics intended for weird adults — the chain has instructed its staff to be 'vigilant' and ensure that Tintin In The Congo doesn't find its way into 'the wrong hands'.
"Blimey! They make it sound more like a nuclear weapon than a comic book. And how will they judge which are the right and wrong hands?
"Will customers have to show credentials, proving their bona fides as historians of children's literature, before they are allowed to buy the book? Will they be made to sign an affidavit, swearing allegiance to the Human Rights Act?"
WhatAWorldWatch: The Huffington Post runs a piece from the AP on DC regaining majority marketshare.
"The market-share battle is not the one we care to win," Rood said. "We are battling to deliver great stories and characters, and to support comic shops so that they're the ones who win every month."
ConWatch: As well as the other comic conventions this weekend, there's also Kansas City Fan Con #32, with Hector Casanova, Lee Leslie and Terry Beatty – with advance copies of Return To Perdition.
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"Cowboys & Aliens wasn't good enough. Forget all the smart people involved in it, it wasn't good enough," Meyer said, without pause. "All those little creatures bouncing around were crappy. I think it was a mediocre movie, and we all did a mediocre job with it."
"Scott Pilgrim, I think, was actually kind of a good movie. [Addressing a small section of the audience, cheering.] But none of you guys went! And you didn't tell your friends to go! But, you know, it happens."
"Cowboys & Aliens didn't deserve better. Land of the Lost didn't deserve better. Scott Pilgrim did deserve better, but it just didn't capture enough of the imaginations of people, and it was one of those things where it didn't cost a lot so it wasn't a big loss. Cowboys & Aliens was a big loss, and Land of the Lost was a huge loss. We misfired. We were wrong. We did it badly, and I think we're all guilty of it."
ICv2 – Diamond Extends with Oni
Diamond Book Distributors announced that it has extended its agreement with Oni Press for sales, distribution, and marketing services to book stores, mass merchants, libraries, and other outlets worldwide.
Writers Board Sony Pictures Animation's Popeye | Superhero Hype
Sony Pictures Animation has set screenwriters Jay Scherick and David Ronn to write the screenplay for an all-new Popeye animated feature, based on the iconic characters of comic strip and cartoon fame. Popeye is the second project for Scherick and Ronn with Sony Pictures Animation following their success with this summer's blockbuster The Smurfs, which has grossed more than $550 million worldwide since its July 29 opening. Sony Pictures Animation and Arad Productions are producing the stereoscopic 3D animated feature.
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