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Friday Runaround – Shaming The Faux Geek Shamers

Published Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:19:45 -0500

NewsWatch: ABC2News discovers manga. And that they are different to Western comics. ANd that they're not selling as well in the US as they used to.

First of all, it's important to know that manga and Western comics are produced quite differently. A great way for a Western comic book fan to learn about the manga industry is through "Bakuman," a manga which provides extraordinary insight, as it's a story about teenagers struggling to become manga creators.

SnoogansWatch: Comic Book Men to return… possibly with a Comic Book Woman.

MillionBatMarch: The Washington Post asks for a Nation Of Batmen.

GeekWatch: Michelle Starr slams practice of calling out "fake geeks", specifically women, or more specifically famous women. The charge being that they are looking for demographic appeal or just the fun of being into someone. She cites a video, Hot Women Pandering To Nerds, whcih includes Megan Fox talking about her love of the J Scott Campbell and Mike Turner school. Which, you know, is absolutely real. Her agent gets annoyed about how much she wants to be in a Fathom movie.

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I think geekdom is self identifying. You don't get to judge another person's level of geek, everyone has their own things they are into, some of them work in office cubicles, others on Hollywood studio sets.

For years we spend wanting more people to like the kind of things we like. Now that they do, we want thm to stop. Or only like them in the exact specific way that we do. That's pretty shitty.

ConWatch: Washington Square News profiles Michael Carbonaro, creator of the Big Apple Comic Con. And his new plans…

For many, reading comic books is simply a hobby. But self-title comicologist Mike Carbonaro he has created an entire career and paid his NYU tuition with comic books.

Carbonaro, founder of the New York Comic Book Marketplace, held a convention with some of his work at The Hotel Pennsylvania. He is even flying comic book legend Stan Lee in for the event, delighting Marvel fans.

GumWatch: Our Vietnam coverage seems to be increasing of late…

A writing and drawing contest based on the Mr Gum series by British author Andy Stanton was recently launched to appeal to the creative minds of Vietnamese children.

To celebrate the author's visit to Viet Nam in May, the contest is open to Vietnamese pupils aged between seven-17 who are interested in English literature in general, and the writings of Stanton in particular.

Entrants are required to write and illustrate a story about Mr Gum's potential adventures in Viet Nam

ImageWatch: Eric Stephenson contradicts the belief that Image are printing low in order to sell out fast.

Unfilled orders for Saga #1 – across three printings – are over half of the initial orders for that title.

That means that while strong in the overall scheme of things, initial orders were actually too low for a title that by all accounts, everybody knew had tremendous sales potential. Orders were low enough that even when we generously overprinted on both the first and second printings, we could not meet demand – on a title that various retailers are now using as an example of how we should have known better.

TweetWatch: "Once again, Rich Johnston takes material out of context, invents fake scandal that eats up real time, I lose work hours. Asshole." – Mark Waid. Man, he must really hate The Daily Show.

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