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Thursday Runaround – All Class
TweetWatch: "Rich Johnston is all class, if that class is Douchebaggery 101." – David Uzumeri of Comics Alliance.
ClassWatch: If Viacom buys Dark Horse this morning (ET), or if DC cancels a comic over a monkey, I won't be there, I'll be teaching comic books and cartooning at my local junior school for an afternoon. So… a little patience today.
PressWatch: James Patrick gets local press for his Green Arrow work
"In September, DC is renumbering all their titles at once and they're revamping everything," Patrick explained. "I got the last three issues of 'Green Arrow' – 13, 14 and 15 – before the revamp and there were a lot of changes overall to the company, so I came in and wrote those three issues."
CampaignWatch: Terry Bartley calls on DC Comics to let Bryan Q Miller write a Brave And The Bold series starring ex-Batgirl Stephanie Brown.
Although I've come to accept that Stephanie Brown will not have a book in the relaunched titles, I've not accepted that I won't have a book written by Bryan Q. Miller to read regularly. I've come to love Stephanie Brown because of his writing. I've never stopped loving comics, but Bryan Q. Miller reminded me just how much fun they can be. I've come up with a solution.
GenderWatch: Women In Comics, stats for DC and Marvel for the first week in June.
On June 1, 2011, DC put out 19 new comics featuring 164 credited creators, 146 male and 16 female.
On June 1, 2011, Marvel released 20 new books with 160 credited creators, 144 men and 16 women.
11% and 10% respectively.
OtherTweetWatch: "…JMS already gets half of my royalties for Supes…" – Chris Roberson
Spider-Watch: ITV News seem to think that the death of Ultimate Spider-Man means the end of the movies.
This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror 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.
The official word from Marvel Studios is that their team will sit out the Hollywood previews in the 6,000-seat hall, where fans, bloggers and journalists from around the world come to see filmmakers and stars introduce and promote their upcoming spectacle movies.
The story behind my brief Hollywood moment and how I missed it.
While I'm best known as a letterer, back in the early 1980s I tried other comics jobs, while I was on staff at DC, including writing. After selling a few short mystery/horror stories for DC anthologies like HOUSE OF MYSTERY, I was asked by then GREEN LANTERN editor Ernie Colón to write some short backup stories for that feature, in a series known as "Tales of the Green Lantern Corps."
Colleen Doran to Teach Two-Day Comics Masterclass in Australia | A Distant Soil by Colleen Doran
Sponsored by the Australian Society of Authors, Books Kinokuniya of Sydney, and the CAL Cultural Fund, this intensive course in the creation and business of comics promises to be an exciting opportunity for established and aspiring creators.
Bud Plant Retires & Sells Business
After 41 years in comics as one of the initial Direct Market distributors and stalwart mail-order companies, Bud Plant has apparently announced his retirement in a letter to his mailing list. Plant at one time operated the largest chain of comic stores in the US, and the industry's third-largest distributor, both of which he sold in 1988. The sale of his distribution company to Diamond vaulted that company to the forefront of the US comics business. The range of Plant's taste, rooted in classic comics illustration standards but also respectfu
Alex Tse Takes The Crow | Superhero Hype
Relativity Media's President of Worldwide Production, Tucker Tooley, and Edward R. Pressman, producer behind the cult-classic "The Crow" franchise, announced today they have attached Alex Tse (Watchmen) to write their reinvention of The Crow, the 1994 critically film based on the comic book series and comic strip by James O'Barr.
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