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Thursday Runaround – These Gauls Are Crazy

Published Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:39:30 -0500

Last updated Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:24:52 -0500

CGCParodyWatch:
ScheduleWatch: Comics Alliance talks to Nate Simpson about Nonplayer

CA: How long did it take you to finish the first issue?

NS: I'll rip the band-aid off as quickly as possible here: it took about a year. Now, that's including a bunch of breaks for other stuff, and doesn't take into account a very steep learning curve…

CA: When will the second issue come out?

NS: I'm putting in crazy hours on the book, but it'll still be a few months before the next issue hits the stands. I'm aware that this will miff some retailers and fans, and I'm doing everything I can to streamline my drawing process without sacrificing quality. Image and I have gone out of our way not to solicit until we know the next issue is ready — we don't want to set up any expectations that I can't meet.

PaymentWatch: Google confirms In App purchasing models for Android application, such as ComiXology…

ShopWatch: Outer Limits, the Tennessee comic shop that burnt down back in January, will reopen in a new location on April 2nd.

ShopWatch2: Chapel Hill Comics gets profiled by local press.

"When you go to the store, you are actually in the presence of other people who are buying comics, looking at comics, talking about comics and thinking about comics," he said. "That's where I think the store has a real edge over the online experience, and I think Andy understands that, because he keeps arranging for these signings and other kinds of events that bring people out."

JapanWatch: Kat Rocha & Josh Finney (Titanium Rain) and Patrick McEvoy (Starkweather: Immortal) have a new graphic novel they are working on called World War Kaiju, and will be selling a creature card at WonderCon with all proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders, serving Japan.

Stop by booths SP72 and SP53 to donate.

JapanWatch2: Frazer Irving's Kultus cover is being auctioned by Genre For Japan

SpoilWatch: DC Comics spoils the ending of Action Comics #899…

MovieWatch: Stu Kreisman has a solution for movie industry woes. "Why not take some of that development money they're throwing at Marvel Comics and invest in some of the quality scripts that are floating around. Writers are still writing great original scripts, but the studios aren't buying."

Talking OfWhichWatch: Heidi McDonald looks at the dropped Disney option on Radical's Oblivion.

FamilyWatch: The family of Albert Uderzo begins to resemble that of Frank Frazetta's.

His only child, Sylvie Uderzo, 54, has started a legal action to have her parents declared mentally incapable of running their affairs. In the latest twist in a long family quarrel, she accused their advisers yesterday of "abusing" her father and mother's "weakness" and "pillaging" and "destroying an entire family".

Mr Uderzo responded by accusing his daughter and her husband of "legal harassment". In a statement issued by his lawyers, he accused them of "failing to accept" his decision to remove them from senior positions in his publishing company in 2007. "We are deeply saddened that our only daughter should display her ingratitude to her parents so publicly," he said.

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