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Wednesday Runaround – The Not-So-Mighty CCO

Published Wed, 17 Nov 2010 03:52:53 -0600

Last updated Wed, 17 Nov 2010 04:05:32 -0600

QuesadaWatch: Is Joe unable to prevent the cancellation of his favourite Marvel titles? He tweets;

Sorry about the TMA cancellation folks. For the record, I don't make those decisions. That said, it's a great and maybe back again someday.

BoobWatch: Politics Daily celebrates a Spider-Girl without D cups.

Maybe Spider-Girl creators took note of these suggestions. She appears tough and not incredibly buxom or curvy in her costume, as some super heroines are drawn to attract the eye of male readers. Instead, she's lithe, reminiscent of Diana Rigg's Emma Peel from "The Avengers," the 1960s British television show, as she swings through the city searching for trouble and the bad guys – or girls.

ToolWatch: Is Bar Karma the ultimate pitching tool?

The essence of the online community will be the StoryMaker engine. We'll be soliciting the challenge to them of posting a synopsis of the stories. Look at the bible, look at the production parameters and give us a synopsis of a story. From there the producers will go into that pool and look at the right stories and put them into the StoryMaker engine, in which people will then have the opportunity to then, essentially, create an online graphic novel.

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.

budgie's squawks – Happy Birthday, Neil…

It was Neil Gaiman's fiftieth birthday last Thursday. Now I've known Neil for some years, and at first I couldn't think what to get him as a birthday present, but seeing as he's encouraged me and encouraged me and… well, nagged me on occasion, frankly… to write more, despite having just finished this year's fast fiction challenge, I wrote him a story. I hadn't intended to put it up here, but Neil's said it's ok, so…

Humanoids Returns to the U.S. Graphic Novel Market

The new Humanoids office is the latest effort to establish the famous French science-fiction-oriented comics publisher, Les Humanoides Associes, in the U.S. Best known for publishing such acclaimed Euro-comics stars as Moebius, Alexandro Jodorowsky and Enki Bilal, Humanoids was first launched in the U.S. in 1998 by Humanoides publisher Fabrice Giger. But the house has also had short-lived co-ventures with DC Comics (2003) and Devils Due (2008).

Paul Levitz Puts 75 Years of DC Comics In One Huge Book

The most important changes are that when I started writing it was a discrete stage in a writer's career—either before or after you wrote other forms or media. Now you can simultaneously work on comics and other types of writing. And the financial opportunity for writers in comics has gotten much better.

From the Editor's Desk: Mark Doyle

Brazilian artist Mateus Santolouco is taking the reins from AMERICAN VAMPIRE series artist Rafael Albuquerque for a two-part story beginning with issue 10 (in stores this December).

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