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More financial difficulties
In his interview linked below, Bob Layton mentioned that Future Entertainment has suffered from white collar crime. Now here’s another story about Manga publisher Studio Ironcat also having financial difficulties in part from embezzling. Financial problems have been much in the comic book news of late. CrossGen, Future, Ironcat… and rumors that Image is not…
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Nick Cardy is 83 today
It’s Nick Cardy’s birthday today. He is 83 and still going strong.
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Sales for September
The September 2003 sales figures are out and Newsarama has its own analysis of what they mean. Now, JLA/Avengers sold extremely well, but this is credited as a strong showing for Marvel. I know from the business end of things Marvel released the book, but I take issue with this being considered as weighing only…
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Interesting
Marv Wolfman, whilte talking about editors and the leeway writers have in dealing with them, makes this comment: …when you’re not the editor, and if you’re not Alan Moore or Frank Miller or a handful of others, you have to do what the editor wants, even if you were the creator and part of the…
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More on breaking in as a writer
Marv Wolfman’s guest writer, Lee Nordling (who is probably going to see much of the credit for this article go to Wolfman) has a new series of articles on how to sell your pitch. When our own John Wells substituted for Bob Rozakis in his Answer Man column it was similarly poorly labeled, although at…
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Remember to turn off your headlights
Every now and then, we like to just point out cool comic book web sites. so check out these Classic Good Girl and Romance Covers
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How to break in as a writer
Yeah, that’s right. I’m linking to a Steven Grant column. Why not? This one is really good and filled with helpful advice. What’s more, it turns out the best way to break in is exactly what we’ve done with Job Wanted: we took some hot artists and put out a book hoping to make a…
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Fan Fiction Sickos!
Fans Take TV to the Web Are fan fiction writers just desperate, obsessed couch potatoes who can’t wait for the new TV seasons to begin, or are they lonely, pathetic sickos writing romantic fantasies about TV shows? That seems to be the scope of the fans in this news article. Oh well, maybe Fanzing will…
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A real life superher – well, guy dressed in costume!
Angle-Grinder Man cuts the clamps off of “innocent” citizens’ parked cars. Superhero? Supervillain? Trouble-maker in a goofy costume? You decide.
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A real life superher – well, guy dressed in costume!
Angle-Grinder Man cuts the clamps off of “innocent” citizens’ parked cars. Superhero? Supervillain? Trouble-maker in a goofy costume? You decide.