USA Today has an AP article about special classes now being expanded/started in colleges for comics artwork.
I notice they also allude to one of the biggest problems facing comics today:
Even traditional superheroes gradually have shown a darker, more personal side appealing to older readers. Many of those series have been collected into more colorful book formats and marketed as graphic novels.
I just don’t like this, considering how race-baiting The Truth: Red, Black and White was to begin with. Ed Brubaker went and spoke with Newsarama about a Young Avengers miniseries he’s writing that’ll focus on Patriot, the grandson of a character who appeared in the abominable 2003 miniseries that tore down on Captain America’s origins and was filled with stereotypical artwork:
Each of the issues
The New York Sun (via Newsarama blog) writes about how DC botched it with Wonder Woman during the past year. They’re a paper far better than the NY Times, but even so, I’m still sad that they won’t go in deeper about what a monstrosity Amazons Attack was, for example, or how Dan DiDio has made a lot of people angry with his astounding editorial edictions. For starters, they say:
But the Heinberg
I looked at a synopsis for Flash #233, and I wonder if Mark Waid is succumbing to PC-ness, by injecting something like realism where it doesn’t belong:
The story is wrapped quickly, but then the JLA pose an intervention with Flash and Linda. They are concerned that they drag their kids into dangerous situations. It’s an interesting twist on today’s world telling people how to parent.
During the
The Columbia Missourian has an article about comic book writers living and working in the midwestern US. The thing is, it’s about Marvel contributors, but not ones that I’m particularly fond of, such as editor Axel Alonso. And then, there’s what one of the writers says about Matt Fraction:
“We’ve all sort of entered the business on our own terms,” Moore said. “I was doing (and still do)
I’ve noticed that DC, and to some extent, Marvel, have been pulling quite a few bait-and-switch tactics as a way of selling new titles. Here now is a list of whatever I can think of that’s got bait-and-switch connection written all over it, to consider:
Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day, 2003. Written by Judd Winick, who really is one of the most awful writers ever to be employed by a major
Every once in a while, I get a press release by e-mail, the latest being on a new publication by a former DC Comics staff member, Elizabeth (Eilis) Flynn, who’s written a new comic-related e-book called Sonika. I may as well publish the press release over here:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SUPER-HEROES MOVE TO E-BOOKS (BUT THE COSTUMES ARE STILL SKIN-TIGHT)
Former DC Scripter’s “Introducing Sonika” To
The CBC network talks about the red-colored Hulk storyline, written by Jeph Loeb, whom I’m beginning to realize is fairly overrated, and they say that:
Comic publishers often introduce major storyline twists to attract mainstream media interest. DC Comics killed off Superman in 1993, only to have him make his eventual return.Yes, but what they don’t make clear here is that most of these things
Radio Singapore International interviewed Kurt Busiek, who was in Singapore to attend the Writer’s Festival.
Having found this, it reminds me of an important question that could sure use an answer: what does Busiek think of Marvel for tearing down a considerable amount of work he did to help revitalize many of Marvel’s best superheroes, among other characters, when he was working for them during
A few weeks ago, Dan DiDio gave the following interview to Newsarama where he said in relation to Countdown:
With #26, we did a number of things. The biggest of course, was on the surface – we changed the title of the series. We’re six months out from Final Crisis, which is an important place to be. Six months out is roughly where we started the four miniseries that led into Infinite Crisis, so