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ComicMix Quick Picks – Mark Waid; DC softball team

ComicMix Quick Picks – Mark Waid; DC softball team

A case of synchronicity in comics stories:

First, a quote from Mark Waid’s monster interview on AintItCoolNews:

BM: The Million Dollar Question: How did Mark Waid make his break into comics?

MW:The Million Word Answer: Writer Devin Grayson had a great quote. Shesaid, “Breaking into comics is like breaking into a high-tech militarycompound. The first thing they do after discovering you got in is goseal up your entrance so no one can ever break in that way again.”

Then over at Blog@Newsarama, they talk about the 2009 DC Bullets softball season.

Yep… that’s (part of) how I got in.

I’m just amazed– spring training? For the DC Comics team? Since when?

ComicMix Quick Picks – April 16, 2009

ComicMix Quick Picks – April 16, 2009

Today’s list of quick comic-related items that have piled up here…

  • After three decades, Starlog shifts to the Web exclusively. That link points to ComicMix’s Bob Greenberger, who put in his time there and recalls what it was like.
     
  • How does Kevin Smith get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, and pornography. Or something like that.
     
  • Our friends at FEARnet reported strong viewing numbers for Q1, up 72% over the same period in 2008 (48.5 million vs. 28.2 million). FEARnet views were also up for 13% from February 2009 (17.3 million vs. 15.2 million). Friday the 13th led the FEARnet movie pack with 1.9 million views, followed by The Descent with 1.6 million views and Already Dead with 1.5 million views.
     
  • Rorschach’s LiveJournal. Never compromise or use LOL.
     
  • io9 – Why Science Fiction Still Doesn’t Get Into The Inner Circle


  • SFWA Website Comes To Life, Starts Attacking Web Browsers: This story just makes me shake my head. You’d like to think that SF people are the most tech-savvy folks on the planet, and they so often aren’t.
     
  • "My wife’s consoling comment the other day — that I had lost all my credit cards and cash, but it could have been the Kindle…"
     
  • What the new Sorcerer Supreme needs to know.
     
  • And finally, I’m saddened to report on the passing of Judith Krug. A librarian by training, Judith became the director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom and a champion for the First Amendment whether it was confronting efforts to ban books in pubic libraries (including public school libraries), creating Banned Books Week, challenging efforts to force libraries to place clumsy, ineffective filters on public computers with internet access or critiquing the intrusive provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, especially as those provisions affected library patrons. I met her when we were co-plaintiffs in ACLU v. Reno, and she was classy as hell.

Any more? Consider this an open thread.

ComicMix Quick Picks – April 15, 2009

The Simpsons™ Announcing America's Newest Stamps

Boy, it’s been taxing today. Here’s a list of quick comic-related items that have piled up here…

Any more? COnsider this an open thread.

ComicMix Quick Picks – April 9, 2009

ComicMix Quick Picks – April 9, 2009

A round-up of items from the last few days…

  • Hugh Jackman heartbroken over ‘Wolverine’ leak: Jackman said, "Obviously people are seeing an unfinished film. It’s like a Ferrari without a paint job." Jackman is on a world tour to promote the movie, making his first stop at Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbor, where much of the film was shot. He arrived at the venue by helicopter before swooping to the ground on a zipline.
     
  • Today is the golden anniversary of the Magnificent Mercury Seven.
     
  • Today is also the first day of Passover, so here’s a list of Jewish Superheroes, Villains, and other Comic Book Characters. How they missed Yoda, I’ll never know.
     
  • At last. The State will be coming to DVD July 14th. Get your $240 worth of pudding ready. Buy it and make Mo Willems cry.
     
  • And finally, Dave Arneson, who introduced Gary Gygax to the possibility of roleplaying gaming, succumbed to cancer on April 7th, at the age of 61. Bruce Baugh has an appreciation of his life and times.

Anything else? Consider this an open thread.

ComicMix Quick Picks – April 6, 2009

ComicMix Quick Picks – April 6, 2009

A round-up of items from the last few days…

Anything else? Consider this an open thread.

ComicMix Quick Picks – what day is it? March 32nd?

What it’s been like here recently…

cartoon from www.weblogcartoons.com

Just way too much stuff to go through, and we’ve been very busy with the print announcement and rushing to get things ready for the Previews catalog, and I have dozens of tabs open to blog about and consolidate. Wheeee!

So this will be more of a high-speed link dump from the last few days. Onward:

  • The cast and crew of Battlestar Galactica at the United Nations – "We are all Cylons. We are all Colonials." Alex Epstein’s take on the last episode of BSG: Seriously? That’s What You Got? My favorite comment on the finale, from Sabrina: "There can be no more spoilers for BSG, because they spoiled it themselves."
     
  • Don’t forget tonight’s Family Guy/Star Trek The Next Generation crossover.
     
  • Non-comics link of the day: John Mellencamp on The State of the Music Business:
    Over the last few years, we have all witnessed the decline of the music business, highlighted by finger-pointing and blame directed against record companies, artists, internet file sharing and any other theories for which a case could be made. We’ve read and heard about the "good old days" and how things used to be. People remember when music existed as an art that motivated social movements. Artists and their music flourished in back alleys, taverns and barns until, in some cases, a popular groundswell propelled it far and wide. These days, that possibility no longer seems to exist. After 35 years as an artist in the recording business, I feel somehow compelled, not inspired, to stand up for our fellow artists and tell that side of the story as I perceive it. Had the industry not been decimated by a lack of vision caused by corporate bean counters obsessed with the bottom line, musicians would have been able to stick with creating music rather than trying to market it as well.
    Hmm– maybe it is a comics link after all.

  • ‘The Phantom’ will be on SciFi or SyFy or whatever they’re calling it. Impress me: get Billy Zane to do cameos.
     
  • Speaking of SciFi’s name change: SciFi Founder Hates Syfy, Issac Asimov would have hated it, and yo9 for the win.


  • Dharma wants you… since the 70’s apparently.
     

Anything else? Consider this an open thread. (Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.)

ComicMix Quick Picks – March 24, 2009

ComicMix Quick Picks – March 24, 2009

Man, we are so behind… busy busy busy here. Some items from the past few days to tide you over:

  • The "comics on handhelds" panel at SXSW, covered by ComicMix contributor Chris Ullrich for one of the thirteen other blogs he writes for.

  • And speaking of ComicMix contributors past and present, Rick Marshall made it up to the Webcomics Weekend and covered it heavily.

  • Quote of the day, from John Rogers:
    There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

  • Take the above with a grain of salt– Rogers drinks. Heavily. And who can blame him?

  • Of course, if you want your own quote, you can try Quotes On Comics. This will probably save Dirk Deppey five minutes a day or so when he does ¡Journalista!

  • Papercutz is going to publish Geronimo Stilton graphic novels beginning in August.  The first graphic novel titles under the deal are The Discovery of America and The Secret of the Sphinx.  Scholastic Inc publishes the Geronimo Stilton book series in the US.

Anything else? Consider this an open thread.

ComicMix Quick Picks – March 18, 2009

ComicMix Quick Picks – March 18, 2009

Some items from the past few days:

  • Sad news: Natasha Richardson, scion of the famous Redgrave acting family and star of the film adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian The Handmaid’s Tale, has died from injuries suffered in a skiing accident. Our condolences go out to her husband Liam Neeson, their two boys, and the rest of their family.
     
  • David Prowse, the body of Darth Vader and the man who got Christopher Reeve bulked up to play Superman, is completing treatment for prostate cancer.
     
  • Family Guy has won its lawsuit against a music publisher that claimed that the allegedly anti-Semitic lyrics of “I Need a Jew” damaged the reputation of their song, “When You Wish Upon a Star” from the Disney film Pinocchio. The song and the episode in which it appears, “Once Upon a Weinstein,” have faced accusations of anti-Semitism before. Fox refused to show the episode when it was originally produced; audiences didn’t get to see it until 2003, when Cartoon Network broadcast it.
     
  • In other legal news, German book publishers are suing file sharing readers. Not ISPs… readers. German book publishers’ association leader Alexander Skipis said "his group intends to keep German courts busy with thousands of lawsuits. He also called P2P file sharing "organized crime" and lamented that politicians were ignoring the impact illegal downloads were having on book publishers."
     
  • And in case you missed it: Neil Gaiman on The Colbert Report.

Anything else? Consider this an open thread.

Amy Goldschlager is an editor at findingDulcinea, the Librarian of the Internet, and SweetSearch, the smarter search engine.

ComicMix Quick Picks – March 16, 2009

ComicMix Quick Picks – March 16, 2009

Today’s– okay, this past week’s– list of quick items:

Anything else? Consider this an open thread.

ComicMix Quick Picks – March 10, 2009

Today’s list of quick items:

  • The Future Now: Science Fiction Set in 2009. From io9. All you Freejack fans, raise your hands. Yes, you, Kathleen David.

  • If you’ve always wandered the streets of Greenwich Village trying to find Dr. Strange’s loft, wondered which subway stop to get off at to get to Yancy Street, or tried to spot the Baxter Building in the New York Skyline, check out The Marvel Comics Guide to New York City . As the cover says," Whether you’re a native New Yorker, a thrill-seeking tourist, or a curious armchair traveler, with this one-of-a-kind guide you can explore the city that never sleeps and the comics that live forever." You know you can trust it — the book’s even at the Museum of Modern Art bookstore.

  • If your taste in pop culture entertainment runs more towards Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, and/or other animated furry friends, The Animated Bestiary takes a scholarly look at how  anthropomorphic animals have been used in film and cartoons to reflect human characteristics and behavior. So, the next time you’re watching Looney Tunes you can tell people you’re doing Serious Academic Ruminations on the Role of Anthropomorphism in Pop Culture. And you can feel like you’re Wile E. Coyote — super genius.

  • Genuine 19th century Vampire Killing Kits.

  • In case you’ve forgotten ‘Total Recall’, it’s getting remade. (Ye gods, it’s been almost two decades…)

  • What do the cartoon character "Pucca," the serialized drama "Princess Hours" and Stephen Colbert’s nemesis "RAIIIIN!" have in common? They’re all products of pop culture from Korea. Fans in the U.S. have known about Japanese pop culture imports for a while now, but there’s also a whole world of great comics, pop music, and other cool stuff just across the water in the Land of Morning Calm — and we’re not just talking about Margaret Cho and that hot guy from "Lost."  For more, page through the book Pop Goes Korea.  And if this book whets your appetite for Korean tchotchkes,  try some of the stuff from the Destination Seoul line of products from the Museum of Modern Art (can you guess where I spent some time this afternoon?) In particular, the Hwa-To Card Game is a fun way to pass the time, and much, much cheaper than Magic: the Gathering (though, I warn you, no less addictive!)

  • And finally, a belated 75th birthday to Del Close. It’s okay, he’s late himself.

Anything else? Consider this an open thread.

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