COMICS LINKS: Gorey Tribbles
Comics Links
Shaenon Garrity imagines what Edward Gorey’s adaptation of “The Trouble With Tribbles” might have been like.
The Beat takes a look at DC’s sales in July.
Comicon interviews James Kochalka, whose new children’s book Squirrely Grey has just been published.
Comicon also talks to Scott Shaw! about the rebirth of Captain Carrot.
The Wall Street Journal reports on Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is trying to use manga’s popularity in the West to improve Japan’s image.
Ridiculopathy has the sarcastic version of the old how-to-create-a-webcomic story.
Comic Book Resources interviews what looks like every person connected with the new Marvel Comics Presents series.
CBR also interviews Joe Casey about his new series Pilot Season: Velocity.
Comics Reviews
AppScout reviews the preview chapter of a new graphic novel, Shooting War.
Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog covers this week’s comics, starting with Avengers: The Initiative #5.
Graeme McMillan of The Savage Critics learns that Gene Simmons’s Dominatrix #1 is just as bad as he thought it would be.
Awards
According to Charles Stross, his novel Glasshouse has won the 2006 Prometheus Award, given by the Libertarian Futurist Society to the best Libertarian SF novel of the year.
SF/Fantasy Links
Tobias Buckell runs down a current SFWA kerfuffle: one particular officer is a bit extreme on fighting copyright infringement, and has demanded the website Scribd take down a whole bunch of things are aren’t actually infringements. (And here’s the original report from Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing.)
One more Worldcon report today, from Pat Cadigan.
Robert J. Sawyer walks the Great Wall of China – and takes pictures.
Commonwealth of Fantasy, you can rest easy tonight. The SF Diplomat is taking his ball and going home.
Variety reports that Superman Returns was top movie winner at the Saturn Awards. These awards are presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films.
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