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Mike Gold: The Editor Babbles

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  • February 11, 2007

Mike GoldWelcome to ComicMix — well, phase one of ComicMix.

This is the part where I’m supposed to explain who and what we are. In order to do so, I’m going to have to do something I rarely do and generally avoid: I’m going to speak seriously.

I’d like to say "welcome to the 21st Century," but I’m seven years late and not quite that pretentious. So I’ll get down to the details. Phase one of ComicMix is a community based around news, information, opinion and blogging, covering the entire range of the comic art medium and those elements in the broader media that we all tend to enjoy. We add this because, contrary to old-time fan thinking, we do not live in a vacuum.

We post the news continuously, we post our columns daily, we post our information and background stuff incessantly, we post our all-new podcasts thrice-weekly (starting Tuesday, February 13th; as they used to say in Pogo, "Friday the 13th falls on a Tuesday this month"), and we run our blogs continuously and irrepressibly.

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Bear no longer with us

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  • February 11, 2007

Here’s part of what happened: there was a security hole from one of our vendor’s products that exposed a lot of private company data that would only have gotten worse after launching. So rather than put all that at risk, we waited until we could completely fix the problem. Now that we’re safe and secure, we’re happy to say hi.

Special thanks to Steve Horton for pointing out the initial problem. Take a look at his strip, Grounded Angel.

On coming a long way

On coming a long way

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  • February 11, 2007

Cheryl Lynn decides to commemorate Black History Month by making "a list of all of the fabulous black women writers, artists and editors I know of who are kicking ass and taking names at Marvel, MAX, DC, MINX, CMX, Vertigo, Wildstorm, Image, Dark Horse, Oni Press, Fantagraphics, First Second, Avatar, SLG, Devil’s Due, Drawn & Quarterly, Tokyopop, VIZ and Del Rey."

The entire list is two names.

Can anyone else add to it? I’m out of practice since moving on from my Women Doing Comics list maintenance, but dang, there have to be more than two black women working for or at these companies.

Stardust reappears

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  • February 9, 2007

Catch it whilst you can! Neil Gaiman reports that the more-or-less authorized Stardust movie website is back up. Stardust, of course, ties into Stardust the graphic novel by Neil and artist Charles Vess. Neil has also announced that Paramount has moved up the official release date of the Stardust movie to August 10 of this year. Considering the San Diego Comic-Con International is on July 26-29, I should think a debut showing there isn’t entirely out of the question.

And speaking of works by Neil, IESB’s Robert Sanchez asked director Joel Schumacher yesterday which comic book character he’d most love to tackle. "The response – Neil Gaiman’s Sandman!"

The Return of Nexus

The Return of Nexus

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  • February 9, 2007

Cosmic avenger Nexus returns in July in his most intense story ever. After a ten year hiatus creators Mike Baron and Steve Rude have forged a Nexus that will take its place among the greatest comic book stories ever told. "Space Opera" unfolds on a galactic scale: a tale of life, love, hate, death, war, peace, betrayal, resurrection and the nature of faith. The first issue of "Space Opera" sees the birth of Horatio’s and Sundra’s child and the return of old enemies.

"Learning that Nexus is coming back is like hearing you’re going home again after years in the wilderness." — Neil Gaiman. Space Opera will be self-published.

Baby’s First Mythos

Baby’s First Mythos

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  • February 9, 2007

C.J. Henderson (Batman: Joker’s Apprentice) has come out with an exceptionally twisted book called Baby’s First Mythos. With its cardboard cover and binding, it feels like my old Super Grover kids book (oh, like you didn’t have one) but it reads like a children’s primer to H.P. Lovecraft. Think Edward Gorey meets Cthulhu.

The price is $9.99, not counting years of therapy bills for the young recipients — unless, of course, they are the last sane ones left when the Old Ones come to devour us…

Colleen Doran’s Nightmare

Colleen Doran’s Nightmare

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  • February 9, 2007

Colleen Doran’s newest project has been revealed – and Heidi MacDonald is editing it! The Nightmare Factory is a horror anthology put out by FoxAtomic featuring adaptations of three of horror author Thomas Ligotti’s short stories by writers Stuart Moore and Joe Harris and art by Colleen, Ben Templesmith, Michael Gaydos and a cover by Ashley Wood.

Considering the acclaim with which the Stephen King Dark Tower adaptation was met, there’s a good chance this antho will garner similar successes, particularly around Hallowe’en time (the in-store month is October).

Black comics panel leads into NYCC

Black comics panel leads into NYCC

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  • February 9, 2007

If you’re looking for things to do in the week leading up to the NY Comic Convention, Keith Knight wants to remind readers that the Black Comics panel in Harlem is still scheduled for Wednesday, February 21, but will now be held at the Jerome L. Greene Hall, Room 106 (The Law School) on 435 West 116th Street rather than the Studio Museum at 144 West 125th Street due to the anticipated attendance.

But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t still swing by the Studio Museum to see their nifty Africa Comics exhibition going on through March 18! After all, it’s billed as "the first-ever exhibition in the United States dedicated exclusively to comic art from across the African continent," so it’s well worth checking out!

UVC Launches for U, the Viewer

UVC Launches for U, the Viewer

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  • February 9, 2007

Rich Watson has announced the launch of a new comics magazine called UVC, which he describes as "Wizard meets Vibe." Rich and co-editor Ron will be at the NY Comic-Con handing out free copies of the first bimonthly issue, which will feature articles, news, reviews, interviews and so forth about the comics world and people of color.

Rich asks people wishing to work on this magazine to contact him, and assures readers the magazine will be distributed locally at first then going national, and an accompanying website is in the works.

Jeff Smith takes Captain Marvel fun seriously

Jeff Smith takes Captain Marvel fun seriously

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  • February 9, 2007

Over at his blog, Jeff Smith advises Captain Marvel/Shazam fans to "visit DC Comic’s website to find the Monster Society Secret Decoder. On Friday, February 9th, I’ll hide a Monster Egg in my blog and you’ll need the decoder to find it… You will also need to know the code for a couple of lines in the comic book."

He further challenges "every member of the comics blogosphere, blog writers and readers, to do this: if you liked Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil, pick up one extra copy this week or next and give it to a kid you know who likes Harry Potter, Eregon, A Series of Unfortunate Events, manga or just plain loves reading. Promise them that if they like it, you’ll buy them every issue. And ask them to read it and tell you what they think. Do they want to read the next issue? And if they do, you have gotten them interested in comics. And, although it’s a baby step to a massive world, superhero comics."

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