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Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes
Chicago Comic-Con
Conventions | The retailer-oriented news site ICv2.com provides a subdued assessment of last weekend’s Chicago Comic-Con, and how futures installments may fare against the April-debuting Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo. The site also considers whether Wizard Entertainment’s new use of “Comic-Con,” with a hyphen, might infringe upon Comic-Con International’s trademark.
“Whenever an entity comes along and brands itself in a way that confuses people, whether intentional or otherwise, I don’t think anybody enjoys that,” says Comic-Con International’s Dave Glanzer, speaking generally on the issue. “I don’t think it benefits us, I don’t think it benefits the attendees.”
Elsewhere, Todd Allen and Matthew J. Brady file their own reports from the convention. [Chicago Comic-Con]
Tank McNamara
Comic strips | The Washington Post has pulled this week’s Tank McNamara storyline after objecting to the satirical depiction of former Vice President Dick Cheney advising NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to “kill” troubled quarterback Michael Vick. The six strips will be replaced by syndicate-approved reruns. [Comic Riffs, The New York Times]
Digital comics | Kuwait-based publisher Teshkeel Media Group has made a deal with new-media company Keetaa to distribute The 99 mobile content throughout the People’s Republic of China. [press release]
Publishing | Tokyopop has announced 17 new manga for fall and winter. [About.com]
Education | Tom Maxwell looks at moves by Edinburgh Napier University and University of Dundee to offer courses in comics writing. [Times Online]
From "Panorama," by Fiffe
Creators | Christopher Irving profiles cartoonist Michel Fiffe: “I think the only thing that will save comics are the ideas and content, not the specific formats, not the specific brushes you used, not the revisionist update of old lame characters, not the screenwriters from Hollywood. Comics are thematically infinite, and exploiting that potential will save comics.” [NYC Graphic]
Creators | Damien G. Walter heaps praise upon Neil Gaiman: “Neil Gaiman has won over his audience one-by-one with stories in which readers find intense personal meaning. But that audience is now numbered in its millions because of Gaiman’s understanding of the primal role of myth in our lives, and our hunger for myths that suit our modern age. His stories stitch together a 21st-century mythology, woven from the legends of ancient Greece and the Norse pantheon, eastern European folktales and the British literary tradition of Milton and Shakespeare, to name just a few of his sources. Into this fabric are embroidered modern mythic figures for our age: Dream and his family of the Endless; the bespectacled boy wizard; and now the child raised by nightmares in a graveyard.” [Guardian]
- August 11, 2009 @ 07:37 AM by Kevin Melrose