Back in October, I mentioned a controversy over Manga publisher TokyoPop taking 100% of creator rights in contracts. Lea Hernandez reports that the head of TokyoPop’s parent, Seven Seas, rethought the matter and offered full creator rights. Publishers Weekly has more coverage.
[ via Andrew Ducker ] Grant Morrison’s writing All-Star Superman for DC. In an interview, he gave six rules for writing The Man of Steel. Superman is the star of the show Play Clark as a role with a goal Smash superman’s soul Remember why you love him Don’t forget the past Find your inner [...]
John Rogers on adapting for film: why screenwriters adapt, why Hollywood needs adaptations, don’t just do it for the money, on treating source, and advice to fans seeing their favorite novel on screen.
I get comments, on occasion, about this site’s onomatopoeic name. Now it has been used as onomatopoeia.
In the wake of a heated discussion about manga publisher TokyoPop, Lea Hernandez advises young artists to keep 100% of their rights in their works. ETA permalink to Lea’s column.
Those who don’t remember the past are doomed to watch it in syndication.
0.2 Reviewed Oct 9, 2005 by Bill Humphries product Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea 4/5 I just read Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang, a graphic memoir of the two months the French-Canadian animator spent in the North Korean capitol, supervising a team of animators at the Scientific and Educational Film Studio of Korea (when your production [...]
Lea’s started the third volume of her Texas Steampunk graphic novels: Galvan Petal is building an automaton friend who will understand her, and a robot to hide herself from the world. But will she be thwarted by Thomas Edison’s hunger for the perfect mechanical woman? I think Lea’s art is gorgeous, and she’s a great [...]
Lea has another comic on the Katrina disaster, this time on how the bloom’s come off Mayor Ray Nagin.
Lea Hernandez has an idea on how to get resources to the poor quicker during the next disaster.
My friend Lea, who I’ve mentioned here before, was heading down to the San Diego ComicCon and looking for ideas for commissions to do while watching her booth. I told her about Extreme and the “rival” XML schema languages. All credit to her for comic art goodness. I accept the blame for turning a program [...]
[ via Ned Batchelder ] Hey Badger, Moomin might get a kick out of this Flash-based animation tool.
Carmen Dog, Carol Emshwiller The book that inspired the Tiptree Award Camoflage, Joe Haldeman 2004 Tiptree winner Dread Empire’s Fall: The Praxis, Walter Jon Williams First half of a space opera Everything Bad is Good for You, Steven Johnson Instead of simpler, games and media have become more complex. Life, Gywneth Jones The life of [...]
John Scalizi, who I met at WisCon 29, has a wonderful first novel, Agent to the Stars, that caused me to lose mumble hours of productive work while I read it online. Time well spent, however. The novel’s coming out in print next month from Subterranian Press. And it has nifty cover art by Gabe [...]