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Whatever it takes. April 26th.
Author: Glenn Hauman
ComicMix beats Dr. Seuss; federal court has found fair use
Summary judgment at last we’ve received,
And our victory has been finally achieved.
The judge ruled at last that our book is fair use
And so we’re allowed to mash-up Trek and Seuss.
We don’t want to brag. And we will not gloat.
Allow us instead, to gratefully promote—
We thank the lawyer who brought sound defeat
To DLA Piper— we think Dan Booth’s sweet!
Michael Licari helped us out as well,
And Ken White lit his signal, which really was swell.
We thank all our backers who gave us their aid,
Which helped us to battle our legal crusade.
You all gave support as the motions dragged on,
Without you it’s impossible to have boldly gone.
‘Captain Saru’ Comic – IDW’s 2019 ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Annual
Tomorrow IDW releases their second Star Trek: Discovery annual. This year’s Discovery annual focuses on the character of Saru and takes place after the events of the first season but before the arrival of the USS Enterprise. Like all Discovery comics, it was written by comics veteran Mike Johnson and Star Trek: Discovery writer Kirsten Beyer, with art by Angel Hernandez.
You can see a 5 page preview at trekmovie.com.
Gahan Wilson needs your help immediately
For years, people have looked at Gahan Wilson’s cartoons in Playboy and The New Yorker and said he was demented. Sadly, it’s now all too true—Gahan is suffering from severe dementia. His wife of 53 years passed away this weekend, and as a result, the memory care facility he had been living in wants to move him out immediately. His stepson Paul writes:
Gahan and my mother had been residing in an assisted living facility in Arizona. With my mother’s passing, the facility is about to discharge him. We must find him a memory care facility immediately… She was his rock. His guide through the world. While we all helped with his care, it was my mother who grounded him. He is currently distraught and out of sorts with the world.
Paul Winters
Paul’s set up a GoFundMe to cover the costs. Help if you can.
Originally at www.gofundme.com
One last chance to see ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ on the Big Screen!
Did you miss Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in the theaters? Did you miss it in IMAX? Don’t worry! Co-director Rodney Rothman tweeted:
Well? What are you waiting for? Save me a seat!
Originally at sciencefiction.com
Matt Bomer talks about playing a gay superhero in ‘Doom Patrol’
Matt Bomer talks about playing Larry Trainor, a.k.a. Negative Man, in the new DC Universe series Doom Patrol and how it differs from voicing (and nearly playing in real life) Superman.
People always say, ‘What about Superman,’ they bring that up constantly, and I think this character is just as, if not more, interesting… I’d never really seen a gay male superhero and what I love most about the character is that even though it’s a huge struggle internally for him, it’s not the sole thing that defines who he is, he’s such a multifaceted character, if it was just one stereotypical aspect of him I would have had reservations about it.
Matt Bomer
In the show as in the comics, Larry is a former ace pilot before an accident left him terribly scarred and with super powers; in the show, they’ve added a backstory of being a closeted homosexual with a lover on the airbase and a wife and kids back at home.
Originally at www.yahoo.com
TCM showing “Skippy” tomorrow night
Turner Classic Movies (United States feed) has scheduled the 1931 movie Skippy for this Wednesday, February 27th, at 10:15 pm. The movie is based on Percy Crosby’s comic strip Skippy, one of the comics that Charles Schulz had in mind when making Peanuts. Joseph Nebus tells you exactly why it’s so important to comics history:
Crosby supposed that kids had feelings and desires and interests that they took seriously, and that good stories would come from taking them seriously. Every comic strip that follows the child’s point of view owes something to it. It’s not only influential, though. It’s good. I mean, a lot of early comic strips are good, but you have to work a bit to understand them. Like, I enjoy George Herriman’s Krazy Kat, but if take any given day’s strip and ask me what the joke is I’ll often be in trouble. Not Skippy, though. Crosby’s sensibility is close enough to the modern one. There are exceptions, but you can look at the comic and understand what’s supposed to be funny. Clean up the dialogue and redraw it for modern comic strip art sizes and you could run it on a modern newspaper page.
Originally at nebushumor.wordpress.com
St. Mark’s Comics (1983-2019) gets a NY Times sendoff
Damon Winter writes in the New York Times about the closing of the legendary St. Mark’s Comics in the East Village.
On Sunday, after 36 years in business, the store finally closed for good. I’d been buying comic books there since it opened, when I was 7 years old, but I had never known Mitch’s last name. To me and my younger brother, Jack, the guy in the store wearing glasses was always just Mitch. We didn’t talk much. Most of the time I knew what I wanted and where to find it. I remember when my mother first told me there was a store that sold nothing but comic books: It was a fantastical concept, unheard-of, dreamlike. I pictured an enormous, hushed, dim place, where comic books lay in rows of cubbyholes, like a candlelit library. St. Mark’s Comics wasn’t like that, but with its characteristic attributes of clutter and classic rock radio it was still a funky little temple of reverence.
Hail and farewell to yet another shop of my youth.
Originally at www.nytimes.com
DC Ending Walmart Exclusivity for ‘100-Page Giant’ Comics
The DC 100-Page Giants have turned out to be very popular, and DC will be expanding the program, adding new titles and ending their exclusivity at WalMart. Dan DiDio says:
For those fans of the DC Giants at Walmart, have to clear up some misinformation making the rounds. Just want to let you know these books are doing well, so well that we are looking to expand the number of original pages in each book and include distribution to the direct market. Look for these and new titles later this year. The promise is to keep it one of the best values and reading experiences in the market.
Dan DiDio
Each 100-Page Giant to date has included 12-pages of original material alongside reprints of three full-length issues of recent comic book issues, with creators involved including some of DC’s biggest names including Tom King and Brian Michael Bendis.
