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| Art: Becky Cloonan |
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| Art: Becky Cloonan |
Rumor of the Day: Are writer Brian Wood and artist Becky Cloonan the new creators of Conan’s comic book adventures for Dark Horse Comics?
Bleeding Cool seems to think so. Check out the article and artwork at http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/10/03/conan-by-brian-wood-and-becky-cloonan/Â and judge for yourself.
Is this rumor true? Place your bets.
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is currently in the middle of a massive fundraising drive, set in the middle of Banned Books Week. They’ve been auctioning off a lot of neat items, including professional development reviews with Tom Brevoort and Chris Burnham (also available for lunch) and a meet-and-greet for Saturday Night Live.
But there’s one item that leaves us scratching our heads:
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is auctioning off a “Get Out Of Bleeding Cool Free” card which will allow the winner the chance to remove a story that Bleeding Cool has published, or prevent one specifically from being published.
Also, in a twist, we will allow the winner to use it as a Get Into Bleeding Cool Free card, guaranteeing positive and promotional coverage for the project of your choice.
Either way, it’s a one time use, but will come with a CBLDF membership. The bidding starts at $500.
The CBLDF, until now a staunch anti-censorship organization, is auctioning off the ability to selectively censor a website?
This can’t be right. I find it very hard to believe the CBLDF would doing something so contrary to their stated goals. Nor can I believe that a journalist of Rich’s caliber is promoting that, under the right circumstances, he can be bought.
I look forward to hearing more about this.
In a case of the shoemaker’s children going barefoot, we didn’t mention anything beyond the teaser on Monday, but: ComicMix contributors Robert Greenberger, Glenn Hauman, and Aaron Rosenberg have joined with comic book writers Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, and Howard Weinstein to form Crazy 8 Press, while we saw numerous writeups from The Beat, Bleeding Cool, and io9.
However, we can advance the story a bit further: a second preview of the first book, The Camelot Papers by Peter David, has been added to the Crazy 8 Press Facebook page. Just go there and like the page, and you’ll get access to Chapters 2 and 3. (Chapter 1 is still available on the Crazy 8 Press website.
The Camelot Papers will officially go on sale on July 8, both to tie in with the “8” and the Shore Leave convention in Hunt Valley, MD, where all six founders will be in attendance– and doing a special comic related project together which we’ll tell you about when the time comes.
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