So my life has been all a tumble lately, apologies for the silence and lack of productivity. I just stopped by to point out this, an art show inspired by the works of China Mieville, which I thought was awesome.
I am particularly taken with the propaganda posters, which will likely soon take their place on my computer desktop.
For those unfamiliar with some of the goings on of the early comic book industry back in the first half of, er , last century, there was a period where a young DC comics, in its fervent attempts to protect a budding Superman, sued pretty much everyone else producing a superhero comic at the time. To their credit, most of the time they were likely right. (If you’ve never read Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, it covers a lot of this stuff, and is a great read.)
At any rate, I found this article over at The Comics Detective about one particular trial involving Will Eisner, one of the greats in the biz. The complete transcripts of Eisner’s testimony are available there. I’ve only had a chance to read the first few pages, but it’s fascinating stuff. My favorite line so far comes from the judge (who just seems really impatient and annoyed with the whole lawsuit): “I don’t know that a man in tights can be copyrighted.”
So I thought I’d just leave this here, in case, you know, you had four hundred bucks laying around that you wanted to spend on me.
As you can see to the right, I’ve added a new column, within which you can see daily nuggets of fiction. I’m not totally satisfied with it, as I’m using Twitter to create the feed, and from time to time the character limit is a beast to deal with. But it will do for the moment. I’ll be posting material from my daily hint fiction exercise I did last year and mixing in something new as often as possible.
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