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Pulpy

Alexander Burns — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 14:29:01 +0000

This site is pretty awesome. Who doesn’t love old pulp art?

I liked this one quite a bit. Reminds me of some of Jonathan Hickman’s work.

Spooctober

Alexander Burns — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 04:10:26 +0000

The Writer’s Ink crew had an excellent meeting the other night, and it was decided as a group goal that we’ll all be trying to write some 250 words a day during October. This is something we should be doing anyway, as a matter of policy, but I think various things have been conspiring to keep many of us from productivity this past year. We are hoping to get back at it!

I know I, for one, have not gotten nearly enough rejection letters this year.

It was perhaps inspired by this post, among other things.

We will be consulting these, should we need them.

Maybe I’ll try writing a novel a thousand words at a time.

Advisory!

Alexander Burns — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:12:53 +0000

I’ve got a post about superhero fiction over at the Flash Fiction Chronicle! You can read it! Comment!

Heliography!

Alexander Burns — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:21:53 +0000

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.

Shenanigans

Alexander Burns — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:09:30 +0000

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.”

Clack

Alexander Burns — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:04:06 +0000

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.

New feature!

Alexander Burns — Mon, 17 May 2010 05:05:00 +0000

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.

If you have Twitter, you can follow the feed directly here.