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11/20/09
I've never heard of any of them. What are these individuals to be celebrated for? Perhaps it is a function of aging but famous people aren't as famous as they used to be. Mind you, these days you can become famous for pretty much nothing, especially if you accompany your uselessness with a sex tape. I suppose now I'll have to Google these people to find out what bitching rad reality show they were voted off of.
11/20/09
(On the other side of this, if the celebrities were truly serious about their titles being judged on the strength of the material, they could resort to the tried and true method of using a pseudonym.)
This argument is analogous to the movie industry. Once upon a time, there was no such thing as independent film. At least, not in the way that there is today. Why should it apply to comics? Sure there are the big two, as well as a few growing indie companies out there. But if someone thinks their art and their story measure up, they should get a fair shake, celebrity or not.
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I am mildly interested in the Rashida Jones book though.
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Example. J. Love Hewitt's book is about to drop too, and all she had to do was bat those... eyes... at her comic-guy. The thing gets automatic approval no question.
If you see LA/Hollywood Craigslist Creative postings, you can see that comics are the new script pitch.
Definitely not for the love of the medium. True comic fans like Kevin Grevioux, Nic Cage, and the late David Carradine aside, publishers get stars and dollars in their eyes just as quick as any studio. And anybody, actor or shmoe, would love the words "published author" behind their name... picture-books like comics or children's books provide that easier than 1,000-page novels.
11/19/09
This guy is kinda good at the drawing, some of you may well dig it.
Edit: I am in no way affiliated with this , other than that I wish I painted like him..
[transientman.com]
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And the creatures are just odd...
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And yes, it definitely does.
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Umbrella Academy is a brillant book. If you haven't read it pick up either trade. I also liked the only issue of OTC I found at my comic book store.
11/19/09
If you are famous and you wish to "break into" say, comics, then submit your story under an assumed name. Let that work be judged for it's merit. Not because you starred in a movie or wrote a hit song.
That said, I liked Umbrella Academy - never listened to My Chemical Romance though.
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I also never knew of John Lithgow before 3rd Rock, and is surprised to learn his forte is playing dangerous mentally-unstable characters.
And Tyrese was in both Transformers movies, so he's already pretty famous.
11/20/09
#calendar
11/20/09
#speakup
04/15/09
Sounds horrible to me.
04/15/09
If he's going for the same kind of dark, moody, and pessimistic veneer, I'm not. Regardless of its (many) flaws, Trek always aspired to have a positive and inspiring outlook, even in the darkest of circumstances.
When a leader is rescued from the enemy in Trek, he aims to recover from his trauma and regain normalcy; in Battlestar, he dons an eyepatch and sinks to the bottom of a bottle.
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I think though that it is quite a stretch calling her 'black'. She is 1/4 Afro-Cuban, 1/4 Puerto Rican, 1/4 Native American, 1/4 Irish.
Has anyone else noticed that all the most beautiful people tend to be racial hybrids?
04/15/09
I think he was referring to Angela Basset when he was talking of a Black female captain.
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