The nice thing about the daily DORK comics–well other than how fortunate I am to be sharing this great work with all of you, seriously, thanks Evan–is that it serves as a visual reminder of how fucking lazy I’ve been about updating the blog. Aaaaaarrrrrggggh.
Ah well. In case you missed me and want to get a concentrated dose of me this afternoon, I’ll be on the radio.
Robin McConnell of the INKSTUDS podcast e-mailed me with an idea about doing a show based on retailing comics, and how small pressers and artists can work with retailers. It seemed like a neat idea and so I agreed! And it’s TONIGHT! Tune in to hear myself and Mr. Dustin Harbin of Heroes Aren’t Hard To Find / HeroesCon in North Carolina talk shop about retailing. I’m sure it’ll be more fun than it sounds. You can listen to us live starting at 5PM EST at http://www.citr.ca/, and the show will be archived later tonight at http://inkstuds.com/.
I have so much to write about too, but finding the time and inclination is a little tough right now. Here’s some of the stuff that’s been rattling around in my head, if you want discussion starters. Hopefully I’ll get to all of them shortly:
1. The graphic novel Stitches was nominated for a National Book Award. This is controversial because it was nominated in a children’s category, when it really should have been controversial because Stitches is a very bad graphic novel.
2. Kodansha Comics may be the single worst launch of a new company I’ve ever seen, right down to re-releasing the original censored version of Ghost In The Shell Dark Horse published 14 years ago, for 2 bucks more than Dark Horse charged AND on a crappier paper stock.
3. A friend of mine is going to Brussels next week and I’m incredibly jealous. I didn’t even know I wanted to go to Brussels until he told me about it. Look at this building, you can go in this building:
It is “The Atomium” and it is awesome. Picture stolen from http://equator.eftours.com/2009/06/focus-atomium.html. The Atomium website is here: http://www.atomium.be/Main.aspx?lang=en.
I have such a bug to travel right now. Air Canada’s got a seat sale right now, I can get to Japan for under a grand. :-/
– Chris
Kodansha: Ah, that must be what I have, then, since my copy of GITS1 was published by Dark Horse and is the same larger size as the Kodansha release I saw in the store today. I won’t ask what was censored, since it’s Shirow after all. 😉
Generally everything I’ve heard about Brussels, as a city, has been negative. Nice to see something positive. I mean, it can’t be as bad as all that, right?
The newer edition of the GITS book that DH published, the smaller one, had additional pages. Lesbian sex scene. 🙂
– Chris