{"id":143,"date":"2007-04-02T14:19:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T19:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2007\/04\/02\/just-catching-up-with-a-few-things\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T14:19:59","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T19:19:59","slug":"just-catching-up-with-a-few-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Just catching up with a few things…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Kampung\"1. Tom Spurgeon posted his “50 Best Comics of 2006<\/a><\/strong>” before I did, just like last year, and just like last year, I wanna get up off my ass and actually get mine done (it’s currently in spreadsheet format). His top 10 comics are probably different than my own, though I think his appreciation of Kampung Boy<\/em> in awarding it the top spot is good, and makes a lot of sense. As I said in my review<\/a><\/strong> (Nov 12 entry) of the book:<\/p>\n

“Lat is Malaysia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Will Eisner, a ground-breaking graphic novelist whose deeply personal stories about society, family, and religion, speak to us all.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

2. Do you people care about Video Game stuff? I do, but I don’t want to assume too much. Still, the Grand Theft Auto<\/em> series had a serious impact on my personal life, and it’s done much to popularise crime-based narratives in the past few years in comics, so I figure the news of the new Grand Theft Auto 4 Trailer<\/a><\/strong> breaking late last week is of interest. It’s set in “New York” this time out, and the NY media are already over it with angry folks at City Hall pitching 3 kinds of fits. Sounds to me like the game is gonna be a hit!<\/p>\n

3. I don’t like Project: Rooftop<\/a><\/strong>. There, I said it. I’m sick of seeing talented creators feed their time, creativity, and intellectual property into revitalising trademarked characters, and for free<\/strong>, no less. I understand the memes that this site sprang out of, out of the cultural response to and reclamation of popular culture, and I still think it’s a little misguided and unfortunate (it’s a short step from that to HAL’S EMERALD ATTACK TEAM) but at least memes aren’t institutionalised <\/em>like this. I wasn’t going to go and strap myself to a target like this, but this morning Warren Ellis started up a similar thread on The Engine, inviting participants there to redesign Witchblade as an artistic exercise, and then pointing out that the Editor of Witchblade is on the forum, and it just gave me a chill. How fortunate<\/em> that all of you artists get to be cheap research and design for trademark holders. How fun.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you’re a smart and talented artist, first and foremost do whatever the hell you like. But if you’re here reading this and you give a shit about what I have to say, then please invest your creativity and skill into your own work, which you own<\/em>.<\/p>\n

– Christopher, Killjoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Tom Spurgeon posted his “50 Best Comics of 2006” before I did, just like last year, and just like last year, I wanna get up off my ass and actually get mine done (it’s currently in spreadsheet format). His top 10 comics are probably different than my own, though I think his appreciation of … <\/p>\n

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