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“20th Century Fox has initiated a legal battle against Warner Bros. over the rights to develop, produce and distribute a film based on the graphic novel “Watchmen.” On Friday, the studio sued Warners, claiming it holds the exclusive copyrights and contract rights to “Watchmen.” Warners plans to release next year a big-screen version of the popular comic book written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. The cast includes Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino and Malin Akerman. It is the studio’s policy to not comment on pending litigation.
But Fox seeks to enjoin Warners from going forward with the project, saying in the lawsuit that it seeks to “restrain (Warner Bros. Pictures) from taking actions that violate Fox’s copyrights and which stand to forever impair Fox’s rights to control the distribution and development of this unique work.” Fox claims that between 1986 and 1990, it acquired all movie rights to the 12-issue DC Comics series and screenplays by Charles McKeown and Sam Hamm. In 1991, Fox assigned some rights via a quitclaim to Largo International with the understanding that the studio held exclusive rights to distribute the first motion picture based on “Watchmen,” according to the lawsuit.”
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
Stephen Ross Gerber was born in St. Louis on September 20, 1947. A longtime fan of comic books, he was involved in the ditto/mimeo days of fanzine publishing in the sixties, publishing one called Headline at age 14. He had a by-mail friendship with Roy Thomas, who was responsible for the most noteworthy fanzine of that era, Alter Ego. Years later when Roy was the editor at Marvel Comics, he rescued Steve from a crippling career writing advertising copy, bringing him into Marvel as a writer and assistant editor. Steve soon distinguished himself as one of the firm’s best writers, handling many of their major titles at one time or another but especially shining on The Defenders, Man-Thing, Omega the Unknown, Morbius the Living Vampire, a special publication about the rock group Kiss…and of course, Howard the Duck.
(via Trevor Blake).
I’ve recently become obsessed – more accurately, haunted – by the comics of Fletcher Hanks. His surreal, paranoid, racist, and xenophobic comics have literally been giving me nightmares. Even R. Crumb says “Fletcher Hanks was a twisted dude.”
After reading several comics online, I bought the collection I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets, mostly for the comic the editor, Paul Karasik, drew about his search for biographic information about Hanks. Little is known about his personal life other than that he was good looking, athletic, an alcoholic, and an abusive parent and father. His son didn’t even know he drew comic books. After he abandoned his family, nothing is known about him except that he froze to death on a New York City park bench in 1970, around the age of 90.
I don’t know Hanks was mentally ill, but I’m reminded of Louis Wain and Daniel Johnston when reading his stuff.
Monster Brains has links to several Fletcher Hanks comics online.
Fantnomah vs. the Giant Spiders is probably my favorite so far.
Official site for the collection.
(Thanks to Bill Whitcomb for turning me on to the guy).
If you like this, please purchase the DVD from Shadowsnake.
(Late update: as pointed out here, this link came via Phase II).
I just got done reading the first issue of Reich, Elijah Brubaker‘s excellent comic book biography of Wilhelm Reich. I highly recommend it.
You can buy it from Sparkplug Comic Books, or fine comic book shops like Portland’s Floating World Comics.
“Bangalore, India: To many Americans, the name evokes call centers and colorless office parks, anonymous places to which U.S. companies export work. But in a building on a quiet residential street downtown, an army of Indian animators is working to export their culture to the rest of the world. Their source material: The elaborate pantheon of Hindu mythology.
“In every state of India we’ve got, like, about a hundred different gods,” says Neha Bajaj, an editor at the fledgling Virgin Comics. “‘Cause everybody believes in a different god; they’ve got their own idol, and every idol is given its own name in every village. It’s vast – and it’s amazing!” Less than two years old, Virgin Comics has already published dozens of titles, with names like Sadhu, Ramayan, Uma and Kali. All of them are classic figures, and the staff here knows these stories from childhood.”
(via NPR)
There is a lot of unredacted horror here. Hank Pym, Giant Man, keeping his uninfected friend the Black Panther alive so he can cut away fresh meat when the urge strikes. (“You want to know something really scary?” he confesses. “I like the way flesh tastes. Really, I do. If I were to somehow find a cure for whatever’s going on with us – if things went back to the way they were – or as close as they could get…I think I’d still eat people.”) Spiderman, tormented as ever, agonizing in the moments his head clears after a feed. (“I ate my wife – my aunt! – Why?! Why did I do that?!”) Call them “alternates,” but there can be no looking at these characters the same way. And honest to God, it’s about time.
Full Story: Rigorous Intuition.
(via Robot Wisdom).
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