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Despite my book being finished, the fun isn't over! Tonight's festivities: holiday cards... Yes, those are specially designed Comic Book Fanthropology greeting cards. They can be purchased in packs of 20 here .
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That's right, True Believers! We are now taking orders for my brand new book, Comic Book Fanthropology ! Everything's off to the printers and they're ready for you! There are actually three versions available for purchase: paperback, hardcover and digital. The hardcover ended up having to be ...
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Julie Larson, creator of The Dinette Set ,
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cartoonists that's bemoaning the death of newspapers at the hands of the Internet. As I understand her argument, she's getting paid less now because newspapers and ...
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The Senior Vice-President and Chief Marketing Officer for my entire company spoke a global webcast a month or so back. She started by saying that everyone started going in to 2009 wearing really frightened-looking faces. But now, she added, everyone just looks tired. Her point, of course, was ...
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It's one of those days again where my brain just is NOT able to come up with some comic-related to talk about, so I'm copping out and presenting one of my... *ahem*... "classic" mashups. I've switched the dialogue in today's Garfield and the latest PhD from a couple days ago. The results ...
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Today we're talking about metaphors. Just like similes, but without the prepositions. There was an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation entitled "Darmok" in which the crew encountered a race whose language completed confused them. The translators kept spitting out phrases that were ...
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So, I'd decided that I was essentially going to self-publish Comic Book Fanthropology . The upsides include lower start-up costs (via POD), more control over the look and feel of the book, as well as not requiring large print runs that end up killing a bunch of trees unnecessarily. The ...
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Yes, I know I owe you another installment of "Evolution of a Book" to talk about my marketing strategy for Comic Book Fanthropology but I haven't had time to write it yet! In lieu of that, though, I thought I could at least taunt you with a quote about the book that Mr. High Moon himself, ...
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This actually kind of snuck by me: on Thursday, my old FFPlaza.com domain name finally expired. Kind of interesting (in one of those humans-making-connections-out-of-coincidences sort of ways) that that portion of my personal comics history completely closes just as I'm launching my new book. ...
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One of the first things I did when I actually made the decision to write Comic Book Fanthropology was to announce it here on my blog. That was done partially to start generating some interest, but partially to make sure I got my own ass in gear. Since I was writing it for myself -- as opposed ...
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I've actually been doing research about comic book fandom for several years, so I had a lot of general knowledge floating around in my head to draw upon while writing Comic Book Fanthropology. But once I had the basic structure down, I pulled out all of the books, magazines, articles, notes, ...
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Universal Studios' Islands of Adventure theme park is notable in comic circles for featuring a section devoted to Marvel superheroes. I recall it opened to a fair amount of hoopla back in 1999, but I haven't heard a whole lot about it since. But Wikipedia states that it 15th most visited theme ...
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Of course, deciding to write a book is pretty different than actually sitting down and writing one. So how did I go about writing Comic Book Fanthropology , never having written a book before? The first thing I did was take inventory of what I have already written. Not so much the content of ...
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As you may have heard, I've been working feverishly on my Comic Book Fanthropology book for the past couple months. I've actually had a few people express some interest in my process for the whole thing, so I thought I'd try documenting some of that before it becomes too stale in my memory. ...
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Because I'm weird and do stuff like this, I went hunting around to see if I could see editor Tom Brevoort on this past weekend's Saturday Night Live which he attended. Writer/editor C.B. Cebulski has allegedly spotted him in this shot... ... but I'm just not seeing him anywhere. I see one guy ...
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As Comic Book Fanthropology will be my first book, I'm wondering if it's normal to panic more as it gets closer to press? You know, because I've got ISBNs assigned now (not that they're showing up in anyone's databases yet) and covers pretty much done (except for a couple pull quotes) and the ...
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I know what you're thinking! You're thinking, "Gee, Sean, this Comic Book Fanthropology book of yours sounds pretty swell, but I'm just a plain old fanboy. Do I have what it takes to really become a comic book fanthropologist?" Of course! And while my book isn't out quite yet, you can jump on ...
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Teshkeel's Naif al-Mutawa was recently interviewed by Riz Khan on One on One. It's one of the most intimate interviews I've seen with him, so I'm embedding part one (of two) below.
