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Sequential: Canadian Comics News & Culture: The C-List: Marc Bell Mania!
Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal: Nov. 23, 2009: Slippery justifications and excuses
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The Myth of All-Ages: http://bit.ly/8iJESJ and the follow up: http://bit.ly/7O4rF6 12/2/2009 |
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Super essay by Chris Butcher: http://comics212.net/2009/11/22/the-myth-of-all-ages/ 11/24/2009 |
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RT @ScottCederlund: As usual, @comics212 is dead on about "kiddie" comics: http://comics212.net/2009/11/22/the-myth-of-all-ages/ 11/23/2009 |
The C-List: Marc Bell Mania!
Sequential: Canadian Comics News & Culture —
... . ----- Elsewhere Item: Retailer Chris Butcher shatters the Myth of All Ages, arguing that when older comics fans say they want comics for kids, what they really mean is 'canonical superhero comics exactly like I read them in the 60s-70s-80s'. Item: It's a ...
Nov. 23, 2009: Slippery justifications and excuses
Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal —
... Barnes & Noble’s new Nook e-reader has sold out for the holidays.
Tintin fans are pissed.
The Kickstarter method of funding comics seems to be picking up steam.
Shelf Awareness presents a short Q&A with First Second editorial director Mark Siegel.
Robin Brenner looks at circulation numbers for library graphic-novel collections.
Christopher Butcher plows through the latest argument over all-ages comics. ...
...And Kids Like Them!
The Hooded Utilitarian —
There's been a bit of a back and forth on the old internets about all ages comics. Christopher Butcher weighs in and summarizes the kerfuffle here. His take is basically that it's much ado about nothing, and that the complaining about a lack of all ages titles is really mostly about super-hero nostalgia: ...
Children’s comics: a not-so-phantom menace
THE BEAT —
... As someone who spent the entire decade of the 90s trying to convince comics industry players that kids liked to read comics — while editing comics featuring the world’s most popular characters, no less — I can only nod and smile tightly at Chris Butcher’s latest blog post. Butcher has mostly been on blogging hiatus of late but he comes back with a 40 megaton bomb on the recent retailer discussions about whether there are enough kids’ comics. The entire essay must be read in full, but Butcher’s main point is that ...
Hey kids ... comics?
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment —
The old "there are no good comics for kids" war horse was trotted out again recently, this time over at ICv2. It's a position that retailer/blogger Chris Butcher doesn't think holds much water: ...
There Are Too Plenty of Comics for Kids!
Comics Worth Reading —
... Christopher Butcher posted, a week or so ago, a wonderful piece about the myth of all ages, as he called it. It seems that some comic retailers had been bemoaning how there weren’t any comics for kids any more, when what they really meant was “they don’t make superhero comics like the ones I read when I was young”, and he called them on it. ...
Mr. A splash page by Ditko sells for over $38,000; links.
Neilalien —
... ; other Ditko art at link] Good long rant exposes retailer bemoaning they they don't have a very specific nostalgia-validating kind of superhero comic that they read as kids to try to sell to kids today [ Comics212 ] Industry wonk sadness: Disney absorption of Marvel likely means no more detailed Marvel financial information [ ...
More Me For You
Evan Dorkin —
... , etc. Looks like Chris and Dan Vado will be discussing the recent mini-flap over children's comics and the adult children who have been whining about them. I will add to the discussion by adding nothing to the discussion. Listen live or hear the archive after the fact ...
Quotes of the Week: Inspiration up the nose
Michael May's Adventureblog —
What we’ve had in superhero comics, and this matches most entertainment, is an increase in complexity. And flat-out, that sort of complexity is what’s demanded by readers of superhero books. They clearly don’t care if a work is mature, or literate, or even good, but Goddamnit if it isn’t complex, if it’s simple or straightforward or (Lord help’em) FUN, then that sucker is going to get cancelled as quickly as humanly possible. --Christopher Butcher, explaining why the best superhero comics aren't the most successful. Seriously: ...
