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Sunday, April 20, 2008
Still alive
Hey everyone I'm still here. My new job just requires so much time that I can only really blog in the late hours of Friday or Sunday. When I do find the time my brain often feels so fried that I have little to communicate.
I did find time to catch up a little on the NYCC coverage. What struck me was actually a small bit of news. The fact that it's small news is what interested me so much. Here you have a Marvel comics panel with three prose authors and it's treated as no big deal. If this was 2002 there would at least be five minutes on NPR. I don't want to leave out Dwayne Swierczynski, but the idea that Jonathan Lethem and Orson Scott Card, two of the biggest authors in publishing, can just be part of the Marvel Bullpen right alongside Bryan Hitch is a real sign of the times.
I wondered whom could have predicted such a thing but really, it's not that strange. Julius Schwartz was a literary agent before becoming an editor. Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison were involved with comics for a long time. But when Ellison writes "The Brute That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World" for The Incredible Hulk in 1971 that was a chance for fans to jump up and down and go "see, we're real literature now!" When Lethem, a certified genius by the people at the MacArthur Foundation, talks about Omega the Unknown it's treated as hardly different than Brian Bendis talking about what's coming up with The Avengers or whatever. Maybe that's kind of cool.
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