…Because having to even acknowledge the existence of publishers sucks.
The writer of WATCHMEN, LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, SWAMP THING, MIRACLEMAN, and a host of other great comic books is known for his anti-publisher, anti-film studio, anti-who-knows-what-else feelings. Here he is expressing himself while protesting the closing of a library i his homeland, the UK:
This is the most wonderful coming out party ever. Even if you aren’t a writer. Or gay:
by Chris GardnerA wise man once told Ron Nyswaner that humans are motivated by two things: love or fear.
The life lesson has stuck with the out Oscar-nominated screenwriter — known for his work inPhiladelphia, Soldier’s Girl, The Painted Veil, Ray Donovan and most recently Freeheld and Homeland— for most of his. He applied the opposing emotions to his passionate work on behalf of the LGBT community during a moving speech at the Vanguard Awards benefiting the Los Angeles LGBT Center at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on Nov. 7.
Holy crap it is Nov. and it’s that month NANOWRIMO – which affects just about everything writing whether we want to talk about that or not. Novelists to be, yes, all other writers, yes. It’s a bug that bites – a time of year that get the writer in everyone so inclined all antsy to DO something, stare at deadlines in horror and just plain fling themselves into the air with vibrating intensity – and yes that includes me.
I write novels. I write scripts. I even jumped into writing a comic book series. Am I crazy? You betcha! (pardon my use of that word, I couldn’t help myself, it’s that vibrating to distraction thing). But here’s the thing. How do I know the above? Well, as a general rule blog posts on writing get many more hits in October and November and sales of books about writing, all kinds of writing, pretty much do a spike. Come on , you can admit it, you bought a book on screenwriting, or novel writing or copywriting or did some online searches recently on writing. Yep, it’s that magical time of the year.
I hear you. You can’t help it. It’s something in the air. Maybe it’s because the year is about to end and you haven’t met your writing goals, maybe you’ve got big, scary deadlines (you should be so lucky), maybe it’s that whole Nanowrimo thing – you know National novel writing month. (And despite the ‘novel’ thing, yes, this includes you other types of writers – it’s contagious.)
Want to make the jump from YouTube video Queen or King to Big Media Boss? Here’s the deep, dark secret you need to know: It isn’t entirely about getting tons of subscribers and views. It’s also about what the ad agencies think of you. And the way they think is molded in a very great part by – oh, you’re gonna hate us for saying this – social media.
Aaargh!!!
Step off a New York subway or drive a Los Angeles Freeway and it’s hard to miss billboards promoting YouTube’s biggest stars by the size of their fan bases. But how much value do beauty guru Michelle Phan’s 8 million subscribers really have?
by Dennis O’NeilTime was when superheroes operated pretty much alone, or with a sidekick, who could be anyone from the original Green Lantern’s cab driving Doiby Dickles to Batman’s intrepid though preadolescent Robin. Oh, there were other continuing characters in your basic superhero saga – think Jimmy Olsen and Commissioner Gordon – but when it came to doing the daring deeds the folk in the costumes usually flew solo.
Then things evolved and –
Almost certainly, a lot more people will see Supergirl on television this week than ever read one of the Maid of Might’s comic books. She’s plenty super – give her that – and as bonuses, attractive and charmiing, but she doesn’t fight evil by herself. No, she’s allied with a brainy group of colleagues who hang their doctorates in a secret lab. And if we scan the videoscape, we see that Supergirl has peers. The other two television title characters most like their comic book inspirations, Arrow and the Flash, also have lab-dwelling cohorts who can always be depended on to have the information the good guy/girl needs.