Comic News Post: June 29, 2007
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Harlan Ellison posted the following to his site last night:
RE: ELLISON v. FANTAGRAPHICS, INC., et al: THE LITIGATION BETWEEN THE PARTIES HAS BEEN RESOLVED. THE PARTIES ARE NOT AT LIBERTY TO DISCUSS THE TERMS OF THE RESOLUTION. AT THIS TIME.
While the terms of the settlement are not available to the public, the Fantagraphics Winter 2008 catalog does feature a book entitled Harlan Ellison, Harlan Ellison, Harlan Ellison: Essays About Harlan Ellison By Harlan Ellison Experts.
(Also: all of you who had June 28th in the pool, shoot me an email. I’ll settle up with you.)
The film adaptation of Marjan Satrapi’s graphic novel Persepolis has been pulled from the Bangkok International Film Festival. Citing international relations, Chattan Kunjara Na Ayutthaya has been yanked from the lineup. Said Ayutthaya: “It is a good movie in artistic terms, but we have to consider other issues that might arise here.”
Meanwhile, Bangkok Suckee Fuckee 2 is still available on DVD.
The [adult swim] cartoon Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law will be airing its final episode in July. Fans of postmodern adult-humor versions of old cartoons should worry not, as a followup titled Huckleberry Hound: Attorney At Lust will debut on Cartoon Network this fall. The live-action series, done in the style of Saul of the Mole Men, will be produced by the Los Angeles-based FurryPride Productions.
And Now, A New Feature!In an (admittedly very good) interview with Jonathan Callan at Comic Book Resources, Brian Michael Bendis said the following:
Your work favors the sprawling conversation over the kind of terse, rhythmic patterns to Mamet’s dialogue.Mamet would do in five lines what I would do in a whole comic book. Yeah.
Congratulations, Bendis. You’re our first winner! Enjoy the shiny button, the $40 Red Lobster gift certificate, and the balloon bouquet from Frank’s World Of Balloons.
We’ll see you on Monday.
