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Post by davidaccampo on Jul 4, 2006 1:26:08 GMT -5
ooh, and that's one messenger service I don't have...
It's cool, I'm gonna log off in a few, so let's not get into it tonight. But let's talk soon -- we've still got time. I think the con is on July 20th.
Dave
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Post by davidaccampo on Jul 4, 2006 1:28:17 GMT -5
actually, I'm signing up now....
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Post by nolan on Jul 4, 2006 1:28:43 GMT -5
nolanjwerner@yahoo.com on MSN.
Sorry about that.
On my computer I have AIM, YIM and MSN.
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Post by joshg on Jul 18, 2006 11:42:39 GMT -5
How about a comic about regular people in a Superhero inhabited world? The normal humans are trying to get around and lead there regular lives in a not so regular world. You could have the lead late for work becuase he had to take feeder roads instead of the Interstate becuase FreeFall was fighting Riot on the uptown turnpike.
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Post by davidaccampo on Jul 18, 2006 15:47:21 GMT -5
How about a comic about regular people in a Superhero inhabited world? The normal humans are trying to get around and lead there regular lives in a not so regular world. You could have the lead late for work becuase he had to take feeder roads instead of the Interstate becuase FreeFall was fighting Riot on the uptown turnpike. Hey joshg, I think from a story standpoint, that could be a helpful bridge, but that's been done a bit already. From Marvel's Marvels to Busiek's Astro City to Powers, Gotham Central, and now Frontline -- we've had a bit of the common man on the street POV of a super-hero world. So, yeah, if forced on an unsuspecting person, it might seem more accessible than an issue of Captain Whatever, but it won't really stand out as something that makes people think -- "I dont' read X-men, but I can pick this up." To me, that's still the key -- separate the super-hero stuff from the medium. Make something that's so cool that you see it on a magazine rack and have to pick it up. Something instantly intriguing without any foreknowledge. If you're gonna do super-heroes, I'd do it more on the scale of Brian Wood's DEMO, which had the whole paranormal aspect but was completely subdued under the character drama. DEMO is something I could give to any non-comics reader and never feel like I had to explain or justify anything.
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Post by joshg on Jul 24, 2006 20:59:29 GMT -5
*Sorry this has taken so long!
I completely see where your coming from with this, but if your main goal is to raise the awareness of Comics the genre and setting really doesn't matter. You have to actually get away from the pamphlets and go to a more shonen jump style of publishing.
Right now american comics are are stuck in the Comic book stores (which are scary to non-comic book fans) and the far corner of the bookstores. But look at Shonen Jump it's on the Newstands! Sitting on the rack with the Magizines! I walked into my dentists office the other morning and there it was on the coffee table!
Publish a variaty of comics, Diffrent Genres and diffrent Universes in one easily excessible place.
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Post by davidaccampo on Jul 25, 2006 17:16:40 GMT -5
Hey josh--
Yeah, I don't disagree with your assessment of comic stores and idea of copying some manga anthology styles.
However, I DO think the genre matters to some extent -- NOT because I think it's inferior, but because super-heroes have caused some problems with story accessibility. Many people still think of super-heroes and comics as inextricably linked, and many think that hte movies are a departure from the source material that's suddenly "taken more seriously."
The way I see it is this: movies are currently making super-heroes more friendly to the public. I say, let em continue to do so. Let's detach the two...let super-heroes become multi-media properties with no allegiance to a particular medium.
Meanwhile, the comics can focus on showing people that they are no different than books or movies or TV shows. Focus on a wide variety of material that looks cool on the book shelf. I'd love to see a magazine at Borders or Barnes and Noble that's just a bunch of graphic stories, but doesn't look at home crammed in with Wizard or Toyfare or whatever. It should look like the hip culture mags, or the upscale literary fare. Something you could stick in your back pocket after you're done reading it at the cafe, you know?
Part of that would definitely include taking tips from the manga publishers. But I'd try to make a comics magazine that was the literary equivalent of what it meant to me to browse through the record store when I was a teenager.
Not to say super-heroes don't have their place. If I were self-publishing, I wouldn't focus on it, though. There are just too many out there already, and I think most new super-hero related material just gets lost in that sea.
Dave
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