Corrections, Retractions, and Dark Tidings
I'm officially not going to be attending the San Diego Comicon International. Apparently it's the same weekend as my buddy Shafe's wedding. No big, I'll just go next year. To fill the slot, I may look into attending another, slightly smaller con in some other far away place this year. Or not. Not feeling very decisive right now.
Mistakes like this wouldn't be made if I could just getting freakin' Hotmail to work! Gah! What is up with that? Since when does a simple e-mail service become a waking nightmare?
Comics Legend Will Eisner is dead. For those of you uninitiated, Eisner was not only the man who created the legendary comics character, the Spirit, he also took comics from being purely newspaper strips to the full on art form it is today. By breaking conventions and introducing a sense of design to his stories, Eisner didn't redefine comics. He DEFINED them. Eisner was always on the cutting edge. He created the first Graphic Novel, and he was the first to start creating comics for a mature, intelligent, adult audience. Eisner created comics his entire life, and I'm pretty sure he released a new book within the last two years. We here at TORC Press bid a fond farewell to a true Legend. Adios, Will Eisner.
And Adios to Dreamwave Productions as well. The publisher best known for their Transformers comics have officially bit the dust. I've heard rumors that the company is simply restructuring under a new name, but regardless, the Dream(wave) is dead. Further proof of just how hard this comic publishing game is.
In other downer news, it's raining cats and dogs out here. If a big freeze hits, it's gonna get real ugly real fast.
So, in conclusion, sorry Shafe, I would have e-mailed you ahead of time to confirm the dates (cause I completely forgot when your wedding was), but I got no e-mail. Ain't technology grand?
Mistakes like this wouldn't be made if I could just getting freakin' Hotmail to work! Gah! What is up with that? Since when does a simple e-mail service become a waking nightmare?
Comics Legend Will Eisner is dead. For those of you uninitiated, Eisner was not only the man who created the legendary comics character, the Spirit, he also took comics from being purely newspaper strips to the full on art form it is today. By breaking conventions and introducing a sense of design to his stories, Eisner didn't redefine comics. He DEFINED them. Eisner was always on the cutting edge. He created the first Graphic Novel, and he was the first to start creating comics for a mature, intelligent, adult audience. Eisner created comics his entire life, and I'm pretty sure he released a new book within the last two years. We here at TORC Press bid a fond farewell to a true Legend. Adios, Will Eisner.
And Adios to Dreamwave Productions as well. The publisher best known for their Transformers comics have officially bit the dust. I've heard rumors that the company is simply restructuring under a new name, but regardless, the Dream(wave) is dead. Further proof of just how hard this comic publishing game is.
In other downer news, it's raining cats and dogs out here. If a big freeze hits, it's gonna get real ugly real fast.
So, in conclusion, sorry Shafe, I would have e-mailed you ahead of time to confirm the dates (cause I completely forgot when your wedding was), but I got no e-mail. Ain't technology grand?
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