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Monday Morning

Published Mon, 21 Dec 2009 05:36:48 -0600

Two months ago, I wrote about artist Cesar Feliciano, and his very sick daughter Alana, and asked for your help. I'm sad to say that Alana passed away this weekend. If you know Cesar, I know he'd appreciate your support.

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ArmyWatch: Marvel will give away a thousand free one-year subscriptions to its digital comics to armed forces members, on a first-come first-served basis. Worth around $60, enlisted personell should e-mail marveldigitalpromo@sunbeltfs.com. Though they may have to fight for it.

MangaWatch: It's almost becoming as common as the old Pow! Bam! Comics Are Not Just for Kids! article – the Young People Read Backwards Japanese Comics articles. And here's one from Reuters on manga's spread across Europe.

German teenagers dressed as Japanese goth rock stars, with multi-coloured hair and heavy eyeliner, mingle with Japanese schoolchildren in a bookstore on the street, giggling as they step into "purikura" photo booths that shoot instant snapshots that people decorate themselves and print as stickers.

"They have something special," said Berenike Schmoldt, whose fascination with manga has turned the German teenager into a full-blown Japanophile at 17, during a Friday expedition with her friends. "I spend hours every week reading them."

We even get a quote from Vincent Van Gogh ;

I envy the Japanese the extreme clarity that everything in their work has. It's never dull, and never appears to be done too hastily… Their work is as simple as breathing, and they do a figure with a few confident strokes with the same ease as if it was as simple as buttoning your waistcoat.

Okay that's at least a novel twist.

LocalWatch: Welcome to the Potsam Comics Club, where eleven to thirteen year olds hang around, drawing comics, with David W. Ferry answering questions such as "Would rotting flesh soak up blood"?

LocalWatch2: A Yorkshire Post journalist appears in a comic book with a not-at-all-patronising comment;

I'm not only in a book, but I'm in a graphic novel, the dynamic half-drawn, half-written form that may represent the future of fiction

Fool's Gold is a graphic anthology published by a college in Goldthorpe, written and dsrawn by schoolchildren with additional work by Malorie Blackman and GP Taylor, Bernard Cornwell, Alison Weir, Linda Newbery, Robert Swindells, Ian McMillan, Alan McKenzie and Bali Rai.

While these schoolkids have been building a Dalek. I missed out on a geekacceptable childhood I really did.

ArchieWatch: NCredible Entertainment are making a TV series of Archie's Josie And the Pussycats folks. Oh and they're making another TV show to find the actresses/singers needed. They're having their cake, eating it, regurgitating it again and then eating it one more time!

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