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Gerry Conway, DC Comic Creators, And The Request For Character Equity Form – Sunday Trending Topics

firestormGerry Conway's request to fans: Starting in the mid-70s DC offered creators an opportunity for what they called "equity participation." With the appropriate paperwork submitted and signed, DC creators would receive a share of the profits generated by their creations. Like I said, you may think this is only fair, but in the '70s it hit the business like a revelation. And for more than thirty years it's given quite a few creators an extra bit of income — in some cases, for some older creators, the only real income they receive from comics.

Most-Read Comic Stories Sunday:

Gerry Conway Asks Fans To Crowd Source Payments For DC Comic Creators 

Gerry Conway writes; I need your help.

Charles Xavier's Original Role In Age Of Ultron, Revealed

There he is folks, proof positive of Professor Xavier's original role, pre-AVX, in Age Of Ultron, from the original art by Bryan Hitch. And then…

A Thank You From Alan Moore

As Alan Moore and Mitch Jenkins' kickstarter appeal for His Heavy Heart approaches the halfway funding mark, Moore has a personal message for those, including Bleeding Cool readers, who have backed him in this venture.

Most-Read TV/Film Stories Sunday:

Pacific Rim Is Not Like Transformers, But Try Telling That To Twitter

Despite Guillermo Del Toro's Pacific Rim having almost nothing in common with Transformers – there are human-shaped machines in both, and that's about as close as it gets – the marketing has somehow left an awful lot of people confused.

You Might Not Believe Who Pops Up After The Man Of Steel End Credits

I've just been tipped off by a very dependable source that when Man of Steel starts playing later today in Odeon cinemas across the UK, there will be a scene after the end credits.

Neil Gaiman Makes It Sound Really, Really Like Good Omens Is Back In Terry Gilliam's Hands Again 

Terry Gilliam has been wanting to make a film of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's novel Good Omens since before it was published. Indeed, there's a video from The Daily Beast that you'll get to in a couple of paragraphs in which Gaiman tells the story of how a copy was sent to Gilliam looking for a quote and but instead inspired his passion to turn it into a film.

 


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Mark SeifertAbout Mark Seifert

Co-founder and Creative director of Bleeding Cool parent company Avatar Press. Bleeding Cool Managing Editor, tech and data wrangler. Machine Learning hobbyist. Vintage paper addict.
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