If anyone can sympathize with George Lucas amid all of the criticism he's recently received over the new Star Wars Blu-ray changes, it's comic book creators. Ron Marz and Eric Canete both came to the franchise founder's defense with some stern words today.
On a much more serious note, creators have been banding together to raise money to help cartoonist Dylan Williams, who's currently battling cancer. If you want to help out, you could do a lot worse than picking up the Batwoman artwork that Steve Lieber put up on eBay. Check out a link to that, pressing questions and a proposed casting choice for a "Stronium Dog" movie.
I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is the Twitter Report for September 1, 2011.
Star Wars pt. 1: @ronmarz Here's the thing with George Lucas changing his movies. They're His movies. He owns them. He can do whatever he wants with them.
-Ron Marz, Writer ("Green Lantern,...
On a much more serious note, creators have been banding together to raise money to help cartoonist Dylan Williams, who's currently battling cancer. If you want to help out, you could do a lot worse than picking up the Batwoman artwork that Steve Lieber put up on eBay. Check out a link to that, pressing questions and a proposed casting choice for a "Stronium Dog" movie.
I'm @brianwarmoth, and this is the Twitter Report for September 1, 2011.
Star Wars pt. 1: @ronmarz Here's the thing with George Lucas changing his movies. They're His movies. He owns them. He can do whatever he wants with them.
-Ron Marz, Writer ("Green Lantern,...
- 9/1/2011
- by Brian Warmoth
- MTV Splash Page
Canadian customs official have seized graphic novels entering the country. In two separate incidents, creators had their work confiscated while crossing the border to attend Toronto Comics Art Festival. All five copies of Tom Neely's Black Eye anthology - a collection of darkly humorous stories published by Rotland Press + Comics Works - were taken by customs. Sparkplug publisher Dylan Williams was also relieved of his copies of Blaise Larmee's Young Lions, the cartoonist's debut graphic novel and a recipient of the prestigious Xeric grant. "I tried to get them to just ship them back to me at home, but they said they (more)...
- 5/10/2011
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
When it was announced that "Men Who Swim," Dylan Williams' feature about a British man living in Sweden who joins a local men's synchronized swimming team, was the audience award's choice for best feature (Aideen O'Sullivan & Ross Whitaker's "Bye Bye Now" was the audience's choice for best short), a suspicion I had about this year's Silverdocs Film Festival was confirmed. It seemed, through talking to audience members before screenings, that ...
- 6/28/2010
- Indiewire
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