Chris Butcher reads an piece at Slate about celebrity journalism and finds some comparisons to draw to the current state of comics journalism:
Moreover, it’s about this understanding that when you engage a work or a body of work, whether the ‘work’ is the contracts of DC Comics’s big new initiative or the utter despair of just being Angelina Jolie, that the way in which you engage it can have serious consequences on your relationships and your paycheck. Is it worth being persistant, accurate, and uncompromising about reversion rights to Captain America if you don’t get invited to the Marvel ‘party’ at Wizard World? Is it worth being persistant, accurate, and uncompromising about the fate of a fictional character’s marital status when it means you won’t be able to ask questions about those reversion rights down the road?
Lots more in the link, including a pretty big diss of the Darwyn Cooke interview in the new TCJ.
October 8th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Great little essay, but I don’t think it’s fair to characterize it as “mad as hell”. Seems awfully reasonable to me.
Plus, there’s a really great review of Hero by Chris up at his blog now. Check it out.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
For the record, the subject line was meant to be a jokey reference to the film “Network,” since Chris was critiquing comics journalism and not any sort of suggestion that he was really and truly “mad as hell.”
So yeah, really bad joke/film reference. I’ll try to avoid them in the future.
October 8th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
No problem Chris, thanks for clearing that up, and for the link.
- Chris
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