- In the latest issue of UK magazine ‘Bizarre’ there’s a few articles about clowns (including, rather disturbingly, Clown porn.) One of the articles is about ‘Vulgar’ and features a quick interview with Bryan Johnson. We hear it’s only a page – not worth buying, if that’s all you’re getting it for – and the article focuses almost exclusively on the rape scene. Yikes. Just yikes.
- Finally today, Kevin’s quoted in this article from the Vancouver Sun — “Superheroes escape the page”:
Those close to the issue can only guess: the distribution network is flawed, the story lines are too muddled, the medium creaks with age, and on and on. A common idea comes from director Kevin Smith, perhaps the medium’s most visible, vocal proponent: He owns a comic shop, writes superhero stories for Marvel and DC and casts Ben Affleck in his films as an artist. He tells me that most folks think comics are kids’ stuff, bad guys vs. good guys, tights and capes.
“But there’s plenty of comics that don’t have people in costumes, no superhero,” he said last year while working on his new film, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, which tells of two drug dealers who become the subject of a comic book, which then becomes a mega-budget movie. “A lot of what people call underground comics or indie comics aren’t either underground or indie. They’re just stories that have nothing to do with traditional comic book stories.”
Catch ya next time!
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