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[rantingmule.livejournal.com]

TWO BLOGFLOGS, for the price of one!!!

Flog number one: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/10/comic.html

Jon in italics, me in normal font...

Its out.

Go buy.

......................WOW. THAT IS THE BEST ANNOUNCEMENT EVER. By "best" I mean "WORST."

Seriously, that does not inspire me to buy something. It says he doesn't care, doesn't have time to try and push the product.

That...WAS THE ENTIRE BLOG, right there. Oh, except for a really, REALLY bad photo that looks like it was taken with a cellphone. :P

Now, for the next blog: http://blog.laurellkhamilton.org/2006/10/comics-strange-candy-and-dark-horse.html



As you can see from Jonathon's post yesterday the comic book is out.

Yeah, see, if I were her I'd be apologising to my blog readers for his FOUR WORD announcement that was FULL OF FAIL. :P

It looks great, and the dialogue is dead on. It really, truly is GUILTY PLEASURES, not just based on the characters, or based on the book even, but taking the book and turning it into a comic book. So cool.

Okay, one? Having read a sampling of the comic? It...is so NOT dead on. It's BAD. Good christ, the sentence fragments!!!

Two? Uhhhh...do I even need to point out the stupidity of her statement? "It's like they took the book and turned it into a comic book when they made a comic book out of my book!!! Like a book comic to book thing! Book comic book comic book comic book comic book comic book comic, so cool!"

Make the stupid stop. *massages temples*

On other cool news, STRANGE CANDY, my anthology of short stories is number 8 on the New York times list. It's number 5 at the Wall Street Journal, and 5 at Publisher's weekly. STRANGE CANDY was 36 over all in sales at USA Today.

Could someone please check and see? As I'm curious to see if she's basing that on REALITY.

Short story collections are something a publishing house does to make an author happy, that they want to keep happy.

Uhhhh, whut? O.o No, really, whut???

One of the V. P.'s of publishing said, she knew it would do well, because my name was on it.

Sadly this much is true. Right now I'm sure LKH could do what I just did a moment ago, and C&P "book comic" a hundred times, then sell it as a Novel-lite (AUGH NOT A WORD, IT'S NOVELLA!!!!) and it would be an instant bestseller.

I'm pretty sure that she could wipe her ass with blank paper and it'd be a bestseller. :P

Thank you all for liking my little stories.

You're not welcome, since I haven't read it yet.

Comments

[delphinapterus.livejournal.com]

So the comic is actually out. Great. They realy seem to care about informing the readers over at LKH and Co. Four words? Seriously, where is the press release? Where is the big announcement on her site? Where is the fan fare?
I'm interested in the comic, I like comics and I think it looks like it has potential. However, am I going to go to any great lenghts to track it down? No. LKH obviously isn't particularily interested in it and they can't really be bothered to put up some sample pages that are easy to find and coherent(if this is wrong correct me).

There is a promo video on youtube, but really if I hadn't been directed there by a friend I would never have found that. Plus it doesn't give a very good sense of what the actual comic will be like.

[rantingmule.livejournal.com]

I saw a preview someone linked me to, the first few pages of the comic. Now...don't get me wrong, the artist(s?) are very naturally talented folk...but...it takes more than talent. Their use of colour is deplorable, they have NO sense of composition...and whoever "adapted" the book into comic book form in the text needs to learn how to speak/write English first. :P

Of course the preview was on some other site altogether...NOT on LKH's site and not even linked from it. Jon's AMAZING post about it is...wow. I'm almost insulted.

It reminds of the song "Hooker with a Penis" by Tool, except where that is making a statement about how every artist has sacrificed and "sold out" in some way or another if they've ever made money off of their art...this reminds me that some have sold out to the point where what they're churning out is no longer art. I know professional artists create to make money...I do it, LKH does it too. But her literary art has become a monstrosity...she's OKAY with slaughtering her creations, crucifying her characters to make a quick buck. Jon's four-word announcement just further proves that nobody cares any more about the work itself, just the money they can make by whoring it out.

It suddenly makes me feel ever so dirty for taking money for my art. :P

[pandorasblog]

I love Vertigo, though I got into comics because of X-Men. What I really hate most about this, on reflection, is the fact that some people (particularly her new fans, who I think in many cases don't come from a strong background of geeky reading) are going to buy the comic because it's Anita stuff, and will get the wrong idea about comics from it, period. And they'll never reach out and discover The Books of Magic or Concrete or anything half as lovely.

[delphinapterus.livejournal.com]

LKH is no longer making art, she's punching out formulas and changing the colours. Making art for money is making art that people want to buy. LKH is making things but demand is dropping like a stone, so no, not art.