From www.dccomics.com
SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2006
(July 20-23, 2006)
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DC: Fans Turned Pro (MP3 Direct Link)
8/23/2006 5:54 pm
Fans Turned Pro: Johns, Meltzer, and Winick- As kids we read comics and dream of one day making them. These fans in particular are now living that dream and have become some of the best talent working in the industry today. Join Stephen Wacker, Geoff Johns (52, Action Comics, Green Lantern, Teen Titans), Brad Meltzer (Identity Crisis, the upcoming Justice League of America), and Judd Winick (Green Arrow, The Outsiders) as they discuss how they got where they are and what they plan on doing next. Listen in as these MVPs give us their take on DC's amazing characters! Recorded live on July 22, 2006 at Comic-Con San Diego, CA. Brought to you by www.dccomics.com
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NEW TEEN TITANS: THE JUDAS CONTRACT (1989)
(1989)
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NEW TEEN TITANS #8 (Jun 1981)
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(5:06) Brad Meltzer: In terms of what I love when I grew up. The best book as far as I'm concern, bar nothing, was Marv Wolfman and George Pérez's Teen Titans.
And Marv Wolfman is here, and that is -- (claps).
I mean, that -- I thank you, sir. That book was -- I can't even tell -- my novels are so affected by that writing -- my comics are affected by that writing. And Identity Crisis is affected by that story.
Just from the Judas Contract alone and the idea of a surprise in a comic that I couldn't guess.
As I felt, as we all get older, we can all guess the endings. Now I can tell you where I was sitting when turned that page and I saw Tara talking to Deathstroke. And going, and there was no internet, no Previews, no nothing. And I just remember thinking, 'No, it's impossible!'
And I really felt that affected me forever.
And that idea of surprise your reader, but not with shock values, but with character. Character! Character! Character!
That Day in the Life story, was one of the greatest story ever. We pay homage to it in Justice League. But those stories were my bread and butter...
From COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE #1598 (Nov 2004)
TONY'S TIPS: Finding Justice in Comics
written by Tony Isabella
published in COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE #1598 (Nov 2004)
www.comicsbuyersguide.com
GIVE OUR REGARDS TO THE ATOMSMASHERS
(29 Jun 2004)
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FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE (Hardcover)
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FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE (Paperback)
(Aug 2004)
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Contemporary authors write about their favorite comic books in Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers! (Pantheon, $24.95), edited by Sean Howe. The 17 essays range from discussions of Little Nemo in Slumberland to Jim Woodring with stops along the way that include Tintin, Reuben Flagg, Adam Warlock, NoMan and Steve Ditko.
In effect, this anthology might be the most erudited comics fanzine of all time.
My reactions to the essays generally depended on two things: how well the authors' love for the comics they were writing about came through and how much I shared their love. Johnathan Lethem, whose novel The Fortress of Solitude made use of comics tenets tells of childhood friendships in relation to the comics his friends and he read. I could relate to that; even with comics fanzines, conventions, and online forums, I have never been able to recapture the excitement of talking about the new comics of my youth with a few and special friends of mine who also loved them.
Steve Erickson writes compellingly of American Flagg! and Gary Giddins does the same for Classic Illustrated. Brad Meltzer tells of his love for the doomed Terra in The New Teen Titans, making a case, however unplanned, that his Identity Crisis can be blamed on the childhood trauma he suffered at the hands of Marv Wolfman and George Pérez.
(I'm just kidding. I think.)
[ Read more in COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE #1598 (Nov 2004) ]
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From Vu
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NEW TEEN TITANS: THE JUDAS CONTRACT (1989)
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NEW TEEN TITANS: THE JUDAS CONTRACT (2003)
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Brad Meltzer wrote a 9-page essay on GIVE OUR REGARDS TO THE ATOMSMASHERS called "How I Spent The Summer With the Judas Contract", describing his puberty experience with Tara Markov (he was 14 at the time).
Meltzer is a successful novelist who, as it turns out, a big fan of comics. He's currently writing novels as well as comics. His latest project is IDENTITY CRISIS... and as far as I know, have had rave reviews (although, from what I've seen, most women were unhappy about the choice of the victim).
The chapter frontspiece has George Perez's art of Tara in her makeup & smoking from TALES OF THE TEEN TITANS #42 (May 1984).
The book is edited by Sean Howe and is currently only available in hardcover with a retail price of $24.95. It is a little expensive, but it is worth checking out if you're in a book store.
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GIVE OUR REGARDS TO THE ATOMSMASHERS
(29 Jun 2004)
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GIVE OUR REGARDS TO THE ATOMSMASHERS!: WRITERS ON COMICS
by SEAN HOWE (Editor)
List Price: $24.95
Hardcover: 240 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 8.75 x 0.75 x 6.50
Publisher: Pantheon Books; (June 29, 2004)
ISBN: 0375422560
From Publishers Weekly
As we always knew, 1950s scaremongers were wrong: not only does overindulgence in comic books not dissuade young readers from prose, but some very famous writers grew up addicted to comics. Howe has lined up a remarkable bunch of essayists, including Luc Sante, Greil Marcus, Jonathan Lethem and Brad Meltzer, to write about their favorite funny books. Many revisit the comics of their youth with amused distance—the Marvel vs. DC rivalry, the wonders of Jack Kirby's cosmology and Steve Ditko's crabbed mysticism. A few analyze specific series: Steve Erickson takes on Howard Chaykin's boundary-pushing '80s title American Flagg, and Gary Giddins traces how Classics Illustrated celebrated a part of the literary canon that was dying. Some of the most striking contributions, though, are very personal pieces by self-consciously comics-obsessed writers: Glen David Gold recounting his tormented attempts to buy original comics art from a dealer who'd have nothing to do with him; Sante explaining the power of the "clear-line" style of Tintin cartoonist Hergé on his boyhood self; and Meltzer (who's now a comics writer and novelist) discussing his near-sexual fascination with a mid-'80s New Teen Titans story line. The book includes some of today's most elegant writing on comics, a worthy companion to Lupoff and Thompson's All in Color for a Dime (1997), the previous standard in the field.
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