TURKEY DAY READING
November 28th, 2002 9:41am EST

Taking some time to go back through the Newsarama.com archives over the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend, we've gathered and reposted some of the most-requested articles we've posted over the years.

To Sign, or not to Sign: Exclusive Contracts

ARCHIVE: EXCLUSIVITY
posted November 28, 2002 08:08 AM

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Panaccio also pointed out the flexibility in the CrossGen agreements, citing Ron Marz and George Perez’s non-CrossGen work as examples of allowing creators to complete work they’d already committed themselves to. Also, Panaccio explained that no contract has a distinct term of employment. All are open-ended, and ongoing. “If a person wants to leave, all they have to do is give their two week notice,” Panaccio said. “Conceivably, everyone could come in here and do that today. That’s one of the prime differences between our agreements and exclusivity at other publishers – they’re stuck. If a creator figures out after one year of a two year deal that they hate the arrangement, too bad. They’re stuck with it for another year or pay a lawyer money to get them out of it.”

Hawkmess:

ARCHIVE: HAWKMESS
posted November 28, 2002 08:12 AM

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Then comes Hawkworld, a lush, three-issue prestige format miniseries by Tim Truman that gave Katar Hol a meatier origin on Thanagar than he had previously. Hawkworld was for Hawkman what the John Byrne revamp of Superman was for that character, George Perez’ relaunch of Wonder Woman for that character and what The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One were for Batman. In essence, Hawkworld was a retelling of the hero’s story in a more modern format.