IT IS FINISHED
Harlan Ellison posted this at his site tonight:
RE: ELLISON v. FANTAGRAPHICS, INC., et al: THE LITIGATION BETWEEN THE PARTIES HAS BEEN RESOLVED. THE PARTIES ARE NOT AT LIBERTY TO DISCUSS THE TERMS OF THE...
TODAY’S THE DAY!
Ellison V Groth goes to mediation! Two men enter...several lawyers walk out.
The CBLDF needs your help!
People, this is about all of us. And the fight is costly.
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund urgently needs your help. This August, the long-running case of Georgia v. Gordon Lee will...
BREAKING: WORK FOR HIRE IS BAD!!!
Yet another squawk over Platinum and its long languishing library over at Comixpedia where Mike Strang pens a cautionary tale he'd like to call Never sign a Work For Hire contract with Platinum Studios!
Stay...
Gaiman on Miracleman
Neil Gaiman is doing a round of interviews for the STARDUST movie, and someone thinks to ask him about MIRACLEMAN:
As always, it's an enormous can of worms and it's enormously complicated. The last thing...
Bernard Chang News
Artist Bernard Chang writes us with a few news items:
§ theBlvd art collective will be hosting a book launch party Friday night at Heroes Con, to celebrate the debut of theBLVD sketchbook 3.0, which...
Chinese nab “French Spiderman” in Shanghai
A daring adventurer who bills himself as Spiderman and attempts to climb the world's most distinctive structures has been detained by Chinese authorities.:
Intrepid climber Alain Robert, nicknamed the "French Spiderman", has been jailed for...
Decision at Downtown…deferred!
Word on today's scheduled mediation between Gary Groth and Harlan Ellison and their assembled legal teams: Postponed until June 28th!
The rescheduling was necessitated because of a conflict in Groth's schedule, according to Ellison's...
Law cracks down on Japanese manga pirates!
In a story that will send an icy finger of dread down the spines of the majority of today's comics readers, three geeks were arrested in Japan for file-sharing manga. They included one boy...
PW on S&S rights “grab”
Some consternation this morning about budding GN publisher Simon & Schuster and their new rights policy which would seem to indicate ownership in perpetua. PW's Jim Milliot has more:
In a prepared statement sent out...
CBLDF makes a statement
We may have had to close down the epic thread about you-know-what, but so may opinions were flying fast and furious, that CBLDF head Charles Brownstein felt compelled to issue the following clarifying statement:
There...
“Artist’s work looked familiar”
The St. Petersberg Times has an interesting and informative article on Todd Goldman::
Jim Benton, a fellow T-shirt designer, said Goldman's fans bought into his image as a creative, original artist.
"If you're in the business...
