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By Chris Roberson, on February 10th, 2010

Doing a little bit of site redesign at the moment. In the meantime, normal service continues at http://www.chrisroberson.net/ramble.html .

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) with be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery–celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: ‘It’s not where you take things from–it’s where you take them to.’
Jim Jarmusch (via megatrip)
02/09/12
periscopestudio:

Paul Guinan has cut a trailer for the book FRANK READE, which got an exclusive premiere on Boing Boing.
More info about the book, and the EPIC book release parties on three consecutive Wednesdays this month, is at www.FrankReade.com

I’m halfway through reading Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett’s FRANK READE, and it is FANTASTIC!

02/05/12
Space Stallions!

02/01/12
From the audience: Do you actually own Watchmen?

Alan Moore: My understanding is that when Watchmen is finished and DC have not used the characters for a year, they’re ours.

Dave Gibbons: They pay us a substantial amount of money…

Moore: … to retain the rights. So basically they’re not ours, but if DC is working with the characters in our interests then they might as well be. On the other hand, if the characters have outlived their natural life span and DC doesn’t want to do anything with them, then after a year we’ve got them and we can do what we want with them, which I’m perfectly happy with.

Gibbons: What would be horrendous, and DC could legally do it, would be to have Rorschach crossing over with Batman or something like that, but I’ve got enough faith in them that I don’t think they’d do that. I think because of the unique team they couldn’t get anybody else to take it over to do Watchmen II or anything else like that, and we’ve certainly got no plans to do Watchmen II.
Watchmen panel, moderated by Neil Gaiman, at London’s UK Comic Art Convention, September 21, 1986 (as printed in The Comics Journal #116, July, 1987). (via mistahphil)
02/01/12
Watchmen was not work-for-hire.
“At that point, there had never been a comic book collection that had stayed in print for more than a couple of years. Certainly there hadn’t been one that had stayed in print for nearly twenty years. It seemed to us at the time, as if, you know, this seems fair. Once DC aren’t publishing it any more then the rights revert to us; it’s not like we’re doing work for hire, here. We’re sort of signing a legitimate contract just like anybody else would where there is a specified cut-off date. It was only later that we realized that, of course, if DC kept it in print forever, then they would have the rights to it forever. Which seemed to us as if we were being punished for having done a particularly good comic book. If we had done a slightly less profitable book for DC, if we’d had hacked out the kind of usual jobs that people were doing back then and sometimes still do, then no doubt we’d have the rights to it by now.”

Alan Moore, from The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore, 2003
02/01/12
Threadless has just released Comics On Tees Vol. 4, “Monkey Around,” written by me and designed by Mike Allred, Colleen Coover, Chris Samnee, and Francesco Francavilla. Here’s how Threadless describes it:

Here’s the back story for the next comics-on tees series, which we just released today. Comics-On Tees Vol. 4 Monkey Around was written by Chris Roberson with artwork by Mike Allred, Colleen Coover, Chris Samnee, and Francesco Francavilla. And you can always check out Vol. 1, 2, and 3 here! Buy your favorite for $24, or better yet, buy the whole series for $79.

01/30/12
Henry Flint presents the One Page Graphic Novel. Here’s how he describes it:

Welcome to a new story telling medium… the One Page Graphic Novel. Is this a gimmick? Yes, probably.

Keith is a dustman who is shot into the future by a Time Vortex. He meets three companions and they start an epic adventure and It’s up to you to fill in the gaps.

I like it!

01/28/12
Drinks?

01/26/12
A sneak peek at Threadless’s Comics-On-Tees Vol. 4, launching January 30th. Written by Chris Roberson (that’s ME!) with designs by Mike Allred, Colleen Coover, Chris Samnee, and Francesco Francavilla

You can check out all the past Comics-On Tees here

01/26/12
monstercrazy:

Karloff as Captain Hook on Broadway, Peter Pan (1950)

01/26/12

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