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The Rundown: DeConnick in “Vanity Fair”, San Diegans Love SDCC More Than Chargers, and more

By | July 10th, 2015
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– It’s the DeFraction’s world; we’re all just living in it. While her husband managed to get himself onto late night television and proceeded to both give sex advice and describe Hawkeye lovingly as a “human crapsack”, Kelly Sue Deconnick went straight to “Vanity Fair” with this feature piece on her career and ability to seemingly tap into her audience’s collective unconscious yearnings with ease. While the article does branch out and establish context by mentioning other female comics creators, Kelly Sue is its focal point. If you’ve read the woman’s work without reading about her, do yourself a favor and correct that oversight immediately. Trust me, it’s worth it.

– In terms of San Diego legacies, SDCC has been in that city for 45 years but is still the new guy when it compares to the San Diego Chargers and their 54-year residence. One would think this would place the Chargers closer to the hearts of San Diegans than SDCC, given the former is a professional sports team pumping millions of dollars into the economy 6 months out of the year and the latter is a 5-day nerd prom/Hollywood junket-fest. But a poll by the San Diego Union-Tribune asking which of the two was “more important to San Diego” showed the geeks beating the jocks by almost 20 percentage points. Not the result I expected! There’s no news piece associated with the poll, but the comments section does a decent job of making the case for those numbers.

– The LA Times comics/pop culture blog Hero Complex has a wonderful slideshow of SDCC photos spanning 45 years. Guests, programs, comics, and cosplayers from all decades are represented in its images. And yes, cosplay was just as much of the convention identity then as it is now. Not everything started yesterday. If you haven’t had a chance to check out either of Jackie Estrada’s wonderful “Comic Book People” books of SDCC photos, this is a nice taste of that kind of thing.

– Considered by someone to be the SDCC of small press comix, SPX is starting to announce the guest line-up for its 21st anniversary show in mid-September. The show is using their “we’re old enough to drink” milestone to spotlight creators that have only published work in this century: such as Kate Beaton, Noah van Sciver, Michael DeForge, and more. Plus there will be some olds invited as well. Maybe some in-betweens.

– Good news for new readers, and for fans who don’t live near a local comic shop: Barnes and Noble is doubling the size of its Manga/Graphic Novel section in every one of its nearly 900 stores.

– I’m pretty confident that, given enough time, every license in existence will pass through the hands of Nick Barrucci and Dynamite Entertainment at one point or another. This week it was Atari’s turn. Dynamite announced it had gained the license to not only publish new comics based on such famous Atari video game properties as “Centipede”, “Missile Command”, “Asteroids”, and “Yar’s Revenge” but also to republish…wait for it…”Atari Force”.

“Atari Force”!!!!!

To put that into perspective, everyone talks about Marvel’s “Rom: Spaceknight” as this forgotten gem of a comic languishing in out-of-print limbo because Marvel no longer has the rights to that character. While “Atari Force” isn’t in quite as dire straits (“Rom” also has tons of Marvel characters in it, so there’s really no incentive for any other publisher to grab it. Although you never know, do you Chris Ryall?), it was DC’s answer to Marvel’s licensed-comic-so-far-better-than-it-had-any-right-to-be. The art for the 20-issue run was solid overall, but the first year’s worth of issue’s were drawn by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez! Plus it was preceded by a short run of mini comics packaged with home video game cartridges with creators like Ross Andru, Gil Kane, and Roy Thomas. Kane & Garcia-Lopez space comics??? Hell yes!!!


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Greg Matiasevich has read enough author bios that he should be better at coming up with one for himself, yet surprisingly isn't. However, the years of comic reading his parents said would never pay off obviously have, so we'll cut him some slack on that. He lives in Baltimore, co-hosts (with Mike Romeo) the Robots From Tomorrow podcast, writes Multiversity's monthly Shelf Bound column dedicated to comics binding, and can be followed on Twitter at @GregMatiasevich.

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