I didn't get to cover as many blog topics this week as I had planned on--largely because of yesterday's unexpected "Mister Fish" alert-level. So let me quickly bullet-point a couple of them here, before they get to be too out-of-date to do any good.
So far, reader Eric Sellers is the only person to scan and send me in one of the Bad Sketches I've done for fans at conventions--and the piece he sent wasn't really a sketch at all, but my little cartoon-doodle signature head. Still, it's better than nothing, so I've included it below. but if anybody else has one of these priceless gems they'd like to share, preferably of an actual comic book character, I'd truly welcome it.
I got an e-mail last week from Rob Liefeld, who'd been reading the series on "Bad Comics I Bought", and felt like sharing some of his own early memories of buying comics, since he and I started reading the books at around the same time. Say what you will about Rob, love him or hate him, the guy has an earnest enthusiasm about the characters, the books and the industry that it's just hard to beat. (For those of you who are interested in such things, Rob revealed that his first Marvel comic was FANTASTIC FOUR #147, which he found at a barber shop while getting his hair cut.)
As some of you may have seen, they just announced the panel schedule for the New York Comic Convention taking place in a couple of weeks. And, as we've done in the past (assuming we can actually make our way into the packed convention hall), we'll be debuting the new 2007 edition of Prize or No-Prize on Sunday afternoon. I'll be on hand to host the festivities, and if it's anything like past years, it'll be incredibly entertaining, whether it's a well-oiled machine or a complete and total flop. So please, stop on by, show off your knowledge of useless Marvel trivia, and win semi-valuable, semi-rare, semi-exclusive semi-prizes!
Next week, inspired by a question from one of the blog posters, we'll begin an exciting new five-part series: "My So-Called Career in Comics."
And at the request of sulkin' Stephen Wacker, today's Art Avalanche focuses primarily on projects he's working on. So let's all share a little of the love with Steve.
making love will you talk when you were pizza deliverer
Posted by notapotatoe on 2007-02-05 13:06:19
Sulking!!! I quit.
Posted by steve wacker on 2007-02-05 16:19:15
Another great Blog Tom!
To Steve: Please keep Todd Nauck on FN' Spiderman, him and Peter David make a great team.
Tom, in your recent interview with Bendis on the Wizard website you said you were a big indie guy earlier in your career, do you still find time to read any current indy titles?
Posted by J.Williamson on 2007-02-05 19:08:31
Mr. Brevoort,
As a writer -- albeit a political one who regularly covers state and local politics in my native Seattle area -- I have found some of your postings just brilliant. For too long I have found nothing but drivel & unamusing opinions in blogs but here you have truly opened up and explained what it's like to work in this industry -- from the bad comics you personally wrote to the bad comics you bought. I don't understand why you aren't getting hundreds of responses on this blog and I surely pray Marvel starts some radical advertising campaign to get more people to pay attention to it. I know it must take serious time out of what must clearly be a very busy day for you to do any sort of postings, but bravo, kudos and all that. It is appreciated and, at the very least, lets me -- as a writer -- better understand my own editors and what their thought processes must be like on a regular basis.
Posted by reportersteven on 2007-02-06 02:13:51
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About this blog: Ramblings and musings from the mind of Tom Brevoort. "It won’t be clean. It won’t be fun. It mostly won’t be coherent."
About the author: Tom Brevoort is Executive Editor for Marvel Comics, and oversees such titles as New Avengers, Civil War, and Fantastic Four.
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