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Via Occasional Superheroine and Journalista: For crying out loud, did DC Comics really turn down an all-ages Wonder Woman proposed by Darwyn Cooke and J. Bone?
I really enjoy the kid-oriented book DC does put out. My 5-year-old daughter loves DC Super Friends and the new Supergirl comic. And I get the brilliant Billy Batson/Shazam book for my 11-year-old son (and me). But, man, I would have loved to see a Wonder Woman comic by Cooke and Bone. It'd be great. And where's the kid-oriented Superman book?
Most likely the reason for the Wonder Woman rejection is that DC is waiting for a TV show, movie, toy line to tie a new title to. But why wait? There are comics to sell now. And if they produced a good one, people would buy it. I think it's encouraging that DC didn't wait on other product to publish Supergirl and Shazam comics, so why wait for Wonder Woman?
My personal experience as a parent is that kids today LOOOOVE comics. In addition to the titles already mentioned above, both my kids love Donald Duck comics. And my son reads Asterix, Tintin, my old Mad magazines, DC Showcase books and Archives, what have you.
Getting kids to read comics is a simple matter of publishing comics for kids and putting them where parents (non-geek parents who don't realize you need to go to comic shops, or live near a comic shop, to find most of 'em) and kids will see them.
And turning down the likes of Cooke and Bone smacks of outright insanity.
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An ailing tree that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle used to sit beneath as a child has been cut down and used to create a violin in tribute to Conan Doyle's fiddling creation Sherlock Holmes.
The house in Liberton, on Edinburgh's South Side, in which Conan Doyle was brought up, is now a special school and the teachers and pupils, upset at the need for the tree to be felled, have decided to use £1,200 raised by volunteers for an instrument to be created by Steve Burnett, a self-taught craftsman living in the City. He plans to fashion a violin based on a design which the great violin-maker, Giuseppe Guarneri, provided for Nicolo Paganini in about 1740.
Although the finished instrument will be priceless, Dunedin School has no intention of allowing it to gather dust in a glass box. Instead, it may be used by pupils in music lessons. The school, which now occupies Liberton Bank House, also hopes to transform the remaining tree stump into a sculpture, designed by the pupils and honouring Holmes.
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The daughter of Asterix co-creator/artist Alberto Underzo says her dad is wrong to sell off the rights to produce Asterix comics to others, the BBC reports.
Sylvie Uderzo accused "a handful of shadowy advisers" of persuading her father, 81, to sell his 60% stake in Asterix publisher Editions Albert Rene.
..."It's as if the gates of the Gaulish village had been thrown open to the Roman Empire," she wrote.
"I am entering resistance against perhaps the worst enemies of Asterix, the men of finance and industry."
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