The Herald Tribune of… uh… somewhere in Florida (what is it with newspapers not putting their home city on the website?) has an interview with Buzz Dixon, author of the Christian OEL manga Serenity. Dixon first started experimenting with a Christian comic at the request of Stan Lee:
“Stan’s idea was Spider-Man at home reading the Bible and the Green Goblin coming over to fight,” Dixon said in a telephone interview from his home in Chatsworth, Calif.
Don’t have time to read all the NY Comic-Con coverage? Toon Zone wraps it up with some quick-read one-minute interviews.
Is CMX beyond redemption? Not according to Fred “Piro” Gallagher of Megatokyo, who announced at NYCC that he is moving from Dark Horse to CMX. Megatokyo will be the first OEL manga for CMX, and Fred comments on his site:
In talking with the DC / CMX folks, I got a strong sense of commonality between what I wanted to do and where they wanted to go with manga. I feel they have an excellent understanding of what it takes to create the kind of work I want to produce and know that they are going to be very supportive of my efforts.
This interview at the Pulse has more details.
This could be interesting: An audio interview with Shawne Kleckner, founder of Right Stuf.
In Japan, Wai Wai delivers your morning dose of outlandish with a story about an adult manga that is offering a pair of pre-schooler’s underpants as a promotional item. How bad is this?
“Not even I can make a comment about little girls’ underpants being given away,” an admitted pedophile tells Cyzo.
