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ironymaiden(i've been down with a hacking cough the past few days, hence no movie viewing this week and the untimely ECCC reporting.)
i had a lovely time at Emerald City Comicon this year; ran around with girlfriends, found a 9th Doctor action figure, came off as reasonably normal to JMS, totally babbled at Jeph Jacques. (i failed to walk down![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
johnaegard's aisle. d'oh.)
i now have a sketch of the three AnthroPCs (mac/linux/windows) and will eventually take a picture or scan it. i was a creepy stalker and congratulated Jeph and Cristi on their engagement.
the Sunday highlight was the JMS Q&A, followed bymimerki getting her books signed.
notes from the JMS talk:
mostly the crowd was awesome, but there were some people there who were extremely low on social function, like the dude obsessed with Silver Age Marvel characters, or the guy who had to know: "Is he bisexual? Is Loki bisexual?"
a dude totally brought a huge Thor hammer to be signed.
JMS' screenplay, Changeling, was filmed with only one word changed from his first draft. Clint Eastwood directed, and it's in competition for the Palme d'Or this year. he's also working on adapting World War Z and The Lensmen.
he collects Superman memorabilia.
one of the reasons to resurrect old characters in comic book universes is to keep them in copyright.
Midnight Nation is his favorite comic.
strong advocate for writing if that's what you love to do, and doing what you love to do in general: "We unlearn our passions."
he is not involved in the upcoming Thor film.
"If there is a tenth circle of hell, it's People magazine." (on his time working there.)
Rod Serling is a major inspiration as a writer.
mimerki brought his screenwriting book to be signed, along with a couple graphic novels. JMS checked out the spots she had marked in the book and talked to her about writing. pretty freaking awesome. i took pictures, but her hair covers some of her expression. as C says, you can still see the way she's smiling from her cheeks.
i had a lovely time at Emerald City Comicon this year; ran around with girlfriends, found a 9th Doctor action figure, came off as reasonably normal to JMS, totally babbled at Jeph Jacques. (i failed to walk down
johnaegard's aisle. d'oh.)i now have a sketch of the three AnthroPCs (mac/linux/windows) and will eventually take a picture or scan it. i was a creepy stalker and congratulated Jeph and Cristi on their engagement.
the Sunday highlight was the JMS Q&A, followed by
mimerki getting her books signed.notes from the JMS talk:
mostly the crowd was awesome, but there were some people there who were extremely low on social function, like the dude obsessed with Silver Age Marvel characters, or the guy who had to know: "Is he bisexual? Is Loki bisexual?"
a dude totally brought a huge Thor hammer to be signed.
JMS' screenplay, Changeling, was filmed with only one word changed from his first draft. Clint Eastwood directed, and it's in competition for the Palme d'Or this year. he's also working on adapting World War Z and The Lensmen.
he collects Superman memorabilia.
one of the reasons to resurrect old characters in comic book universes is to keep them in copyright.
Midnight Nation is his favorite comic.
strong advocate for writing if that's what you love to do, and doing what you love to do in general: "We unlearn our passions."
he is not involved in the upcoming Thor film.
"If there is a tenth circle of hell, it's People magazine." (on his time working there.)
Rod Serling is a major inspiration as a writer.
mimerki brought his screenwriting book to be signed, along with a couple graphic novels. JMS checked out the spots she had marked in the book and talked to her about writing. pretty freaking awesome. i took pictures, but her hair covers some of her expression. as C says, you can still see the way she's smiling from her cheeks.
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Date: 2008-05-15 04:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-15 05:23 pm (UTC)i was wondering if you'd see Jeph. what's he like?
only one word changed from his first draft
did he say which word? cuz:
first draft: "I am not the killer"
final: "I am totally the killer"
makes a bit of a difference
strong advocate for writing if that's what you love to do, and doing what you love to do in general
i've seen him cite stephen king on this more than once.
JMS checked out the spots she had marked in the book and talked to her about writing. pretty freaking awesome.
yay 'merik! yay joe!
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Date: 2008-05-15 06:05 pm (UTC)he draws really quickly. the robots he does freehand, the people he does a little pencil guideline to get the face proportions right before he uses a marker.
JMS script: he mentioned scrabble. but it wasn't invented yet in the year the film is set in, so they changed it to crossword.
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Date: 2008-05-16 01:33 pm (UTC)I'm not really a comic fan, but the JMS appearance would have drawn me there if I had known about it.
Changeling sounds interesting. Amazing about the survival of the script, but Eastwood is said to be like that.
Technically, re-using old characters does more to keep their trademarks alive. Trademarks live forever as long as they're in continuous use; copyrights eventually expire, unless Disney manages to continue extending the expiration date.
I'm not sure whether the earliest comics are out of copyright or not, but if they are, trademark law would complicate the process. For example, a hypothetical copyright-expired Superman would be fair game, but one would need to make sure the "S" logo, character names, and so forth were carefully marked up to protect against trademark infringement suits.