* Very busy day at Robot 6 today…
* First things first: There’s a huge huge Scott Pilgrim sale on Amazon.com
* Big changes at DC Comics–DC Entertainment (the non-comics stuff) is moving to Burbank while the publishing end is staying put, sans the soon-to-be-shuttered WildStorm and Zuda imprints. You can count Kurt Busiek among those who don’t know what this means for his series with the company.
* Related: Jonah Weiland interviews DC President Diane Nelson about the changes.
* Marvel’s moving offices within New York City.
* Hope Larson’s Mercury can’t get arrested in the Direct Market, even though it’s up to its third printing.
* And J. Michael Straczynski’s cover artists can’t quit the Vitruvian Man.
* Here’s a fine essay/interview by Mat Colgate of The Quietus on Underworld singer/lyricist Karl Hyde’s collagiste writing method. “It was a pact — a deal — I’d send the drunk me out on the streets to experience stuff that the straight me would never dream of going anywhere near. And all this technicolour stuff came back.”It’s interesting to hear just how much of the now-sober Hyde’s approach stemmed from his alcoholism. (Via Andy Khouri at Born Dirty, the new and quite good Underworld fan blog.)
* Well this sure is neat: A series of video interviews with Matt Furie and Will Sweeney upon their joint exhibition in London. (Via Dirk Deppey.)
* I clicked over to check out this strip “The Moon Monster” that Tom Spurgeon linked to mostly to check out that really inventive creature design, and indeed that and the rest of Bernard Baily’s art is really beautifully and dynamically drawn, but the strip also has a level of pathos I wasn’t expecting at all. Good stuff.
* A la the great Covered blog, Anthony Vukjoevich’s Repaneled features contemporary artists and cartoonists redrawing their favorite comics panels. Here’s James Ward Clark doing R. Crumb’s “Joe Blow.” Well, not literally. (Via Mike Baehr.)
* Ben Morse builds his dream Anti-Avengers.
* Real Life Horror #1: “Members of Stryker Combat Brigade in Afghanistan accused of killing civilians for sport”
* Real Life Horror #2: Wow, there’s something uniquely awful about the phenomenon of ant death spirals.
* Finally, I’m knee deep in GQ’s oral history of GoodFellas with no end in sight. Bliss. (Via Heidi MacDonald.)
Mat’s a mate/ex-mindless (http://mindlessones.com/author/lordnuneatonsavage/), and is truly, madly, deeply in love with Underworld. As the ever colourful Amy just said in our email chain, ‘he must’ve shat shit when he landed that one’.
The number of comics people who are Underworld superfans is truly startling.
Back when I worked for Abercrombie & Fitch I got to interview Karl and Rick when they were touring for A Hundred Days Off, and they simply could not have been more delightful or forthright. I’ll never forget how friendly they were. I’ve actually gotten really lucky in terms of meeting or interviewing my idols over the years, and none of them have turned out to be assholes. On the contrary! Right now, I’m looking at a photo of Clive Barker with one arm around me and the other around a stuffed animal my wife gave me, who’s in the picture in lieu of her since she couldn’t come on that particular trip.
What a lovely thing. I’m glad you’re busy disproving the heroes are arseholes maxim.
One of these days we’ll get Amy in the same room as Grant. Weird as it may seem, Grant’s kind of been a fan of Amy’s since the early days of Barbelith, but despite a good deal of our friends having sat down with Moz, Amy has yet to do so.