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Harlan Ellison on the Writers Guild Strike Settlement
[EDITOR'S NOTE: This is taken from Harlan Ellison’s online community, reproduced in its unedited entirety. If there's one person whose words you don't change without checking with him, it's Harlan....
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Harlan Ellison, Norman Mailer, and the Underdog, by Martha Thomases
This was my week to consider the lives of little old Jewish men. On Tuesday, I went to a screening of Dreams with Sharp Teeth, a film about Harlan Ellison, where I was lucky enough to talk to the man...
View ArticleHappy 7th Anniversary, Peter & Kathleen David!
Seven years ago today in Atlanta, Peter David and Kathleen O’Shea got married in the chapel at Emory University. Harlan Ellison delivered a best man speech that was only slightly shorter than his...
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Weekend Window-Closing Wrapup: June 22, 2008
Back from a long break, crazy deadlines, and other fun stuff… and, man, it didn’t take long for my windows to stay open again, particularly with the new version of Firefox. So, what’s keeping my...
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Harlan Ellison forms ‘Comic Book Legal Offense Fund’ in wake of Watchmen lawsuit
If you thought Harlan was slowing down in his old age, think again. Earlier this month, Harlan Ellison sued Star Trek for royalties on merchandise derived from his Star Trek script, "City On The Edge...
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Happy Birthday to Harlan Ellison and Mark Wheatley!
We here at ComicMix would like to wish the happiest of birthdays to two of our favorite people: Harlan Ellison, who despite various attempts directed at him of annihilation, assassination, bloodshed,...
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Only 1,000 Comic Books?
1,000 Comic Books You Must Read By Tony Isabella Krause Publications, 272 pages. $29.99 retail. I want to publicly thank Tony Isabella for taking on a task that is as courageous as it is, well,...
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Clifford Meth: Welcome to Hollywood, Part Deux
Glenn Hauman promised yesterday that I’d deliver a “fuller explanation of what’s been going on” vis-à-vis my piece “Welcome to Hollywood.” So in the interests of keeping this story alive (because you...
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Charlie Sheen as Batman?
There was a time when Charlie Sheen wasn’t a crazed obsessive with a penchant for terrorizing people around him while avoiding the law, but only acted the part. Perhaps this is why, once upon a time,...
View ArticleMonday Mix-Up: Luke Cage, Whitewashed
Sweet Christmas. Sweet White Christmas. Click here to view the embedded video. One is inevitably reminded of the story Harlan Ellison tells of the movie executive who wanted to remake the movie The...
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Announcing The SideKick Foundation
The Sidekick Foundation is a new confederacy that seeks to generously aid comics creators in need of financial and medical assistance. Sidekick’s board of directors and advisors consists of...
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Harlan Ellison releases four new books
Harlan Ellison, once called “the 20th century Lewis Carroll” by the Los Angeles Times, invites you to explore his 56-year career in four new books. These four volumes, designed to bring Ellison’s...
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MICHAEL DAVIS: Shit And The Comic Book Industry
Please take a moment to look at the graphic that accompanies this article. Chances are you seen it before on the net or right here on ComicMix when Glenn posted it a few days ago. Shit. I’ll admit...
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FLESH RIPPING WEASELS AND MORE MAN PULP COMING THIS SUMMER!
From Newtextureblog.blogspot.com! WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! Next From New Texture “We were lucky—until the weasels…” New Texture and MensPulpMags.com manfully present Weasels Ripped My Flesh! A...
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Mindy Newell: Success And Failure, Part 1
I wasn’t sure what to write about this week. Then I read Martha’s column about Neil Gaiman’s commencement speech at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and I watched the video. Then I read...
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Michael Davis: Once You Go Black, Part Four
I got the idea for this series when I received a call and was told a project of mine was turned down because “Black doesn’t sell.” I was told to my face more than once by a certain asshole “when it...
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Mike Gold: Passion and Wonder
Astronaut Neil Armstrong’s death last week at 82 brings to mind… well, an awful lot of stuff. If I were to put it all in one folder, I would name that folder “Passion and Wonder.” Passion is the...
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REVIEW: The Terminator
In 1984, The Terminator was a relatively low budget ($6.5 million) action-adventure film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, hot off Conan and Linda Hamilton pre-Beauty and the Beast. Written by James...
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Mindy Newell: Ahead Warp Factor 6!
Patiently standing in the checkout line at Stop & Shop today (which was mobbed because tomorrow is the first night of Passover) I did what so many of us do – browsed the covers of the tabloids....
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Kickstarter Alert: “Comic Book Babylon: The Real Heroes and Villians of Comics”
If you’ve ever read anything from Clifford Meth, you know he can be a ferocious writer, and ferociously talented. We like that sort of thing here, and that’s why we’ve published his stuff in the past....
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