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Wonder Woman > Super Man
Evening all
Something a bit different this week. Haven’t had time to come up with a topic worth writing about lately, what with all the preparation for jumping continents and what-not but apparently I’ve had time to piss about in Photoshop. Enjoy!
Has there ever been a story about Wonder Woman losing her powers? If not, this is probably why.
Posted in Matt Mondays
Tagged Comic, DC, man, ninja, Super, super man, woman, wonder, Wonder Woman
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Disney Create… is too great
So a friend recently posted a comic he made in Disney Create, a flash based comic maker thing you can mess around with online.
I grew up on this type of crap. Disney had been releasing paint or print studio software for a bunch of their big movies over the years.
I got this one in a cereal box.
So after seeing there was something like that online, with characters from Toy Story, Avengers, and some weird ‘manga’ thing, I couldn’t help myself.
The following is the results of the past 2 hours, on Disney Create
Road Story
Avengers in Skrull Ballday
Avengers in Cubism
Avengers in Hulk-Hurdles
Manga Maker
So what are you waiting for. Head on out and start making your own creations… or abominations…
Posted in Shaggy Updates
Tagged ant man, Avengers, Captain America, Comic, comics, cubism, disney create, hawkeye, Hulk, hurdles, nick fury, skrull, tarzan print studio, thore, toy story, woody
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Copyright: The end of stories retold
“Out with the old, in with… oh, wait, the old is still here?”
In the process of adapting the Norwegian folktale Tatterhood into a comic to be enjoyed by today’s audience, something occurred to me: modern copyright practices have really screwed our narrative culture.
No, I don’t mean “WE SHOULD ALL BE ABLE TO SELL ANYONE’S WORK AND MAKE MAD MONEYS OFF IT”, but… ok, here’s the set up.
Back in the day, people shared tales. The Brother’s Grimm where just some scholarly fellows who traveled around Germany (or where ever), collecting and retelling a lot of these cautionary and cultural stories. As they actually put their findings down in writing, their version of stories had often become the definitive versions we know today… at least until Disney did the same thing and became the new standard.
The point is, a story that one individual made up was shared, re-interpreted by ANYONE through either cultural sensibilities or ‘broken telephone’, and was presented through the mediums of the time.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is one such tale that I feel has been re-interpreted, retold, and even referenced more than most. Written by Lewis Caroll back in 1865, the book has been out of copyright protection since 1907, meaning, it’s public domain. According to wiki: public domain refers to works, ideas, and information which are intangible toprivate ownership and/or which are available for use by members of the public.
(or) “free reign. Everyone get to re-making that shizz.”
And though there was a silent film and many book re-prints and translations prior to 1907, afterword and as technology evolved, every medium had Alice adventuring throughout.
Children’s picture books, tv series & specials, animated films, stop motion, live action feature films, stage plays, comics and so on. And no one owed anyone to do so. You wanna make Alice in Wonder Cereal? Go nuts. Hell, PUT nuts in it.
And don’t even get started on Japan, with the manga and anime. There’s something about a girl being ‘spirited away’ into another fantastical world that they love in their story telling. Interest in the tale of Alice also has an influence on the Victorian / Rococo period inspired Lolita fashion scene.
Now here’s the interesting part.
This will never happen to Harry Potter.
This will never happen to Buzz Lightyear.
This will never happen to… Idonno, the animals from Madagascar.
Where creative content in the past had a certain amount of years after being created or a certain time after the creator’s death before becoming public domain, today we’re living among companies that still exist and own properties that have long outlived their original creators, and are constantly pushing for revisions to copyright law so that it ensures properties never become public domain.
I could write more about his, but really, there’s two videos you can watch that cover it a lot better. Be sure to check out CGPGrey’s Copyright: Forever Less One Day, and Kirby Ferguson’s Everything is a Remix Part 4, for a better explanation to the end of public domain, and WHY it’s such a great loss to us all.
- S
Posted in Shaggy Writes
Tagged alice, anthology, Brothers Grimm, Cautionary Fables and Fairy tales, CGPGrey, Comic, copyright, disney, everything is a remix, Fashion, forever, japan, kirby ferguson, lolita, manga, public domain, rococo, tatterhood, wonderland
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TIFF is a nightmare that never ends… until it does.
Hello readers!
I know that you’ve all missed me tremendously, but I’ve been on a two week hiatus due to the film festival.
As you may or may not know, I work for a film company, so I was roped into doing all sorts of “fun” tasks such as: manning a guest list for five hours, holding seats for cast, running from screening to screening to make sure they have all of the correct artwork and seating plans, yelling at people, getting yelled at, etc. etc.
Mornings, afternoons, evenings and weekends all blurred and became one long, horrid work day with no discernible end. But then it ended, and now I’m back to my usual 9 to 6, trying to catch up with all of my work. Ah, the joys of the film industry.
Because I don’t have the mental capacity or will-power to critique clothing (the horror!) or string together coherent sentences, please enjoy a couple of images that I drew for you at my desk. I had to keep covering them when my boss walked by, so you’d better appreciate!
A comparison of my mental and physical state on day one and day eleven of TIFF.
