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[4] Network Buzz ............................ News/gossip/rumors [5] Interviews:Gavin C. Burrows, Riel Langlois, Drue Langlois ............... Paul Dale Roberts [6] Lines On Paper .......................... Bruce Canwell [7] E-Dispatches From the Great White North!. Jonathan A. Gilbert [8] Suspended Animation ..................... Michael Vance [9] Silva Shado Reviews ..................... Sarah Haslett [10] ComiX-FAN Reviews........................ Eric J. Moreels [11] Rich's Reviews .......................... Richard Vasseur [12] M.O.E. Reviews .......................... Paul Dale Roberts [13] My View: LUCIFER FAWKES:BLOODFLOW, JONAS: TALES OF AN IRONSTAR, FELIX THE CAT, PARA ................................... David LeBlanc [14] New Comic Book Releases List ............ Charles LePage [15] HYPE! & LINKS Section ................... Various _________________________________________________________________ World Wide Web Home Page-->> http://members.aol.com/ComicBkNet Mailed by Yahoo!: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ComicBookNetworkEmag WEEKLY HTML WEB EDITION at -->> http://www.digitalwebbing.com/cbem ----------------------------------------------------------------- o \o/ _ o _| \ / |_ o_ \o/ o /|\ | /\ _\o \o | o/ O/_ /\ | /|\ / \ / \ |\ /) | ( \ /o\ / ) | (\ / | / \ / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- The ComicBook Network started by Ed Dukeshire and Mike Imboden ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to receive each issue automatically through your Email account, FREE, please send a message FROM that account TO: ComicBookNetworkEmag-subscribe@yahoogroups.com To UNSUBSCRIBE send a message FROM the account to be dropped TO: ComicBookNetworkEmag-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com See section [A] for the address to mail material to be reviewed. _________________________________________________________________ All text contained within is copyrighted to the originating author(s) and is used with permission. Except where elsewhere noted, The Comic Book Net Electronic Magazine is Copyright 2004 by David L. LeBlanc. You may freely distribute or retransmit this file intact without alteration for noncommercial purposes only. Except for personal archiving, permission must be obtained from theindividual authors to reproduce, retransmit, or publish any part of this magazine. Opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors And do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the Editor. _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- [A] E-Mag Info: Submissions, Back Issues, Web Page SUBMISSIONS ----------- To submit an article, review, column, etc. to our Emag, simply Email it to the editor at: ComicBkNet@aol.com You must include your REAL name and a valid Email address in order to be published in this Emag. Sorry, we do not accept anonymous columns. The weekly deadline is 7:00 PM Eastern Time on Thursday - NO EXCEPTIONS! Late submissions are held over for the following week. Reviews of mainstream books are welcome and we encourage reviews of indies and self published material as we feel that material deserves more exposure to the general public. If you write intelligent, coherent, and timely reviews of any comic book it will almost always be printed, so give us a shot. Commentary on the state of the industry, and personal observations and reflections related to comics are *most* likely to be included in our publication. PLEASE, no material on Gaming, role playing, collectible card games or other hobbies or collectibles other than comic books. That also includes plugs for web pages UNLESS they are concerned with print comic books. We do not promote web comics per se, only the printed media. SEND US YOUR WORK ----------------- We also accept product for review purposes. Advanced copies of comic books will not be returned but any comic books sent to us *will* be reviewed in the ComicBook Net Emag in the column MY VIEW. Send material to be reviewed to: David L. LeBlanc 84 Heather Circle Jefferson, MA 01522-1419 Material is generally reviewed in the order received and be advised that we work a few weeks in advance so your review may not be in the magazine immediately. Advanced copies are therefore encouraged so the review will occur prior to your product hitting the stores. THE Comic Book Net WEB PAGE http://members.aol.com/ComicBkNet ---------------- If you have access to the World Wide Web, please stop by and visit our web page! On our web page, you can find the latest issue of our E-Mag, as well as all back issues and an annotated index. You'll also find important information and other neat features like links to the HTML version of the current issue of this magazine at DIGITAL WEBBING, [http://www.digitalwebbing.com/cbem], some of the comic companies and creators' web pages and many other Comic Book related links! _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- [1] On the Net David LeBlanc ComicBkNet@aol.com ". . . those Friday nights, When Suzy wore her dresses tight, and the Crocodile Rock was outta sight!" That song lyric sent me wandering down memory lane this week to a simpler time in my life. During the school year when I was in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grades I attended dance classes on Saturday nights at the Junior High School gymnasium. This was a very popular activity for those of us who decided we wanted to mingle with the opposite sex and for the parents who felt their children should gain social skills along with the ability to dance properly later in life. Everyone had to dress properly, the girls in dresses and the boys in jacket and tie. At each session at least one dance type was reviewed by demonstration of the instructors. Then the boys would all rise and cross the room to ask a girl politely for the next dance. As the season went on there would be advanced steps on the basic dances or even something new that had been catching on. This was basic ballroom dancing with emphasis on fox trot, waltz, cha cha, rock & roll (once called jitterbug) with additions like the twist, the stroll and so on. Occasionally there would be a lady's choice and each guy was hoping, well, for the best outcome. One time we had a Halloween dance with everyone in costume and I ended up dancing with the older sister of the girl I had been dancing with most of the time. Their disguises were identical with nylons over their heads and I did not realize I was with the older sister, not my friend. That could have been a disaster but we all had a good laugh about it. As the year was nearing an end there would be a competition each week with on couple chosen as the best for the featured dance that week. On the last day all the previous winners would have one last contest and that winning couple would each get a trophy. There were two classes - one for 5th and 6th grades and one for 7th and 8th. Long story short - I was in the competition in the 6th grade and lost to a neighbor who was in 5th grade, that burned me. Next chance to win was 8th grade when me and my partner made it to the finals. Out of 6 couples the instructors narrowed it down to three but after a series of songs could not choose from the rest of us. So they put on a song but did not tell us the dance we should be dancing. I told my partner to wait while the others began dancing. Every one of them began to fox trot but I held firm not leading off yet. Finally I was sure the beat was a waltz and we began our waltz routine. I looked at the male instructor across the room and got a wink and a grin. I knew we had won before the song was even over. It was very exciting for both of us - sort of a Saturday Night Fever type thing without any romance involved. Funny thing is, years later, she now teaches in our town and We ran into each other at a function where she was with her mom. She still introduced me as her dance partner that she won the contest with - to put our relationship into perspective for her mother. I felt the same way, she will always be my dance partner from those carefree times. What I remember most about those times, and dance class, was the anticipation of the event. Saturday became a ritual with getting cleaned up, dressed up and getting together for that unique hour of our lives. Sometimes it was also the prospect of dancing with a certain someone, and later years it might even be the same someone each time. But the anticipation was the thing. It was an indescribable feeling of waiting for something you came to enjoy each week. Sort of like waiting for new comic day. See, I knew I could work comics into that story somehow. Why not waltz over to your favorite comic store and dance off with these titles this week (but please pay for them first!) BONGO COMICS Radioactive Man #197, $2.50 Simpsons Comics #100, $6.99 CLASSICS ILLUSTRATED JR. PUBLICATIONS Classic Illustrated Story Of Jesus HC, $19.95 Classic Illustrated Ten Commandments HC, $19.95 DC COMICS Authority Revolution #2 (Of 12), $2.95 Flash #216, $2.25 Green Lantern Rebirth #2 (Of 6), $2.95<----Pick of the week! DIGITAL WEBBING Digital Webbing Presents #19, $3.50 DORK STORM PRESS Dork Tower #29, $2.99 Nodwick #26 (resolicited), $2.99 MARVEL COMICS Marvel Previews #16 December 2004 Extras, AR Supreme Power #13, $2.99 Ultimate Elektra #4 (Of 5), $2.25 Ultimate Fantastic Four #13 Sketch Variant, $2.25 Ultimate Fantastic Four #13, $2.25 NBM Boneyard #16, $2.95 SATYR PLAY PRODUCTIONS Satyr TPB Volume 1 TPB, $9.99 magazines Previews Vol XIV #12, AR "Ballroom dancing made a man of me. One, two three, four, I just plain adore your Ballroom dancing, seen it on TV. I got what I got from ballroom dancing, Big B.D." [Can you name the artist?] Be here next time for the super spectacular, divisible by 25, 50 and 100, colossal, pulse-pounding, issue number 500! Rest up until then. It may be too much for you to take! *8^) David LeBlanc - ComicBkNet@aol.com Editor The Comic Book Net Electronic Magazine _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- [2] Letters to the Editor If you want to comment on this or any previous issue, want to offer something for us to publish, or just want to shamelessly suck up to the editor to try and get your name in print send Email to: ComicBkNet@aol.com Note: Letters of comment, including those sent to the columnists, may be used in future issues of CBEM unless you specifically request us NOT to use them. Your Email address and/or name will be withheld upon request. +++++ None this time around - too much turkey, tryptophan you know! Or else everyone is out dancing the night away! _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- [3] [TRIVIA CONTEST] Due to costs, customs regulations, and logistical difficulties: THIS CONTEST IS OPEN TO RESIDENTS OF THE CONTIGUOUS 48 U.S.STATES! IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A U.S. ADDRESS DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WIN THE PRIZE. THE FIRST PLACE TO FIND THE EMAG EACH WEEK IS ON OUR HOME PAGE! IF YOU ARE DESPERATE TO WIN THE TRIVIA, GO THERE FIRST ON FRIDAY NIGHT! http://members.aol.com/ComicBkNet QUESTION OF THE WEEK Prizes donated by Discount Comic Book Service at www.dcbservice.com where you can order most DC, Marvel, Image, and Dark Horse comics, statues and retail products for 35% off. Submit your own trivia and win the CHEEZY PRIZE(tm) if you can stump the readers! You MUST submit the correct answer with your question. LAST ISSUE'S QUESTION OF THE WEEK: In one version of The Legion of Super Heroes, R. J. Brande was not human and a time traveler from the past. In what comic series did that character originate? He was the Durlan from L.E.G.I.O.N. who was seen in INVASION. This week our winner is Brad Christian who gets THE PULSE: THIN AIR TP from Discount Comic Book Service. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ THIS WEEK'S TRIVIA QUESTION: In the spirit of the upcoming holiday, here is a non-comic book trivia question. Which president of the United States was the first to have a Christmas tree in the White House? IMPORTANT RULES NOTICE Due to costs, customs regulations, and logistical difficulties: THIS CONTEST IS OPEN TO RESIDENTS OF THE CONTIGUOUS 48 U.S. STATES! IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A U.S. ADDRESS DO NOT ATTEMPT TO WIN THE PRIZE. Email your guess to ComicBkNet@aol.com or just REPLY to the message if you read the Emag in your mail. DO NOT quote the entire message! You MUST allow mail from ComicBkNet@aol.com to be notified if you win. The first correct answer to reach the editor wins the CHEEZY PRIZE(tm). The editor will be the sole judge as to which guess arrived first! Messages with more than one guess will be disqualified. Winners will forfeit their prize if the Email notification is not accepted from ComicBkNet@aol.com LIMIT: ONLY ONE PRIZE every 4 weeks PER PERSON! _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- [4] Network Buzz News, gossip and rumors from the industry "Chris Ware" As one of today's most renowned cartoonists, Chris Ware is widely considered an artist of genius. Combining innovative comic book art, hand lettering, and graphic design, Ware's uniquely appealing work is characterized by ceaseless experimentation with narrative and graphic forms. The publication of his novel Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth in 2000 inspired a near avalanche of praise from critics and general readers alike. The latest installment of our Monographics series is the first book to explore the life and work of Chris Ware. Daniel Raeburn looks closely at Ware's career, work methods, and artistic innovations. Born in Omaha in 1967, Ware attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and introduced the character Jimmy Corrigan in a full-page, full-color strip he began writing for the Chicago tabloid New City. Combining six years' worth of the strips, Ware created the best-selling novel named after Jimmy that spans an Irish-American family's life in Chicago from the Civil War to the present. For its experiments in graphic form-including pull-out, flip- up, and three-dimensional insertions-and its creative non-chronological narrative, the novel earned numerous honors, among them the Guardian First Book Award, presented for the first time to a graphic novel. For this volume, Raeburn interviewed Chris Ware for many hours to make fascinating connections between Jimmy Corrigan's fictional life and the life of his creator. Raeburn discusses the scope of Ware's career, including his drawings for New City, the New Yorker, and his own comic book, The Acme Novelty Library. As Raeburn shows, Ware's unique art form extends beyond the world of graphic novels into the broader worlds of literature, graphic art, and popular culture, and challenges traditional definitions of all three. About the Author DANIEL RAEBURN self-publishes The Imp, an irregular series of booklets about comics. His writings have appeared in The Baffler and Village Voice Literary Supplement. Daniel Raeburn lives in Chicago and is available for media interviews. RICK POYNER is series editor of Monographics. He founded Eye, the international review of graphic design and was its editor from 1990 to 1997. His books include Typography Now: The Next Wave (1991), Typographica (2001), and No More Rules: Graphic Design and Postmodernism (Yale University Press, 2003). For more information go to: yalebooks.com Other MONOGRAPHICS titles: Hendrik Wermann Alston Purvis ISBN 0-300-10291-7 September 2004 Chip Kidd Veronique Vienne 0-300-09952-5 September 2003 Kyle Cooper Andrea Codrington 0-300-09951-7 September 2003 From the Boston Globe By Joshua Glenn, Globe Staff | October 3, 2004 A DECADE AGO, Chris Ware was hailed as a genius by a select few, thanks to The Acme Novelty Library, a comic book featuring kaleidoscopic strips about Siamese-twin mice, overweight superheroes, and lonely collectors of action figures. The acclaim became more general in 2000 with the release of "Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth," which collected eight years' worth of Ware's serial novel of that title, a comic strip that originally ran next to the lonely-hearts ads in a free Chicago newsweekly. Now, Yale University Press has elected the 37-year-old Chicagoan to the pantheon of all-time great graphic artists with the publication of Daniel Raeburn's "Chris Ware," the latest installment in their "Monographics" series on such design virtuosos as H.N. Werkman and Chip Kidd. It's a gorgeous monograph, crammed with reproductions of Ware's comics, paintings, and kinetic sculptures alongside examples of his influences and even evidence of his creative swipes from sources ranging from mid-1920s Sunday funnies and ragtime sheet music to African-American beauty-product labels. There's just one hitch: The Chicago-based Raeburn, author of "Chris Ware" and publisher of The Imp, a short-lived zine about comics, claims it's pretentious to describe Ware as a "designer" or "artist" instead of a "cartoonist." "If we hesitate to call someone as talented as Chris a mere cartoonist, it's because unlike other media once thought vulgar -- like film, or the novel -- comic strips have steadily grown worse since their invention," Raeburn said via telephone from a vacation cabin near Bennington, Vt. "Newspaper cartoonists of the 1920s and `30s, like Windsor McCay or George Herriman, were real craftsmen -- and they were also experimentalists. Compare their work to popular strips today, like `Dilbert' or `Boondocks,' and you'll see there's been a near- catastrophic decline in quality." And how does Raeburn feel about the trendy term "graphic novel"? "That's pretentious, too," he said. "Instead, let's call them `comic books." +++++ eigoMANGA Produces Television Commercial For American Manga Series, RUMBLE PAK San Francisco --- eigoMANGA, a California-based independent comic book publisher, has produced its first series of television commercials for its American Manga comic book anthology series, RUMBLE PAK. The 30 second commercial is slated to broadcast on select television markets through Comcast in December and begins airing nationally on the U Network during the week of November 22, 2004. The RUMBLE PAK commercial is part of eigoMANGA's campaign to highlight the emergence of Japanese-influenced comics (called "manga") produced by independent American artists. The commercial was produced utilizing footage from RUMBLE PAK's mainstream release-concert event on October 24, 2004, called RUMBLE INVASION. The commercial also features the single "Watching Goodwill Hunting" from the debut self-titled CD of the rock band, Ludo. The band makes an appearance in the commercial. eigoMANGA is currently broadcasting the commercial on its website and is allowing fans to download or link to the commercial to publish on their own websites. Fans are also encouraged to send state their feedback in order for the company to refine the commercial before its official television broadcast to select television markets within December. Founded in August 2000, eigoMANGA is an independent media and publishing company committed to developing, producing and marketing original American "manga," or Japanese-influenced comic books and graphic novels. eigoMANGA's integrated media offerings include anime-themed television programming and anime-themed live events +++++ Heroes Helping, Heroes Healing Charity auction: 24th January 2005 The summer's seemingly endless hurricane season repeatedly lashed flooding and unimaginable destruction across America, leaving many in need of shelter, clothing, medical aid, food and assistance in rebuilding both their lives and their homes. They need our help. American artist Austin 'Twista' Janowsky and British journalist Ian Murphy have joined together to rally the comic book fraternity to the aid of those still struggling to recover from the devastation. On January 24, 2005, there will be a charity auction at the 16th annual FX show, in Florida. This comes hot on the heels of Heroes Helping, Heroes Healing: the comic book, which published donated art and stories for the same charity appeal. Donations have been promised by many hugely successful writers and artists including Brian K Vaughan (Ultimate X-Men), Kurt Busiek (JLA), Geoff Johns (Flash, JSA), Frank Tieri (Weapon X), Drew Geraci (Captain America), Erik Larsen (Image Comics), Tone RodRiguez, Andy Smith, Angel Medina, Nunzio DeFilippis and Christina Weir (New X-Men: Academy X) and British poet Helen Kitson, who was recently short-listed for the Forward Prize for poetry and voted PV Magazine's Woman of the Year for her life's work as journalist, feminist and writer. Her latest book, Tesserae, is now available from Oversteps Books. For a Complete listing of contributors and Sponsors visit: www.comicbookconventions.com/Hurricanerelief Austin 'Twista' Janowsky, a Florida resident, has worked in the graphic design and comic illustration for the past 10 years. He has worked for DC Comics Licensing, Image Comics, and has recently provided colours, lettering and pencils for the long- running satirical Cracked Magazine. His inks can be seen in the forthcoming X-Men Unlimited #6. Tomb Raider #48 Ian Murphy is a journalist for Comics International, a life-long comics fan, former editor of PV Magazines and chair of the Women In Music Awards. +++++ ACTOR Comic Fund Announces Mid-Ohio-Con Schedule MID OHIO CON November 27-28, 2004 Artist Signing Appearances: SAT., NOVEMBER 27 (Con Hours 10-6) Adam Hughes: 12-2 Matt Wagner: 2-3 Michael Avon Oeming: 3-4 SUN., NOVEMBER 28 (Con Hours 10-5) Tony Isabella: 11-12 Leonard Kirk: 2-4 www.midohiocon.com +++++ Thanks for subscribing to the Comic Book Network Electronic Magazine (CBEM) --------------------------->Disclaimer<--------------------------- This is an ANNOUNCE only mailing list, only the Editor can send messages to the list. No one else has access to the subscriber list. 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