Adaptation Robert Downey, Jr. IS Iron Man By Neal on Sep. 29, 2006 - 11:17 AM The Hollywood Reporter passes along the news that Robert Downey, Jr. will star in Iron Man, a big-screen version of the Marvel comic about a billionaire inventor with a kick-ass suit of armor. Jon Favreau has long been attached to ...
Events Scene @ “Fantagraphics 2006” Opening Party By Neal on Sep. 29, 2006 - 8:34 AM “Most museums don’t like to show works that are unfinished,” Terrence Brown explained as he introduced me to the exhibition of artwork from Fantagraphics Books’ first 30 years of publishing independent comi ...
Publishing Bloggers, Book Critics Find Common Ground By Neal on Sep. 29, 2006 - 8:01 AM Unfortunately, a vicious head cold kept me from getting to the National Book Critics Circle panel at Housing Works Wednesday night, where John Freeman brought Laurie Muchnick and Frank Wilson, the book editors of Newsday and the P ...
Publishing Blogging Lesson for Publishers:A Scrapbook Is Not a Book By Neal on Sep. 29, 2006 - 8:00 AM Following up on the issue of underperformance by bloggers with book deals, Simon Owens of Bloggasm considers what separates the strong blog/books from the weak. Owens cites Crashing the Gate by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (Daily Kos) ...
Digital Metaverse Sourcebook Now Sold in Metaverse By Neal on Sep. 29, 2006 - 7:16 AM Jeremy Ettinghausen, the “digital publisher” at the UK branch of the Penguin Group, dropped us a line to let us know about his house’s plans to insinuate themselves into the virtual world of Second Life. Fittingl ...
Authors Dan Brown’s Secret Service Legend Debunked By Neal on Sep. 28, 2006 - 11:30 AM Seth Mnookin, tidying up some loose ends from his Vanity Fair feature on Dan Brown, finally scores convincing evidence that one of Brown’s most familiar anecdotes is probably a lie. Brown has claimed several times that his f ...
Awards Phillips, Prelutsky Pick Up Poetry Prizes By Neal on Sep. 28, 2006 - 9:58 AM The Academy of American Poets annnounced earlier this week that Carl Phillips was the recipient of a $25,000 “Academy Fellowship,” awarded annually to a poet at mid-career. Quiver of Arrows, a selection of his work fro ...
Digital Copy Editors Today Have It Easy By Neal on Sep. 28, 2006 - 8:52 AM Back when I was a young whippersnapper, when we still called all this fancypants online publishing “new media” (and liked it!), if we wanted to look something up in The Chicago Manual of Style, we had to pull our own h ...
Comic Books Comics-Inspired Show Has Comics Spinoff By Neal on Sep. 28, 2006 - 8:39 AM It takes me a while to catch up with what’s on my TiVo, but I finally sat down to watch the premiere of NBC’s Heroes last night and was interested enough to add a season pass for future episodes (even if the basic prem ...
Authors Sen. Allen’s Biographer Stands by Her Man By Neal on Sep. 28, 2006 - 7:09 AM When I met Kathleen Antrim (left) two years ago at an International Thriller Writers reception, I had an inkling of her other career as a political columnist…but I never would’ve guessed that she’d be working on ...