November 9, 2011
Two Odd Instances Of Comics-Related Advocacy
* I have too many Catholic friends to use the title "Catholic Church Rallies Behind Underage Boy," but the thought sure occurred to me. Cheap jokes aside, I thought the Vatican-generated editorial advocating on behalf of
Tintin Au Congo described here was kind of weird. The month when a giant Spielberg/Jackson movie is hopping around Europe to significant box office is a strange moment to try and convince people that there's an anti-Christian driven bias out there against an entertainment property. Besides, I don't think I can recall anything significant about the
Tintin Au Congo case that's been about the character and
Tintin series generally. The criticisms have been for the most part very book-specific, or even element-of-the-book specific.
*
here's a longish piece on the effect of superhero films on the publishing business that's at the top of my google search for "comic book" news stories this morning. I like that the author is engaging the issue over whether or not these movie properties lead to a successful discovery of the books related to them, and that this drags out into the sun a bit Marvel's seemingly fundamental inability to put out books that capitalize on their movies -- a strange blind spot for any savvy media company to have. How you feel about the idea that the perception of comics depends on there being good film versions and how important this is to the thing from which it's adapted will probably determine whether you get much from this article. Where it gets kind of undeniably strange is in its suggestion that
Persepolis was some kind of stand-alone indie-comic-to-film effort, and that Marvel of all people might be looked to for this kind of film in the future. This of course ignores films made from the work of comics makers from Harvey Pekar to Dan Clowes to Posy Simmonds, and I'm not sure exactly why. (Also, the
Daredevil-related math is kind of spotty.)
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