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philippos42) wrote2011-03-20 01:19 pm
philippos42) wrote2011-03-20 01:19 pm
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No, I am being a douche. I'm sorry.
That which is hateful to me I will not do to my neighbor.
OK, I have a sort of online acquaintance who is a Yank trying to make it as a mangaka in Japan. Which is wild & crazy, & more power to her. I myself have an idle fantasy of how I would show-run Doctor Who--not that I would ever be allowed nor should I be.
Of course it's unfair of me to say that British comic book writers should stay on their side of the pond.
And it's even unfair (ow, ow, stop kicking me Hillel) of me to say that I wouldn't hire them. But I still want to say I wouldn't, because I am so sick of the colonial assumption that the British are automatically cool. They're not.
OK, here's a more coherent list. I would hire Alan Davis in a microsecond. I would hire Mike Collins, I liked his Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt. I would consider hiring Warren Ellis if I were publishing horror for some strange reason. I probably wouldn't hire Dave Gibbons, Jamie Delano, or Paul Cornell. I might pay the plane fare to bring over some of the others just to laugh in their faces as I inform them that they crossed the sea for nothing, nothing, you hear me, nothing, bwah-hahaha! (This would include eating a big ol' hamburger in Morrison's case, & tugging Alan Moore's beard if he showed up.) And there are a couple I'd be tempted to defenestrate.
Really, I think it was Alan Moore naming his imprint America's Best Comics that sent me over the edge. Well, that & Millar in general.
OK, I have a sort of online acquaintance who is a Yank trying to make it as a mangaka in Japan. Which is wild & crazy, & more power to her. I myself have an idle fantasy of how I would show-run Doctor Who--not that I would ever be allowed nor should I be.
Of course it's unfair of me to say that British comic book writers should stay on their side of the pond.
And it's even unfair (ow, ow, stop kicking me Hillel) of me to say that I wouldn't hire them. But I still want to say I wouldn't, because I am so sick of the colonial assumption that the British are automatically cool. They're not.
OK, here's a more coherent list. I would hire Alan Davis in a microsecond. I would hire Mike Collins, I liked his Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt. I would consider hiring Warren Ellis if I were publishing horror for some strange reason. I probably wouldn't hire Dave Gibbons, Jamie Delano, or Paul Cornell. I might pay the plane fare to bring over some of the others just to laugh in their faces as I inform them that they crossed the sea for nothing, nothing, you hear me, nothing, bwah-hahaha! (This would include eating a big ol' hamburger in Morrison's case, & tugging Alan Moore's beard if he showed up.) And there are a couple I'd be tempted to defenestrate.
Really, I think it was Alan Moore naming his imprint America's Best Comics that sent me over the edge. Well, that & Millar in general.