After a frustrating day of being tired and cranky, and trying to focus on some trifling paperwork it suddenly occurred to me (as it does a couple of times each year), that I miss Bill Hicks. And sure enough, it’s probably been almost exactly 15 years since Bill finished recording Arizona Bay. And that sucks. […]
Entries from May 2008
From the heart
May 30th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: A series of tubes · people I wish I were
What’s round and plastic and has nothing to do with contract law?
May 29th, 2008 · No Comments
I may never be as clever or as popular as Tim Schaefer. I may never be a suave video game designer, with my own crack team of geniuses working on some of the most critically lauded videogames of all time. But at least my house doesn’t smell like cat-pee covered consumer electronics. Also, Tim now […]
Tags: congratulations · people I wish I were · the videogames
Zudacomics v. Tokyopop: Round 3!
May 29th, 2008 · 7 Comments
Last TokyoPop post for a little while… I promise. Brigid Alverson posted an interesting question over at her MangaBlog wondering about the compare and contrast between the TokyoPop and Zudacomics contracts. It’s way to late to do a point by point breakdown – but I did do a scan of the standard Zudacomics rights agreement, […]
Tags: entertainment law · funnybooks
The Return of the Curious Case of the TokyoPop Contract
May 28th, 2008 · 10 Comments
Further to my last post about the TokyoPop pilot program, I’ve swapped a couple of interesting e-mails with “industry insiders” (who I have not asked for permission to quote, so I shan’t name). It seems like alot of the ire coming up in this specific case can be traced back to the fact that some […]
Tags: entertainment law · funnybooks · media ramblings
Bryan Lee O’Malley and the case of the TokyoPop Pilot Pandemonium
May 28th, 2008 · 28 Comments
Bryan Lee O’Malley has recently posted a number of objections regarding TokyoPop’s default contract for their new Manga Pilot Program. Firstly the obligatory disclosure that I have a gigantic man-crush on Bryan. Anyone who has ever worked at The Beguiling is automatically cooler than me, but come on – “Lost at Sea”, “Hopeless Savages”, “Scott […]
Tags: A series of tubes · entertainment law · personal · Uncategorized
Queenie in Trouble!
May 25th, 2008 · No Comments
And now for something completely different, awesome, awesomely different:
Tags: A series of tubes