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Since the recent TokyoPop contract debate has completely super-charged my pagerank, I’m starting to get a number of enquiries at this site about the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab. Yes, Sandra Cunningham and I will be co-producing this program again this year which is a real honour. I legitimately think this is one […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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And now for something completely different, awesome, awesomely different:

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Bernice “Bunny” Fox, 1922-2007 My fraternal grandmother was an extraordinary lady. Like many of her time she survived extraordinary hardship and difficult times, but she did so with style and aplomb, managing to raise a close and loving family that has remained so to this day. I could write at length about many of the […]

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