Comments on: Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 1/7/2008 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/07/kibbles-n-bits-172008/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:10:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Jan. 8, 2008: The Hitler moustache fades http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/07/kibbles-n-bits-172008/#comment-687839 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:57:16 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/07/kibbles-n-bits-172008/#comment-687839 [...] [Commentary] With the copyright to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan having finally lapsed in the U.K., Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s Lost Girls is finally available for sale there — and children’s-book aficionados are not pleased. The Scotsman’s Marc Horne rounds up the angry reactions, while Michel Faber reviews and defends the book for The Guardian. Related: Karen Green ponders whether the book belongs in the libraries of academic institutions. (Above: Alice discovers a new wonderland, in this image from Lost Girls, ©2006 Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie. First link via Heidi MacDonald.) [...] […] [Commentary] With the copyright to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan having finally lapsed in the U.K., Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie’s Lost Girls is finally available for sale there — and children’s-book aficionados are not pleased. The Scotsman’s Marc Horne rounds up the angry reactions, while Michel Faber reviews and defends the book for The Guardian. Related: Karen Green ponders whether the book belongs in the libraries of academic institutions. (Above: Alice discovers a new wonderland, in this image from Lost Girls, ©2006 Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie. First link via Heidi MacDonald.) […]

]]> by: adistantsoil.com » Blog Archive » Peter Pan Copyright Expires, Lost Girls Invades England. http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/07/kibbles-n-bits-172008/#comment-687102 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:08:25 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/07/kibbles-n-bits-172008/#comment-687102 [...] Hat tip: The BEAT. [...] […] Hat tip: The BEAT. […]

]]> by: Scott Koblish http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/07/kibbles-n-bits-172008/#comment-686923 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:28:30 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/07/kibbles-n-bits-172008/#comment-686923 She said: “This book sounds horrific. It is the complete antithesis of what Barrie thought and put on paper. “Barrie’s work is all about the magic of childhood and this new book is a pollution of that. “I would support any measures which would stop it appearing on shelves.” As a relative of J.M. Barrie's, I'm a tad ambivalent about the whole thing myself. But I don't really feel like Lost Girls takes anything away from the original book, and I understand where Alan Moore is coming from. In the end, it's all fiction, and as I make my living through the good graces of the marketplace in fiction, I don't support banning the book from shelves. If you're really upset, just make a porno out of Roscoe Moscow. I daresay Alan would find it a bit funny... Scott- She said: “This book sounds horrific. It is the complete antithesis of what Barrie thought and put on paper.

“Barrie’s work is all about the magic of childhood and this new book is a pollution of that.

“I would support any measures which would stop it appearing on shelves.”

As a relative of J.M. Barrie’s, I’m a tad ambivalent about the whole thing myself. But I don’t really feel like Lost Girls takes anything away from the original book, and I understand where Alan Moore is coming from. In the end, it’s all fiction, and as I make my living through the good graces of the marketplace in fiction, I don’t support banning the book from shelves. If you’re really upset, just make a porno out of Roscoe Moscow. I daresay Alan would find it a bit funny…

Scott-

]]> by: Katie Moody http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/07/kibbles-n-bits-172008/#comment-686539 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:41:53 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/07/kibbles-n-bits-172008/#comment-686539 [i]She said: “This book sounds horrific."[/i] Revealing that she has yet to read a page of it ... and surprising no one. [i]She said: “This book sounds horrific.”[/i]

Revealing that she has yet to read a page of it … and surprising no one.

]]> by: Katherine Keller http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/07/kibbles-n-bits-172008/#comment-686423 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:06:22 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/07/kibbles-n-bits-172008/#comment-686423 <i>She said: “This book sounds horrific. It is the complete antithesis of what Barrie thought and put on paper. “Barrie’s work is all about the magic of childhood and this new book is a pollution of that. </i> Because there is nothing subtexutal at all in Peter Pan ~snerk! ~ Because works (including the classics) must never questioned or reinterpreted in any way shape or form. Because the ways in which meaning is made is a one way flow from the Author into the Reader's brain, not a collaboration in which the writer puts down information which is left up to the reader's interpretation. She said: “This book sounds horrific. It is the complete antithesis of what Barrie thought and put on paper.

“Barrie’s work is all about the magic of childhood and this new book is a pollution of that.

Because there is nothing subtexutal at all in Peter Pan ~snerk!
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Because works (including the classics) must never questioned or reinterpreted in any way shape or form.

Because the ways in which meaning is made is a one way flow from the Author into the Reader’s brain, not a collaboration in which the writer puts down information which is left up to the reader’s interpretation.

]]> by: mario boon http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/07/kibbles-n-bits-172008/#comment-685879 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 14:58:27 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/07/kibbles-n-bits-172008/#comment-685879 Somehow I think Chip Zdarsky was at the MArvel offices the day OMD was released. Somehow I think Chip Zdarsky was at the MArvel offices the day OMD was released.

]]> by: Paul O'Brien http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/07/kibbles-n-bits-172008/#comment-685758 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:34:09 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/01/07/kibbles-n-bits-172008/#comment-685758 I dread to think how many people the Scotsman tried to get a negative comment from before they ended up phoning up a local historian in Kirriemuir. I dread to think how many people the Scotsman tried to get a negative comment from before they ended up phoning up a local historian in Kirriemuir.

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