Comments on: Short Takes 3/25 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/03/25/short-takes-325/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:54:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Kat Kan http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/03/25/short-takes-325/#comment-1112521 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:22:02 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/03/25/short-takes-325/#comment-1112521 My mantra when I present workshops and speak at library conferences is "It's a FORMAT not a GENRE!" and make everyone repeat after me a few times. Yeah. I posted a comment about it at Ridley's blog. My mantra when I present workshops and speak at library conferences is “It’s a FORMAT not a GENRE!” and make everyone repeat after me a few times. Yeah. I posted a comment about it at Ridley’s blog.

]]> by: Lea http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/03/25/short-takes-325/#comment-1111556 Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:06:45 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2008/03/25/short-takes-325/#comment-1111556 I'm not impressed that neither NPR's John Ridley nor Jodi Picoult know the difference between medium and genre. Jodi Picoult: "'In all the years that I've been writing – 15 years now – there's only one genre that's really debuted in the 'New York Times Book Review,' and that's the graphic novel.'" John Ridley: "'Whedon says Dark Horse allowed him to "plumb the depths" of the Buffy story in a new genre, and also introduced him to what he calls "a different kind of fandom.'" Jodi Picoult's been off Wonder Woman for how long? Writing comics just fell into the lap of a successful TV writer? My favorite stunning (by which I mean TIRED) revelation is that prose writers find out that their thinking, "Comics? How hard could they be?" is an invitation for a hubris ass-whippin'. I’m not impressed that neither NPR’s John Ridley nor Jodi Picoult know the difference between medium and genre.

Jodi Picoult:
“‘In all the years that I’ve been writing – 15 years now – there’s only one genre that’s really debuted in the ‘New York Times Book Review,’ and that’s the graphic novel.’”

John Ridley:
“‘Whedon says Dark Horse allowed him to “plumb the depths” of the Buffy story in a new genre, and also introduced him to what he calls “a different kind of fandom.’”

Jodi Picoult’s been off Wonder Woman for how long? Writing comics just fell into the lap of a successful TV writer?

My favorite stunning (by which I mean TIRED) revelation is that prose writers find out that their thinking, “Comics? How hard could they be?” is an invitation for a hubris ass-whippin’.

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