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"Courtney's" Big Break
A film version of Ted Naifeh's "Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things" is in the works with Fox 2000 and New Regency, with Graham Tallman set to write the script. Comic, published by Oni Press, tells the tale of a girl who finds a creepy world of ghouls and goblins in her uncle's house. Tallman made the film "Lollipops," which was shown at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival and is a recent grad of the AFI.
VILLAINS LET LOOSE: Actress Kirsten Dunst revealed in an interview at Zap2it that Venom and Sandman will be the bad guys in "Spider-Man 3," which starts shooting in January. Story says she was shaky on who would play which character, but it looks like Topher Grace will play Venom and Thomas Hayden Church will be Sandman.
SPX DOINGS: Looks like plenty of fun was had last weekend at the Small Press Expo. The biggest announcement came from Carla Speed McNeil, who says her self-published series "Finder" will go web-only for serial publication after issue 38. The web stories will continue to be collected into trade paperback form. "Finder" is often cited as the best comic out there that no one buys or reads and in fact it won an Ignatz Award at the show. Here's the full list of Ignatz winners:
- Outstanding artist: David B., for "Epileptic" (Pantheon), Babel (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Outstanding anthology or collection: "Diary of a Mosquito Abatement Man," by John Porcellino (La Mano)
- Outstanding graphic novel: "Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return," by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)
- Outstanding story: "Dogs and Water," by Anders Nilsen (Drawn and Quarterly)
- Promising new talent: Andy Runton, for "Owly" (Top Shelf Productions)
- Outstanding series: "Finder," by Carla Speed McNeil (Lightspeed Press)
- Outstanding comic: "Or Else #1," by Kevin Huizenga (Drawn & Quarterly)
- Outstanding minicomic: "Phase 7," by Alec Longstreth (Self-published)
- Outstanding online comic: "The Perry Bible Fellowship," by Nicholas Gurewitch
- Outstanding debut: "Will You Still Love Me If I Wet The Bed?" by Liz Prince (Top Shelf Productions)
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Count me among the people who rave about FINDER. McNeil is a spectacularly gifted cartoonist with great art chops. and a real knack for inventive, but clear, page layout. She's also a hell of a writer and creates characters that leave the impression that their lives are going to continue long after you finish an issue.
I'm not sure when her big move to the web is, but she's already got some complete issues up on the web for free at her site: http://lightspeedpress.com
Posted by: Steve Lieber | September 28, 2005 at 02:34 AM
Mistyped that url. This should work:
http://www.lightspeedpress.com/
Posted by: Steve Lieber | September 28, 2005 at 02:36 AM