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Category Archives: Soap Box
Fraggles & Pirates: Self-Promotion Link-Blogging
Fellow Fraggle writer Adrianne Ambrose, who wrote two stories in the first Fraggle Rock comics run, interviews me about Labyrinth, Fraggles and life at her blog. I hope you’ll check it out. Meanwhile, at About.com’s manga page, Deb Aoki transcribes … Continue reading
Dear Manga, a Postscript
Yesterday manga publishers in Japan and the US announced a coalition to combat manga piracy. Thanks to aggregation sites like onemanga, scanlations (a portmanteau of scan and translations) have become the most flagrant form of piracy on the net since … Continue reading
Cheap as “e”
In today’s New York Times, there’s an interesting article on e-reading consumers resistance to books priced above the $9.99 standard price point that Amazon has established. What surpised me is that in the case of new releases otherwise only in … Continue reading
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Five Secrets to Better Fantasy Films
Hollywood loves fantasy — movies about beautiful princesses, ghoulish monsters and super-powered heroes are never in short supply. So why is it that fantasy, a genre that should stir our imagination, give us nightmares or make us think, are so … Continue reading
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Certified Fresh and Rotten Apples
A few posts back I wrote about my frustration with the games industry for encouraging a monoculture where niche titles have a hard time finding an audience. I mentioned how music and movies have done a much better job with … Continue reading
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