Day: September 30, 2005

I was about to refer you folks to comicbookresources.com where there’s a nice article about “Fallen Angel,” complete with more artwork from issue #1. And there, on the same page, is a diatribe from Erik Larsen that angrily scolds creators who merely work on company-owned characters rather than on characters they themselves own–which, technically when you get down to it, includes Lee, Kirby, Ditko, Buscema, etc., since everything they created was company owned…just as any characters created for those same titles now are company owned. Yet in the world of Erik Larsen, creators who labor only in the company owned field are “pûššìëš,” resting on their “fat áššëš” and failing to “show (Erik) what (they’ve) got.”

Now I haven’t bothered with Larsen’s previous columns, despite his swipes at me (and his oh-so-clever use of “But I digress” for transitions.) But the combination of blind irony and blatant hypocrisy on this one, I just have to address…

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As those of you who read my wife’s web log know, she is currently stage-managing a new play called “Most Happy.” The play is a showcase in New York City and the first show for the new Unofficial New York Yale Cabaret. Kathleen explained to me that the Yale Cabaret is the graduate student run theater at the Yale School of Drama and this theater company was formed by a number of alumni of the school. Compared to ticket prices for other shows in New York, this is very reasonable.

For more information on the show and ticket prices
Most Happy Information

You can also see her millinery skills since she is making tudor-style hats for the show.