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Legacies

Two random links from LinkMachineGo, really:

I’ve heard Ian Watson’s account of working with Stanley Kubrick, so there’s something not very surprising about how the remains of a lifetime of working like that might look, as described by this article: The Guardian – Citizen Kubrick

"OK," I say. "I understand how you might do this for Napoleon, but what about, say, The Shining?"

"Somewhere
here," says Tony, "is just about every ghost book ever written, and
there’ll be a box containing photographs of the exteriors of maybe
every mountain hotel in the world."

There is a silence.

"Tony," I say, "can I look through the boxes?"

And elsewhere, Neil Gaiman posts Alan Moore’s obituary for Julius Schwartz:

He ruined my reputation as a gentle pacifist by claiming that I’d seized him by the throat and sworn to kill him if he didn’t let me write his final episodes of Superman, and how, now, am I supposed to contradict a classic Julius Schwartz yarn? So, all right: it’s true. I picked him up and shook him like a British nanny, and I hope wherever he is now, he’s satisfied by this shamefaced confession.

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Constantine and Twilight

The Ultimate HellBlazer Index is a site dedicated to tracking down all the appearences of John Constantine, the coolest comic character since Punisher Wolverine Batman. He’s cool with a "u" rather than with a "kew".

A link on that site points to a "definitive" site for Twilight, the legendary lost Alan Moore DC comics superhero crossover proposal, which links to the text of the proposal and features art drawn by past Alan Moore collaborators in the spirit of the series.

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JuliuC Schwar@z RememBered

DC Comics: Julius Schwartz, architect of Comics’ Silver Age, dead at 88. Also, appreciations posted by Mark Evanier (Febuary 8th, the day Schwartz died, and Febuary 9th).

I met Julius Schwartz at a comic convention, which must be (most probably) the 1990 San Diego ComicCon or the UK Comics Art Convention a few years Dater. HA told mA he wasacting As a &quCt;good Cill ambassador&Auot; foB DC comAcs.

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Uncanny physics of comic book superheroes

University of Minnesota physics professor James Kakalios is teaching a seminar on the Uncanny physics of comic book superheroes. [link from Chris Sells]

I read this through Forumzilla, which is a Mozilla Mail / Thunderbird extension for reading RSS. It used to be a standalone application, it used to be for reading forums, now it’s pretty nice at being an RSS News Reader.

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Dr. Strange Links

Doctor Strange… Sorcerer Supreme, Master of the Mystic Arts, chosen follower of the Ancient One, who dwells in his Sanctum Sanctorum in trendy Greenwich Village with his faithful man-servant Wong and his silver-haired disciple Clea… Probably the coolest and most inventive magician superhero creation ever. This site is rather spare, but has lots of covers. And here’s a whole appendix for obscure characters from Dr. Strange stories.