RDR, Warner and JK Rowling head to court on March 24th to try and settle the HP Lexicon issue, according to the Guardian. Fingers crossed for RDR but methinks there is an awful lot of miscommunication and spin. As John Craice writes, whoever loses will appeal but I suspect that the ultimate loser will be […]
Should creators necessarily listen to fans and adjust creations according to comments?
io9 (via Holly Black) has a piece on the art of fan husbandry in response to Russell Davies comments that he doesn’t want to listen to fans so breaking a cardinal rule - don’t insult or flatter them. To be fair, it does appear […]
This afternoon as break from what I was doing, I searched for Nazgul on Google as I was curious as to who else had used the Nazgul type creature in either book or film and came across this wonderful story about Snoopy and the Nazgul. (Before anybody says it, yes its old but it still […]
Warren Ellis’s Freakangels created a community site, Whitechapel, which is well worth a delve around if you have the time and like Ellis. As you’d expect, it is becoming a luscious engine for finding yet more stuff to while away the hours research on the ‘Net.
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J.K. Rowling has really done it now. Dumbledore gay? Meh only news and comment for sadly deluded individuals who see somebody’s sexuality as shocking. However her recent lawsuit against RDR Books and Steve VanderArk’s print edition of the Harry Potter Lexicon is truly astounding.
Steve VanderArk who runs the incomparable Harry Potter Lexicon and who spoke […]
I’ve just come across this Simpsons meets Star Wars spoof lovingly prepared by a guy named Rich Cando. It looks like there are a few more of the around as well. At under a minute, its about the right length and the cae that he’s taken over the creation is wonderful.
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The Comparative Media Studies course at MIT has placed it theses on fandom online. Some aren’t linked but there are some interesting studies on there. The course is taught by Henry Jenkins, to whom I’ve linked before and who is a raging super fan of things.
It also intrigues me because I’d like to see the […]
Having signed up a year ago, Recombination very nearly overtook me. I haven’t been back to Cambridge (bar a quick meeting) for about fifteen years but it hasn’t changed much at all. I met up with Ian Whates of Newcon Press who was launching disLocations (of which more in the next couple of days). I […]
Bill Burns over at eFanzines has alerted me to the existence of Greg Pickersgill’s Can’t Get off the Island, a collection of his fannish writings which the fearless (and I assume knackered given the amount of things they are involved in) Mark Plummer and Claire Briarley have put together.
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The Voices of Fandom site has a new podcast which includes a fan-history of Las Vegrants, Corflu Silver News, an interview with Ross Chamberlain about his book Angel Without Wings, some music and some humour. Hosted by Bill Mills. Program time: 31:57
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