On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Steve Lieber mentioned on BlueSky recently that the comics artform and industry alike can benefit from an updating of this page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150415200242/http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/lists/lists_and_links/30269/

I mentioned in reply that I could probably make some time to update the Ottawa-Gatineau section. Sadly, we lost Suzanne Marsden three years ago, and the Ottawa Comix Jam sessions were her Big Project of keeping the community connected to itself and the larger city and comics creators' community of North America.

Writers, artists of all branch-disciplines, and so on...

More on this to come, I think.

...somewhere here on Dreamwidth.

I can't remember who it is that said it, and I want to credit them for the inspiration.

It was radiantfracture, and thank you for that!

So.

Martin died Sunday night and I found out late Monday. Other people knew him better than I did. I was one of a few hundred friendly semi-regular acquaintances of his on Facebook. I enjoyed some of his comics writing, and probably some of his TV scripting too without making the connection until today.

Oh, and I got reminded by the various obits of this: he started out Canadian. Born in Québec under another name.

It still hurts.

Glad I knew him at all, though.

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marty-pasko-writer-on-superman-doctor-fate-and-roseanne-dies-at-65/

A conclusion I've reached after watching this week's episode...

Something I'd be glad to start seeing on The Flash?

In the credits: "Based on the series created by Gardner Fox, Harry Lampert and Carmine Infantino".

Could that happen at some point in 2016?

As suspected, part of a larger pattern:

http://comicsbeat.com/lets-get-this-straight-dc-is-anti-marriage-not-anti-gay-marriage/

Since there's this ongoing "concern" about characters looking too old, a lot of longstanding marriages of other characters got retconned away by the Flashpoint mini-series back in 2011.

This looks to be just part of a continuing pattern. If it's not ageism on their part in itself, it's fear of the ageism lurking in the hearts of their readership (and in the case of TV and cinema spinoff projects, viewership as well).

There's a lot of reasons why I picked up Astro City...and I'm thinking this is one of them.