If anyone is a fan of Bill Willingham's The Sandman Presents "The Thessaliad", he has written a sequel (first issue came out this week) called "Thessaly: Witch for Hire". It's off to a promising start.
Glad to hear it. I met Bill at a small con back when he was doing the Elementals (mumble-mumble years ago -- Good God, it's how many?), he is a real hoot. He and George R. R. Martin got everyone telling Most Embarrassing Moments stories. George's was hilarious. Good times.
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Bill Willingham is currently undergoing a sort of renaissance at DC.
His Vertigo title, Fables, is very popular, and he was just given the DC superhero title, Robin, last month.
Be interesting to see what he does with that...
Thanks all. I definitely went for the comic book Tales compendium, which I heard has an additional Fray story, so all is good.
Is he behind the new "Monolith" series that's coming out?
Is he behind the new "Monolith" series that's coming out?
I'm fiddling with a sidebar for the book on indie-comics and music crossovers. So far I've got:
Victor Banana's sdtrk for Like Velvet Glove Cast In Iron
Dame D'arcy singles
Aimee Mann's "Ghost World" song.
I seem to remember Alan Moore doing something for V for Vendetta. "This Vicious Cabaret"? Something like that.
Anything else come to mind? I'm trying to stick to indie comics here since there are a berjillion Superman songs.
I don't believe so. It is a DC mainstream title that has as its major influence the Jewish golem stories, rather than elementals...
There are several indie comix types in Boston who are also musicians. Ron Rege, P Shaw, and Jef Czekaj immediately come to mind. I'm sure there are others.
the tpb of "V for Vendetta" has the sheet music for The Viscious Cabaret. Don't know if it's ever been performed.
I just thought I'd mention that
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#7 and
Tales of the Vam.pires
#3 is supposed to be in the stores this week.
Tales
includes a Dracula story written by Ultimate Drew, a Jane Espenson story, and Joss' framing story of the kid watchers meeting their first vampire. I have the theory that (speculation)
the outspoken girl watcher will end up being Giles' grandmother.