Question: Does the fact that more comix are being made into movies

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

(big budget) say that the literacy of the American consumer has gone South?

I got into an argument with a guy once about this when I was an English major with high hopes. I was terribly abusive and did not win or lose the argument.

I was later told that I was arguing with the one of the two creators of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

All I can say for sure at this point is where the money is.

LOL.

[htuttle]

1. Which one?

Eastman or Laird?

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. Eastman....

We were both drinking heavily at the time.

(Neat side fact: (Dr.) Tim Leary was there on my side at the table.

It was at a Dragon Con in the early 90's where I was the media liaison.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. No it simply means the Hollywood movie mediocrity machine has fixated

on comix as the latest easy way to generate movies without being creative, along with endless sequels. So we will have to continue to look towards independent films for new ideas and original scripts and stories.

[iconoclastic cat]

3. Many people believe that both graphic fiction and video/film are text

I plan to use both as a way to engage the non-readers in my classroom. My ideas might turn our to be wrong, but I do plan to give it a shot. If I can turn one of those students into a reader, than that is one more student with a chance.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. I would hope you Will give homage to the people who went before in the

genre (WITHOUT) pictures such as H. Rider Hagard, Burroughs and London.

Took romance/adventure to the paradigm that today's comic book heroes populate.

[iconoclastic cat]

6. Would you send some titles/authors my way?

Thanks!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. King Solomon's Mines and She by Haggard,

Any of the Tarzan books by Burroughs or the Conan series.

London (Jack) had a lot of early short stories that dealt with the fantastic of which I can't remember a single title, but do remember him pretty much describing an atomic bomb 30 years before the fact.

I guess you can go all the way back to Beowulf and various mythologies fore that matter.