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Bill C-11 – The Canadian SOPABy Hervé St-LouisIn Canada, Bills replace the colourful acronyms of bills being considered into law. Some might say that this naming convention is boring and typically Canadian. However, some bills can have a history of their own and just like the American acronyms can come to mean a lot to many people. One of the most famous bill in Canadian history has to be Bill – 101 in the Province of Quebec about the French laws and society. So far, Bill C-11 has had little effects on me, although normally it should. I’m a veteran of the Canadian copyrights debates and have written about both that at length before I lent some of my time fighting SOPA, better known as the Stop Online Piracy Act on behalf of Americans. Bill C-11 is the fourth attempt by the current Conservative government to adopt a copyrights law at the behest of international treaty obligations... Read More |
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Stories, Counter-Stories, and Comic BooksBy Dan HornI was planning on delivering a different sort of editorial this week, one that examined the various merits of Eric Stephenson's Image Comics regime. It's truly a wonderful time to be a reader of independent comic books, and Image has, in recent years, become the champion of creative autonomy and that autonomy's profound impact on comic book content. It's difficult not to be enamored with many of the often lamentably obscured titles that Image Comics has been steadily churning out en masse. However, a number of things have been weighing on me recently, and I've channeled all of it into a comprehensive argument against the prejudicial editorial and marketing practices of DC and Marvel, something that will immediately seem quite divergent from the adulation of Image Comics. Perhaps after reading this, though, you, the reader, will better understand the true importance of a new counter-culture, a counter-narrative if you will,... Read More |
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Watchmen & Comics CannibalismBy Zak EdwardsAfter reading some very obviously prepared and unoriginal statements over at Newsarama from the creators working on these Watchmen prequels, I have some more thoughts on the Before Watchmen event, as it has now been called, and the arguments for its existence. But before we get started, I highly recommend... Read More |
ComicBook Bin Podcast February 1 2012By Hervé St-LouisThis week's podcast with Dan Horn @dan_horn and Hervé St-Louis @ladventurer discuss the Watchmen Prequel, Starbucks, and is Alan Moore a hypocrite?... Read More |