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Collected As Found: Links and Items Relevant to the Neilalien Dr. Strange Weblog Before He Started Blogging

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Look Up On The Net! It's...Cyber Comics [Time.com link lives but must pay to see it now]
Stan Lee takes The 7th Portal and Backstreet Boys online. Good piece. Written during the heyday of Stan Lee Media, when it peaked at a value of 311 million bucks while Marvel Comics' value was 197 million bucks.

Dated 14 February 02000

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Chunks of comic book history have vanished; Steranko's SHIELD: "Stan Lee/Jack Kirby action comics as imagined by Warhol's Factory" [Warren Ellis' Come In Alone]

Dated 4 February 02000

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"Grant [Morrison] has the single vital ingredient for good superhero comics- unrestrained, childlike madness" [Warren Ellis' Come In Alone]

Dated 28 January 02000

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Comics don't need saving- but direct market comic shops do [Warren Ellis' Come In Alone]

Dated 31 December 01999

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Comics are a solitary experience; there's nothing else to show people who checked out Maus [Warren Ellis' Come In Alone]

Dated 10 December 01999

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Calling Dr. Strange [IGN link dead]
Angry Films announces acquiring the film rights to Doc.

Dated 11 November 01999

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Brilliant Careers: Stan Lee [Salon]

Lee is a modern myth-maker.

Dated 17 August 01999

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We need to start publishing really interesting comics [Steven Grant's 2nd Master Of The Obvious column at Comic Book Resources]

Let's review: kids play videogames = comics aren't interesting. There are no entry level comics = comics aren't interesting. Comics are too complicated = comics aren't interesting [I've watched 9 year olds studiously memorize the name of every known Pokemon, as well as their battle attacks and various other data...]... As for newsstands, the comics business didn't abandon the newsstand for the direct market. The direct market was created because the newsstand abandoned us.

Dated 10 August 01999

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Ink Blot [Suck]

The most compelling serial in American comic books right now is the industry's attempt to save itself from its ongoing crash and burn. The villains are the overgrown fanboys who've poisoned the industry by pandering to their own nostalgia. And the heroes? Well, we're all punching our signal watches and hoping Licensing Man shows up in time.

Dated 26 July 01999

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Walt Simonson Interview [Fanzing 15]

Continuity is a good servant but a poor master.

Dated March 01999

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Where are the "Female-Friendly" Comics? [Sequential Tart]

Dated February 01999

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Stan Lee: The Original Web Spinner [Wired]

Dated 21 January 01999

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Roger Stern Interview [B-Independent.com]

Dated 1 August 01998

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What's In A Name? - Captains, Doctors and Misters [Comic Book Conundrum]

Dated 8 May 01998

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Street Cred: Marvelously Tooned [Wired]
Love for Coober Skeber.

Dated 2 December 01997

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Stan Lee: Comic Guru by Michael Goldman [Animation World Magazine, Issue 2.4]

Dated July 01997

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Checking In With Stan Lee [Westfield Comics]
An interview about the Excelsior Comics imprint that ended up being DOA.

Dated 10 October 01995

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