Mike Gold, COMICMIX.com editor, co-founder: Mr. Media Interview

Image via WikipediaRemember when convenience stores had spinning racks with signs at the top that shouted, “Hey, Kid! Comics!”?

Actually, I barely remember that myself, it’s been so long. Finding comic books hasn’t been easy since the late 1970s. And the comic book companies don’t even make the real dough from the so-called 32-page “pamphlets” anymore. The real money is in selling characters to the movies or as toys.

So what’s a guy to do if he just wants the simple pleasure of reading a comic book?

Fire up the web browser and head for ComicMix.com.

ComicMix is all things to all people, publishing online comic books as well as being a one-stop shop for comics news and views.

Joining me to day is one of the three founders of ComicMix.com, a veteran of DC Comics himself, Mike Gold.

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Frank Miller, Don't Read This, Part 5

Reaction to the Sunday New York Times story about Frank Miller's Will Eisner's The Spirit film, this posted on the popular site "ComicMix.com." This is just one, but I picked it out because Mike Gold is well known among comics pros for his many years working at DC. I also interviewed him for my biography, Will Eisner: A Spirited Life, and I know of his devotion to Eisner:

Mike Gold (11:31 AM on Tue Jul 22, 2008)
I can live with eliminating Ebony -- he's a difficult character to get across today, to say the least. But despite my affection for Frank's work, everything I've seen promoting this movie, including the most recent trailer, makes me very, very trepidatious.

I can understand the studio promoting it as Sin City The Masked Generation, but after a couple of trailers and lots of ads and convention stuff, as an Eisner fan I'm worried. I'm with Mike Weber: everything I've heard and read about Ellison's screenplay (including from Harlan's numerous mentions) makes me wish somebody with a similar approach made the movie.

But wait -- there's more! On Heidi MacDonald's PWComics blog, "The Beat," the vitriol keeps flowing...

1. toby Says:
   07/21/08 at 12:54 pm

   It’s official. Frank Miller has become the M. Night Shyamalan of comics.

   Just the mention of his name incites nothing but vitriol from fans these days. Not that I’m any kind of Miller fan, but I can’t help feeling bad for him (and M. Night.)

   When/How did this happen? What was the turning point? I still remember the days when nothing but hyperbolic praise would flow at the mention of Miller. It was that interview he did for NPR when he rambled incoherently about 9/11, wasn’t it?