C2E2: Waid and Willingham Attempt To "Fix Comics"

[CBR News]

Writers and political opposites Mark Waid and Bill Willingham discuss a wide range of topics including cosplay, minority voices, politics and more.


Full article here.

[Ed Love]

Writers and political opposites Mark Waid and Bill Willingham discuss a wide range of topics including cosplay, minority voices, politics and more.


Full article here.

Seeing as how the Black Panther is NOT an African-American, he's a monarch of Africa and of a nation that's pretty much a fantasy nation, it's like saying you cannot write Doctor Doom unless you're Polish-American. Your're not going to find a writer that reflects his cultural identity because it doesn't exist.

And, completely disagree about copyrights. They came about to protect the creative. See, originally a writer could write something and the next thing he knows, his characters are being used in dime novels, sequels, etc. This happened with Don Quixote leading Cervantes to write his own sequel and killing the character off in the end. The lack of international copyright lead to the likes of Sherlock Holmes, Captain Nemo, and Raffles appearing in stories by other writers in other countries as well as cheap knock offs of the works of Dickens such as "A Christmas Carol". The fact that copyrights were originally limited, subject to deliberate and paid-for renewals after about a generation had passed, was a way to balance the right of creative people and the original publishers to profit on their creations, and the understanding that art and science is built upon the past and thus, the past should belong to us after a fixed amount of time. Heck, there was even a loophole for unpublished works, they remained in copyright perpetually to the creator and heirs until published. The oldest work under original copyright are some letters written by a founding father that were found almost 200 years later and published. It's really not until the 20th Century where the idea of corporate ownership of copyrights really took hold and the idea that a character's story might still be profitable decades after the original publication.

[Stazz]

If Waid dislikes Superman in a more realistic setting so much, why did he write him into one in "Birthright"? A story I love by the way, which opens Clark's story with him in Africa reporting on a story about tribal-related disputes with the Government, which has a part where Superman reacts to a school shooting and takes the time to explain how the Clark Kent disguise works. Whether he admits it or not, Man of Steel is probably greatly INFLUENCED by his own work.

[alientraveller]

He knows that, in fact we was quite effusive when the trailer showed they used his idea that the Superman symbol is Kryptonian for hope. Doesn't mean he has to care for the actual film.