Comics, poetry, and saying goodbye to Season 3.
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Warning: We curse in this episode. Dick Grayson is DC’s pinup boy and we’re not mad about it.
The news this week:
Comic book companies raise prices as the pinch of inflation continues. Creators and industry leaders have mixed feelings: https://screenrant.com/comics-expensive-price-economy-indie-publishers/
BABE WAKE UP! NEW COMIC BOOK FORMAT JUST DROPPED: https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/96545-dc-launches-vertical-scroll-webtoon-series-dc-go.html
The new B&N is expanding: good news for book lovers: https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/stories/barnes-and-noble-open-60-new-locations-this-year
People "prefer" ChatGPT's poetry in snappy headline... but what does that actually mean?
https://view.e.bookriot.com/?qs=a677d0d3b0be70c8f4462ba6f5262de712c5ffe6945a32f415b3648729e6fbb181d0699668adcd0281cc5b272f6659fe310502a54918dc7222243e862e975b2dcfaec1247d162c5df73be5a920343fcc442872aa04b3712c
Meanwhile, Kali looked into other ChatGPT poems and found that some weren’t really that bad. (She especially liked “the applicant”: https://lithub.com/i-asked-chatgpt-to-write-its-own-versions-of-iconic-poems-and-they-are-not-great/
Cozy fiction not cozy enough for you? What if we went a step further and added a literal cozy cat? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/books/healing-fiction-japan-korea-before-the-coffee-gets-cold.html
The new administration has a history of being hostile to educational institutions and libraries. Here is a roundup from an anti-censorship book blogger on what we can do to support our local libraries and literary organizations: https://bookriot.com/how-to-fight-book-bans-and-censorship-in-2024/
I'm a nice lady so here are some helpful links:
Baltimore County Board minutes and agendas: https://www.bcpl.info/about-us/board-trustees
Baltimore Banner's page on books: https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/topic/culture/books/
I just thought this was neat: a publishing company brought a book back into print because a movie producer used it for research, and then they promoted the book’s re-release in a trailer in front of the movie: https://www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?issue=4865&share=true#m65933
Our favorite news section: marginalized peoples killin it in publishing
"Larson, a journalism professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, spent nearly a decade examining how the unique aspects of Romancelandia led romance writers to thrive in the self-publishing era. A survey Larson conducted found the genre’s authors saw their median income surge 73% between 2009 and 2014, while the median income of all authors fell 42%. In the same period, the median income of romance authors of color increased 150%, compared to 63% for white writers." (https://janefriedman.com/romance-authors-thrive-in-the-self-publishing-era/)
Kali is reading some ASoIaF fanfic, and she’s loving it: https://archiveofourown.org/works/53155222/chapters/134498068
Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
03:51 - New Comics Format
10:35 - Pricier Comics Issues
18:18 - B&N Is OK
23:29 - Robot Poetry?
29:06 - Healing Fantasy
32:01 - Help Books Now
34:10 - Movie Book Inspo
37:59 - Celebrations
41:35 - Kali is Reading...
45:10 - Coda
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