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it's friday already
May. 10th, 2013 10:54 amThe weeks have been whizzing by. It's already time for TCAF, the Toronto Comics Arts Festival, downtown at the main branch of the public library. It's a free show. The main floor of the library is taken over by displays and exhibitors and author signings, and upstairs they have halls full of small press comics, and there are talks and panels and the Doug Wright Awards, this year being hosted by Scott Thompson from "Kids In The Hall". The guest lineup is impressive: Jaime & Gilbert Hernandez, Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly, Bill "Foxtrot" Amend, Taiyo Matsumoto, Chip Kidd, Lisa Hanawalt, Kate Beaton, Ivan Brunetti, Andrew "Homestuck" Hussie, Michael Kupperman, Ken Steacy, Adam Warren, KC "Gunshow Comic" Green, and a whole boatload of others. If you're anywhere near Toronto you're stupid not to come. It's free.
Anyway, this week there is an upcoming Audi commercial, I mean Star Trek movie, and so that means that Mister Kitty spends some time highlighting Star Trek in story and song. First up is Leonard Nimoy who blesses us with his voice.
I love that LP sleeve art. How could you not love it? Then, we have a comic-book exploration of what it would be like if the Star Trek cast were teenagers in some kind of outer-space high school. And since everyone's names have been changed by one vowel, it's a parody and Paramount won't sue anybody.
Honestly this is not the worst Star Trek parody comic in the world. A fanzine or an APA would be a fine and appropriate place for it. But as a single issue professionally published and distributed comic book, it wiggles around too much on the fine line between parody, homage, and the legally actionable. Paramount has been really, really, really lax on stuff like this over the years - you'll notice nobody is publishing similar parody Star Wars comics, because Lucas will cease and desist your ass.
Anyway, this week there is an upcoming Audi commercial, I mean Star Trek movie, and so that means that Mister Kitty spends some time highlighting Star Trek in story and song. First up is Leonard Nimoy who blesses us with his voice.
I love that LP sleeve art. How could you not love it? Then, we have a comic-book exploration of what it would be like if the Star Trek cast were teenagers in some kind of outer-space high school. And since everyone's names have been changed by one vowel, it's a parody and Paramount won't sue anybody.
Honestly this is not the worst Star Trek parody comic in the world. A fanzine or an APA would be a fine and appropriate place for it. But as a single issue professionally published and distributed comic book, it wiggles around too much on the fine line between parody, homage, and the legally actionable. Paramount has been really, really, really lax on stuff like this over the years - you'll notice nobody is publishing similar parody Star Wars comics, because Lucas will cease and desist your ass.
