The PopCulteer
February 17, 2012
Your PopCulteer brings you more comics news, including yet another discussion of comic book creator’s rights, plus an interactive website launch based on one of our previous Cool Comics, and news of a surprise wrestling event and this month’s edition of Dr. Sketchy’s.
Starstruck Like You’ve Never Seen It
Today, a new website devoted to Elaine Lee and Michael Kaluta’s graphic novel “Starstruck“, goes live. “Starstruck,” based on a stage play written by Lee, Susan Norfleet and Dale Place in the early ’80’s, has a thirty year publishing history, but was most recently presented in a re-mastered format as a thirteen issue mini-series and deluxe hardcover by IDW Publishing. There’s also a really cool audio comic adaptation as well.I raved about the comic here (scroll down), and the audiocomic here.
For more on the website, we will quote directly from Elaine Lee, “The purpose of this site is to try and reach new audience outside “the comics ghetto.” By this I mean the huge number of people who are interested in science fiction, space opera and web comics, but who have never walked into a comic shop.
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