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Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · 2d

In case you missed it last week, my novel, The Strawman, was released unto the world! For a preview and where to buy, just click the link:

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Cover of The Strawman novel by Glen Cadigan

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you, sir! New this week, for lovers of horror, mystery, and thrillers! #FridayReads

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Cover of The Strawman novel by Glen Cadigan

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Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 5d

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Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you, sir!

Alex Segura @alexsegura.bsky.social · 9d

Happiest of pub days to good pal @glencadigan.bsky.social! His creepy new novel, THE STRAWMAN, is out today! If you dig urban legends, true crime, and haunting prose, this one's for you.

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Jim Cuddy @jimcuddyofficial.bsky.social · Mar 7

Hello folks. Jim Cuddy here. Due to our troubles with our neighbours in The States, I was inspired to write a little song. It’s called “We Used to Be the Best of Friends”. youtu.be/b5jgJZWG7aY?...
#USA #Canada #Tarrifs

Jim Cuddy "We Used to Be the Best of Friends"

YouTube video by Jim Cuddy

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Feb 28

With a couple of weeks left for people to nominate in the #HugoAwards , I'd like to remind everyone that my biography of Edmond Hamilton, "Writer of Two Worlds" (in Alter Ego # 187) is eligible in Best Related Work.

Cover of Alter Ego # 187 showing Edmond Hamilton and the Legion of Super-Heroes.

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Dec 1

Joe Quesada paid him a personal visit, promised to give him credit in the indicia, then Collected Editions forgot, Moore flipped out, and that was that.

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AICN COMICS: CROSSGEN News and The Alan Moore/Marvel Controversy!!

Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab. I'm trying to ease back into my editorial duties here at AICN. At the same time, I'm trying to figure out exactly how I am going to fak...

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Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Dec 1

My memory is Moore was upset with Marvel over his Captain Britain work because he said they only ever bought first use rights to his scripts, so he was still the copyright owner, not them. Until they acknowledged that, he wouldn't work for them again.

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

PM/IF! Red Tornado! Last JLA/JSA team-up! LWW! Marvel Age! Jean Grey isn't dead!

I read all your stuff when it was new before Marvels, but I was a kid, so I didn't connect any of it with a single human being. Not unlike some editors, I suppose!

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

It worked out for you!

Wonder Woman cover by Trina Robbins.

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

Hang on! I thought they bought WW outright, years ago!

Also, would reprints of WW have kept their original contract valid, or did they need to produce new material?

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

So why can't Doubleday publish a new Carrie book without Stephen King if they hold the copyright, and why does it say (c) Stephen King and not (c) Doubleday, if DD is holding the copyright? Is this just a comics vs books thing, or a legal thing?

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

Publishing Carrie doesn't give them the right to make Carrie II without Stephen King, though. It's (c) Stephen King, whereas Watchmen is listed as (c) DC Comics, not Moore & Gibbons under license to DC. Always thought DC has the copyright, then have to transfer it to M&G if it goes out of print.

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

Well, there was that. He lost all leverage with that announcement. But I mean they would publish it without owning the copyright, which is the norm with novels. Still reprint it, still make money, keep it in print, just not own the copyright.

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

Could've kept publishing Watchmen without owning it, if money was all they were after.

Tomorrow when I wake up, I'll think I dreamed this whole conversation!

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

Technically, DC didn't do anything wrong. But they would've been better off making Moore happy since there was more money in more comics by him, not less. Also, DC doesn't need the copyright to have publishing rights. Novels don't work that way; graphic novels (like Watchmen) shouldn't, either.

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

My point is, Moore believed that DC would temporarily have the Watchmen rights. They had an understanding that he would get the rights back at some point, and it still hasn't happened. There are copyright reversion laws that take into account not seeing the future, but I guess they don't apply here.

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

If Eclipse published it, Todd McFarlane would've won Watchmen at auction and it'd be in comic book purgatory for years!

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

Assuming DC would've let them, and they didn't have to worry about paying their bills. The more money you have in the bank, the easier it is to leave it on the table. The more kids you have, the more food they eat... principle often gets sacrificed for practical.

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

Eclipse didn't have the money. There was a reason why an unknown Chuck Bechum was drawing Miracleman instead of Alan Davis.

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

I think they saw all other options as lesser. Plus, they trusted DC. Not a legal argument, I know. Probably also thought they'd want him happy so he'd write more titles for them, so they wouldn't go against his wishes.

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

I mean they weren't going to get a better deal from DC. I think DC already thought it was going out of its way to accommodate them, it wasn't going to let them hold the rights while DC published the comic. So if it's DC, those are the terms. Taking it elsewhere would've been problematic.

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

And if he was aware of the reprint loophole, he didn't seriously consider the possibility that it would be forever. I mean, it was Watchmen, not the Bible. No comic book stayed in reprints forever, at the time. Few were reprinted, at all.

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

I was wrong about the issue 12 part. My bad. I see now his thinking was, once DC stops publishing the Watchmen characters, one year later, once they're dormant and DC isn't using them anymore, the rights go back to him and Dave. And he didn't believe they'd use them without them, at the time.

Glen Cadigan @glencadigan.bsky.social · Nov 28

As the writer of The Legend of Wonder Woman, did DC have to produce new Wonder Woman content to keep the rights, or would reprints have worked? (Different contract, I know, but now I'm curious.)