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Friday, July 13, 2007
Non-Controversy Over Chantler's Tek Jansen
:: Posted by Bryan @ 7/13/2007 01:57:00 AM Over at a blog devoted to promoting various Stephen Colbert products there have been some murmurings and blog-post removing about a crappy National Post article covering the release of the Tek Jansen comic, illustrated by Canada'a own, cartoonist Scott Chantler, and published in the Post on the day of an appearance by Chantler at the Beguiling bookstore to sign copies of the comic. The non-furor erupted over what reads like a hatchet job by the Post's Ben Kaplan, that made the creation of the book sound acrimonious and all but put Chantler's future as a cartoonist in jeopardy. Chantler and the Colbert boosters retroactively didn't blog about their confusion and now everything seems fine. The article is a masterpiece of selective quoting, claiming that Colbert and Chantler "traded barbs" and making it sound like Chantler, who has an extensive background in comics, advertising, and illustration, was a babe in the woods when it came to working on a licensed property. Chantler seems to have chosen the high road and is concentrating on politely pushing the book, as well as his recently published, massive Northwest Passage graphic novel.
Reviews of the comic have generally been positive.Labels: blogosphere, events, international
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