It’s a mixed bag of comments this week in our Tuesday Twitter Fun.
Writer Joe Harris offers some encouragement to Senator Harry Reid. You can follow him at http://twitter.com/joeharris.
Writer Matt Fraction shows how he spends his time listening to tapes of former President Richard Nixon. You can follow him at http://twitter.com/mattfraction.
And writer Rick Remender lets Fraction know his thoughts on Nixon. You can follow him at http://twitter.com/Remender.
It’s a mixed bag this week of political commentary on Twitter from folks involved with the comic book industry.
Brian Denham an artist on such series as Buffy commented on the Texas Governor race and the interesting last name match up. You can follow him at http://twitter.com/briandenham.
Ed Brubaker commented on the irritation of the time old irritating tradition of political robocalls. You can follow Brubaker at http://twitter.com/brubaker.
Savage Dragon creator Erik Larsen continued his posts directed at President Obama, urging him to include a public option in the health care bill. You can follow him at http://twitter.com/erikjlarsen.
GeekWeek founder Jeff Katz shows off he enjoys the sunday morning shows. You can follow Jeff at http://www.twitter.com/katzmoney.
Erik Larsen is an artist and writer who’s not afraid to speak his mind when it comes to politics and his Twitter account is evidence of this. This past week Larsen went off on a mini-tweet rant during the health care summit that occurred. He even encourages President Obama and Democrats to use reconciliation to pass a health care bill.
This one is so good Larsen is getting this weeks post all to himself. You can follow Larsen at http://twitter.com/erikjlarsen.
For a part of Tuesday evening #Spider-Man became the top trending topic on Twitter, but why? There turned out to be a confluence of events that saw it reach a fervor.
All of these factored into it’s interesting rise in chatter. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
It’s a decent week of Twitter posts on a range of subjects.
Comic book writer Ben Templesmith has two this week. One covers his thoughts on whaling and the other about Delegate Bob Marshall’s statement on abortion and disable children. You can follow him at http://twitter.com/Templesmith.
One of the men behind Lost and some time comic book writer Damon Lindelof asked for some political action to get his latest podcast posted. Follow him at http://twitter.com/DamonLindelof.
Ron Marz, who’s no stranger about speaking his mind, decided to comment on Fox television personality Glenn Beck. You can follow Ron at http://twitter.com/ronmarz.
Last week numerous people involved in the comic book industry tweeted their thoughts about the Captain America/Tea Party controversy. This weeks sees some spill over as some of those same people contemplate other issues connected and much more.
Alex Segura isn’t just the publicity manager for DC comics but also a great resource for breaking politics news, http://twitter.com/alex_segura.
Ed Brubaker is one of the great modern comic book writers, http://twitter.com/brubaker.
Gail Simone is also an amazing writer and received a lot of flack for her statements on the controversy, http://twitter.com/GailSimone.
Our new friend Ron Marz decided to chime in on the Sarah Palin/Rahm Emanuel issue, http://twitter.com/ronmarz.
Mark Waid is an amazing writer as well, and decided to speak out about his views on Captain America, http://twitter.com/MarkWaid.
Ben Templesmith is a comic book writer who’s actually worked on a book about American Presidents, http://twitter.com/Templesmith.
We’ve decided to make this day all about the Captain America “controversy.” Here’s some more Twitter fun, and some of these are classics.
From writer Gail Simone http://twitter.com/GailSimone.
From writer Ron Marz, http://twitter.com/ronmarz
And our favorite comic writer Sterling Gates, http://twitter.com/sterlinggates
The reaction from the industry was varied but seemed to mostly support Brubaker the person and condemn Marvel for caving in. Below is some of the reactions.
Writer Mark Waid at http://twitter.com/MarkWaid
Writer Ron Marz had a few tweets at http://twitter.com/ronmarz.
Writer Gail Simone at http://twitter.com/GailSimone.
Blogger Caleb Andrew of ComicsAlliance.com at tweets at http://twitter.com/calebandrew
Welcome to our first entry in our regular Twitter Tuesday Fun where we’ll highlight politically charged tweets from those in the comic industry. Our first entry comes from Erik Larsen who’s a regular when it comes to politics and Twitter. The writer of such well known series as Savage Dragon wears his politics on his sleeve for the world to see.
The background of this tweet is Senator Richard Shelby putting numerous holds on appointments by President Obama. These holds are similar to filibusters but more informal and Senator Reid (who is the Majority Leader) can choose to ignore them and force a formal filibuster.
The rumor is Sen. Shelby will lift the holds if he gets billions of dollars for his state of Alabama (yes folks this is how our government works).
Larsen tweeted a petition action using the Credo Mobile platform to implore Sen. Reid to ignore the holds and extortion by Shelby and force Shelby to actually filibuster each nominee (70 at the moment) which involves standing on the Senate floor and talking pretty much non-stop (you can’t even leave the floor to use the bathroom).
You can follow Erik Larsen on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ErikJLarsen.
Eric Tautmann, a writer on various series, decided to chime in on Senator McCain’s hypocrisy on “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.” He followed up a link about the contradiction with some colorful language after. Also, you’ll notice that he’s changed his location to Tehran, Iran. This was a popular idea to confuse censors in Iran and flood the amount of information they’d have to look at during the recent political protests that have occurred there.
You can follow Eric Tautmann at http://twitter.com/mercuryeric.
Len Wallace wrote our favorite graphic novel of 2009, Love Buzz. He decided to comment on the coverage of Sarah Palin speaking at the teabagger, I mean Tea Party, convention on Saturday.
You can follow Len Wallace at http://twitter.com/LenNWallace.
Jim McCann is a mostly known as a writer for Marvel comics (though he also had a sting writing for the daytime soap One Life to Live). Recently he brought us New Avengers: The Reunion featuring Hawkeye and Mockingbird, a really great mini-series.
We’ve also been telling you that those involved with the comic industry have a tendency to talk politics on Twitter. We guess something about the site seems to bring it out of them. Well, Jim fell into that trap promoting a bipartisan site that just launched http://www.politilife.com which covers political news and discussions.
We’re not quite sure what to think of the website, as it’s layout is pretty blah and the highlights are something that our Google Reader can handle (ie aggregate material from other websites). Feel free to check it out for yourself.
You can follow Jim McCann at http://twitter.com/JimMcCann.
Also, join us Tuesday for the start of our regular series Tuesday Twitter Fun where we’ll be highlighting a few politically charged tweets from those in the comic industry.
