Re: About the Nerd Boy book

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Joaquim Gândara wrote:

>
>
> "Bertrand Mollinier Toublet" <ber...@enst-bretagne.fr>
>  skrev i meddelandet news:2mg...@uni-berlin.de
> > Or you consider that the numbered NB strips as published online are what
> > this is all about, get the congenial approval of the few copyright
> > owners whose work you happened to use here and there,
>
> And a written agreement that they won't sue me for royalties. That's
> just too much work for a handful of strips that aren't even that good
> to begin with.

You should be able to claim "fair usage" on the tiny bit of other people's
work you used. Like you can use a sentence or two of a regular written
work --it was mostly by the way of positive reviews anyway. (and you're
pobably in as much trouble for putting it on your web site already with
anybody who wants to be a jerk about it!)

> > keep the numbering for consistency,
The strip refers to the numbering. The strips were numbered. It's
part of the stip. You're stuck.

> I would, but I actually plan to move some stuff around. At one point,
> when I was having trouble thinking of new strips in the story arc that
> ends in NB284, I interjected some HammerHead strips. I want to move
> those out of the way.
Remeber that people will read this is 1-2 sittings. The break in the
action might be good. I know side stories are left in the middle of other
stories in some of the Doonesbury books.

> > stop worrying about the link dumps
Somehow note them as being so. They'll amuse people reading the 100th
printing years from now.

> > (did you understand all of the Calvin and Hobbes strips ? I didn't...)
>
> I think I did, but they were all self-contained.
Did you understand all of "far side"??

And the Christmas gift one --no stip has stuff like that? Ok. So maybe
you'd better get rid of -all- the original stuff in it then. :-)

And a section on fan art would be cool too. I think most would be willing
to send a letter releasing rights to you and you probably wouldn't want to
include -all- of it anyway.

A foreward by one of the other top ascii artists might be cool too
(Maybe Joan or Stark Veronica K. --Mike Jittlov is a name outside
of ascii art. You lurking here any more Mike?
-Or- if anybody knows a print cartoonist they could point at the site
and con 'em into a free foreward...)

> > Leave it all!
hear hear! Down the Nerd Boy revisionism! Up the Nerd Boy Book!

  3ch

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