Linda Sunshine Spotlight (51:04, 116mb)
Jackie Estrada started by giving Linda an inkpot award. Then Rob Salkowitz did an intro on who Linda was and her important contribution to comics industry, Chris Ryall then went through Linda’s career not just in doing comics but her other books that she either worked on or wrote. Regarding the comics she did reveal how she got the rights to do the DC books, how they shot from Original Art, the disappointing decision to only do a colour section instead of the whole book in color, why she went from Crown to Simon and Shuster and did the Marvel books like Origins of Marvel Comics under the new Fireside line, Chris spoke about the controversial written sections by Stan Lee regarding taking full credit for creating the characters, how the books did really well which lead to them doing books based on single characters, doing DC Books again (Heart Throbs, Mystery in Space and American At War) that Michael Uslan worked on, Linda leaving publishing to write books. She told a funny story about telling her mother about her new book called How Not To Be Your Mother. Her Plane Jane Works Out (which was a parody of a Jane Fonda book) and Jane Fonda’s reaction to it, the Illustrated Woody Allen reader and how the news about his relationship with Soon-Yi hurt the sales on it, her books about TV & Movies, All Things Oz and All Things Alice, becoming an editorial director, doing books about music, art, wine, family and a book that is going to be made into a movie called Though Maria’s Eyes.
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