Awards season: I've been nominated for a National Cartoonist Society "Reuben" Award, in the Comic Books category, for Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together. This is astonishing. Recent winners in this category: JEFF SMITH, DON PERLIN, ALEX ROSS, CHRIS WARE, DAN DeCARLO, FRANK CHO, STAN SAKAI, TERRY MOORE, DARWYN COOKE, PAUL CHADWICK. This is big, scary stuff. Will Eisner won, like, eight of these things.
Movie stuff: Michael Cera gushes a little here.
How I Met Michael Cera: Mr Edgar Wright, his brother Oscar, cowriter Michael Bacall and I met up in Toronto in June 2007. We were talking about the script, I was showing them the original locations, etcetera. We went to the CN Tower and then we met with Michael Cera. We ate sushi and saw Live Free Or Die Hard. (When you hang out with Edgar Wright, you will be watching movies.) I was passing around some pages from Vol 4 while we waited for the movie to come on. The Superbad trailer played, and people around us were like "oh my god it's that guy".
Anyway, that's all. Since then, I think he's been making movies like every single day. And the casting took a year to go from a gleam in Edgar's eye to an on-paper reality.
Also, all my pictures from that Toronto trip are like, neighbourhood cats and funny signs. I have not once in my life taken a picture of Edgar Wright or anyone else involved with the film, mostly due to oversight on my part.
- The Goings-On

2008-04-04 01:50 pm (UTC)
but,
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT THE MOVIE!!??
2008-04-04 01:55 pm (UTC)
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2008-04-04 07:08 pm (UTC)
Congrats on the om nom nomination. XD
2008-04-04 02:26 pm (UTC)
2008-04-04 02:28 pm (UTC)
Every time I see Cera interviewed somewhere, he reminds me of all the lovely and talented drama nerds I hung out with in high school. It's nice to see one of those lovely and talented drama nerds making it big. I think he'll rock Scott.
Live Free or Die Hard!
2008-04-04 03:25 pm (UTC)
postscript. Congratulations! On everything!
2008-04-04 03:51 pm (UTC)
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2008-04-04 06:50 pm (UTC)
That was definitely a few months before there were any rumblings of his involvement with the film.
2008-04-04 04:29 pm (UTC)
2008-04-04 05:02 pm (UTC)
And I'm glad Cera is actually a fan. That means he'll do his best to play up the role. :p
2008-04-04 05:31 pm (UTC)
There's nothin' I like better than when awesome people get money for being awesome :)
2008-04-04 05:47 pm (UTC)
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2008-04-04 07:11 pm (UTC)
I know a million people will say this, but I recall telling my friends that it would be a dream to see Cera as Pilgrim. Edgar Wright is seemingly the perfect director for this and I couldn't be happier for you. As an aspiring (yet motivationally crippled) comic creator from Canada, your success lights a fire under me. You might as well put your signature on the generation you define so well. We are not worthy.
Okay. Deep breaths. Sorry about that. Anyway, good on you and congratulations on everything. I hate to miss you at the Calgary Expo but I understand your situation (my gramma recently went through the citizenship thing). Hope the good times keep rolling and I can't wait for the next book.
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