Hollywood insider webcomic: Don't Forget to Validate Your Parking

Posted by Cory Doctorow, January 17, 2008 12:51 AM | permalink

Hollywood screenwriter Mike Le is making productive use of his time during the strike: he's the creator of the funny, insidery webcomic Don't Forget to Validate Your Parking, which made me laugh aloud more than once. It's a kind of My New Fighting Technique is Unstoppable for Hollywood. Link (Thanks, Liz!)

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#1 posted by markhgn , January 17, 2008 3:43 AM

If you like this then check out 'Conversations with my Agent' by Rob Long (Amazon US or Amazon UK).

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#2 posted by Jeff , January 17, 2008 4:48 AM

Is there any good reason to be a TV/movie writer? I understand the draw, but no one ever says, "Gosh this is a great way to make a living." Or maybe they do and I'm not reading that.

Jeff

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#3 posted by WTF Pancakes , January 17, 2008 5:59 AM

Filing technique, love.

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#4 posted by twig , January 17, 2008 6:28 AM

two different books, pancakes.

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#5 posted by License Farm

, January 17, 2008 8:21 AM

Two other great comics about going through the Hollywood rigamarole are Fortune & Glory and Total Sell-Out by Brian Michael Bendis (Avengers, Powers, Ultimate Spider-Man, about half the books Marvel publishes nowadays). At various points his and Marc Andreyko's graphic novel Torso, about Eliot Ness in the days after Prohibition tracking one of the earliest American serial killers, has been optioned for film, and it's yet to be realized because of Tinsel Town's lunacy.

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#6 posted by jomama123

, January 17, 2008 8:32 AM

Check out my WGA strike comics and more comics at Scene4 Magazine. Elliot

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#7 posted by OM

, January 17, 2008 11:29 AM

...You know, if the writers can go out and find other writing gigs during the strike, then the studios should be able to hire scabs with impunity. Fair's fair, right?

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#8 posted by Xiguli , January 17, 2008 12:09 PM

The First Time I Got Paid for It is a fun look at various views on writing for movies and television.

This guy is funny. (Why can I not escape The Pina Colada song, wherever I go?) "Last night I snorted meth off a dead tranny's ass behind Circus of Books and and then rammed my car into an In & Out. Write an article about me."

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#9 posted by historyman68 , January 17, 2008 11:42 PM

Writing webcomics online isn't exactly the same as being paid to write movies and screenplays. For one thing, one's online... oh, I see.

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#10 posted by historyman68 , January 18, 2008 12:35 AM

Not to get all technical, but one big difference between this and My Fighting Technique is that this is a lot more character-driven, whereas MFTIU is more of a Op-Ed/Gag-based strip. The main similarity seems to be that it is clip-art based, and that it is based around one particular topic, such that it may appeal to more than just a webcomic audience.

Um, hm. Didn't mean to sound like a know-it-all right there.

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#11 posted by serafinapekkala , January 18, 2008 7:35 AM

This is great. Reminds me of "The TV Set," a movie by Hollywood baby Jake Kasdan about the whole writer-trapped-in-LA lifestyle, with Sigourney Weaver as the crazy loathsome network president. Good stuff.

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#12 posted by Jillybeanies , January 20, 2008 1:06 AM

I don't think I'd call this guy a "Hollywood Screenwriter". He's never actually written anything. Funny comics though. He should work on that.