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Van Halen was the ‘weirdest f–k’
Rocker Sammy Hagar was shocked to see former bandmate Eddie Van Halen turned into a black-toothed, unwashed tramp who lived in squalor when the pair attempted an ill-fated reunion in 2004.
Hagar agreed to meet with Van Halen at his Malibu, California home after he had divorced actress Valerie Bertinelli and before he was diagnosed with cancer of the tongue and he admits it was sobering to see his former pal living like a dog.
In his new biography, Red, the rocker recalls, “It looked like vampires lived there. There were bottles and cans all over the place, the handle was broken off the refrigerator door, and there were spiderwebs everywhere. There was no food.
“He (Van Halen) was sleeping on the floor with a blanket and a pillow. I’ve never seen a dirtier place in my life.”
Hagar reveals Van Halen’s attitude had changed too: “(He was) one of the sweetest guys I ever met and he had turned into the weirdest f–k I’d ever seen: crude, rude and unkempt.”
The reunion plans didn’t pan out and Van Halen, his brother Alex and son Wolfgang eventually hit the road with original frontman David Lee Roth.
The guitarist has since won his battle with cancer, had his teeth fixed and battled alcoholism in rehab.

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Key Porter Books ceases operations: reports
Key Porter Books, a mainstay in Canadian publishing, has ceased operations, according to several media reports.
The publisher suspended operations and laid off its sole remaining editorial staffer, industry trade publication Quill & Quire posted on its website on Thursday.
Ottawa author Mark Bourrie, whose book The Fog of War was listed on the Key Porter website for a Jan. 25 release, tells the Toronto Star they’re “out of business.”
Bourrie said the news was confirmed in an email from Harold Fenn, head of publishing company H.B. Fenn, which bought controlling interest in Key Porter in 2004.
The troubled company laid off staff and went through a major restructuring last fall, including moving from downtown Toronto to the H.B. Fenn office in Bolton, Ont. Fenn said at the time that the company’s financial results had been disappointing.
The company was started in 1979 by Anna Porter, with a specialty in Canadian non-fiction.

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Leno sucks, Conan is a guy you feel sorry for but actually isn’t that good at what he does, and Letterman rocks!!!

Jay vs. Conan: Late-night warriors in a new book
“The War for Late Night” (Viking, $26.95), by Bill Carter: An ancient fable tells of the greedy little boy who reached into a jar of nuts and grabbed himself a handful. Then trouble arose as he tried to get his hand out through the jar’s narrow neck. With all those nuts in his grip, his hand was stuck. Only by releasing a few could he get his hand free.
This parable recalls recent woes of NBC, which tried to get its hand out of the late-night jar holding tight to both its stars ó Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien. It loudly, humiliatingly failed to do so, as Bill Carter recounts in “The War for Late Night.”
Is there anyone who didn’t follow this saga as it unfolded, especially when it reached a fever pitch in the past year?
It’s certainly no secret how things turned out. Leno reclaimed “The Tonight Show” last March after his brief prime-time fiasco, and, reinstalled at 11:35 p.m., he continues to grind out reliable shtick, just as he has since 1992.
O’Brien, who bitterly left “Tonight” after seven months and NBC after 17 years, was soon snapped up by TBS, where his new late-night show, “Conan,” premieres Monday.
But knowing the outcome before cracking the book won’t spoil any reader’s fun. Carter, a veteran TV reporter for The New York Times, takes the reader behind the scenes of the TV industry and into the psyches of its major players ó both bosses and talent.
This is territory Carter knows well and chronicled in his 1994 best seller, “The Late Shift,” which dissected NBC’s misadventures choosing Leno to succeed Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show” while letting David Letterman ditch NBC for a new home at CBS.
Carter plunges the reader into a boisterous, two-timing, high-stakes drama about the business of comedy at a sinking TV network that wanted to preserve a rare success ó late night ó in the worse way, and did.
By some accounting, the boy with his hand in the jar was Jeff Zucker, then chief executive of NBC. Zucker was determined to keep hold of both his “Late Night” star, O’Brien, whom he didn’t want to lose to another network, and Leno, the demonstrated ratings winner on the show O’Brien coveted.
In 2004, Zucker had extended O’Brien’s contract with a promise to reward him five years later with “Tonight,” while extracting an agreement from Leno to relinquish the host chair.
It looked like Zucker had finessed a smooth changeover, a plan befitting his preternatural shrewdness running the “Today” show back in his 20s, then skyrocketing up the NBC corporate ranks.
But the plan hit a snag when Leno began making noises about heading to a rival network. It was suddenly up to Zucker to find something else for him busy at NBC.
“Why do you want to keep me?” Leno asks skeptically when Zucker speaks of his commitment to keep Leno in the NBC fold. “I already got canned.”
Leno eventually agreed to relocate to a weeknight prime-time hour, where “The Jay Leno Show” landed in fall 2009, serving as a handy solution to NBC’s host overload and a cheap alternative to its failing scripted series.
The show was an immediate flop. But even before then, NBC bosses were starting to worry that O’Brien wasn’t cutting it in the 11:35 slot, where his predecessor used to thrive.
Here is where “War for Late Night” becomes really delicious. The reader is made privy to the scramble by Zucker and his minions to figure how to restore Leno to late night, find a consolation prize that O’Brien would accept, and placate affiliate stations, which were up in arms as the ratings for their late newscasts began to shrink in the company of “The Jay Leno Show” and O’Brien on “Tonight.”
NBC’s wackadoodle scheme: Plop Leno at 11:35 with a half-hour show, push O’Brien on “Tonight” to 12:05, and shove “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” into the wee hours at 1:05 a.m.
Last Jan. 6 ó the day before O’Brien would learn of the proposed shakeup ó he finished his show in a glum mood.
“I just have a bad feeling,” he tells his manager, Gavin Polone. “I think (Leno is) going to hurt me in some way.”
Once O’Brien got the bad news, things deteriorated further as he wrestled with how to respond.
At one point, Carter writes, Zucker lost patience with O’Brien’s delaying and apparently threatened to strong-arm him with a provision of his contract that could keep him off the air for two years.
“I can pay him or play him,” Zucker tells Rick Rosen, O’Brien’s agent. “I can ice you guys.”
Zucker could also move “The Tonight Show,” it turned out: O’Brien’s contract (unlike those of most late-night hosts) didn’t include time-period protection.
Heartbroken, O’Brien refused to be a party to dislodging “Tonight” from its time-honored berth right after the late news ó the same spot it occupied when Johnny Carson was the king of late night and when Conan had watched as a youngster with his dad. Instead, he issued his “People of Earth” manifesto, declaring his unwillingness to “seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting.”
On Jan. 22, he hosted his last “Tonight Show.”
In the eyes of many, O’Brien emerged from this debacle as the sympathetic victim, while NBC was branded as heartless and Leno as an eager opportunist.
But however much the public is inclined to simplify the narrative along such lines, Carter, to his credit, doesn’t. He plays this latest late-night conflagration right down the middle. He keeps the story moving almost cinematically, crosscutting from one personality to another, deftly and revealingly presenting different points of view.
Along the way, he folds in profiles of the relevant late-night stars, who, besides O’Brien and Leno, include Letterman, Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
“The War for Late Night” is sufficiently current to include Zucker’s announcement in late September that he will soon leave NBC Universal, where he had risen to chairman, as Comcast Corp. prepares to buy controlling interest in the company from General Electric.
And as O’Brien prepared to return to TV as a cable guy next week, the book explores the possibility that his exit from NBC was principled, yes, but a misconceived retreat even so.
“All of this ‘I won’t sit by and watch the institution damaged.’ What institution?” poses Jerry Seinfeld in the book’s final pages. “I thought he should just say, ‘Yeah, let me go at midnight.'”

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Stieg Larsson wrote book No. 5: brother
The family of late Swedish crime writer Stieg Larsson have confirmed the existence of another manuscript.
Larsson is the bestselling author of The Millenium Trilogy, which includesThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.
The writer died of a heart attack in 2004 at age 50 and did not live to see his books become publishing blockbusters and acclaimed movies.
Now his brother, Joakim, has told an American TV show that a manuscript exists for a continuation of the crime series, only it’s not book No. 4.
“I got the email from Stieg 10 days before he died where he wrote, ‘Book No. 4 is nearly finished,'” recounted Joakim to the CBS show Sunday Morning.
“To make it more complicated, this book No. 4, that’s book No. 5, because he thought that was more fun to write than book No. 4.”
Joakim said he and his father will not allow the unfinished manuscript to be sold.
It is reportedly to be in the hands of Eva Gabrielsson, Larsson’s longtime partner, who lost control of her boyfriend’s estate to his father when he died. Swedish law does not recognize common-law marriages.
The two sides are locked in a dispute over profits and control of Stieg Larsson’s estate. Talks broke down in June.
According to Larsson’s family, Gabrielsson has turned down offers of up to $2.5 million of the books’ proceeds. Gabrielsson said the family broke off talks “unilaterally.”
The Millennium Trilogy has sold more than 27 million copies worldwide in 44 languages. A Hollywood version of the Swedish movies is in the works with Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara starring in the main roles.

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Shania to pen tell-all autobiography
Shania Twain will lift the lid on the affair which tore her marriage apart in a new book after signing a deal to write her memoirs.
The singer split from her music producer husband Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange in 2008 when his affair with Twain’s former assistant and friend, Marie-Anne Thiebaud, was exposed in the press.
Their divorce was finalized in June and the star is now in a relationship with Thiebaud’s ex-husband Fred after growing close following their simultaneous marriage breakdowns.
Twain will now document the tumultuous events in a new autobiography which is due to be published next spring.
She tells People.com, “There have been moments in my life I was concerned by the reality that tomorrow would never come. Recently I experienced one of those moments to an intensity that brought on a sudden urgency to document my life before I ran out of time, before I had the opportunity to share an honest and complete account of my life, in my own words… I began writing this book with a sincere respect for the past, present and future as something never to be taken for granted.”

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Rock on, Vince!! Rock on!!

Vince Neil Blasts Sharon Osbourne, Motley Crue Bandmates in Book
Mˆtley Cr¸e singer Vince Neil says he has “never really had a voice” in all the tales of his three decade career fronting the hard rock band.
But his attempts to finally set the record straight in an autobiography chronicling years of sex, drugs, plastic surgery and numerous arrests, have already landed him back in trouble.
Neil, 49, lashes out at bandmates and attempts to settle old scores with rock rivals in “Tattoos and Tequila”, to be published on Thursday.
He has also set off a new feud with music manager and “America’s Got Talent” and “X Factor” judge Sharon Osbourne, the wife of former Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne.
“It really sickens me today to watch everybody fawning all over Sharon Osbourne,” Neil writes in the book, recalling a 1984 tour when Mˆtley Cr¸e opened for Ozzy and Sharon was running an especially tight ship.
“This is the most evil, shittiest woman I’ve ever met,” he added. Osbourne shot back with some choice words of her own.
“He (Neil) has murdered somebody in a car,” Sharon Osbourne told the New York Post last week. “He crippled two other people and he is still driving drunk. And that is why I used to keep my husband away from him.”
Hanoi Rocks member Nicholas “Razzle” Dingley was killed in Neil’s car when Neil was driving drunk in 1984, for which he served a jail term.
Neil was arrested again in June in Las Vegas on suspicion of drunk driving, a week after he released a solo album, also called “Tattoos and Tequila” — a set of classic rock covers.
HARSH WORDS FOR BANDMATES
Neil told Reuters he doesn’t like talking about himself. But he wanted to give his side of the storied history of the band, which has sold about 25 million albums in the United States alone.
Mˆtley Cr¸e released a best-selling band biography called “The Dirt” in 2001.
“There’s been so much written about Mˆtley Cr¸e. I’ve never really had a voice”, Neil said of his autobiography.
“This was my experience with Sharon 25 years ago. She was not very kind to Mˆtley Cr¸e,” he added in an interview.
Osbourne is not the only target.
Neil, who split from Mˆtley Cr¸e in 1992 and rejoined in 1997, keeps some of his harshest words for his bandmates, whom he has compared to siblings with whom he feuds.
He faulted bassist Nikki Sixx, drummer Tommy Lee and guitarist Mick Mars for not supporting him following the 1984 car accident, and disputed their account of the events that led to his 1992 departure.
The book also seeks to settle scores with old foes such as Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose. Neil reiterates a challenge to Rose to a boxing match that he issued in 1989 after an infamous backstage brawl at the MTV Video Music Awards.
On the sleeve of his book, Neil wrote, “Old rock stars fall hard.” But Neil said the hard living has been worth it — with the exception of the shame he feels about Dingley’s death
“I don’t have any regrets. Anything that I’ve done wrong, I’ve learned from,” Neil said.
Neil will spend the fall on tour in support of his solo album and the book. He said Mˆtley Cr¸e plans to start rehearsals early in 2011 for its Crue Fest 3 festival but has no immediate plans for a follow-up to its 2008 hit album “Saints of Los Angeles.”

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Megadeth, Metallica feud over
TORONTO ñ Every time he sits in front of journalists, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine knows the first question is always going to be, ‘What do you think about Metallica?’
Ditched just before the rockers started to hit the big time in the early ’80s, the 48-year-old has endured a battle of the bands that has spanned decades and provides much of the grist for his new book, Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir.
“Without my songs and my solos, without my energy,” he says, “I don’t know that Metallica ever would have become the band that it was.”
A bold statement, but Mustaine insists there’s no bad blood with the band.
“It’s the journalists who’ve kept this going,” he says in an interview at his Canadian publisher’s head office. “The hatchet was buried a long time ago. People know not to bring up Metallica stuff with me because it was all just s— talking.”
Still, the story of how Mustaine helped start one of the world’s biggest rock bands only to be fired for overindulging in drugs and alcohol is one he needed to set straight.
“There’s a lot of stuff that’s been told a hundred times or more,” he says. “The only thing I tried to say was, ‘Hey, it’s true. The stuff [Metallica] said I did, well, I really did it.’ And I tried not to talk about what they did.
“Whatever caused them to fire me, I probably deserved.”
What helped him stick around long enough to launch Megadeth was his honesty and intricate guitar licks. But after hearing James Hetfield’s killer pipes on a nightly basis, he wasn’t convinced he could actually front his own band.
“You can’t change the voice of a band without serious problems,” he says, naming, AC/DC and Van Halen as the only two that have successfully swapped lead singers. But he wasn’t going to let some glam rocker lead him into battle with his ex-bandmates.
“The first time I sang, I felt like I had put a nail through my eyeball. Fortunately for us, I didn’t realize how long lasting the repercussions were going to be for me becoming a frontman.”
Left “dead f—ing broke” after his ouster, Mustaine was livid when Metallica’s debut, “Kill ‘Em All,” was released in the summer of 1983, and four of his songs were included.
“I was out for blood,” he writes. “I wanted to kick Metallica’s ass.”
And it was that perceived slap in the face that pushed him to form Megadeth, who rocketed up the charts following 1985’s “Killing Is My BusinessÖAnd Business is Good.”
But just like his time in Metallica, Mustaine continued to abuse drugs and alcohol, threatening his career and his heavy metal legacy.
Throughout the 346-page book, he candidly takes readers inside his troubled childhood, repeated visits to rehab and an almost career-ending ailment before becoming a born-again Christian in 2002.
“There’s some stuff in there I wish wasn’t, but it’s really necessary to paint the picture so people can see that I’m a survivor.”
He’s watched musicians come and go ñ in its various incarnations Megadeth has had close to two dozen members in almost 25 years ñ and his marriage almost went up in smoke.
It’s when a compressed nerve in his left arm almost ruined his ability to play the guitar in the early 2000s that he turned his life around.
Mustaine credits religion and his newly sober lifestyle with helping Megadeth stay relevant to a new generation of metal fans. But he sometimes thinks ’80s rockers might have an unfair advantage.
“When it comes down to doing solos, new guys don’t do them because they aren’t any good. There is a whole generation of nu-metal guitarists who don’t play solos because they don’t know how to.
“There’s nothing new that’s made me go ‘Wow,’ like the first AC/DC record I ever heard. I know that people felt that way when they first heard Metallica and Megadeth. We changed the world. People listened to us and said, ‘Who’s this band? Who’s that on guitar?'”
Along with Slayer and Anthrax, Metallica and Megadeth performed at the Big Four metal concerts in Europe last month and Mustaine has high hopes the tour will come to North America.
Proof, he says, that there’s no more bad blood.
“Now that the concerts have happened and a DVD is coming out, if people have to constantly be asking me if there’s still a feud, there’s something fundamentally wrong with them.
“What more do you need? A love child? We’re friends. [Metallica drummer] Lars [Urlich] and I sat next to each other at a dinner in Poland last month. Of course there’s the relationship that people see in the press, but the press also said aliens have visited the White House.
“How much of that s— do people really believe?”

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‘Scott Pilgrim’ creator hits Comic-Con
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Bryan Lee O’Malley is done with Scott Pilgrim. But will Scott Pilgrim ever be done with him?
“I’m going to be answering stupid questions about Scott Pilgrim for the rest of my life,” the Canadian comics creator said this weekend as the movie based on his acclaimed series took Comic-Con International in San Diego by storm.
For example, O’Malley was doing interviews at the Hilton Bayfront hotel, which had been decked out with a skyscraper-sized Pilgrim movie poster, putting both him and the 130,000 assembled Comic-Conners in the character’s guitar-strumming shadow.
In director Edgar Wright’s movie, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Michael Cera stars as the love-sick Toronto bassist who falls for a neon-coifed delivery girl (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). Things get complicated – and as surreal and frenetic as a video game – when he’s forced to fight her seven evil exes. Most extraordinary, though, is that the story unfolds in Toronto – not New York or Chicago or, more commonly, Toronto doubling for New York. In fact, O’Malley reveals the opposite almost happened.
“New York was offering better tax breaks, so Universal briefly entertained the idea of shooting in New York, doubling as Toronto, which I can’t even imagine. That would have been the weirdest experience, to watch that.”
Opening Aug. 13, the film’s release also coincides with the publication of the sixth and final Pilgrim volume, Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour.
“I feel like I’ve come to the end of this chapter that started six or eight years ago. It’s really strange and I don’t think I’ve come to terms with it yet, but this whole week has been madness.”
Not that O’Malley is surprised. “I think about half way through I realized I would at least be beholden to this for the rest of my life. Whatever I do next, it’s going to be held up to that. It’s been huge. It’s been way bigger than I ever could have imagined.”

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It’s ‘Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour’ and Bryan Lee O’Malley’s, too
Four years ago, Bryan Lee O’Malley was introduced by film director Edgar Wright to the vast and cavernous Hall H, the room that seats 6,500 adoring fans and the main event arena at Comic-Con. And on Thursday, O’Malley’s slacker hero Scott Pilgrim is the one bringing him to that big stage.
While he may not be one of the most recognizable faces on a panel that includes Michael Cera, Jason Schwartzman and big-screen Superman Brandon Routh, there would be no presentation for the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (in theaters Aug. 13) if not for O’Malley’s popular cult indie comic. Begun with Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life in 2004, the series ends today with the Oni Press release of O’Malley’s sixth volume, Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour.
In a move usually reserved only for a blockbuster movie release or a new Harry Potter or Twilight book, more than 150 comic shops around the country had Scott Pilgrim midnight release parties last night. And also in true Potter fashion, it was important to O’Malley that the story not get leaked ó he kept story and art elements close to the vest so readers and fans wouldn’t have anything ruined for them.
“It’s the ending,” says the native Canadian writer and artist, and recent transplant to Los Angeles. “I tried to make it as satisfying as possible. It’s the longest one and I tried to bring everything home in a way that meant something to me, but also would be fulfilling to readership.”
Way back in the first volume, 23-year-old Canadian underachiever Scott Pilgrim, bassist for the band Sex Bob-Omb, finally found a goal: to woo and win the heart of colorfully coiffed American Amazon delivery girl, Ramona Flowers. One caveat, though, was that he had to defeat her seven evil exes, including a vegan rock star, an Indian guy with magical powers, a skateboarding actor, a pair of twins and their robot, and Ramona’s former roommate who’s also a ninja.
Finest Hour focuses again on the relationship between Scott, now 24, and Ramona, but also stars the seventh and most evil of the exes, Gideon Gordon Graves. The final fight between Scott and Gideon is ó as most things are in the world of Scott Pilgrim ó epic.
“Yeah, I had a lot of fun with that. I felt this need to try and outdo the movie, to do set pieces that would be too expensive to put in a movie,” O’Malley says with a laugh. “We did some pretty intense stuff. I got an assistant helping me on the art, and I tried to make it just as amazing as possible.”
O’Malley listened to a lot of LCD Soundsystem and the Cardigans in the weeks of scrambling leading up to finishing the book, and he was too busy to be sad when he finished the final page. “For weeks after, I was like, ‘Oh my God, there have to be more pages to be done!’ I was lost in the world of deadline,” he says.
While he was doing the final volume, O’Malley, 31, was also spending a lot of time working on the Toronto set of Scott Pilgrim the movie, directed by Wright. Seeing a lot more of the city than he had in about six years added to his own writing and drawing, in addition to having plot and design elements from the film worming his way into the graphic novel.
“In some ways, it’s a second draft on the books,” O’Malley says. “It’s like this comic book that is inspired by the making of the movie of the comic book.”
Now having seen the final cut, he finds it to be a “really weird movie,” he says. But in a good way. “I feel weird about having written some of this stuff. When I’m writing my own books, I don’t really experience them the same way other people do. Seeing it fed back to me in movie form is eye-opening. Like, wow, I’m weird!”
Unlike some other comics creators, there was a never a time when Hollywood came calling where O’Malley was going to say no. “When they first came to me, I was 25 and I had no money and I had just gotten married and I was like, ‘Yes! Please! Turn this into the worst movie in the world, I don’t care. I’d just love the paycheck,’ ” he admits. I never anticipated it would be so faithful and so indebted to the books, and that we would share the aesthetic and make this project together.
“The books and the movie and even the video game are intertwined at this point. We’re all friends now, and I never expected that. I expected some Hollywood jerk to take the idea and turn it into a really bad, offensive comedy about some guy getting into fistfights with ex-boyfriends. It turned into so much more, and I think that’s amazing.”
O’Malley always envisioned doing a series of six graphic novels ó Oni thought it would be a good idea “to raise my profile a bit,” he says ó and while he knew he was committing a good five to six years of his life, he never thought it would reach the level it is now, where a tight-knit but ever-expanding group of fans think it’s bigger than Batman. “It’s bigger than Batman to me, too,” he quips.
The appeal differs from age group to age group, according to O’Malley. At least for his people in his demo and younger, they tend to see the video-game references first, be it to old Nintendo games or Sonic the Hedgehog.
“They get it, they’re inside the club,” he says. “But hopefully there’s more to it. There’s the relationships and stuff, and they identify with one character or another and the situations. That’s my hope, anyway, that they get drawn in by the surface elements and they stick because of the relationship elements.”
And because there were 18 months to two years between volumes, instead of being a monthly comic, the Hollywood-like build-up helped build the fan base and kept the hardcores thirsty for the next. “I don’t think we’d be having a midnight release if it was like Scott Pilgrim issue 38, instead of volume 6,” says O’Malley, who took inspiration from other writer/artists such as Jeff Smith of Bone fame.
“I feel like that’s how comics should be done,” O’Malley reasons. “I’m doing original graphic novels, 200 pages at a time ó not 32 or whatever. I don’t know how much that’s going to spread. I don’t even know how much I’d want it to. It’s a nightmare to do this kind of work. It takes too long and so much out of you.”
With now a movie on his resume, O’Malley wants to expand the comics audience in America more, fitting other projects in when he can. Even though he’s one of the hottest creators around, ironically the likes of Marvel and DC aren’t knocking on his doors as they once did.
“In the middle of Scott Pilgrim, I had a few people coming to me to do weird stuff. It would basically be rogue editors who really liked Scott Pilgrim when it was not a big deal. Now that it is a big deal, there’s been one editor asking me questions, but nothing major. Maybe it’s because I’m a jerk and I’m constantly ragging on the comics industry,” says O’Malley, who grew up on X-Men and Transformers.
“I don’t really have much interest in doing that, especially now that I’ve had success on my own. I feel like I can do anything, and the first thing on my list is not writing X-Men. I love X-Men and I would do X-Men if certain things were right, but I’m not really into what they’re doing lately.”
He’d rather focus on the ideas that comprise “the whole folder of junk that crossed my mind at some point” over the last six years.
“At first, while I was working on this book, I was like, ‘I am so ready to start the next thing. I’m just going to immediately start it. It’ll come out in September!’ But now that I’m here, I am going to take it easy and hibernate,” O’Malley says. “I don’t think anybody wants another book from me a month after Scott Pilgrim’s done!”

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Hagar releasing autobiography
Former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar is putting pen to paper – he’s releasing an autobiography.
The musician, known as ‘The Red Rocker’, has signed a deal with It Books, an imprint of publishing house HarperCollins, to write a memoir detailing his rock star life.
Hagar announced the news on Wednesday, revealing he has “been writing this book my whole life” and decided it was “time to put it in between two covers.”
The star now fronts rock band Chickenfoot and is known for his business ventures, which include founding the Cabo Wabo Tequila brand and restaurant chain.
The tome is set to be released next year.