I saw in a blurb for a documentary about my erstwhile publisher someone offer the testimonial, "He's the most ethical comic book publisher that ever existed." I still don't know what those words could possibly mean. Can ANY publisher be less than very bad and awesomely awful? I'm still hoping to be persuaded.
I'm completely at sea about who this could be and yet laughing/crying about it at the same time. Having been stabbed in the heart by a publisher this summer, I'm feeling especially raw right now.
I think after A Distant Soil is done, I suspect a graphic novel telling a fictional version of this story would be quite commercially successful. (Of course, I'm an outsider, and I know there's NDAs and legal agreements that might make the project impossible, plus revisiting all of these mess as a time-intensive graphic novel might not be good for your sanity.)
Did I mention I have a day job at the University of Florida? And I'm opening a mental health practice with my fiance? And I'm a doctoral student in business administration? And I have *REALLY BAD ADHD*? And I like sleep?
Yeah, sometimes my ideas are quite awful. I'm going to chalk this up as one of them.
Not at all. Lots of people have requested a GN. And Keith Giffen and I were working on a fictionalized GN of my life in comics years ago. But I haven't looked back on this stuff in a couple of years. Today was re-reading the five posts still behind my Patreon paywall. They made me really upset. I either have a very forgiving nature (ahem) or a bad memory, because I'd almost forgotten some of that stuff. It's genuinely awful. I can fictionalize it, but no way would I want to relive it. I don't know if I'll ever make those posts public.
I remember reading (most, I think) these, back when you originally published them on your website blog. I can well understand your lack of desire to "re-do" the telling of the tale. They are certainly educational for those aspiring in any "traditional" method of publication of creative work, but that doesn't require that you relive those times.
But thank you for having written them up at least once! Your witty sarcasm really drives home the points that the wannabes and maybe-can-bes need to learn about the "real world" of the business side of getting works before an audience.
I saw in a blurb for a documentary about my erstwhile publisher someone offer the testimonial, "He's the most ethical comic book publisher that ever existed." I still don't know what those words could possibly mean. Can ANY publisher be less than very bad and awesomely awful? I'm still hoping to be persuaded.
I'm completely at sea about who this could be and yet laughing/crying about it at the same time. Having been stabbed in the heart by a publisher this summer, I'm feeling especially raw right now.
Yeeeew.
I think after A Distant Soil is done, I suspect a graphic novel telling a fictional version of this story would be quite commercially successful. (Of course, I'm an outsider, and I know there's NDAs and legal agreements that might make the project impossible, plus revisiting all of these mess as a time-intensive graphic novel might not be good for your sanity.)
I'd have to draw these people. It would make me throw up.
Sometimes, I have really bad ideas.
Did I mention I have a day job at the University of Florida? And I'm opening a mental health practice with my fiance? And I'm a doctoral student in business administration? And I have *REALLY BAD ADHD*? And I like sleep?
Yeah, sometimes my ideas are quite awful. I'm going to chalk this up as one of them.
Not at all. Lots of people have requested a GN. And Keith Giffen and I were working on a fictionalized GN of my life in comics years ago. But I haven't looked back on this stuff in a couple of years. Today was re-reading the five posts still behind my Patreon paywall. They made me really upset. I either have a very forgiving nature (ahem) or a bad memory, because I'd almost forgotten some of that stuff. It's genuinely awful. I can fictionalize it, but no way would I want to relive it. I don't know if I'll ever make those posts public.
I remember reading (most, I think) these, back when you originally published them on your website blog. I can well understand your lack of desire to "re-do" the telling of the tale. They are certainly educational for those aspiring in any "traditional" method of publication of creative work, but that doesn't require that you relive those times.
But thank you for having written them up at least once! Your witty sarcasm really drives home the points that the wannabes and maybe-can-bes need to learn about the "real world" of the business side of getting works before an audience.
Wow. Did these really happen?! :O Mindblowing.
Yes.