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Intimate or Overbearing?
Did you see this article at: http://comicimpact.com/2009/10/sdcc-10-sold-out/ San Diego Comic Con 2010 Sold Out by Simon Daoudi on October 8th, 2009 In nine months you can make a baby, be married and divorced, get cured of cancer, watch every episode of Dr. Who ever aired (Trust me, I’ve done the last two). All these things [...]
Self Promotion
So, one of my anthropology students (yes I teach anthropology at the college level) asked me to be a faculty sponsor for a Comic Book Club. At first I thought well that’s pretty cool, then the pessimistic side of me said, yeah but that’s been done right? ….and then I really started thinking about the [...]
You Want it When?
I’ve threatened to talk about this topic before but I have refrained, until today…. Can someone please explain to me how colorists are repeatedly supposed to color a book without art? Ok, I’m sounding a little cranky here, let’s back up. As we all know, colorists get the art last (along with letterers.) We have [...]
Perfidy & Pain
For those of you who pay attention to these kind of things, I normally post my articles on Wednesdays. Today is Thursday (afternoon I might add) and my article is just now going up. I have a reason, I have a massive toothache and I hate the dentist. Now I could start a whole big [...]
The Future of Trees (& comics)
So this week we have several projects coming out that we’ve worked on. Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Batman: Brave & the Bold, Blackest Night-Titans and that’s just from DC. These DC projects remind me of a conversation several of us were having at Con this summer. In this fast-paced, print-on-demand, instant gratification world where [...]
Work from the Couch
So the last two weeks I’ve been griping about various issues in the world of coloring. This week I’m taking a whole different approach. As you may or may not know I also teach at a local community college. No, I don’t teach Photoshop or anything remotely related to art. I teach Anthropology–mostly archaeology. Before [...]
Is Free Really a Good Thing?
Anyone who has been in this industry for more than five minutes has been asked to do something for free. The question is how do you know when you are being taken advantage of and when should you say yes, or no? The most basic example is when you are starting out and are dying [...]
Stand Back While I Vent…
I was going to take this week to write about graphic novels. We have two coming out this week, Booster Gold & Nightwing. I was going to talk about how things have switched from “monthlies” to mini-series to fit the graphic novel format… but then I changed my mind. I was reading an article about [...]
The Business of Con
Now here is something you probably didn’t think of with all the talk of San Diego Comic-Con going on…. some people are actually working. I know, I know it’s not suit & tie kinda work but there is (amazingly) some things getting done while millions of people mull around for 5 days. Everyone knows that [...]
To Ref or Not to Ref…
So Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds Issue 5 (FCLW) comes out this week and that got me thinking about reference. If you have ever seen an issue of Legion of Three Worlds (or anything George Perez has ever done for that matter) you know what an incredibly talented guy George is but, he does [...]