COMICS: I know a lot of you have accepted B rates and C rates for works these days as money gets tight everywhere, you’ve taken less money for the same or even more work. What I’ve also seen, though, is this: a professional says: you’re paying X percent of my rate, you’ll get X percent of my performance.
THIS IS A …
the value of your name
Monday, May 7, 2012 # 12:57 pm # comicsmarket # 2 CommentsC2E2 EXCLUSIVE SHIRT
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 # 2:30 pm # travel, upcoming # No CommentSince the c2e2 site seems to be missing the info, here’s the new shirt i’ve produced for this year’s CHICAGO COMIC AND ENTERTAINMENT EXPO. It’s printed in most sizes at a limited run, on an American Apparel quality shirt.
I’ll be at the show this Friday-Sunday April 13-15th at Artist Alley table B10-11 with Cliff Chiang. Hope to see you …
Marvel & DC are not the medium of comics (you are)
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 # 3:16 pm # comicsmarket # 8 CommentsSo: I get emails almost every day now from friends that are struggling, established professionals short on work or younger guys trying to squeeze their foot in. It’s a really hard time to get work at Marvel and DC for people who aren’t already tethered there. The model has shifted and times are tough all over and I think most …
this is what happens when you type “is” into google
Friday, February 17, 2012 # 8:09 pm # random # One CommentDear Comics, (UPDATED)
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 # 5:43 pm # comicsmarket # 4 CommentsSome thoughts I had yesterday, summarized here since twitter’s not really the best venue for a longer contextual conversation:
comics: if 100,000 people read the superperson comic book, that is not the #comicsmarket. that is THE MARKET FOR THAT COMIC.
— Ivan Brandon (@IvanBrandon) January 25, 2012
you are no more entitled to ANY PIECE OF THAT AUDIENCE than you are to any …
THE TOP 10 MOVIES OF 2011, according to me
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 # 2:46 pm # talkies # No CommentI have finally on my deathbed compiled my year’s list. Here are the movies I saw and liked in the year of our lord 2011:
1: The Tree of Life
2: Melancholia
3: Drive
4: La Piel que Habito (The Skin I Live In)
5: 13 Assassins
6: The Trip
7: Moneyball
8: Tryannosaur
9: Hugo
10: Margin call
Runner up: Rampart
Movies I didn’t see that might conceivably have made the …
LET’S TALK ABOUT COMICS PRICING
Friday, December 9, 2011 # 3:39 pm # comicsmarket # No CommentI think there’s a problem of context with a lot of the conversations about pricing of comics. People can agree, maybe, that $4 is enough to repel a casual consumer, but that doesn’t mean that $3 will attract them. It’s not a magic switch that reverses polarity.
All you’ve done, hopefully… is made a tenable entrance point. So that if (and …
istanbul
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 # 1:59 pm # travel, turkey # No Commentif you’re american, to get to istanbul you need a visa. maybe even if you aren’t. for $20, not lira, not euro, they put a sticker in your book and then they stamp it.
it’s a big airport, very clean, the van that picks us up has captain’s chairs that face both ways. the route’s ornate, bright. the parapets of mosques …
let’s talk about sales numbers
Friday, November 18, 2011 # 12:42 pm # comicsmarket # 6 Commentsthere’s an ongoing debate, for a bunch of years now. there are numbers that circulate every month, inaccurate numbers, people track them, people use that flawed “data” to comment on what they see as the progress or decline on the list. a lot of comics professionals are against this, for a lot of reasons. in my case, for my books, …

MEN OF WAR
VIKING
DOC SAVAGE
BATMAN: STREETS OF GOTHAM
THE CROSS BRONX
24SEVEN
NYC MECH
DEADPOOL TEAM-UP
SECRET INVASION: HOME INVASION
NATION X
NEMESIS
FINAL CRISIS: ESCAPE