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 …

Since 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 …

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So: 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 …

Some 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 …

I 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 …

I 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 …

if 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 …

there’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, …