Comics anecdotes/factoids you think about all the time
Oct 29, 2022 14:52:08 GMT
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Post by whitecomics on Oct 29, 2022 14:52:08 GMT
I'll start:
A Dash Shaw quote from this interview: "I'm annoyingly a formalist"
Margot Ferrick has a comic in one of the Tokyopop Rising Stars of Manga volumes.
"Sell your boots" -- the phrase specifically, which is unforgettable whatever you think of it, but also the article (which I hadn't reread in years) and the broader questions behind it in terms of what a publisher should offer to cartoonists, when it is or isn't appropriate to crowdfund, etc. which seem equally relevant ten (!!!) years later. It's of course also interesting with the context that Dan closed PBox ~2 years after writing this. So maybe you sell your boots, but then you have to close your publisher because your live circumstances change and you need that boot money back! Or maybe that's too trite and simplistic. It really is a dumb and funny phrase.
A Dash Shaw quote from this interview: "I'm annoyingly a formalist"
Margot Ferrick has a comic in one of the Tokyopop Rising Stars of Manga volumes.
"Sell your boots" -- the phrase specifically, which is unforgettable whatever you think of it, but also the article (which I hadn't reread in years) and the broader questions behind it in terms of what a publisher should offer to cartoonists, when it is or isn't appropriate to crowdfund, etc. which seem equally relevant ten (!!!) years later. It's of course also interesting with the context that Dan closed PBox ~2 years after writing this. So maybe you sell your boots, but then you have to close your publisher because your live circumstances change and you need that boot money back! Or maybe that's too trite and simplistic. It really is a dumb and funny phrase.
