Jim Lee asks the hard question: top artists of the last five years?
Tonight's dinner topic: Who are your 3 favorite new artists who have emerged in the past 5 years?
— Jim Lee (@JimLee) June 20, 2013
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Note to artists: “Don’t give it away!”
While the benefits of giving all your art away for free on Tumblr and deviantART are well known, you still shouldn't give it away...
Today’s money breakdown from the Penny Arcade Report: paying for journalism with panty shots
The Penny Arcade Report is a video game news and commentary site run by....well, we'll let you figure it out. Yesterday editor Ben Kuchera ran down the economics of running a website in dollars and cents. Although he's talking about video games, it all applies equally to comics journalism:
Neil Gaiman and The Beat think exactly alike: “Nobody knows.”
Coinciding brilliantly with our post yesterday on the nagging uncertainty of making a career in future media, world-renowned best selling author Neil Gaiman said pretty much exactly the same thing in a keynote address at the London Book Fair which urged everyone to just try new shit (we're paraphrasing) to find what works:
Comics…it was the worst of times
In the Brian Hibbs column I quoted in my previous post, he also wrote this:
We also live in an industry where a significant number...
Quote of the day: Robert Kirkman on career planning
“As more people are able to make a living doing it, I think we’re moving into an atmosphere were creators are able to define...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 3/20/13: Spring Cleaning
Making a living at Random House, saving a statue, listening to Al Jaffee
Must read: Chuck Austen’s advice to Tokyopop creators: ‘Move on’
With Toykopop hovering somewhere between somethingness and nothingness, one thing is certain: owner Stu Levy will never give the creators back their books as...
Jerry Ordway again
The case of Jerry Ordway -- a talented veteran artist who is not getting as much work as he should— continues to resonate. It isn't really about Jerry Ordway. it's about comics, and about the manny many aspirants and passers by and the few who are called. Mark Evanier addresses the odds:
Break into comics with Neal Adams, Kevin Smith, and the million dollar UcreateComics —...
...and then take a long, long time to finish them.
Just kidding. This new buddy pictures in the making will tour four cities as...
Doing it their way: Cyanide & Happiness
Since we've been talking about career paths and what not for the last few days, here's another one: after turning down three TV development deals, including Comedy Central, the webcomic Cyanide & Happiness has decided to go DIY.
Jerry Ordway responds and more on comics career paths
Following yesterday's much quoted post on wanting to be hired, artist Jerry Ordway responded to the outpouring of support with more on the perils of exclusives and the freelancers life:
