Comments on: Why I Hate The Comics Industry

By: Daniel Didahsi

Daniel Didahsi — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:23:08 +0000

I don’t hate the industry persay we know its sales driven indstury just like any other. You don’t make money, you don’t stay in business simple at that. Thing is, lots of marketing schemes and gimmicks that Marvel, DC, and the smaller publishers pull to spike sales and increase market share make the stories suffer in the process. You got bad stories, you don’t readers. Marvel is succeeding now with ingenious marketing, yet their stories are flat as the earth and won’t be considered classics like the Jack Kirby and Stan Lee’s work of the era. Now, I can defend Marvel’s treatment of its “creator’s legacy” by expanding on the existing work or I can criticize the hell of them. I will chose the second option here. Marvel actually has dishonored many of its creators creations by replacing and killing the original heroes and bringing on successors, most often in female form or some other twist. It is truly nothing more than marketing and a profit-driven mentality.

By: Peter Krause

Peter Krause — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:47:08 +0000

Well, IDW–who now has the Star Trek license–will be publishing a collection of Star Trek stories I originally penciled for DC Comics.

I will not be seeing any money from this edition.

Now, Paramount (who owns the license, natch!) and IDW are well within their legal rights here. But both of them will be making money from this edition, and the creators will not.

Just don’t expect me to sign any copies of this edition if you meet me at a convention.

By: Jim Munroe

Jim Munroe — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:13:42 +0000

For what it’s worth, I’ve been offered two options with my dealings with IDW. One is a back-end deal where no page rate or advance is paid but the profits are split 50/50 publisher/creators. The other, where they finance it and pay a page rate, they take 50% of media rights. This has seemed pretty fair to me, and has always been communicated in a very aboveboard way.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:28:18 +0000

The comic industry is just depressing. It’s a mystery to me why anyone would want to make a living in it. There’s soooo much money out there to be made, why stress yourself out over peanuts?

Anyway, comic people will excuse *any* behavior from comic companies. No matter if it’s horrific contracts or horrific quality of work, some asshole will turn around and defend it in the blink of an eye.

By: Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive » Oct. 21, 2008: Just the way things are

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:20:09 +0000

[...] “Stop defending the comics industry when it behaves badly! Go get yourself deprogrammed from this Stockholm Syndrome Nightmare that tells you that this is just the way things are! It’s a lie! If your work really wasn’t worth anything, these assholes wouldn’t want a cut of you.” – Christopher Butcher [...]

By: Scott Robins

Scott Robins — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:24:57 +0000

“Let’s give her somethin’ to talk abowwwwwwwt…”

By: Chip Zdarsky

Chip Zdarsky — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:23:36 +0000

Please stop dragging those poor date rapists into your comic industry arguments.

Love,
Chip

By: Paul Bazinet

Paul Bazinet — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:07:27 +0000

Awesomeness.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 03:00:50 +0000

Seen it first hand, Brian. Sorry that wasn’t the case for your project.

By: Brian Wood

Brian Wood — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:25:23 +0000

“IDW Publishing!”

holy shit, not in my experience.