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Anger.
Anger and frustration.
That's what started it all!
I'm not somebody that feels entitled. I don't expect anything from the world, or anybody in it. That said, I did feel I had earned a fair hearing. I'd put in the years, drawn the BIG books, and the cool ones! I thought I should, by rights, be able to get at least one pitch for a creator-owned comic written and drawn by me off the ground. But though I must have pitched upwards of 30 titles across the board over a period of TEN YEARS, nothing landed.
So yes. I was angry and frustrated!
I was asked, by the very excellent Joseph Michael Linsner, what Madefire was all about a couple of weeks ago, following the Big Wow Comic Fest. It was a good question, as it pointed out a gap in our message, something people were perhaps not getting:
Why?
Why do it?
What was the need?
The need was to create a platform for the digital age on which creators, independent or otherwise, could tell their stories.
You see - just because our motion books have sound and motion, it doesn't mean yours have to. In fact they don't even have to be motion books! It's really up to the creator. They can, in fact, be purely digital comics. True to the medium. Authentic and honest. I just put one of my own up in the Motion Book section here on dA, called January Man. It's a comic. No bells, no whistles.
Yes, we have pushed that boundary because - well, as the mountaineer said - it was there. We would have been fools not to test what it COULD do! This is a new space, potential for a new medium. But it doesn't HAVE to be that.
Keep your eyes open to our news, here, on our website (www.madefire.com) and elsewhere. Expect some major updates in the coming few weeks...
Anger and frustration.
That's what started it all!
I'm not somebody that feels entitled. I don't expect anything from the world, or anybody in it. That said, I did feel I had earned a fair hearing. I'd put in the years, drawn the BIG books, and the cool ones! I thought I should, by rights, be able to get at least one pitch for a creator-owned comic written and drawn by me off the ground. But though I must have pitched upwards of 30 titles across the board over a period of TEN YEARS, nothing landed.
So yes. I was angry and frustrated!
I was asked, by the very excellent Joseph Michael Linsner, what Madefire was all about a couple of weeks ago, following the Big Wow Comic Fest. It was a good question, as it pointed out a gap in our message, something people were perhaps not getting:
Why?
Why do it?
What was the need?
The need was to create a platform for the digital age on which creators, independent or otherwise, could tell their stories.
You see - just because our motion books have sound and motion, it doesn't mean yours have to. In fact they don't even have to be motion books! It's really up to the creator. They can, in fact, be purely digital comics. True to the medium. Authentic and honest. I just put one of my own up in the Motion Book section here on dA, called January Man. It's a comic. No bells, no whistles.
Yes, we have pushed that boundary because - well, as the mountaineer said - it was there. We would have been fools not to test what it COULD do! This is a new space, potential for a new medium. But it doesn't HAVE to be that.
Keep your eyes open to our news, here, on our website (www.madefire.com) and elsewhere. Expect some major updates in the coming few weeks...
On Detail
It seems I'm becoming known for my excessive detailing and textures. This is great, and I'm pleased to have a trait that is becoming a recognized feature of my art. But - and it's an important but, because it's to do with the craft of storytelling - I do work hard to balance the detailed pages with others that have a large amount of negative space or much simpler compositions, otherwise it's all just so much noise and the point is lost. I LOVE getting stuck into in all the intricacies that are part of making a, hopefully, believable world for my readers, but I try to leave room to breath too.
A city looks most impressive when you've driven o
It has been too long
Well, what a crazy couple of years! First Wonder Woman with the amazing Greg Rucka, then an issue of The Justice League with Rob Venditti, and after that The Brave and The Bold: Batman and Wonder Woman, which I also had the joy and honour of writing!
It has taken a LOOOOOONG time to get back onto the iconic books of my youth. I never thought I would - had kind of given up hope to some extent, after all it had been decades! I thought I was an almost-ran, somewhat a has-been, so my comeback was very unexpected. And what a comeback it turned out to be!
I'm now mid way through issue three of my latest DC series, The Green Lantern, with legendar
PARADISE REX PRESS, INC
Extremely thrilled about this: https://app.mailerlite.com/j9w9k6
My second prose publication after 'God Killers' is finally available - and with an afterword by the great China Miéville!
I'll be honest - I'm really nervous about it, now it's actually out! It's ferociously honest, very much a soul-bearing.
It's angry, it's odd, it's highly experimental, and it's verging on confessional - which perhaps is no surprise to anybody who reads my journals!
I have no doubt that some people will think it is pretentious, impenetrable crap - a one-trick pony.
But - I know it has also found its fans. China Mieville, for example, spent a long aft
What Are We To Do?
What ARE we to do?
I write to this miniscule bubble of mostly like-minded liberal friends - as like attracts like, and we've all learned the hard way in recent times that we are NOT the consensus.
As we slip into another inevitable age, who survives?
Because we will not change our ways - don't want to, or deny the proof of it - what then?
Do we take up the arms of those we have battled? Do we harden ourselves, cast aside our compassion for all human kind, and look no further than our defensible perimeter?
Do we prepare for the inevitable losses, and stop wasting our time with futile battles against elite institutions so powerful that non
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Whoa...good stuff!!