I got angry!

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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...
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JoeOtisCostello's avatar
Whoa...good stuff!!