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I was online yesterday and one of my old school buddies asked me why it was I wasn't trying to get in with Marvel or DC? Me being me I stopped for a hot second and pondered this question. WHY AREN"T I TRYING TO WORK FOR MARVEL OR DC?
Well, I finally got the gumption to answer this question competently, and competence is important in all things lol.
1. While I love Sups and Bats and Spidey and Cap and all them, I have a problem with the fact that these people just WON"T DIE!! I mean how many death events can any of us really be expected to show any real emotion for? We know that no matter how much we LOVE BUCKY(the winter soldier) in the mantle of cap, Steve Rodgers is coming back to get his.
We know that Batman (dead may he be) is coming back,because they are still putting out Batman books.
All this is really because of a think both these companies discovered along time ago called MARKETING and LICENSING. When you license a character say for a movie and people dig it, well when they go to YE OLE COMIC SHOP or the newstand and open that particular character's title they expect to see Peter Parker as Spiderman along with the supporting cast that they have been made familiar with from the movies or TV.
They don't know or really give a flying fuck about Ben Riley or anybody else that is not part of what they know about that character.
So ultimately, the major comic companies have traded story for mythos. Mythos pays, but ultimately it backs creativity into a corner. Dead Peter Parker means screwed up Spidey license, and possible problems with the license's revenue stream.
These companies make so much coin from licensing it pays to just keep the status que all around and rake in the dough. I don't fault them for this, but I do fault them for not using the comics as the playground they are meant to be. There is no creativity in the ultimate sense are Marvel or DC.They are like Disney in this way.
2. I am a big fan of ownership. Call me an IMAGE baby but what those guys did back in 92' was nothing short of GUTSY and BALLSY any other type of ---SY we can use. They bucked the system and WON. They told Marvel in no uncertain terms that they KNEW that the art they did was what was driving the huge sales Marvel enjoyed at the time.
They took those sales and started their own shit. Sure they made huge mistakes and some of them even went back to the majors, but they went back on THEIR OWN TERMS.
You gotta respect that and shit like that is what I want to be a part of. Stuff where you can weave your own mythos. One were you can off as many people as you want and not have to worry about the bottomline. Doing what the story demands is what I'm about.
3. I love the Japanese model of doing things. The guys in Manga do mostly creator owned stuff. That gives them HUGE LATITUDE. They are also made diverse in the TYPES of stories they tell. I used to love soap operas back in the day, so what if I want to do a soup opera type comic? Were is there room in Marvel or DC for that to be done well and taken seriously, except maybe Vertigo.
4. I am to damn OLD to be putting up with bullshit. The reason the majors like the young guys is because they are MALIABLE. They work for next to nothing just to say they have done major work and the worst part is some of them sign EXCLUSIVE contracts. Shit that has non-compete clauses in it,where you can do your own shit for a specified amount of time EVEN after you leave the company.
NO WAY DOGG NOT ME. I'm to savvy for that one. I am getting screwed by the autocompanies as we speak do you think I am gonna let Stan Lee (Editor Emeritus at Marvel) screw me. HELLS NO.
So in a nutshell thats why I make mine Independent.
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General creative integrity... V.S money and the need to make capital.
OK, so that was the end of the story as a reader, but does that mean that you can't be a creator? While I was in college I did a bit of inking as an assistant to a local comic book inker. I would do the backgrounds and he would do the characters. It was a great experience and really good prep for the world of animation. Though we did some Marvel and DC titles, I didn't give a damn about the stories. It's a job, a craft. You are your own boss. You sit down and jam on the Hunt 102 all day and at the end you have 2-3 pages of clean artwork that you can be proud of. Along the way I got to study the work of some really good artists. One who stands out in my mind is Sal Velluto. The guy is a really solid draftsman and excellent with continuity and research. It was a pleasure to ink his work and I hope that I did it justice.
So, can you be both a craftsman and a creator? Can't you work for the comics industry while at the same time doing your own thing "after hours"? Arguments can run pro and con, I guess. Maybe you can't spend your drawing energy at inking someone else's work and still have enough creative juice in reserve at the end of the day to pencil your own stuff. Maybe the pay is just too low. A lot of comic artists these days seem to work abroad where (presumably) the cost of living is lower. Maybe you just can't get over the fact that you have to work on someone else's crap stories. These negatives have to hang in the balance against being your own boss, building a portfolio, and continuing to develop as an artist. My experience has been that it never pays to write off a field of endeavor without giving it a shot. There are solid arguments against it, but I would say do it first, then decide.
So they decide to do their own stuff.
I think you should bring a high degree of professionalism to your stuff as if it was marvels or dc's. Don't drop the ball because you are your own boss, Hell put the screws to yourself even more.
But always endeavor to do good work, and listen to honest and thoughtful critiques.
That being said I can also attest to the asinine way the big two (DC and Marvel) tried to '
But that being said: Could you work for Marvel with the garbage they've been turning out? You made an excellent point about killing off a character and needing to bring it back. But look at the whole Marvel world that they have mangled? How do you repair all of that collateral damage? "Ooops, it didn't happen?"
Anyways I wont rant about them on your blog. Good points as always.
I don't know about you, but I started creating my own original characters at the age of 7, and I'd be an utter buffoon to sell the rights to some uncreative bigwigs when by rights, I should be passing on those copyrights to my daughter ([link])
Y fave indy comic "ANT" got put on hiatus 'cause the creator, Mario Gully, went to work for the Big M. I do wish him luck, but I'm pissed!
Talk 2 U L8R.