When summer kicks into Portland, it kicks hard, and my shitty apartment (oh, how I loathe this place. But now is not the time to talk about mold, ridiculously inept construction, or tragic lack of rent control laws) is not air conditioned, which means the temperature in here is about two hundred and seven degrees [...]
When I tell people that I work in the comics industry (which, incidentally, I’ve been doing for two years, as of last week–booya!), they almost always immediately assume that I’m an artist, and shortly thereafter, they look confused and ask me what exactly a comic-book editor does.
From now on, I will just link them to [...]
I’m not going to enumerate what’s wrong with Tokyopop’s godawful Manga Pilot contract. Other people have already done so beautifully and thoroughly, and there’s no need for me to rehash what’s already been expressed eloquently elsewhere.
What I am going to do is take advantage of this particular debacle to repeat a point that I’ve belabored [...]