tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post5348598354818753095..comments2024-03-27T05:22:27.604-05:00Comments on Eddie Campbell: covers- EGOMANIA no.1Eddie Campbellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-49875092938206857322007-06-24T19:38:00.000-05:002007-06-24T19:38:00.000-05:00Haha! I like Mick Evans!Ah, the self-publishing ro...Haha! I like Mick Evans!<BR/><BR/>Ah, the self-publishing route. What a trip, eh? One distributor--if it weren't so pathetic, it'd be funny. Dave Sim's old pissing buddy, Steve Geppi rules the direct sales comic book world. I'd laugh, but the situation is so hideously corrupt.James Robert Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17281049641681225389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-76316241998671053452007-06-24T16:41:00.000-05:002007-06-24T16:41:00.000-05:00BenCapital tried to make good on the debt, offerin...Ben<BR/>Capital tried to make good on the debt, offering a couple of options. one of which was to take 75% over nine months and the other the whole lot over two years. I remember a fellow self publisher deciding to hold out for the lot and me advising him to take whatever amount was offered in the shortest time, then turn away and never think about it again. I think he decided to hold out. he's probably still there. KSP (actually Oceanic Entertainmnet (I think..don't quote that)... one thing i learned from this is that it's a bad idea to put your own name on the company) made no effort. I Used the debt to get them to sign From Hell over then I put it out of mind, I think some amounts trundled in from LPC over a long period, certainly nowhere near the whole lot, but that was Top Shelf's connection and I wasn't keeping track. Preney dropped out and disappeared and we spread the loss around among us, me Alan Knockabout and Top Self (20,000 had been advanced on the print job that was never delivered). Anyway, as though the creative life isn't insecure enough!!<BR/><BR/>Steve,<BR/>thanks for the good words. and no, all that stuff is definitely in the past. and yes, must see the FF movie. It opened here a couple of days back. I always mean to see certain movies, and next thing i know Wee Cal has brought the dvd home. I remember too having superheroes around the house.Eddie Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02492020671613766729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-49381476610425174242007-06-24T15:51:00.000-05:002007-06-24T15:51:00.000-05:00I loved that egomania book, the Batman interview w...I loved that egomania book, the Batman interview with that old time artist whose name you will be annoyed I have forgot, Lou Schwartz or something like that, that piece on that picture in that pub, the history of humour strip that looked grandiose and you seemed to be slowly melting inside it, it was all damn good fun. Shame it never sold. Will we ever find out what happened to the wee rabbits?<BR/><BR/>We're just back from the second Fantastic Four film and had a struggle to put a Johnny Storm and a Silver Surfer to bed. Not a bad film, better than the first, kids loved it, what more can you ask for?Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17550582367655414409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752841194995687278.post-89011397716172652862007-06-24T15:50:00.000-05:002007-06-24T15:50:00.000-05:00By my calculations you were down around $95,000 ac...By my calculations you were down around $95,000 across all those bankruptcies. As someone who went to their local comic book store to pick up the latest Campbell (I missed out on Egomania two, it sold out before I could catch one), I always wondered why it ended there. I presumed on reading After the Snooter that the disillusionment was largely spiritual, I hadn't factored in that you were getting hung out to dry by other businesses.<BR/> Did you ever get the money back?<BR/><BR/>Ben SmithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com