If you think I -- and people at DHC over the years -- haven't done all possible to resolved this, think again. I've pleaded, cajoled, listened, walked from the book, walked back, brought in a new artist on side stories. There's no dirt. No fall out. Also no new pgs/movement.
ON a positive note, the collaboration between me, Ben Dewey, Nate Piekos and DHC on the Wise Dogs material has been the complete opposite experience. And we're doing more. But until things get smoothed out, the main series storyline will not move forward, as it hasn't in years.
If you think I feel great venting like this, let me tell you, I don't. It's as stomach-ache-inducing as having someone throw you and your favorite project under three buses. I have written scores of e-mails, made calls, talked to editors, publishers and therapists. I'm exhausted.
PRO TIP: ALWAYS HAVE A CO-CREATOR AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU AND COLLABORATORS ON A CREATOR-OWNED BOOK. EVEN IF ITS A GOOD FRIEND YOU'VE KNOWN FOR DECADES. Because you don't know what could happen, and without one, you're fucked. I learned it the hard way.
If you still support this book, I thank you. No one should have to wait nine years for a second volume. That goes for the people working on it, as well, especially as it affects our incomes and lives, and sometimes our emotional well-being.
I'm just very unhappy these days, for a lot of reasons, and some of it is comics, and lot of that is what's been going on w/Beasts. Life in comics is marginal enough to be dealing with people who were supposed to be on my side. I'm not willing to put up with this anymore.
And I think part of my problem is I need to maybe get off Twitter. I enjoy talking w/you all here, and appreciate your being here. But I'm often here for the wrong reasons (OCD, boredom, avoidance, need for attention). I'll be on IG more than here, at least that's the plan.
I just want a regular night's sleep away from this. I have my own problems, and my own anxieties and fears. Plenty, in fact, thank you very much. Making a comic book shouldn't be one of them. If my work has to be something to take to therapy, let it be for me, not someone else.
Here's to a better tomorrow for all the important things, and a few not so important things like some stupid guy's dumb comic book about magic fucking dogs.
Good night, good bye, don't take it personally if I don't reply.
Good night, good bye, don't take it personally if I don't reply.
