Rowling apologists out in force on #R4Today this morning, heavily supporting the line that she has innocently wondered into a Twitter debate where equal amounts of toxicity are poured in from both sides. This line is explicitly pushed by the editorial tone.
To be clear: trans people are angry. They would actually like to be left the fuck alone to live their lives the way they wish to. If someone with a HUGE platform chooses to use that platform to attack that uncontroversial wish then anger is an appropriate response.
Without the attack, there is no anger. I'm not engaging with anyone who pops up in the replies peddling any flavour of TERFdom or whataboutery. You're wrong about this and I know that no amount of reasoned argument will change your minds.
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So…I deleted my Watchmen tweets because someone decided to jump in on the end of the thread & start tagging in just about everyone who's ever worked for DC. I thought deleting the 1st tweet would nuke the thread…but, no, so I had to delete a bunch of now-contextless replies. 1/
To be clear, though, I stand by everything I said in those original tweets. To wit: 2/
[Watchmen tweets redux!] Moore & Gibbons signed a contract in the confident expectation that they would, at some point in the future, regain the rights to their work. I haven't read the contract; I am not a contract lawyer, but… 3/
There are very few hard 'rules' for comic lettering, not least because you're always playing a hand the artist and writer have dealt you, but there's an awful lot of *preference*. For example, I've found myself leaning away from using connectors to link balloons…
Hard Rule #1, if anyone's interested: READING ORDER. I don't care how much art I have to cover up, I will *not* leave a panel or a page with unclear reading order. My job is to serve the story, not work around poor planning by the artist.
Hard Rule #2: NEVER CROSS TAILS. I can conceive of situations where the story might make it logical (maybe with characters talking across each other?) but in 60,000+ pages lettered, I've *never* done it.
Listen up, young freelancers! Gather round my camp fire and harken to a cautionary tale…
…I spent 15yrs being a graphic designer, and the last 12 being a letterer. And I spent the bulk of those years sitting in the cheapest, shittiest office chairs giving not the slightest thought to posture or ergonomics…
…As a result, I have a stoop that’s one step from getting me a bell ringer’s job at Norte Dame and can now turn my head about 8° left and right from straight ahead…
I'm seeing multiple people posting a comparison of various face masks including their filtration rates and basically saying that if you're not wearing a surgical-grade mask, you're wasting your time. THIS IS NOT TRUE. 1/
It's scandalous that there is no clear guidance on this, but as best I can understand the current scientific thinking:
The risk of COVID transmission from surfaces is fairly low. The primary transmission method is person-to-person. 2/
You cannot buy a mask with a sufficiently fine weave, or with a filter capable of stopping the virus. However, the virus is not intrinsically airborne, it's carried in the water droplets we exhale. 3/
Obviously missed this the first time around. I agree: $10/pg should be the absolute floor. Push for $15 every time and maybe we can get this up. I’ve NEVER taken a paying gig for less than $10 and I was a terrible letterer when I started!
As Aditya says, there are well-established letterers doing work for big companies on $20/pg and that’s not right.
Also, back end deals: I’ll only do back end for people I know and trust. Additionally, if you’re getting cut in for say 5-10%, ask for the same cut of the IP.
You may not get it, but if the book you worked on is a huge success and you took a chance on a back end deal, why the hell shouldn’t you get a percentage on that Hollywood/Netflix/HBO deal?