MON-DAZE: The Ecology of Comics
and how it reflects the economy of funny books... and oh and more comics I made!
Hello again, this is the FWACATA newsletter. If you are wondering what you are reading, let me tell you: I am an artist/writer/comedian out of Miami, Florida, owner of the Goblins Heist, a comics and collectibles shop in Hialeah, Florida, and I make comics too. This is my blog, where I try to make fandom entrepreneurship make sense and get comics out. Thank you for joining me.
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This one is a bit late because I pulled double duty this weekend with the 305 fest pop-up and DORAL city place pop-up. Yes, this is what happens when you go into business for yourself. Fuck.
Comics are an ecology as much as an economy. I see the levels in the economy of comics like Ocean animals in the sense that it is the same in the different levels that they are. You have beautiful dolphins and whales, the other fish and tropical fish, all the stuff you like looking at. Then you also have your bottom feeders and the creatures of the deep, ugly and horrible but necessary for the ocean to continue.
They are all sorts of predators and prey, the lowest belly crawling scum, and ingenious creation all in one big soup. Being an artist and creator in this, the seller of such wares to all, I see it. As much as there is a disparity in the quality of consumers of this, we need them all, the dirty flippers, the high minded buyers, the hoarders, the old-timers, the creators, the edge-lords, the neckbeards, armchair politicians, etc. it’s an eclectic mix of the weird and the stupid atheist hood and the bad that keeps it all going. It’s fascinating and humbling, even in times of disparity. It’s a good time!
I go into that, this podcast, and the idea of pursuing a passion into a profession. It is not for the faint-hearted, both the podcast and the pursuit.
Alright, so this week is banging out the anthology finally. Lettering is a bitch, but at this moment as I write this I’m going to start on the next page right after I hit publish.
As a special treat if you are subscribed you get to read issue 1 and the Sketchbook special of REZ complete. This has work by Jeff Dekal, Johndell Snead, Cole Brustad and Myself! Hasn’t been released since the kickstarter. Here is a preview:
Here is a bit of the SKETCHBOOK/DESIGN BOOK that shows some of the work involved:
It’s my day off and I’m making comics and videos and yadda yadda, because that is the way of the game. Plain and simple. Nothing more, nothing less.
Because I love this shit.
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