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Post by smang12345 on Feb 15, 2011 12:34:33 GMT -5
What happened? I was in the middle of typing a response on the thread Comic Writers and everything on here seems to have reset itself.
Now, let's talk about comic writers. The one writer who's doing it right at the moment is Mike Carey. He wrote the Lucifer series, Crossing Midnight, John Constantine, X-Men, and is now writing The Unwritten. For those of you who don't know the best way to describe The Unwritten is what would happen if the stories of a Harry Potter-type character were based on reality and what if "Harry" is now older and forgotten what happened to him. This series just blows me away and the "Choose Your Own Adventure" issue is quite possibly the single best issue of anything released last year.
Mike also has a series of novels of his noir paranormal detective Felix Castor who is a lot like John Constantine and which are just brilliant. Has anyone else read this series?
And now for the cheap plug, my podcast thedollarbin.net will release either this week or next a very long and thorough conversation with Mr. Carey and he is a wonderful guy to speak to.
One spoiler, I asked him what his dream project would be and he said him writing the Grant Morrison era Doom Patrol would be his dream project. Who at DC do I have to call to make this happen?
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Post by tombitd on Feb 15, 2011 20:25:45 GMT -5
I reviewed the first Felix Castor novel for FANGORIA, and I am a great admirer of Mr. Carey as a whole...
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Post by smang12345 on Feb 16, 2011 13:31:35 GMT -5
I reviewed the first Felix Castor novel for FANGORIA, and I am a great admirer of Mr. Carey as a whole... Is your review available online Tom? I checked their website and couldn't find the review and I'd be interested in your thoughts. And i'll second your admiration for Mr. Carey. He was one of the nicest guys I've interviewed in a while. And it looks like our guy posted a Steve Niles interview this week and Mike Carey will be next week. |
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Post by tombitd on Feb 16, 2011 15:14:54 GMT -5
I reviewed the first Felix Castor novel for FANGORIA, and I am a great admirer of Mr. Carey as a whole... Is your review available online Tom? I checked their website and couldn't find the review and I'd be interested in your thoughts. And i'll second your admiration for Mr. Carey. He was one of the nicest guys I've interviewed in a while. And it looks like our guy posted a Steve Niles interview this week and Mike Carey will be next week. It was in the print magazine...which one I couldn't tell you off the top of my head, as I had to toss my old issues in my massive cleaning initiative.... But, to sum it up...I liked it. I was supposed to review the third Castor novel, DEAD MAN'S BOOTS, but the disagreement between me and FANGORIA (I think writers should be paid; they think I should be glad I got published) flowered into irreconcilable differences. |
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Post by Dino on Feb 20, 2011 0:52:04 GMT -5
Receive actual compensation for work you do that allows them to make money?! Mr. Deja, you MUST be mad!
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Post by smang12345 on Feb 21, 2011 16:58:07 GMT -5
I review graphic novels for free on the website I write for as long as I get a comp copy. Writing for a published magazine is different though and they should pony up some token amount between 25-50 dollars.
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Post by Derrick on Feb 21, 2011 17:42:37 GMT -5
Receive actual compensation for work you do that allows them to make money?! Mr. Deja, you MUST be mad! Reminds me of a conversation I had with a writer friend of mine here in Brooklyn. He was foaming at the mouth because someone had suggested he look for a writing job on Craigslist and couldn't find one as just about every job offer on there didn't offer money or very little. Out of curiosity I looked myself and damn if he wasn't right. Why is it that people expect writers to produce work and not be paid for it? Now before you jump on me for being a hypocrite because I write fan fiction and I occasionally give away free stories let me explain: I give away free stories and write fan fiction because that's MY choice to do so. I have had people contact me and ask me to write stories/novels for them without pay. I've turned them down (some politely, some not so politely) and been cussed out by a few of these individuals who honestly thought I had a lot of damn nerve to actually expect to be paid in real money and not a pie-in-the-sky promise of making money in some nebulous future. |
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Post by tombitd on Feb 21, 2011 19:12:40 GMT -5
I review graphic novels for free on the website I write for as long as I get a comp copy. Writing for a published magazine is different though and they should pony up some token amount between 25-50 dollars. For the record--until 2008, when The Brooklyn Group took over The Starlog Group Family of magazines, including FANGORIA, I was paid a flat rate of $50 for each review, from $75-200 for a 'front matter' article, and from $150-400 for a feature article. If I wrote something for the website, I'd get from $125-300 dollars, and I was paid a monthly honorium of $75 a month for my editing their online literary magazine when they had it. Since The Brooklyn Group took over, I've gotten exactly two checks of $200 each, bringing my payments current through November of 2008. I'm owed approximately $700 for work I did through early 2010...but have despaired of ever seeing anything from it. When I contacted the new editor recently about being paid, I was told I was 'only' owed $275...even after I submitted an itemized list of all the pieces I had not been paid for. So am I a little pissed off about this? You could say that... |
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Post by smang12345 on Feb 21, 2011 19:15:20 GMT -5
Now before you jump on me for being a hypocrite because I write fan fiction and I occasionally give away free stories let me explain: I give away free stories and write fan fiction because that's MY choice to do so. I have had people contact me and ask me to write stories/novels for them without pay. I've turned them down (some politely, some not so politely) and been cussed out by a few of these individuals who honestly thought I had a lot of damn nerve to actually expect to be paid in real money and not a pie-in-the-sky promise of making money in some nebulous future. Yeah we were talking about that the other day Derrick. The problem is that there is nothing tangible for them to touch so they assess no value to it. My company makes specialty products for advertising. Do you want a 30 foot BBQ grill? I've made it. No one sees the value in the designing of the product only the finished product itself. People want us to fully design the thing and give them the designs just because they have asked for a price quote. Problem is that once it's designed any asshole can make it so 60% of the cost of something is the time it takes to design or in Darrick's case write a story. I look at it this way, my time is worth a minimum of $20.00/hr. I can crank out a 1-1.5 page book review in that time so I don't think that asking for $20.00 is unreasonable. |
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Post by smang12345 on Feb 24, 2011 12:10:14 GMT -5
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Post by Dino on Mar 5, 2011 1:35:22 GMT -5
Receive actual compensation for work you do that allows them to make money?! Mr. Deja, you MUST be mad! Reminds me of a conversation I had with a writer friend of mine here in Brooklyn. He was foaming at the mouth because someone had suggested he look for a writing job on Craigslist and couldn't find one as just about every job offer on there didn't offer money or very little. Out of curiosity I looked myself and damn if he wasn't right. Why is it that people expect writers to produce work and not be paid for it? Now before you jump on me for being a hypocrite because I write fan fiction and I occasionally give away free stories let me explain: I give away free stories and write fan fiction because that's MY choice to do so. I have had people contact me and ask me to write stories/novels for them without pay. I've turned them down (some politely, some not so politely) and been cussed out by a few of these individuals who honestly thought I had a lot of damn nerve to actually expect to be paid in real money and not a pie-in-the-sky promise of making money in some nebulous future. I think it comes down to this misguided notion that writing isn't "real" work and it's "easy." Which anyone who actually DOES write knows is complete bull. |
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