AUG 18, 2006<\/p>\n
I had felt good at the San Diego Con, speaking with AIT\/Planet LAR about publishing my Limbo Caf\u00e9 story.\u00a0 <\/span>I checked in periodically to see if they\u2019d had a chance to look over the story, but of course, the post-San Diego pile of submissions takes time to flip through.\u00a0 <\/span>I sent an email about how the Skeptics Society gave me a big push for my Dr. DeBunko book, and said that I think it might be good timing to either do a full Dr. DeBunko limited series or to proceed with my Christian Fundamentalist-critical \u201cLimbo Caf\u00e9,\u201d both of which are very skeptical in nature, and could get this completely new, skeptical, non-comics audience interested in reading comic books.\u00a0 <\/span>I found out today that AIT\/Planet LAR isn\u2019t interested in my Limbo Caf\u00e9 proposal.\u00a0 <\/span>They said it\u2019s a bit too out there for them.\u00a0 <\/span>They gave me a suggestion for someone to pitch Dr. DeBunko to.\u00a0 <\/span>I really appreciate their honesty, and willingness to help out.\u00a0 <\/span>I would enjoy doing a book for them, if they ever gave me the opportunity.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve sent occasional letters out to Image to check in as well, regarding my Doris Danger stories.\u00a0 <\/span>I immediately wrote, after hearing from Stan Lee and Shag.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019m hoping it will be a feather in my cap, and a potential marketing opportunity for them, that the next issue will have a Shag cover and a Stan Lee blurb, but who knows.\u00a0 <\/span>Erik Larsen already told me at San Diego he\u2019s concerned with my sales numbers.\u00a0 <\/span>I suspect Image will also think my stories are a bit too out there.<\/p>\n And of course, I got a rejection from Fantagraphics a few months ago, regarding my Doris Danger stories, which they said were way out there, but in a good way.\u00a0 <\/span>But whether it was in a good way or not, they weren\u2019t interested in publishing them.\u00a0 <\/span>Just the same, I thought it was a very kind letter, that they acknowledged me and my work, and didn\u2019t just send out a form rejection.\u00a0 <\/span>And that they replied at all, instead of not even bothering.<\/p>\n Today, despite all the actually quite stunning good fortune I\u2019ve had, and despite numerous huge signs that I\u2019m making progress in the industry, I\u2019m in a bad mood about my comics, and I insecurely wonder if nothing will pan out.\u00a0 <\/span>I negatively fantasize how the movie options won\u2019t pan out.\u00a0 <\/span>Maybe the first guy has decided he isn\u2019t interested, and decided with such finality that he isn\u2019t even going to bother to write me.\u00a0 <\/span>And maybe the second guy isn\u2019t actually in tv at all.\u00a0 <\/span>He\u2019s just trying to get his foot in tv, the same way I\u2019m just trying to get into comics, so he won\u2019t have any power to try and get a Tabloia tv show, even if he still likes it.\u00a0 <\/span>Or the letter I sent him with all my ideas for a tv series made him realize that I\u2019m insane, and would not be a good person to work with.<\/p>\n A theme I\u2019m beginning to realize with my work is that people seem to think it\u2019s \u201cout there.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>I guess I didn\u2019t realize, or want to admit, my stuff is so out there, but if everyone says so, then I guess it must be.\u00a0 <\/span>Or if everyone says it is, then it doesn\u2019t matter if it really is or not; what matters is that\u2019s how it\u2019s perceived.<\/p>\n Am I going to spend my life doing all these stories I enjoy, but everyone feeling I\u2019m that guy whose stuff is just too weird?\u00a0 <\/span>Will I be one of those pretentious lunatics who\u2019s always bellowing that I\u2019m a genius, and complaining that no one else realizes or respects my brilliance, when in actuality, my stuff just isn\u2019t that good?<\/p>\n I guess all I can really do at this point is keep plugging away, and hopefully getting better all the time, and hopefully an audience who appreciates what I do will eventually find me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AUG 18, 2006 I had felt good at the San Diego Con, speaking with AIT\/Planet LAR about publishing my Limbo Caf\u00e9 story.\u00a0 I checked in periodically to see if they\u2019d had a chance to look over the story, but of course, the post-San Diego pile of submissions takes time to flip through.\u00a0 I sent an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary-of-a-struggling-comics-artist"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t