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To those who have started following my blog after yesterday's shenanigans: I promise I will never be that interesting ever again.

Here's another link on the subject: Tom Spurgeon fills in some of the gaps in what I was saying. (EDIT: Heidi MacDonald has a great round-up.)

Also, remember this. Comics take time. If you're young now, time might not seem like a big deal. But if you sign up with a kinda-crappy publisher, doing a kinda-crappy book that you don't really care too much about, you'll look around one day and realize years have passed, you're not a kid anymore, and a lot of your raw potential has ossified.

(yes, before signing a book contract, think about the inevitability of death)

If you're like me, you could give a rat's ass what's in your contract, as long as you're getting to produce the work you love.

I'm no shining example. I signed whatever Oni Press put in front of me. Contract for a six-book series - I have no friggin' idea what's in there. Signed it when I was 25, and now I'm pushing 30. I'm just lucky they seem to like me and want to make money with me, rather than cutting me out of the money-making loop. Plus, they're a small outfit, and like half of them are hemophiliacs. I could totally take them in a fight.

Seriously, though, I spent years doing the invisible shit work that nobody wants to do. I lettered, I did crappy design work, I did bad inking jobs on other people's fine work. I did not win a contest and I was never an overnight success. The instant-gratification-American-Idol mindset is so sad, so damaging. Everyone I know who's successful got that way by hard work, gradual building of an audience, nonstop hustling, plenty of luck.

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I have decided that what the world needs now is a new Megaman game using the original Megaman sprite - but setting him loose in a world of current pixel-technology. You know, huge bad guys, fancy visual effects, all that, but the same little guy running and zapping with his dot eyes. I just feel like he stopped being Megaman when he got more than 32 pixels high or whatever.