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WerePuppy's BACK!
16 years ago
General
Here's what happened to me the day Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died. I got replaced on the one mainstream comic I was working on. I had completed the first book and was about a third of the way through the second and continuing to work on it each night, but for some reason during that fateful day, I checked the publisher's website and saw an article about the book I was working on. At the bottom of the article I saw that the book was being penciled by...not me. So I called...no reply and finally wrote an email.
I got a brief email back explaining that I wasn't working fast enough and that other arrangements had been made.
Now...I can understand him decided that I took too long. He's right, I was taking too long based on the schedule that they tend to work by. I had several projects I was dealing with, plus my full time job and to be entirely honest, I was having trouble getting enthusiastic about the work because the actual "script" (and I use that word very liberally) kind of sucked.
Also, I had been promised a much cooler book to work on, but it had been given to another artist and I was told I could do covers...and then the other artist did the covers too. Also, I have never been compensated for ANY of the work I had already done for them. So perhaps my lack of diligence can be undestood. Anyway, even though I was hurt by being replaced, what really bothered me was the fact that I wasn't even told. I was still working on it even though they already had another artist redoing everything I had done.
THAT is why I'm really pissed. Also I learned a while ago that the gay porn publisher I was going to work with on a couple of projects had to put them on hold indefinitely...so that publishing prospect had dried up as well.
So suddenly my one mainstream publisher and my (human) gay porn connection were gone. I gave it a try. Except for RSR, I have had poor WerePuppy waiting in the wings while I gave these other avenues a look-in, because I'm TRYING to build a new career for myself so I'm not still working as a staff artist at a t-shirt place when I turn 50 in FIVE more years!!!
Well, WerePuppy is coming out of retirement! I am going to work on a Professor Chronofur book to be published later this year and an entirely new anthology that I hope to turn into a continuing series! It will feature short stories with a variety of different characters and even styles. The stories will NOT be serialized--each story will be a complete moment from those characters' lives. They may reappear from time to time, but always in a complete narative. Each story will be accompanied by a pin-up "cover piece" and the actual cover will represent the first story in the book.
Another aspect of a new WerePuppy presence will be that I have been approached by RV to offer portfolios of prints for purchase on their website nd I am going to pursue that as well!
So, repeat with me, my furry children--the mainstream sucks! Long live Furry Porn!
I got a brief email back explaining that I wasn't working fast enough and that other arrangements had been made.
Now...I can understand him decided that I took too long. He's right, I was taking too long based on the schedule that they tend to work by. I had several projects I was dealing with, plus my full time job and to be entirely honest, I was having trouble getting enthusiastic about the work because the actual "script" (and I use that word very liberally) kind of sucked.
Also, I had been promised a much cooler book to work on, but it had been given to another artist and I was told I could do covers...and then the other artist did the covers too. Also, I have never been compensated for ANY of the work I had already done for them. So perhaps my lack of diligence can be undestood. Anyway, even though I was hurt by being replaced, what really bothered me was the fact that I wasn't even told. I was still working on it even though they already had another artist redoing everything I had done.
THAT is why I'm really pissed. Also I learned a while ago that the gay porn publisher I was going to work with on a couple of projects had to put them on hold indefinitely...so that publishing prospect had dried up as well.
So suddenly my one mainstream publisher and my (human) gay porn connection were gone. I gave it a try. Except for RSR, I have had poor WerePuppy waiting in the wings while I gave these other avenues a look-in, because I'm TRYING to build a new career for myself so I'm not still working as a staff artist at a t-shirt place when I turn 50 in FIVE more years!!!
Well, WerePuppy is coming out of retirement! I am going to work on a Professor Chronofur book to be published later this year and an entirely new anthology that I hope to turn into a continuing series! It will feature short stories with a variety of different characters and even styles. The stories will NOT be serialized--each story will be a complete moment from those characters' lives. They may reappear from time to time, but always in a complete narative. Each story will be accompanied by a pin-up "cover piece" and the actual cover will represent the first story in the book.
Another aspect of a new WerePuppy presence will be that I have been approached by RV to offer portfolios of prints for purchase on their website nd I am going to pursue that as well!
So, repeat with me, my furry children--the mainstream sucks! Long live Furry Porn!
clause 1: You are not allowed to work for any other company than (the company) during your term of employment for (the company).
clause 2: any creative output you come up with while working for (the company) automatically becomes the property of (the company).
clause 3: you are considered an employee of the company from the moment you accept a job, until the moment your completed work for them is published.
Not accepted. PUBLISHED.
This means that if you take a job from one of them, and they decide never to print it, you're theirs - for the rest of your life. If you signed one of these - You're done.
Remember the lesson of Dan DeCarlo.
Working for the mainstream isn't worth it. For the pittance you get paid, you may quite literally be selling your soul.
So if you would like some help with what you are doing I am offering myself to help as long as I can put the small case on purpose mericus name on the work done. Like an acknowledgment maybe in the forward.
mericus is not my real first name much like Werepuppy isn't yours, at least I don't think you sign your checks that way, Course nobody would ever cash them, they'd be collector's items on EBAY "signed by Werepuppy hisself"!
It is good to have you back, though. The anthology certainly sounds interesting.
At least he told me he wasn't going to use my art, even if it was AFTER I did all the work. What that editor did to you was unforgivable, and it's exactly why agents put "kill fees" into contracts. That tells the editor "you can ditch me, bit it's gonna cost you!"
Hip Hip Hurrah!
I'm really looking forward to seeing more of your work, best of luck to you!
I wish we were still able to have lunch from time to time. Of course, things are so tight ATM, I usually skip lunch...or eat something at my desk. *sigh*
Sorry 'bout all that crap. I hope things look better for ya soon.
Glad to see you're staying positive about all this, and... thanks.
But, it will be nice to see more of you again :)
What now, even the book you had already finished? Did they use any of your work?
The whole thing sounds pretty damn unprofessional on their part, indeed, to say the least.
Sorry to hear about all that, in any case. Your art is very good, and you deserve better than that.
( Just out of curiousity - What kind of project was it, specifically? )
sorries you got butt fucked and not the good kind
Its glad to have you back.. because comics suck lately