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Would anyone like to help out an idiot?
6 years ago
Ok, so I'm out two grand on a moron gamble. Not on the horses or at the casino, but I trusted someone way more than I should have. There was no real reason to not trust the person, but obviously that was a stupid thing of me. I am writing a comic series (well, more than one, but the focus is on this) and because I had worked with someone for over a decade on art and I wanted to bring them along on something I consider huge, I put them on retainer. It was my gamble, my, I am investing in this to make sure it starts moving and as the comic was being made, I would do something like IGG to start funding the creation of it physically as well as recoup the investment and start funding more issues at the same time. It wasn't and isn't about strictly making money. If I could make the series and not make money, I'd be ok with that. It's a great story, I think everyone would be down with it.
So I went all in with it. I dropped the money on him and things started out ok. Got some early page stuff, they needed to be edited, some panels needed to be moved, some in betweens needed to be put in, but it was progress. Very quickly though, communication slowed down, progress slowed down and because there seemed to be some kind of confusion, I scaled back the level of art. I was fine with it being sketched as long as we cleaned it up before finishing. I liked the style of it that way as the story is placed in a less developed time, so it could look more in place with that setting.
Less than half a year, progress stopped, by half a year, communication stopped. I have zero pages that I can use. Like I said, it was too early to even show things seriously to anyone and needed reworkings and more in betweens to make things actually make sense. This was supposed to be done by....Juneish of last year at the latest. The agreement was that we would do as much as possible on the comic between commissions. That's why I said Juneish. I was being as sympathetic to the artist's life that I could.
I can't do a chargeback on Paypal even if I wanted since I put it as friends/family so he wouldn't be dinged with fees for it, but I also know that even after a few months, if I went after him for the money, I would financially destroy him and I can't do that to someone else. Even if I took out the amount for the partial work, it would wreck him. Most people don't have that kind of money sitting around.
I didn't gamble in the sense that I couldn't survive without the money. I know that doing that is insane. My issue is that I can't even move forward with this project because I don't have the money to invest in it now. And even after all this time, I see that this thing will be amazing. I am not saying this just because it's mine. I'm saying it because I would buy this thing if I saw it. I would watch the movie. I would watch the TV show.
Historically, I have had crap luck with crowdfunding, which is part of why I decided to go all in on this myself. One way or another, this was going to happen.
I am asking for help and yes financial help. Word of mouth is good too. I am asking for any help that you can provide. I will be trying to figure out the logistics of it all, but I will do what I can to repay that help in some physical way. First and foremost, I will be putting your name into the comic and if you wanted, I would find a place for you as a character in the comic. Granted, it would be a limited availability because the issue doesn't have hundreds of people in it.
If you can help, I appreciate it. I don't really have anyplace else to ask on help and just want to get this thing out of my head and into people's hands.
So I went all in with it. I dropped the money on him and things started out ok. Got some early page stuff, they needed to be edited, some panels needed to be moved, some in betweens needed to be put in, but it was progress. Very quickly though, communication slowed down, progress slowed down and because there seemed to be some kind of confusion, I scaled back the level of art. I was fine with it being sketched as long as we cleaned it up before finishing. I liked the style of it that way as the story is placed in a less developed time, so it could look more in place with that setting.
Less than half a year, progress stopped, by half a year, communication stopped. I have zero pages that I can use. Like I said, it was too early to even show things seriously to anyone and needed reworkings and more in betweens to make things actually make sense. This was supposed to be done by....Juneish of last year at the latest. The agreement was that we would do as much as possible on the comic between commissions. That's why I said Juneish. I was being as sympathetic to the artist's life that I could.
I can't do a chargeback on Paypal even if I wanted since I put it as friends/family so he wouldn't be dinged with fees for it, but I also know that even after a few months, if I went after him for the money, I would financially destroy him and I can't do that to someone else. Even if I took out the amount for the partial work, it would wreck him. Most people don't have that kind of money sitting around.
I didn't gamble in the sense that I couldn't survive without the money. I know that doing that is insane. My issue is that I can't even move forward with this project because I don't have the money to invest in it now. And even after all this time, I see that this thing will be amazing. I am not saying this just because it's mine. I'm saying it because I would buy this thing if I saw it. I would watch the movie. I would watch the TV show.
Historically, I have had crap luck with crowdfunding, which is part of why I decided to go all in on this myself. One way or another, this was going to happen.
I am asking for help and yes financial help. Word of mouth is good too. I am asking for any help that you can provide. I will be trying to figure out the logistics of it all, but I will do what I can to repay that help in some physical way. First and foremost, I will be putting your name into the comic and if you wanted, I would find a place for you as a character in the comic. Granted, it would be a limited availability because the issue doesn't have hundreds of people in it.
If you can help, I appreciate it. I don't really have anyplace else to ask on help and just want to get this thing out of my head and into people's hands.
