Comments for Dial H for Holden

Comment on Life at the drawing board by Lauris

Lauris — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:34:46 +0000

A great and bitter-sweet read. I really enjoyed it, thanks!

And some of it definitely does not need re-writing / re-drawing.

Comment on ook ook by Dave

Dave — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:29:23 +0000

You are falling into the digital world, once you step into it, it is very hard to come back from what I have read. You’ll know when you start having nightmares of forgotten brushes and ink wells attacking you and screaming FREEDOM!

Check the link out above, ye olde Fantasy unlimited by a few people in Belfast you may know.

Comment on Vice by Dee

Dee — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:46:37 +0000

You might be interested to read this. DC and Marvel having issues with artists and writers.

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/the-q-creators-talk-editorial-conflict.html

Comment on Don’t Blink by Mike Sivier

Mike Sivier — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:19:31 +0000

From the style and tone of that tree I deduce that you are becoming Quentin Blake.

Comment on Dad Hard by Dee

Dee — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:27:26 +0000

All the best in your trials and tribulations to come PJ, what I can say as a friend of a family with a child at 7 with Aspergers is that the father got the house refitted with wifi and PC to TV outputs and his son a Playstation with thinking games, for counting and writing as well as mind thoughtful games to keep the child focused on doing something constantly. HE syas it stimulates him to concentrate and stay focused on tasks that are in front of him at that time. It has also lifted the family mood in regards to worry and stress for their son Brandon, as he rally seems contented with his new found technology adventure etc. Just letting you know in case it maybe something your thinking about too.

Hope you get it all resolved for the best m8.

Comment on Comixology Submit by PJ

PJ — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:13:32 +0000

There’s a couple of points (though I broadly agree with you)

comixology is where the mass market is. I have dark horse and comixology apps and, despite spending a fortune on the dark horse app, I rarely go in there. Largely this is thanks to apple pushing comixology and marvel and dC. The best way to sell comics is as a non drm file on your own server, but try getting people to do that. I’d be very interested in finding out from Becky Cloonan how her books have done on comixology compared to the iBooks store (where apple take only 30% leaving her with the rest). My guess is, very shortly she’ll make more money from comixology.

And the panel view, as it turns out, is also being used by non comics readers to help them read comics (never occurs to me that people would find it difficult, but it turns out I’m too steeped in comics to see it)

Comment on Comixology Submit by Brigonos Chomhgaill

Brigonos Chomhgaill — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:03:05 +0000

Worth pointing out that free alternatives to this service – like Comicsy – have been around for a while already, and they don’t filter out and reject comics with blasphemous and/or homosexual content as Comixology/Apple do.

About the only thing in Comixology’s favor is Guided View, which is utterly useless to anyone with a half-decent tablet or reader (it’s an app that really only helps people reading on phones and gaming machines), and the ability to come up in searches of the store – but anyone who has ever used Google to find something they want on the web will not really find that much more of a help, either. Basically, they want half your profit (or as you point out with that 100 quid mark before they pay you anything, they pretty much take ALL of your profit) to host a file like Photoshop, Tumblr, or Comicsy does for free. You still have to make the comic and get an audience to Comixology to buy your stuff, so this seems less like an opportunity and more like a mugging.

Comment on Bannerman the update by Foxasaurus

Foxasaurus — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 13:25:34 +0000

Seconded on the love. Awesome banner Mr Holden, quite awesome.

Comment on Day 19 -Dredd vs Death by Sunday Digest Sunday 3rd March, 2013 | Dial H for Holden

Sunday Digest Sunday 3rd March, 2013 | Dial H for Holden — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:06:51 +0000

[...] Day 19 -Dredd vs Death I’ve been sitting on a commission for ages, thought I’d do it as part of a warm up to get back to drawing comics proper, like. Of course, time being what it is, it took a couple of days to do the warm up (kids/family/doctors visit). On the health front: been giving am inhaler for [...] [...]

Comment on Imagine all the people by Sunday Digest Sunday 3rd March, 2013 | Dial H for Holden

Sunday Digest Sunday 3rd March, 2013 | Dial H for Holden — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:06:33 +0000

[...] Imagine all the people I’ve written a workshop for Imagine FX – to appear NEXT issue. (The current issue dropped through my letterbox and I was cheered up no end by the next issue blurb). I’ve stumbled into pro writing this year, no plan to, but it’s been fun and oddly effortless. The topics have usually been things I [...] [...]