So I’m at the waiting-for-response stage of submission. Everyone who’s submitted stuff to an editor goes through it, you submit and wait and wait. I have some sympathy for anyone sending scripts unsolicited through the post to the slushpile, a
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Month: February 2024
Image of a Einstein Ring
Gorgeous looking space thing, adding it to “space backgrounds”
This alien earth
Well, alien isn’t quite right, but I’m fascinated by anything that feels like it comes from another planet (or simply culture) I like this a lot.
Pitch Black
I’ve sent something to 2000AD editor Matt Smith, a pitch for a Tharg’s Terror Tale… If you’re interested, the synopsis reads: Roots: A drug addict prodigal son returns home – but only to steal what he can. His mother’s pride
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ON CG / cross posted from twitter
Been asked in DM to explain why I’m so agin’ ComicsGate – the simple answer is that I’ve watched the group form, I’ve seen the people who it attracts, I’ve seen who they attack and I want absolutely nothing to
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On Substack
There’s been a fair amount of hubub about the various comic pros being paid vast sums to do things on substack. Now there’s good arguments to be had for the morality of taking substacks money, but there are good arguments
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Money Talks
I’ve been freelancing for over 20 years now. In that time I’ve always done my own accounts – it’s a relatively simple task, given even in a good year you could maybe expect 20 invoices and expenses are pretty low.
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Monday Flashback
Ah – a project that has a name so cool it might have killed it. I won’t name it (the name might be a curse, like the time I told a mate his girlfriend’s new haircut made her look like
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Earth as Alien Planet – locations
via twitter https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1428393826360520707 “Hundreds of thousands of years in the past when the Long Valley Caldera was created by violent volcanic action, the ultra hot lava flows created California’s Bishop Tuff tableland range, an otherworldly length of stony waves and
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Earth as Alien Planet
I love stuff like this, soldiers laying in a battlefield with wounds found they survived better if their wounds had been glowing overnight – “During the 2 days of fighting at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862, over 16 000
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