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Jan. 6th, 2006
If I Was a Publisher
Jan. 6th, 2006 02:43 amI was thinking about the "why don't you just start your own company" people who've skimmed my "I quit" posts.
I was thinking if I had the money, and the money was specifically for starting my own publishing compnay, I'd get the print rights for all my graphic novels (with the exception of Killer Princesses), and publish them myself and sell them myself via mail order or whatever shows I might go to.
And I'd print and sell the new ones when they were done, and self-publish that autobio about working for a year at Gainax.
Ayup.
I was thinking if I had the money, and the money was specifically for starting my own publishing compnay, I'd get the print rights for all my graphic novels (with the exception of Killer Princesses), and publish them myself and sell them myself via mail order or whatever shows I might go to.
And I'd print and sell the new ones when they were done, and self-publish that autobio about working for a year at Gainax.
Ayup.
If You WANT the Change, BE the Change
Jan. 6th, 2006 06:15 pmGreetings to the new people who've found their way here via The Best, When Fangirls Attack, Zeus Comics Blogger, and countless others who are welcome to pimp themselves here.
More than once in the past week, the question's been asked "What can I do?" I'm going to make some suggestions, since you asked, and you're listening.
1. Buy my books. That's right. You want to support someone with the nerve to strike out on her own, BUY MY BOOKS. Walk, meet talk. Go to Divalea's Webcomics Nation Emporium and buy a book or four. Buy a shirt. Commission a maquette.
2. I'm going to self-publish something this year. Commit now to supporting that. I'm going to do it Janer-style: raise the dough for printing by having people order in advance. You'll get a great book, signed and with a sketch in it, a piece of art of some sort, and you'll be a charter member of Atelier DivaLea Books. There'll even be a button saying so, that you may wear.
3. Read my comics online, they're at www.girlamatic.com and at Webcomicsnation.com. Tell your friends about them. Review them. Blog about them.
4. DO NOT BE SILENT. Silence about sexism in comics has become a normal behavior. Make silence abnormal. Make noise. As people speak out, behavior will be amended, the shitweasels will be driven away, and women who call out bad behavior will be supported, instead of ostracized.
5. MAKE COMICS.
6. HURT COMICS. And hurt those fuckers GOOD.
7. If you WANT the change, BE the change.
More than once in the past week, the question's been asked "What can I do?" I'm going to make some suggestions, since you asked, and you're listening.
1. Buy my books. That's right. You want to support someone with the nerve to strike out on her own, BUY MY BOOKS. Walk, meet talk. Go to Divalea's Webcomics Nation Emporium and buy a book or four. Buy a shirt. Commission a maquette.
2. I'm going to self-publish something this year. Commit now to supporting that. I'm going to do it Janer-style: raise the dough for printing by having people order in advance. You'll get a great book, signed and with a sketch in it, a piece of art of some sort, and you'll be a charter member of Atelier DivaLea Books. There'll even be a button saying so, that you may wear.
3. Read my comics online, they're at www.girlamatic.com and at Webcomicsnation.com. Tell your friends about them. Review them. Blog about them.
4. DO NOT BE SILENT. Silence about sexism in comics has become a normal behavior. Make silence abnormal. Make noise. As people speak out, behavior will be amended, the shitweasels will be driven away, and women who call out bad behavior will be supported, instead of ostracized.
5. MAKE COMICS.
6. HURT COMICS. And hurt those fuckers GOOD.
7. If you WANT the change, BE the change.