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November 05, 2007
State of the Rob 11052007
* I've got 74 pages drawn for Too Late. I was originally thinking it would run around 150 pages, but now I don't think it will go over 130. I gave myself a lot of 'breathing room' in some scenes that I don't think I'll need to take advantage of.
I'm pretty excited about the book, though. It's about as different from Black Chamber as it can be. Like I've said before, BC was Peckinpah and this will be Hitchcock as written by Chandler.
* Did you know that Chandler was originally tapped to write 'Strangers on a Train'? Here's what Hitch had to say about it in 'Hitchcock/Truffault':
A.H. ...and that raises another point. Whenever I collaborate with a writer who, like myself, specializes in mystery, thriller, or suspense, things don't seem to work out too well.
F.T. You're referring to Raymond Chandler?
A.H. Right; our association didn't work out at all. We'd sit together and I would say, "Why not do it this way?" and he'd answer, "Well, if you can puzzle it out, what do you need me for?" The work he did was no good...
Here's what Chandler had to say about it:
"Look at that fat bastard trying to get out of his car."
* Back to 'Too Late'. I colored the first seventeen pages yesterday in a bit of a marathon session. I'm really happy about how they all came out. I was on a fence about leaving them in their original state, but as the examples in the last post show, I think I made the right decision.
* Putting Black Chamber up on Wowio has turned out to be a good decision. It's not huge money I'm making off of it, but it's adding up pretty nicely into a nice chunk of change. Also? I'm going to be earning off of these for the life of the site (which I hope is a nice long while). Most comics today live and die from the sales of their first week of release. With this revenue stream, it's all about being slow and steady to win the race. Although if I get to the point where I'm getting a thousand downloads a week, this would be a full-time income.
* Did you notice I quietly put up the third chapter? The full announcement for it of course goes out Wednesday with the normal PR blitz.
* Katy and I are going to WRESTLEMANIA!
* The Fabulous Moolah passed away this weekend. What a broad she was (which I mean in the most endearing way possible)! She debuted in WWE (then the WWWF) at its inception in 1963, although she had started wrestling in the 1940's(!). In 1956 she defeated Judy Grable for the Women's Championship of the World, which she held for the next 28 (!) years. That's a title reign that has not been beaten by anyone else, man or woman, not only in wrestling but not in any other sport ever.
In 1999 she returned to rasslin' after a twelve year vacation to win her fourth women's championship. She was in her 70's! My buddies and I all talk about how hardcore Ric Flair is to still be wrestling at the rate he does at the age he's at. He doesn't have anything on Moolah, though!
Truly a remarkable loss to the world, but just look at how much she gave us!
* The recent announcement about the ComicSpace/Webcomics Nation merger has me thinking more about using the web as a realistic tool for distribution and income. I'll probably put up a new essay at TB about that on Wednesday.
* I finished up Greg Rucka's 'Patriot Acts' last week. Seriously good. I don't know that I like it better than my favorite of his, "A Gentlemen's Game", but it rates pretty close. Man, he just gets it.
* I don't talk about Katy's job too much, or like, at all. She's the editor of Gatehouse Magazine for the Leavenworth and Wyandotte areas. If you're in one of those counties, be sure to check it out. She does good work coordinating everything as well as doing some writing for it.
* She got me this for our anniversary last month. It rules.
* Paneer Masala rules, too.
* Back to working on TL pages!
Posted by Schamberger at November 5, 2007 03:13 PM