This Week in Rejection!: Iconoclast
I’ve been shot down by Iconoclast before. Here’s another one: “Good job. A little long. Comes close.” I should have been pretty happy with that. But I bet I wasn’t. 😉...
Read MorePosted by Barry | Jun 22, 2012 | The Publishing Biz, This Week in Rejection!
I’ve been shot down by Iconoclast before. Here’s another one: “Good job. A little long. Comes close.” I should have been pretty happy with that. But I bet I wasn’t. 😉...
Read MorePosted by Barry | Jun 18, 2012 | Geeking Out, Memory Monday
Despite its somewhat unsavory reputation, the comic book industry has actually historically been staffed by fairly liberal and progressive types. Which is why I am not surprised by the sentiment of the following splash panel...
Read MorePosted by Barry | Jun 15, 2012 | The Publishing Biz, This Week in Rejection!
There’s so much to admire about this rejection letter from Indigenous Fiction, circa 2001. Take a gander: For one thing, the rejection itself (paragraph 1) is polite and doesn’t condescend. Then, in paragraph 2, we...
Read MorePosted by Barry | Jun 11, 2012 | Geeking Out, Memory Monday
I am, sadly, not a credentialed Comics Historian. But I’m pretty sure this is the first time in comics history that a super-hero has caught his wife cheating on him. (From Sword of the Atom #1, September 1983. Written by...
Read MorePosted by Barry | Jun 8, 2012 | The Publishing Biz, This Week in Rejection!
I find the humble opening of this one (“We appreciate that you think enough of Mid-American Review to want your work to appear in it.”) sort of charming…
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