FYI:
NO, I am not leaving Image Comics. My books are still being published by them, and you can order graphic novel collections of this series by inquiring at your local comic shop, or clicking the SHOP button above. I love Image Comics. Seriously. Best Publisher Ever.
YES, I will finish the entire series in print, in comic book format as we go. I ran a poll on the old website, and the overwhelming preference for all fans of the series is to keep the comic book series running, even if I put the comic online. So, I will.
YES, I will run the entire comic book series as an online comic. With about 1,000 pages to go, that is going to take awhile.
YES, I will post new pages daily, at least for now. I know I announced three posts a week, but as has been pointed out by many readers, you’d all like a bigger chunk of it to read online. So, I am going to post on a daily basis the first 60 pages, at least. We’ll see how things go after that.
NO, I will not be posting the entire content of the old blog. My daily nattering will not be missed, I am sure. Instead, I have cherry picked the most important of the business-oriented posts, and some of my other favorites. The rest are down the rabbit hole.
No, I don’t know how long it will take me to finish the series. I’m about 8 issues from the end. I have two graphic novels I am working on for Vertigo, and A Distant Soil gets my spare time.
Drawing a comic book series is extremely expensive and time consuming, which is why you may have noticed many of them falter at some point and never get finished…the money ran out. A Distant Soil is far, far more successful than many an indy title, but I have certain material needs that were easy to ignore when I was 20 and became imperatives when I hit 30. Like health insurance.
The more hits we get on this website, the more time I can spend drawing A Distant Soil.
See you at NYCC.
“Drawing a comic book series is extremely expensive and time consuming, which is why you may have noticed many of them falter at some point and never get finished…the money ran out.”
Amen.
I can’t get over the number of people who think the problem is laziness or lack of dedication. The world doesn’t owe us a living. They do not have to buy our comics. Creating comics costs money. It costs money to live. If we don’t have money to live, we don’t have money to create comics. It’s a simple numbers game.
I also love how artists are all disillusioned at comics and realise how hard it is when they do it..
Absolutely. Consider that to create a monthly comic, you have to do roughly 26 pages of finished art every single month. that means a page a day with four days off. If you don’t get your page a day done, you get no days off.
If you can’t do a monthly comic, many fans complain. But monthly comics means completing a finished piece of art almost every single day, 365 days a year. Most people just can’t take the strain.