T Campbell's Blog
Writer of Penny and Aggie, Fans (also called Faans), Rip & Teri, Search Engine Funnies and A History of Webcomics. Experienced webcomics editor, currently seeking full-time work and working on strange and interesting new things...Saturday, May 07, 2005
Underappreciating.
Not done Thursday: Anything whatsoever for Webcomics Appreciation Day. Apparently I'm not alone. I had something plotted out involving friendly emoticons, but a) my computer kept crashing due to unrelated tasks and b) I just didn't feel good about it-- it felt like I was banging something out just out of duty. Maybe Eric Burns is right (again) and we've moved past the need to formally "appreciate" webcomics. You know, the same reason we don't have a "Money Appreciation Day."
Also not done: a few communications to guys I really need to get in touch with. If you're one of them, have patience with me, please: I'm trying to get all my thoughts in order. One of the people waiting on me is Scott McCloud, so, y'know, don't take it personally.
Plenty has been keeping me busy in the meantime. Lessee here...
Finished sending in basic proposals for Tokyopop. At their active encouragement, I sent in three. One is that "Sphalt" thing I mentioned earlier, and one is for a pre-existing webcomic-- not the one you're thinking. A few artists have tossed their hats in the ring for the Pop Star series pitch-- I'll announce a formal decision soon.
Finished initial outline of the ghostwriting project. Looks like it's too Danielle Steele and not Fitzgerald enough for the client, but he liked the scene breakdown and the writing style, so we've got a basis to proceed.
The last holdouts from the Graphic Smash crash (or "SmashCrash 2005") are restored. Still not taken care of, though, are strips who actually left us some time ago and got shuffled back into the system in the crash. Soooooooooooooon.
Comics podcasters unionize.
Didn't much care to learn about this. I don't want to come off as disloyal, but Gisele and I are breaking our backs to get these books to you on deadline, and our efforts have run aground on the shores of our printer. We're sorry for everyone who expected to have Penny and Aggie #1 by now. On the upside, those colors are beautiful. If you haven't seen P&A in full color, you haven't seen P&A.
Kristofer Straub exposes me as a girl, or possibly a baby.
My old UCLA buddy Tarun Vohra is alive! He resides in India and my e-mail messages to him after the tsunami went unanswered until now. Tarun's a really good egg and a talented scriptwriter. The world's a better place now.
Up next: Podcasting Free Comic Book Day, and finishing off the rest of the "Eagles' Endgames" script.
Also not done: a few communications to guys I really need to get in touch with. If you're one of them, have patience with me, please: I'm trying to get all my thoughts in order. One of the people waiting on me is Scott McCloud, so, y'know, don't take it personally.
Plenty has been keeping me busy in the meantime. Lessee here...
Finished sending in basic proposals for Tokyopop. At their active encouragement, I sent in three. One is that "Sphalt" thing I mentioned earlier, and one is for a pre-existing webcomic-- not the one you're thinking. A few artists have tossed their hats in the ring for the Pop Star series pitch-- I'll announce a formal decision soon.
Finished initial outline of the ghostwriting project. Looks like it's too Danielle Steele and not Fitzgerald enough for the client, but he liked the scene breakdown and the writing style, so we've got a basis to proceed.
The last holdouts from the Graphic Smash crash (or "SmashCrash 2005") are restored. Still not taken care of, though, are strips who actually left us some time ago and got shuffled back into the system in the crash. Soooooooooooooon.
Comics podcasters unionize.
Didn't much care to learn about this. I don't want to come off as disloyal, but Gisele and I are breaking our backs to get these books to you on deadline, and our efforts have run aground on the shores of our printer. We're sorry for everyone who expected to have Penny and Aggie #1 by now. On the upside, those colors are beautiful. If you haven't seen P&A in full color, you haven't seen P&A.
Kristofer Straub exposes me as a girl, or possibly a baby.
My old UCLA buddy Tarun Vohra is alive! He resides in India and my e-mail messages to him after the tsunami went unanswered until now. Tarun's a really good egg and a talented scriptwriter. The world's a better place now.
Up next: Podcasting Free Comic Book Day, and finishing off the rest of the "Eagles' Endgames" script.
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