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Mainstream Vs. Independents

Posted by David Doub | February 9, 2010 .

Despite the title, this isn’t totally an article about how Mainstream comics are fighting the Independent comics because honestly there isn’t a fight. The mainstream have nothing to worry about from Independents. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
Recently Marvel has started another promotion/stunt to promote a comic. The gist of the promotion [...]

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Current Project

Posted by David Doub | January 5, 2010 .

While I wait for artists to turn in pages for Dusk and Miss Masque, I’ve found that I’ve had some writing free time (but enough time to get these articles in early, sorry Jim). So I went out to searching at a couple of websites to see if there was anyone who needed a [...]

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Indy Comic Book Week

Posted by David Doub | November 24, 2009 .

In the comic book industry there are many different issues and difficulties to deal with and one of the big ones is distribution.  Distribution is so bad in the comic industry, that Diamond was investigated by US Justice Department to see if Diamond had a monopoly on comic distribution.  The sad [...]

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Writing Established Characters

Posted by David Doub | October 27, 2009 .

At conventions I meet a lot of aspiring creators and a lot of them have the common goals of working for DC and Marvel. A big reason for that is they want to work on established characters. There’s an appeal to working on characters that are already known, famous, that you may have an emotional [...]

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Copyrights for Dummies

Posted by David Doub | September 29, 2009 .

One question I get a lot at shows is how can they protect their ideas from being stolen. They ask about actually purchasing a copyright from the government to the old trick of mailing yourself a copy of script or comic so you have a legal timestamp on it.

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Perseverance

Posted by David Doub | September 1, 2009 .

One important thing about creating or working on comics that I don’t think is reinforced enough is that you seriously need perseverance. That may seem fairly obvious, but there’s a difference in theory and action. Working in comics can be like working in a vacuum sometimes. You can spend a lot of time and effort [...]

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