Tyler Martin, who owns Godhood Comics, wrote that the black indie comic community isn’t one he recognizes anymore: tribalism, gatekeeping, political agendas, where fifteen years ago he found creators uplifting each other and building together. I agree with a lot of it, and I want to add something from my … Read More
Link: https://rippaverse.com/collections/the-rippaverse-animated-universe/ Change the opening to lead with the business reality rather than the personal note: Independent publishers almost never make animation, and the reason is structural. A single episode costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, and studios only make it work through production committees that recoup on merchandise and … Read More
A lot of people are bullish on AI mostly because they resent the mainstream, and I want to bring that back to earth. AI was never promised to be the great equalizer, and it isn’t going to be one. The mistake underneath it is assuming money was the gate. It … Read More
The Trump administration is drafting a rule that would pay a married parent to stay home and care for their own child, funded out of the existing Child Care and Development Fund. Vance has championed it and it borrows from a bill Rubio wrote in the Senate. It’s a draft, … Read More
Somebody left a comment saying it’s over. You don’t own the IPs, they’ve permanently changed them, taking on a multi-billion dollar industry is a revenge fantasy, accept it and move on. He’s right about a lot of that, and wrong about the conclusion. I’m not a blackpill guy. I wrote … Read More
There’s an argument going around about comic accuracy in the Wolverine game, and both sides are missing the structure underneath it. Comics and gaming ended up in the same place for the same reason. When something gets big enough, the audience stops being the people who were there first. These … Read More
People have overcomplicated writing female characters to the point of paralysis. It isn’t complicated. It’s just that a decade of forced, ham-fisted writing burned the audience, and now they arrive suspicious. You have to be aware of that without letting it change how you write. Two examples from our books, … Read More
For a lot of you, Cover A of Isom #1 was your introduction to Isom. When I was pitching this universe, most artists had a healthy dose of skepticism. Caanan White got it immediately. I told him the essence of the story and who Isom is, and he came back … Read More
A comment on my AMC distribution video said the obvious thing: independent films still have to be good. True, and also the exact problem. That’s a standard almost nobody applies to the mainstream. Here’s my theory for why. People value being part of the conversation more than they value the … Read More
Jaleel White, the voice of Sonic and the guy you know as Urkel, said the 90s were the last decade with a real aesthetic imprint, and that it was the last analog generation. He’s right, and the reason why matters more than the nostalgia. It isn’t that nothing memorable happened … Read More
