Back in 1993, the magazine Comics World decided to do a one page spread about a possible new direction for Black Tower. Comics International had given it a one inch column that just moaned about no "big names" -people, it said, would not be interested in buying new comics unless there were "names" which would make them investments books. And facts were incorrectly given.
So I sent the editor at Comics World sample art, press releases and a lot more. The editor went for unfinished page art (my mistake) rather than the finished art pages.
What appeared in print was a mess. Full of inaccuracies and more. After a year of the unfriendliest, most negative comics press he had ever seen...the investor pulled out of the deal. "If this is the comics press that represents the industry then comics here are dead". And the reaction from those in UK comics? "Good. British comics should be published by British publishers not some foreign investor!"
Hey, look at the non-existent UK comics industry today. The investor was right.
Annoying at the time but this is how it was/is.
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