The good thing is that. like Werewolves, the text pages are gone. Why is that good? Well, it means that although I can remember a lot of the dialogue I am coming up with new dialogue that helps the story flow much better.
I am hoping that the book should be finished by the end of March -so long as I don't go blind
"When a product is described as being "slept on," it means it is undervalued, overlooked, or not getting the attention, popularity, or sales it deserves."
So...WAKE UP!
Oddly someone said to me that two books purchased for £24/$24 was at least £48 in my pocket. No. Print on demand does not work that way. As the publisher you do all the work but the POD company "stores" your file so they take a big cut and the printer obviously needs their cut. That £24 sale earned me £250 -you work out who makes the money. Also, even though a UK publisher with items printed outside the USA because the POD company is US based I have to pay US Taxes (but get no benefits from that).
I never understood why no UK based POD company ever set up. Those are the drawbacks so although a customer can order a book in their own currency and it is printed and delivered in their region I still get the short end of the stick and still pay US tax!!
Stick to your own Small Press publishing unless you can get a guaranteed audience and selling in hundreds -the current interest isn't adding to my bank account!
oh...or get a job to pay your bills and eat in the meantime😂
Just been Face Book chatting (via the Black Tower Comics and Books page) with someone who put in a largish book order who told me had had been on some comic forums and that discussion centred on "Black Tower being a much slept on company".
I have no idea what "slept on" means!! Mind you it did take me a while to realised that "Specced on" meant speculated on re investment.
No one uses clear English any more!
Cut, paste, Tippex and photocopy days. The artwork may not have been that great back then but it was fun and for some reason zines kept selling out.
Adventure 4, September 1986. Crime Busters UK and Link go up against Beta Man and the Metal Man makes his first appearance. Kotar and Sabuta are there to witness the coming of The Ghost (also on front cover). Meanwhile two hard working cops look into the mysterious deaths and try to find out just who Wild Mane is.
Meanwhile Jon Future in his civilian guise gets into a car with agents of Special Intelligence which is then blown up by the international hit man known as the Marksman. In the second part of his origin story the Owl (David Holmes) looks into the murder of his old friend and that leads to some nastiness close to home.
The Avenger and Purple Hood breach the headquarters of Intercrime and the Mad Cutter makes his first appearance. In Guppy Terror (seriously) an injured Duncan McCrae (aka Barracuda) washes up on an island where he meets the mysterious Laguna before finding himself captured by the Black Shark's crew.
40 pages of black and white fun from a time when making comics was fun and there was a comic creators community.
I posted previously about "speculation" on Black Tower Comics and Books due to the only printed on demand and therefore "rarity and collectability for investment" (as someone put it).
I have now had four offers in the last two weeks and they all follow along the same lines. I ought to point out that "animation cells" may have come about as I have posted previously about the failed Paranormals animated series. Apart from a company in Germany called "ADV" (no longer in existence) who wanted to look at developing D-Gruppe I have never been involved in animation.
I have tons of art pages but these are not like American comic book boards. Also, the expense with taxes and postal/courier charges to get just ten pages to the US is waaaaay too high.
"Terry
"I wanted to reach out to you following recent investment speculation online regarding Black Tower. I wanted to see if you might have any animation or comic art for sale. I'm looking for comic pages, cells from your animated sereies, pencil art, hand painted background art, model sheets, storyboards, concept art, model packs, proofs, illustrations, even scripts. We have purchased 31 million popular culture items including 12 million animation & comic book art pieces since 2000."
