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Alien Circus/Tymm was a fun book to work on - let’s hope we see it in print!

Stu

I am unfortunately on dialup, so I don’t follow a lot of links.

Also, there is no link connected to your name here.

I’d also like to say that, if you had no idea that DJ is working for Platinum by now, you should probably get out more often.

Anyway, glad this was resolved.

But I see now how everyone is tyring to make up and make good. so I am happy again.

At any rate I’m glad that people seem to be responding well to the material. And if Heidi’s post encourages people to talk about things like work for hire contracts and giving credit to artists like Luke Weber, Scott Brown and Stu Chaifetz–it’s probably a good thing in the long run!

While Platinum has indeed developed a lot of projects which have not yet seen print (a GN by yours truly among them), a large portion of their “library” is material which has seen print from other publishers, which they now represent. Top Cow, Awesome, foreign companies like Hexgon… they’re all part of the library for licensing or development purposes.

JIMMY

If I’d have known the ad spoof was going to be published uncredited, I wouldn’t have sold the script to them for 20 bucks in the first place. After all, without a credit, the whole deal just wasn’t worth it to me. Adding insult to injury, they paid me nothing for art/layouts, even though someone basically light-boxed my original art (which they also kept) for the slightly more polished finished page.

To Marvel’s credit, when I wrote them my sad letter of woe, a Marvel editor called my house to apologize. Unfortunately, I wasn’t home at the time. Still, the gesture was nice.

To Marvel’s discredit, the page was later reprinted in 1981 and 1999, still uncredited.

I hope Platinum doesn’t make the same mistake.

Plus, working under someone like Lee Nordling really helped me improve my craft and get me ready for prime time and for my later books like “Mail Order Ninja.”

And I’m sure the lack of credit is just an oversight. They may take a long time to get their projects out there, but they’re definitely not out to take credit away from anyone.

Plus, I’d just love to see someone actually ask Platinum before running off like this. You know, journalism??

Or maybe Marvel and DC and other companies who use WFH employees, since she’s equated such with sharing needles with AIDS patients??? wtf??? I cry shenanigans right back.

“I don’t really regret it, especially considering how many people do comics for no money at all.”

doesn’t seem like Roman has as big a problem with it as the “comic creator police” Honestly, other creators are really the only ones who up and coming creators should listen to. If you’ve never worked in comics, what gives you a background to offer advice?

could it be that Platinum is working on other material for this project, and they’ll credit the guys involved when they have something done? Looks like up until now they’ve always been given credit.

with the strength of your anger towards signing way original material you’ve managed to insult people with AIDS, law enforcment and defenseless invertabrates all in the same breath. I think at the end of the day, I’d rather settle for being slighted like Roman, than being insulted by someone who has likely never created anything original as work for hire or otherwise.

oh, and the website of his project, http://www.adventuresoftymm.com/ is not only copyrighted in 2007, but also gives both of them credit. Why doesn’t someone just email Platinum or call them and ask why they changed the name of the property? I’m pretty sure the email and phone number is right on their website. Most reporters actually DO stuff like that before they write an article (you see, newspapers can get in trouble for not verifying sources and facts, online blogs can’t, which is a shame) even I learned that in my introductory journalism class in college. it’s called etiquette.