Comments on: How not to be snotty http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/07/06/how-not-to-be-snotty/ The News Blog of Comics Culture Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:22:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: CBrown http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/07/06/how-not-to-be-snotty/#comment-243804 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:20:53 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/07/06/how-not-to-be-snotty/#comment-243804 As is often the case with these internet controversies, my first reaction was, "Who is this person?" So I looked up Alex DeCampi and found her website and saw that she had some books published by TokyoPop, which is great. And then I saw her blog in which she trashes TokyoPop for the deal they gave her and what she sees as a deficient promotion of her book. So Shelly Bond should not feel bad that Ms DeCampi is trashing her for rejecting her pitch; because she also trashes people who accept and publish her pitches! As is often the case with these internet controversies, my first reaction was, “Who is this person?” So I looked up Alex DeCampi and found her website and saw that she had some books published by TokyoPop, which is great. And then I saw her blog in which she trashes TokyoPop for the deal they gave her and what she sees as a deficient promotion of her book. So Shelly Bond should not feel bad that Ms DeCampi is trashing her for rejecting her pitch; because she also trashes people who accept and publish her pitches!

]]> by: markus http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/07/06/how-not-to-be-snotty/#comment-243044 Sun, 08 Jul 2007 18:42:25 +0000 http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2007/07/06/how-not-to-be-snotty/#comment-243044 It's funny how every single commenter who's a bit inside the industry takes it for granted that Bond and every other editor in the American comic book industry are not professional enough to just shrug off DeCampi's comment. If her work is on time and sells well, it shouldn't matter, yet everyone seems certain it does. That said Grant's take quoted here without criticism is especially hilarious in the extent to which it misses the point. He not only fails to notice that the comment was public and hence his insight, delivered with all the gravitas of an uncharacteristically short sentence ("Editors talk to each other.") is as totally besides the point as it is banal. He also seems blissfully unaware that the common sharing of information among editors also undermines his point that a public comment is particularly problematic. If a creator has a good informal reputation a public comment doesn't matter to a professional editor and if a creator has a poor rep public comments are likewise irrelevant. It’s funny how every single commenter who’s a bit inside the industry takes it for granted that Bond and every other editor in the American comic book industry are not professional enough to just shrug off DeCampi’s comment. If her work is on time and sells well, it shouldn’t matter, yet everyone seems certain it does.

That said Grant’s take quoted here without criticism is especially hilarious in the extent to which it misses the point. He not only fails to notice that the comment was public and hence his insight, delivered with all the gravitas of an uncharacteristically short sentence (”Editors talk to each other.”) is as totally besides the point as it is banal. He also seems blissfully unaware that the common sharing of information among editors also undermines his point that a public comment is particularly problematic. If a creator has a good informal reputation a public comment doesn’t matter to a professional editor and if a creator has a poor rep public comments are likewise irrelevant.

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