Best of luck to DJ Coffman. This has got to be incredibly frustrating.

Didn’t Platinum just go “public,” and shouldn’t they have a fresh infusion of money from the stock sales? I wonder how all that works? I would have to speculate they must have had some huge debts that need to be covered first.

I believe that Platinum is also the owner of the Drunk Duck webcomic hosting site. It will be a real blow if all the site’s
web creators have to find a new hosting site should Drunk Duck go down as well.

Hopefully they can somehow finish the minis already in the pipeline and then go ahead call it a day I guess.

And they thought that going solo from Top Cow was the right idea? Notice how almost every company that eventually decides to walk away from Image just never does quite as well cause they get tossed to the back of the Previews catalog.

Don’t get me wrong. I think DJ’s transparency is commendable. I hope it doesn’t get in the way of his negotiations.

DJ felt fans of the book and online comic deserved and explanation as to why it wouldn’t be there anymore Especially since the online comic had been getting over 100,000 hits a day since FCBD. He didn’t want all those people to one day have a comic and then the next day not to and there be no explanation.

DJ felt fans of the book and online comic deserved and explanation as to why it wouldn’t be there anymore Especially since the online comic had been getting over 100,000 hits a day since FCBD. He didn’t want all those people to one day have a comic and then the next day not to and there be no explanation.

As Quebecor cleans itself and starts to auction parts of the printing empire, the little guys will suffer as reported in the above report. I am not surprised. Thank god for Hollywood to rescue the industry, Marvel put their claws into the receipts of Iron-Man. Full control is the way to go.

I had to sign all kinds of paper work to just print a small run of 5000 comics. Quebecor lost the papers time after time. To make a long story short, I offered them cash, cold hard cash. They did not want it. There was so much paper work for nothing. I hope they get their act together. I’ll make you a bet, either DC or Marvel might buy them out and just print the comics themselves. Let’s hope for the best.

It’s always the the small guy that suffers.

I’d not have expected a public announcement like this from a party who is in negotiations for something as sticky as that. It’s a testament to DJ’s transparency that he is willing to risk irritating the party he’s in negotiations with in order to tell the blogosphere about his problems. Most professionals keep mum when they’re in the process of negotiating something, especially if the circumstances are less than pleasant, until those negotiations are complete. I sincerely hope that that works out for him. It would be nice to see a happy ending to this story. It really would.

I’m just glad that extricating myself from Speakeasy was as simple as a call to the then-head of the company. Bad enough as it was without having to make anything more complicated.

Hell yeah, and it looks just like the one from the ’80’s. This is the benefit of being in comics for 20+ years: you get to see the same thing over and over again.