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PoE - Alex Segura: Catching up on Dick Tracy

A new Portrait of an Editor -- Alex Segura: Catching up on Dick Tracy. We talk a bit about "Alter Ego," the follow-up novel to Alex Segura's 2022 novel "Secret Identity." Then we jump into talking about Mad Cave Studios' Dick Tracy. FYI -- issue #2 hits stores on 6/12. Also, if you missed the first issue, a second printing is available.

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New DECADES OF (in)EXPERIENCE #doiexp – "Plight of a Feral Illustrator” (ep. 92) by @AJSchumacherart

This week we here at DECADES OF (in)EXPERIENCE, inc. are handling the distribution of the latest installment a tad differently. You see, @antixpress‘ intrepid leader (and masochistic editor for DECADES), Francis Lombard, is braving the wild crowds and musky fanboy scents of the New York Comic Con.

If you’re attending #NYCC2017, get in touch and buy the man a drink. He is certainly deserving of several libations after enduring this incorrigible scamp for the last 2 years.

Anyway, thanks to everyone for the continued support as Francis and I race toward episode 100. Stay tuned as we’ll be announcing something special for said milestone!

Get all of the DECADES OF (in)EXPERIENCE episodes by clicking right here for the Decades’ Archive of Apathy

[pxppet]

Hanahaki - JJ/Anti

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Inspired by this prompt post by @whumpster-dumpster​! Anti contracts Hanahaki Disease, and Jameson attempts comfort in any way he can. After all, you aren’t supposed to let your loving husband be sad.

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Anti has been coughing for days. He stands over the sink for hours, just spitting up blood and hacking. Every time Jameson tries to approach him, Anti swats at him or screams or hits him. Jameson had given up trying to help curling up in his little box and staring at the fairy lights, rouges of bruising covering his cheeks and forehead. He dances a marionette that looks like a queen around himself, trying to distract and keep himself busy.

There is a retching noise, then a crash and thunk of bones against porcelain. Jameson bolts upright and runs to his husband, not caring if he gets hit again, he has to help him. Anti is sprawled on the floor, trying to pull himself up with trembling arms, his head bleeding slightly from a gash caused by the sink. Jameson’s hands stretch out in sympathy, not knowing what will happen if he helps.

In the sink there are amaryllis, red carnation, and milkweed flowers, slowly sliding towards the drain in the surrounding blood and gore. Jameson’s hands curl towards his chest, blinking. ‘My pride won’t let me go, my heart aches,’ the flowers speak in their soft little language.

Jameson clucks his tongue as Anti stands up on shaking legs, blood dripping down his lips and chin. “Anti? Sweetheart?” Jameson signs, face drawn in worry.

“Fuck off, Jay. Go back to the box and get some sleep,” Anti stares into the mirror and shoves a fist into his own hair, gripping it until his fingers are white, his face about the same colour.

“No,” Jameson braves the beast. “Why are you coughing up flowers? You don’t usually have anything to do with flowers. You told me you hate them.” Anti growls under his breath, sneering at his captive, his partner.

“Go. Back. To. Your. Box.” Anti steps towards him, right up in his face, grimacing out a frown. “It’s none of your fucking business why I’m-“  Anti is cut off my coughing wracking his body, chest heaving, blood splattering into his inner elbow as he coughs into it. He leans over the sink again, gripping the sides of it with red-stained fingers. More flower petals and stems come spitting up from his lungs. Jameson moves closer in a flash and pats his back softly, hoping to dislodge anything he can. This time Anti doesn’t shove him away, weakly shaking as the coughs shudder through him.

“Fuck you- fuck you, this is your f- fault! This is your fault Carver!” Anti screeches in between coughing, glitching surrounding his stolen body as his soul tries to eject itself in his anger.

“My fault? How?” Jameson backs away enough that he can’t be hit, signing with fearful hands.

“You’re a fucking rotten pig-headed traitor!” Anti whirls on him, stalking towards him. Jameson scrambles backwards, trying to run for his box. “You don’t fucking love me! You don’t love me, traitor, cunt, bastard child, bitch!” Anti spits off any insult he can think of, pulling a skinning knife out from his pocket and approaching his husband swiftly.

Before Jameson can get away, he has been tackled to the floor, a knife pressed to his neck on top of the scars already there, Anti’s other hand twisting Jameson’s wrist backwards as he bares his teeth at him. Jameson whistles faintly, panicked, begging for mercy in any way he can. He rubs his chest with his free hand’s fist, begging ‘sorry, sorry, sorry’ over and over. Anti pants, eyes wild, trying to calm himself down but he can’t, he can’t, his Creator didn’t make him with the ability to calm down, he’s always been like this, always.

Anti lets the knife fall away from his captive lover’s throat, shaking his head out and growling. His strong hand encircles Jameson’s neck, face half-heartedly glaring, mouth dripping with blood. “I should kill you, but I never do. That’s… love. Tell me you love me.”

Jameson blinks, chest still rising and falling a bit to quick. “I love you,” he signs slowly, pointedly. Anti snarls and grips his hair, scratching his scalp nearly to blood.

“You fucking don’t! If you loved me this would go away! If you loved me this wouldn’t be fucking happening!” he screams, loud, too loud. His ever-present neck wound bursts forth with tar-like blood.

And Anti is sobbing. Straddling is captive, his husband, his puppet, Anti sobs and coughs like a sickly child. Jameson reaches up tenderly, sweetly, doe-eyed, and cups Anti’s face. He knows it isn’t love. Somewhere, through the fog of hypnotism and memory loss, Jameson is fully aware that whatever he has with Anti is not love. But perhaps he can pretend, until the floral disease believes it fully.

Milkweed and amaryllis fall around them as Anti, only whimpering and snuffling now, scoops up and carries Jameson to his cushion and pillow lined box. He curls up around Jameson, whispering blood-soaked coughed out promises of pain, of love, of obsession. Jameson lies there, shaking from cold and lack of food, wrapped up in the rabbit-snare arms of false love and falling flowers.

[antoinesylvia]

My Homelab/Office 2020 - DFW Quarantine Edition

Moved into our first home almost a year ago (October 2019), I picked out a room that had 2 closets for my media/game/office area. Since the room isn't massive, I decided to build a desk into closet #1 to save on space. Here 1 of 2 shelves was ripped off, the back area was repainted gray. A piece of card board was hung to represent my 49 inch monitor and this setup also gave an idea how high I needed the desk. 

On my top shelf this was the initial drop for all my Cat6 cabling in the house, I did 5 more runs after this (WAN is dropped here as well).

I measured the closet and then went to Home Depot to grab a countertop. Based on the dimensions, it needed to be cut into an object shape you would see on Tetris. 

Getting to work, cutting the countertop.

My father-in-law helped me cut it to size in the driveway and then we framed the closet, added in kitchen cabinets to the bottom (used for storage and to hide a UPS). We ran electrical sockets inside the closet. I bought and painted 2 kitchen cabinets which I use for storage under my desk as well.

The holes allowed me to run cables under my desk much easier, I learned many of these techniques on Battlestations subreddit and Setup Wars on Youtube. My daughter was a good helper when it came to finding studs.

Some of my cousins are networking engineers, they advised me to go with Unifi devices. Here I mounted my Unifi 16 port switch, my Unifi Security Gateway (I'll try out pfSense sometime down the line), and my HD Homerun (big antenna is in the attic). I have Cat6 drops in each room in the house, so everything runs here. On my USG, I have both a LAN #2 and a LAN #1 line running to the 2nd closet in this room (server room). This shot is before the cable management. 

Cable management completed in closet #1. Added an access point and connected 3 old Raspberry Pi devices I had laying around (1 for PiHole - Adblocker, 1 for Unbound - Recursive DNS server, and 1 for Privoxy - Non Caching web proxy). 

Rats nest of wires under my desk. I mounted an amplifier, optical DVD ROM drive, a USB hub that takes input from up to 4 computers (allows me to switch between servers in closet #2 with my USB mic, camera, keyboard, headset always functioning), and a small pull out drawer. 

Cable management complete, night shot with with Nanoleaf wall lights. Unifi controller is mounted under the bookshelf, allows me to keep tabs on the network. I have a tablet on each side of the door frame (apps run on there that monitor my self hosted web services). I drilled a 3 inch hole on my desk to fit a grommet wireless phone charger. All my smart lights are either running on a schedule or turn on/off via an Alexa command. All of our smart devices across the house and outside, run on its on VLAN for segmentation purposes. 

Quick shot with desk light off. I'm thinking in the future of doing a build that will mount to the wall (where "game over" is shown). 

Wooting One keyboard with custom keycaps and Swiftpoint Z mouse, plus Stream Deck (I'm going to make a gaming comeback one day!). 

Good wallpapers are hard to find with this resolution so pieced together my own. 

Speakers and books at inside corner of desk. 

Speakers and books at inside corner of desk. 

Closet #2, first look (this is in the same room but off to the other side). Ran a few CAT6 cables from closet #1, into the attic and dropped here (one on LAN #1, the other on LAN #2 for USG). Had to add electrical sockets as well. 

I have owned a ton of Thinkpads since my IBM days, I figured I could test hooking them all up and having them all specialize in different functions (yes, I have a Proxmox box but it's a decommissioned HP Microserver on the top shelf which is getting repurposed with TrueNAS_core). If you're wondering what OSes run on these laptops: Windows 10, Ubuntu, CentOS, AntiX. All of these units are hardwired into my managed Netgear 10gigabit switch (only my servers on the floor have 10 gigabit NICs useful to pass data between the two). Power strip is also mounted on the right side, next to another tablet used for monitoring. These laptop screens are usually turned off.

Computing inventory in image:

Lenovo Yoga Y500, Lenovo Thinkpad T420, Lenovo Thinkpad T430s, Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 12, Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga 14, Lenovo Thinkpad W541 (used to self host my webservices), Lenovo S10-3T, and HP Microserver N54L 

Left side of closet #2 

**moved these Pis and unmanaged switch to outside part of closet** 

Since I have a bunch of Raspberry Pi 3s, I decided recently to get started with Kubernetes clusters (my time is limited but hoping to have everything going by the holidays 2020) via Rancher, headless. The next image will show the rest of the Pis but in total:

9x Raspberry Pi 3  and 2x Raspberry Pi 4 

2nd shot with cable management. The idea is to get K3s going, there's Blinkt installed on each Pi, lights will indicate how many pods per node. The Pis are hardwired into a switch which is on LAN #2 (USG). I might also try out Docker Swarm simultaneously on my x86/x64 laptops. Here's my compose generic template (have to re-do the configs at a later data) but gives you an idea of the type of web services I am looking to run: https://gist.github.com/antoinesylvia/3af241cbfa1179ed7806d2cc1c67bd31

20 percent of my web services today run on Docker, the other 80 percent are native installs on Linux and or Windows. Looking to get that up to 90 percent by the summer of 2021.

Basic flow to call web services:

User <--> my.domain (Cloudflare 1st level) <--> (NGINX on-prem, using Auth_Request module with 2FA to unlock backend services) <--> App <-->  DB.

If you ever need ideas for what apps to self-host: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted 

Homelabs get hot, so I had the HVAC folks to come out and install an exhaust in the ceiling and dampers in the attic. 

I built my servers in the garage this past winter/spring, a little each night when my daughter allowed me to. The SLI build is actually for Parsec (think of it as a self hosted Stadia but authentication servers are still controlled by a 3rd party), I had the GPUs for years and never really used them until now.

Completed image of my 2 recent builds and old build from 2011.

Retroplex (left machine) - Intel 6850 i7 (6 core, 12 thread), GTX 1080, and 96GB DDR4 RAM. Powers the gaming experience.

Metroplex (middle machine) - AMD Threadripper 1950x (16 core, 32 thread), p2000 GPU, 128GB DDR4 RAM.

HQ 2011 (right machine) - AMD Bulldozer 8150 (8 cores), generic GPU (just so it can boot), 32GB DDR3 RAM. 

I've been working and labbing so much, I haven't even connected my projector or installed a TV since moving in here 11 months ago. I'm also looking to get some VR going, headset and sensors are connected to my gaming server in closet #2. Anyhow, you see all my PS4 and retro consoles I had growing up such as Atari 2600, NES, Sega Genesis/32X, PS1, Dreamcast, PS2, PS3 and Game Gear. The joysticks are for emulation projects, I use a Front End called AttractMode and script out my own themes (building out a digital history gaming museum).

My longest CAT6 drop, from closet #1 to the opposite side of the room. Had to get in a very tight space in my attic to make this happen, I'm 6'8" for context. This allows me to connect this cord to my Unifi Flex Mini, so I can hardware my consoles (PS4, PS5 soon)

Homelab area includes a space for my daughter. She loves pressing power buttons on my servers on the floor, so I had to install decoy buttons and move the real buttons to the backside. 

Next project, a bartop with a Raspberry Pi (Retropie project) which will be housed in an iCade shell, swapping out all the buttons. Always have tech projects going on. Small steps each day with limited time.

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Alex Schumacher of Decades of (in)Experience

Alex Schumacher is an author/illustrator who has worked with the likes of Arcana Studios, Viper Comics, and DreamWorks TV. His first collection of literary magazine comics, Defiling the Literati, was released in 2017 to rave reviews. That same year Alex was also nominated for a ‘Best of the Net’ award for his graphic narrative collaboration with underground poet John Bennett. Alex continues to produce the weekly webcomic Decades of (in)Experience (est. 2015) for Antix Press and the monthly misadventures of Mr. Butterchips (est. 2016) for Drunk Monkeys.

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More Global Perspectives On Tickets In 2018 (Primary and Secondary)

  I’ve been doing quite a bit of focusing on challenges and opportunities in the ticket industry in 2018.

Today, I want to pull together a few more with a mixture of primary and secondary voices and some international voices.

Patrick Ryan, Co-Founder at Eventellect:

There is a flipping of the roles between the primary and the secondary market that presents challenges and opportunities in the year ahead. As the primary market has increased their initial pricing for tickets and used more dynamic pricing this has decreased some of the activity on the secondary market.

But in the effort to eliminate the spread, teams have yet to feel the impact of needing to use dynamic pricing to bring prices down.

What will happen as the primary market starts rewarding late behavior more? Especially when they’ve historically done a better job of rewarding early buying behavior.

Ian Taylor, Head of Ticketing & Data Management at bigdog Live in the UK: 

For the UK ticketing market, key to 2018 will be trust. In the months until GDPR becomes reality, customers will get bombarded with emails from every retailer they’re signed up with, asking them to revalidate their permissions, Many businesses are seeing this as a threat, worried that their database size will shrink drastically as customers choose to no longer be marketed to by that brand. In reality, this is an enormous opportunity to have better, more invested, listeners to your marketing messages.

But customers will also be swiftly educated, or reminded, that it is they who are in control – so trust between the brand and the consumer will be the highest value commodity that there is. Retaining that customer during all of this ‘sky is falling’ change is all about engagement, which we’re very aware of here at bigdog Live, and we’re working hard to reinforce this into our planning with all of our clients.

Customers will also want to trust the source of their ticket, which at present in the UK is a very thorny subject. Secondary market here is regularly gaining negative press and for many valid reasons – most regarding transparency and ultimately this comes back to trust.  This is a market where many primary channels – ticket agents – are engaged by the promoter directly, and they (broadly speaking) provide a very well established customer offering and a trusted distribution network. Promoters win as this expands marketing reach without marketing budget. But the secondary players are increasingly on the ‘outside’ of this in terms of public opinion and while 2 of ‘The Big Four’ are owned by Ticketmaster, this just leaves the giant StubHub machine (good at PR, lower brand recognition) and the villain of the piece Viagogo. The others seem to be keeping their heads down save a few well trotted out PR lines, while Viagogo are (perhaps rightly) in the stocks being pelted with rotten fruit.

Customers will engage where they trust, but will also probably still buy where they can get tickets – even if that means venturing outside of the primary market. Very much caveat emptor then, as customers may soon learn that their passion purchase via an unregulated source turns to a ruined evening out.

The solution? For starters, venues and agents in the arena/stadium circuit could start trusting each other more and make a connected marketplace a reality; opening api connections between systems (as London’s West End has done in a tremendously successful way) will ultimately enhance customer experience with lower waiting times for physical tickets to arrive, better ability to move prices at the touch of a button (up OR down), and a much much more efficient distribution network. Trusting this at the C-Level of these venues will be the key, and until the fears of lost fees revenue and inventory control are tackled (both surmountable with a change in business strategy), it’s going to be a tough fight to bring the network kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

  Dr. Dave Arthur, The Sports Doctor and Managing Director of the Institute of Sport in Australia: 

From a general point of view I think the opportunities in sport lie almost wholly in grass roots sport. There seems to be significant push back from sports consumers who want the profligate spending on already rich franchises, sports and organisations (including stadia) by governments around the world. We are seeing push back from grass roots about supporting major event infrastructure (referendums about bidding!) or stadia construction that benefits only franchise owners. Need a balance!

They need to support the grass roots but how is both an opportunity and a challenge.

Andrew Thomas, Director of Ticketing Professionals Conference and The Ticketing Institute: 

Challenges: being relevant / staying up to date / managing inputs to my knowledge – how do we find and digest the information we need and cut out the “crap”

Opportunity – as ever, bringing new ideas, fresh thoughts and extra revenue opportunity to people we work with.

Angela Gahan, Antix Management (Australia):

I did a quick survey of the office and interestingly, the answer to both questions was RESALE!

Across the industry in Australia we are grappling with the question of how to interact with the secondary market. It’s a growing sector, it’s complex and it’s not going away. There’s an opportunity to increase yield, test pricing, extend our reach and learn about our consumer. The risk if we don’t participate is that we leave all of these opportunities to someone else.

 Bryan Ralston, Sports Consultant:

Challenge:

For teams and venues the challenge is unleashing the talent of their sales team members. Many organizations are great at running call centers and managing their employees to daily call numbers and other “touch points”. The challenge is to create the environment where sales team members can bring their minds to work to innovate and create opportunities to build relationships with prospects and current customers that lead to long term retention. Maximizing the skills and talents of sales team members is a challenge that leaders must take on. Doing so will increase fan avidity, increase revenues and allow teams to retain their best sales talent for a longer period of time.

Be where your fans are. It’s (almost) 2018, and you can go on any number of primary market ticketing sites on your iPhone – and painstakingly attempt to buy tickets on non-optimized websites.  The challenge is for teams / venues to really walk through the buying process of a potential fan and recognize and fix any roadblocks they experience along the way to a purchase.  I know we’re hyper-focused on collecting data, data and more data! But, what about the fan that just wants to click on the website and see a list of the regular season home games in chronological order? That should be easy, right? Focus on the basics.

Opportunity:

The opportunity for teams and venues is to be bold and think beyond the next six months. For sales leaders, plan as if you’ll be there in three years. How would you approach the market if you were concerned with building long term revenue streams, creating new fans and providing great customer service that would differentiate your brand from all of the competition?  Sales teams that work on the urgent goals of the games coming up next week and carve out time to plan for the games next year create bigger opportunities that have staying power in up and down economies and team performance cycles.

Another opportunity in ticket sales for 2018 will be having conversations.  In theory, people are more reachable now than ever – by phone, mobile, e-mail, text, Twitter, Facebook…and on and on.  And yet – with all that noise, and all the competition in all markets, the average consumer can easily filter sales calls and messaging. Which means, we need more innovative and creative sellers that can fine tune their prospecting strategies to break through and create the opportunities that lead to conversations. That’ll require an evolved ticket sales leadership strategy to bring it all together successfully.

Ken Troupe, Co-Host of #Social4TixSales on Twitter:

In 2018 I expect we will continue to see the streamlining of the market. Teams will continue the trend of partnering with secondary market…

Steph Maxwell, Senior Business Development Manger at Vibe Tickets (UK):

Challenges – Ticket fulfilment will be a big challenge for us from a secondary ticketing perspective. Late dispatch from primary sellers, the increase in mobile ticketing and most likely an increase in ID checks at venues. This will greatly effect the secondary market. The lack of understanding from artists/promoters with gifted tickets may be worth mentioning, as it can put fans off buying, if they are worried about what name is printed on the ticket. Parting with your hard earned cash shouldn’t be a painful experience. It should be a pleasant experience buying things.

The number one opportunity to sell more tickets will be the general public becoming the disrupter and refusing to accept the big four’s business model and fee’s. 2019 will be a strong year for live entertainment. Tickets are becoming more and more expensive and promoters are becoming more and more ambitious. The fans need to take the market back from the big four to develop and grow a true marketplace.

Jo Michel, Michel Consultancy (Australia):

I think one of the biggest challenges especially in the Not for Profit sector here is keeping up with technology changes. Customer expectations change quickly with regard to online purchase and there is an expectation for organisations to adapt and change quickly, but that is a huge challenge especially for regional and local government NFP’s.

The biggest Opportunity is coming from the area of social marketing – new tools are utilising social media marketing and marrying it with ticketing data to increase sales potential and retention. These strategies can be really easy to implement and can make a big difference for an organisation.

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More Global Perspectives On Tickets In 2018 (Primary and Secondary) was originally published on Wakeman Consulting Group

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PoE--Cliff Chiang: A Different Kind of Comic

I had a great talk with Cliff Chiang in which we discussed how his editing work at Vertigo Comics reverberates throughout his career right up to CATWOMAN: LONELY CITY. He also dived into the creative and somewhat laborious process he took to make Lonely City.

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PoE - CROPPED #22 GRAB BAG

Welcome to episode 22 of CROPPED. After a few months off, Will Dennis and I catch up just in time for San Diego Comic-Con 2023. We have a grab bag of topics to discuss for this episode, including SDCC2023, Barcon, John Byrne, COVID, BARNSTORMERS, Fabio Moon, and we spent some serious time discussing all the covers for DSTRLY's Devil's Cut and how they came to be.

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PoE- Robyn Chapman - Homicide: The Graphic Novel

Robyn Chapman discusses her work on First Second's release of HOMICIDE: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL, which is an adaptation of David Simon's nonfiction book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, which also was the source material for the award-winning TV show Homicide: Life on the Streets. 

Robyn provides some great info on the unique journey Philippe Squarzoni's detailed adaptation took from the States to France and back. She also details all the hard work the First Second crew did to realize this impressive two-part graphic novel.

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PoE: Annalise Bissa: What Scares You Now

My quick tour of Marvel's Avengers Heroes office wraps up. This time I talked with Annalise Bissa about her career's progress from intern to editor. By discussing her background, mentors, and various responsibilities at the House of Ideas for the past few years, she provides an excellent overview of how her take on editing has developed.

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PoE: Tom Brevoort: Avengers Beyond and Namor: Conquered Shores

Marvel's Executive Editor Tom Brevoort and I discuss the genesis, execution, and response to two unique Marvel series--AVENGERS BEYOND and NAMOR: CONQUERED SHORES. Tom explains why Marvel's Two-In-One and Team-Up series might not work in today's market.

Also, we talk about the unique campaign to save Spider-Girl that her extraordinary fans managed to pull off.

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PoE: CROPPED #21: DSTLRY

No intro with this episode of CROPPED because I wanted to jump right into the Q&A with Will Dennis about his role with Chip Mosher and David Steinberger's new company DSTLRY. And I asked him to explain what the hell is a Founding Editor. 

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PoE -- Sarah Litt: Know Your Rights

Ahoy Comics has been on my radar since they started out, and I suggest checking out the comics Sarah edits and other books in the Ahoy line-up. They are producing some funny and thought-provoking books—basically, what outstanding comic books should be.

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PoE: CROPPED #26-Delivering Bad News

Will and I talk about editors delivering bad news to creators, including canceling books, firings, and passing on pitches. 

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PoE: Dave_Wielgosz: Sanding Down the Edges

In this Portrait of an Editor, Dave Wielgosz discusses his move from the East Coast to the West Coast and his journey from editor to writer. Along the way, we cover what could help you become an editor at DC Comics or Marvel and the support he got from his folks in his hometown. Dave let me ramble on about my obsession with DC's 80-page Giants and the importance of short stories like them for a writer's profile and for an editor to test talent.

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