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How did you find a publisher? Almost everybody has closed shop -- Mike Curtis tells me that SFA is really only doing Khatmandu and Shanda these days. (I suspect mostly so that Carol can get her writing published.) Mu, Vision and UP are gone. I don't know for sure about Radio, but I had heard that they weren't doing furry titles.
A guy named Steve Crompton asked me about doing a book last year. There was no specific decision on either my part or his, but the idea seems to have been quietly dropped. He wanted a frankly erotic book with a title along the lines of "Taral's Sexy Fur Babes" and I wasn't all that keen on doing an erotic book, period. Especially as there was not likely to be any money in it.
A guy named Steve Crompton asked me about doing a book last year. There was no specific decision on either my part or his, but the idea seems to have been quietly dropped. He wanted a frankly erotic book with a title along the lines of "Taral's Sexy Fur Babes" and I wasn't all that keen on doing an erotic book, period. Especially as there was not likely to be any money in it.
Radio is still around, though they look to have gone to a mostly web-based presence. From the post on their front page right now apparently they had a few(?) months off because they were reorganizing? Hadn't heard the others had died though; I'd thought Diamond had just stopped listing them(like they seem to have done for SFA).
That name rings a bell. Back when MU was going to publish my "Potpourri of Lascivious Whimsy" Crompton had a project called "Minkenstein." I penciled a story - 10 or 12 pages as I recall - and shipped it off to him for inking. It was never seen again. He GOT it, I know that. But he never inked it and I never got paid and MU went out of business. The saddest part is that I think I did the best work I had done up til that time on those pages, only to have the whole thing vanish into the Abyss...
Reminds me of a 13 page story I pencled for Al Fishbeck, using his script. Adrian Akleinbergen later inked the story, and did a great job. It was artistically very complex, and the story at least humorous. Al was going to publish it himself, but the entire project seems to have disappeared into a black hole, along with the great work Adrian and I did. It's enough to make you think wistfully of an office job.
UP is still active, at least as an online seller- I think they still do publishing, but because Diamond/Capital Cities made it notoriously harder for small-pressers to get distribution, it's often best to publish and sell directly or through Rabbit Valley.
Small-press is NOTHING like it once was!
d.m.f.
Small-press is NOTHING like it once was!
d.m.f.
There was a day- before the early-mid '80s- when small pressers didn't HAVE the Big Comics Distributors to go through, and either shopped their comics (and comix) entirely on their own, or manage to get some underground distributor.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. :)
d.m.f.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. :)
d.m.f.
I think UP mainly does European Distribution (filling the niche Ed Zolna & Rabbit Valley in the US.) There's plenty of furry publishing going on if you know where to look. FurPlanet is probably the biggest currently, but there's also Sofawolf and the place that does Meg's work. With desktop publishing getting so simple, there's also lots of self-published stuff out there (mostly collections of online comic strips) and of course there's always Lulu or CreateSpace. Diamond changing it's policy towards small publishers did kill the few remaining classic furry publications, but if there's an empy niche, something will fill it, and in this case it's self and print-on-demand publishing.
Which, like I said, is full-circle from where it had been before the '80s... (Had a friend who did just that, back in high school, which is how I know...)
But yes, furry comics publishing still lives on, even in this digital age, when the personal computer has replaced the mimeograph... :)
d.m.f.
But yes, furry comics publishing still lives on, even in this digital age, when the personal computer has replaced the mimeograph... :)
d.m.f.
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