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Summary: Informative, encouraging, fantastic!
Review: For anyone with ANY interest (AT ALL) in breaking into the comic book industry as an artist, or writer this should be in your library. Put it on, take notes and learn how the comic book world REALLY works from the people who make it turn.
This was far more forthcoming than I expected. I expect a lot of cryptic answers to the question of how to get your foot in the door, I've become so used to people and publishers at conventions saying stuff like "Persevere, persevere, persevere!" Yeah thanks Yoda, care to be more specific?Well these guys are! And the whole thing starts with STAN LEE saying, "If you're a creative person, you can't stop yourself from being creative!" This whole DVD gives me hope for the future! They tell you exactly what people in the comic world want to know about you, if you're a writer or an artist. They take you down the line from, writing, to inking, to backgrounds. I've paid hundreds of dollars on clinics, workshops, etc. to hear what these guys have to say for less than the cost of this dvd, and the whole tone of the DVD as you learn is to "Go for it!" This is a great learning reference from the masters.
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Summary: A Must!
Review: I'm a huge fan with even bigger dreams of breaking in. This DVD had some of my heroes (Stan the Man!) talking about what it takes. Don't hit the "play all" feature - it was much better surfing through the chapters.
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Summary: This film is so misleading...
Review: There are so many inconsistencies and inaccurate information about comics that were put into this film. It comes off as more of a cheap informerial then anything else. It fails to mention that the comic book industry as a whole is dying. The last ten years have seen the number of comics shops fall to only 4,000 stores nationwide (once there were 80.000 stores). The numbers of comics readers has fallen from 100,000 in 1993 to under 30,000 readers today. All the so-called writers and artists who were interviewed in this film are known for their laziness. They never turn scripts and artwork in on time. I should know, I use to read the books and was frustrated when they shipped late because the work was not turned in on time. That's what has led to the demise of the comics industry. Bad management, the rise of MTV, Video Games, and the Internet. And a generation of people who do not turn work in when they are supposed too. They have no business being interviewed when they themselves should have been canned a long time ago.
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Summary: DVD inspired me to publish my own comic on the web
Review: This one has some great tips. However I have to say...why work for Marvel? Where you can be replaced by the next "flavor of the month artist"; who will take all your ideas. Wendy Pini and her husband published Elfquest. Dave Sim did his Cerebus thing. Kevin Eastman and Laird made Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...all without the help of Marvel or DC! I would keep learning how to put down fantastic images by going to classes. Don't work for a major publisher ...you'll be sorry when they make that hit feature film. The company will tell you it didn't make a profit.
Just ask Stan Lee when the grosses started coming in for Spiderman.
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Summary: DVD inspired me to publish my own comic on the web
Review: This one has some great tips. However I have to say...why work for Marvel? Where you can be replaced by the next "flavor of the month artist"; who will take all your ideas. Wendy Pini and her husband published Elfquest. Dave Sim did his Cerebus thing. Kevin Eastman and Laird made Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...all without the help of Marvel or DC! I would keep learning how to put down fantastic images by going to classes. Don't work for a major publisher ...you'll be sorry when they make that hit feature film. The company will tell you it didn't make a profit.
Just ask Stan Lee when the grosses started coming in for Spiderman.
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Summary: Right idea, wrong century
Review: Tips and anecdotes about the comic industry are great, especially when many come from Stan "the man" Lee himself, but nowadays it strikes most people as just another rehash of the bygone days when comics was king. This century, most enlightened artists publish on the internet, including myself. All webpage material contains date stamps and other editing evidence, so upon investigation in any future copyright hassle, you are fullly covered as the sole creator in regard to whatever you invent online. Not so in the old print world of comics, where any editor can still shove you aside in favor of the new "hot artist," whereupon your original concepts and embellishments (done under their bizarre "work for hire" contracts) are all co-opted for the "greater good" (aka "greater greed") of the company, meaning that you get nada for your characters and/or plots if a movie deal is struck. BTW, what IS with that dumb "work for hire" misnomer anyway? Isn't everyone hired for work? Otherwise they wouldn't be doing it! Duh!
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Summary: Right idea, wrong century
Review: Tips and anecdotes about the comic industry are great, especially when many come from Stan "the man" Lee himself, but nowadays it strikes most people as just another rehash of the bygone days when comics was king. This century, most enlightened artists publish on the internet, including myself. All webpage material contains date stamps and other editing evidence, so upon investigation in any future copyright hassle, you are fullly covered as the sole creator in regard to whatever you invent online. Not so in the old print world of comics, where any editor can still shove you aside in favor of the new "hot artist," whereupon your original concepts and embellishments (done under their bizarre "work for hire" contracts) are all co-opted for the "greater good" (aka "greater greed") of the company, meaning that you get nada for your characters and/or plots if a movie deal is struck. BTW, what IS with that dumb "work for hire" misnomer anyway? Isn't everyone hired for work? Otherwise they wouldn't be doing it! Duh!
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Summary: Comics are dead...Why don;t they admitt it....?
Review: Well. first off let me say that Comics as an artform kind of went out with the invention of the internet, most people think web-books are the wave of the future, but i don't. I think Stan Lee, Mark Waid, and Paul Dini are the most practical interviewers here when they were talking. They spoke about the books that have value for their stories and for the charecters that the golden and silver age creators of comics did. Not the other internet geeks who are on the disk here, they do not know about the books and spend more time wanting to develop new video games. This disk was an insult to both past comic book creators and the fans who have always taken the stories and the work seriously.
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Summary: Comics are dead...Why don;t they admitt it....?
Review: Well. first off let me say that Comics as an artform kind of went out with the invention of the internet, most people think web-books are the wave of the future, but i don't. I think Stan Lee, Mark Waid, and Paul Dini are the most practical interviewers here when they were talking. They spoke about the books that have value for their stories and for the charecters that the golden and silver age creators of comics did. Not the other internet geeks who are on the disk here, they do not know about the books and spend more time wanting to develop new video games. This disk was an insult to both past comic book creators and the fans who have always taken the stories and the work seriously.
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