Quick writeup: Zack made a generic video about Vita Ayala, but the interesting part is in the preamble where he clarifies that no, he is not addicted to the supplements that make him feel great and happy AKA "the go pills". The combination of disjointed rambling, optimistic business projections and love of pills was merely comedic exaggeration. For those curious: the rest of the video was a stock Zack take on Ayala:
- Comic book journalists that coddled Ayala for virtue signal points did her a disservice as she did not improve as a writer
- Progressive stack-based hiring just results in the cheapest, lowest quality creator who fits the most desired identity groups.
- People that joined comics hoping for the "comics-to-netflix" pipeline als are finding that movie producers are going straight to hollywood professionals and that "comic book authenticity" is no longer valued by either the consumer or the producers so now they're stuck cranking out trash Marvel Comics nobody buys
03/14/2021 - COMICARTISTPRO SECRETS - LISTENING TO ZACK AND DRAWING
Frog was in a reflective mood last night over the upcoming Fandom Menace Netflix documentary labeling him as the bridge with which the "Dark Enlightenment" imparted its ideas into mass media, the means with which they subverted pop culture criticism into radicalizing the masses into "alt-right" ideology and white supremacy.
A livestream from Zack from 2018 plays in the background while he slowly muses and even more slowly draws; Zack's fiery speeches on the corrupt retailers issuing
diktats to their customers in service to the untalented creators killing comic books that get and hold their positions thanks to identity politics, lending morale in what must be a trying time. Being targeted by the political apparatus of the most powerful media corporation on the planet as anathema is no small thing.
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At 41:00 Frog loads up the book
@Pilule Noire mentioned. Frog's takeaway being that he was important enough to be mentioned in the opening paragraph of a biography on Todd MacFarlane as the polarizing comics figure of this generation, something that took him aback. This stream was mostly a semi-nostalgic recollection of the past two years from Frog's perspective, but it builds up towards some ideas brought to the public for the first time, namely his intention on bringing the
Cyberfrog collected edition to the direct market and book stores. The other was as 1:27:00 concerning Zack's announcement of going to self-fulfillment: apparently Zack approached Frog of ALL CAPS comics as his fulfillment agency; Frog made it conditional on Zack returning to livestreaming to promote his projects again. This was a dealbreaker for Zack. These were met with mixed reactions in the chat.
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Fun fact:
The first backer of
Hunting Alice, the 20 year dream project of Auby Poulter as realized by the artistic skills of DarkGift Comics: Preston Poulter. Preston made sure to back at the modestly priced original art tier as well. I have no doubt in my mind that this was money well spent.
Side bonuses of the launch:
- Everyone in the launch stream getting bombarded by Auby rambling for 10-15 minute stretches in response to basic questions like "what is the book about?"
- The Fandom Menace guy showing up to shill his crowdfund his own Star Wars movie with zero concept of intellectual property rights
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this fat lying cuck should just refund everyone.
