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Strix454 said:
A History diversion

The first fan who tried to break into comic seriously was Neal Adams in 1959. He got an interview with DC but he was told that the industry was closed. That there was plenty of old talent not working but looking for work and there was no chance (at that time) of anyone new getting in. Adams then managed to get low paying freelance work from Archie and they worked his way into newspaper strips as an assistant. He was eventually able to get work at DC in 1967.

The second fan I know of to turn pro successfully was Roy Thomas back in 1965. Thomas leveraged letter writing and fanzine work into a job offer from DC Comics. Mort Weisinger, the editor over the superman titles at the time, hired Thomas to be an editorial assistant. Stories then differ about what happened next. But immediately after he arrived in New York from St. Louis, he started pestering Stan Lee and got a job working at marvel a few days later. Thomas claims that working for DC was awful. The DC side is that he leveraged them to get into New York so he could then get an interview with Marvel. Either way, he broke in.

Then he immediately started bringing other fans and placing them at jobs in comics. He got Denny O'Neil and Gerry Conway jobs in comics. And alot of other people over the next ten years.

Meanwhile, over at DC, Mort Weisinger reached out to a 14 year old fan (Jim Shooter) and made him a writer for DC.

Then a couple years later, fan/fanzine people Marv Wolfman and Len Wein leveraged an "office tour" of DC comics into job offers.

One of the big reasons "fans" were able to get into comics in the mid=1960s is that comics had been dead for maybe ten years and nearly everyone working in them at that point was starting to get old. Comics wasn't a place where people coming out of school wanted to be given all the other jobs available for writers and artists at that time in New York. The pay was also bad. People working in comics were also so old and so "inbred" that training in outsiders was by that point difficult. Whereas outside writers didn't understand comics, the fans understood immediately the format and kind of what to do. I think the Batman TV series and the associated mini-boom in comics created the first need in many years for new people in comics.
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Almost feels like he forgot all this stuff on purpose so he can defend Mark Waid.
 
Lmao, Doug T got nuked again!

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The Comic Book Hut is now bigger than Doug T on Youtube.

And here are the four videos on Doug TenNapel Art, if you're interested:
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An idiot is making fun of an idiot for piracy bullshit. Manga artists should join suit in the biggest lawsuit of 2021
 
Boobie Bomb said:

An idiot is making fun of an idiot for piracy bullshit. Manga artists should join suit in the biggest lawsuit of 2021
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Libraries are a thing of the past and don't usually stock many comics. The industry is dieing what killed it the ninties crash and the major labels having every character be a strong independant lesbian of color who hates their male counterparts and prievios heroes they are replacing. The only good one is Miles Mora no he is just fine but i don't fucking care their is only one Spider~Man and that is Peter Parker. Miles sucks for not having a differant name despite being the only one of the race bend heroes that kinda work because he is likable and relatable.
 
Rupin said:
they probably banned him because he kept on posting election fraud videos.
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It seems its the combination of the videos he posts and the subscriber count he reaches. The smaller he is, the less they seem to care. But once his subscriber count reaches a certain level and the growth takes on a certain momentum, they start to care & shut him down. On one of the previous occasions, I heard that the theory presented by YT was that his videos about the election violated the terms of service as an act of "fraud". against the audience. Its a reason without any true reason behind it.
I suspect he will soon be on again doing the same thing and the cycle will start over. Its not so much what he is saying as YT/Google limiting how big an audience he can speak to with that message. They don't want him to blow up big on their platform with that content.
 
Strix454 said:
It seems its the combination of the videos he posts and the subscriber count he reaches. The smaller he is, the less they seem to care. But once his subscriber count reaches a certain level and the growth takes on a certain momentum, they start to care & shut him down. On one of the previous occasions, I heard that the theory presented by YT was that his videos about the election violated the terms of service as an act of "fraud". against the audience.
I suspect he will soon be on again doing the same thing and the cycle will start over. Its not so much what he is saying as YT/Google limiting how big an audience he can speak to with that message.
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last I checked he was at 80,000 so yeah, whenever his voice gets too loud they drop the hammer on him.
 
Jazz never died! said:
Libraries are a thing of the past and don't usually stock many comics. The industry is dieing what killed it the ninties crash and the major labels having every character be a strong independant lesbian of color who hates their male counterparts and prievios heroes they are replacing. The only good one is Miles Mora no he is just fine but i don't fucking care their is only one Spider~Man and that is Peter Parker. Miles sucks for not having a differant name despite being the only one of the race bend heroes that kinda work because he is likable and relatable.
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Remember the time one pro complained that on average, 9500 people pirated his book?

Boy, if people will hardly read your book for free just take the L, dude.
 
Telemeter said:
Damn, why did they ban him now?

Also, he has at least one more channel:

Only 4 very old videos, from 8 years ago.
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Because he's fucking posting shit against the rules?

Strix454 said:
It seems its the combination of the videos he posts and the subscriber count he reaches. The smaller he is, the less they seem to care. But once his subscriber count reaches a certain level and the growth takes on a certain momentum, they start to care & shut him down. On one of the previous occasions, I heard that the theory presented by YT was that his videos about the election violated the terms of service as an act of "fraud". against the audience. Its a reason without any true reason behind it.
I suspect he will soon be on again doing the same thing and the cycle will start over. Its not so much what he is saying as YT/Google limiting how big an audience he can speak to with that message. They don't want him to blow up big on their platform with that content.
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Given recent Anti-trust events, I actually thing we will see a decline in the actual censorship on social media. I won't bore people too much, but big tech just had a very bad week at Congress.
 
I was at my local Wal-Mart today and I didn’t see any Allegiance comics. I saw some Disney comics and YA graphic novels but, none of Briettweiser’s books. Has anyone noticed the lack of his books on their local Wal-Mart’s shelves lately? Could it be that his deal with Wal-Mart is done?
 
Rupin said:
I was at my local Wal-Mart today and I didn’t see any Allegiance comics. I saw some Disney comics and YA graphic novels but, none of Briettweiser’s books. Has anyone noticed the lack of his books on their local Wal-Mart’s shelves lately? Could it be that his deal with Wal-Mart is done?
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The free plague money has surely run out too.


Honestly he could've gotten more than $23k.
 
Rupin said:
I know this might sound like a stupid question but, is this something that Mitch has to pay back?
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No as far as I know the PPP loans will be or are already forgiven. I don't fault them for that either. The timing of the lockdowns killed whatever slim chance they had. All that happened so fast. They were just filing for trademarks a few weeks before applying for that loan and it seems to be geared towards only one or two months of expenses. They probably would've gotten away with taking six-figures.

Another interesting nugget is their application says there are only 4 employees.
 
Comicsgatedate

Welcome to another wonderful dive into everyone's favorite internet bowel movement.

Diversity and Comics

Everyone's favorite quitter, Simple Zach has finally achieved his dream of making a comic book channel where he never actually talks about comic books. Nothing the simple one has to say at this point is worthwhile. His content is low tier click bait culture war content.

DA and Vikki

Dean and Our Girl have made questionable moves this week. After a doxish video toward resident Sperg Testefy-HD, Dean and Boudica streamed on their new channel. They spent a little while on the dip in crowdfunding in CG, encouraging backers to do better at picking campaigns with a swipe at Damegang, before pivoting to spend the bulk of their time on Testefy aka Randy. Testefy himself has been acting no less insane. Screaming invectives on a long stream and running around like a sperg.



For those interested in the lawsuit, I refer you to the thread. It's a first in KiwiFarms history where a member sued another member(s).

ComicartistProSecrets

Ethan did a snore stream.


The stream's quality tanks when the second least funny man in bread tube, Cecil appears at the hour mark.

DameGang is still funding on IndieGoGo. It is almost at 8,000 Dollars with a 173 backers. Newman and Manning on suicide watch. :lit:

A short update for now. I'll leave it here and may continue later.
 
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