Ok, I admit it: after I tuck in my daughter and kiss my wife goodnight, I retreat back into the small studio in the back of my house and…start drawing comic books! I’ve been illustrating “The Adventures of Jasmin” for about 11 years now. These Indiana Jones-type tales of a young girl (who may or ...
Berkeley, California-based Publishers Group West was a book sales and distribution company that represented over 100 independent publishers. While it serviced some larger publisher imprints of Random House and Simon & Schuster, PGW was the marketing and distribution salvation for small quality presses like McSweeney’s, Soft Skull Press, and my own publisher Foxrock Books. On ...
If you are planning to start a publishing company, than you are most likely doing it with one of two goals in mind: 1.) You want to be a small press publisher who accepts submissions from others. 2.) You want to be a publisher who self publishes. Doing both is not recommended, as being a ...
So there you are: it’s a Saturday afternoon and it’s raining (or snowing, or really windy or you can fill-in-the-blank-with-the-forces-of-Mother-Nature-of-your-choice). The kids are indoors and boredom is on the brink of kicking in. All is not lost! Time to break out the paper and pens and get creative! A mini-comic is in the offing and ...