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So I donated some money to SLG’s kickstarter campaign last night – they’re working to build up their gallery facility which they use for staging concerts and art showings. This has proven to be another venue for them to possibly make a little extra money, and man do they deserve it. SLG should be raking in the dough with all the impressive talent they discovered and people they helped launch careers for, so if they need a few thousand bucks to get them up and running, I say let’s help them out, I know I personally owe them at least that much.
People tend to think you need a lot of connections and know the right people in comics or in writing or in hollywood to get any kind of career, but SLG are one of the very few people that a guy like me can come up with a clever but goofy little comic book and they’ll take a chance on. Frankly I wasn’t even that good when I sent them Emo Boy, but they felt there was something there that we could develop and when a lot of companies would have slammed the door in my face, they printed up my comic and did their best to get it seen. Even now that I’m writing books and working on video games, Dan is still pushing on the Emo Boy digital stuff and giving thought to the movie (that thing still exists, promise!) I know most of us “SLG people” feel a lot of loyalty to them. I wish I could donate more.
Anyway we’re down to about a week left and they really need a big push to get where they want to be, so please help at least pass the word – it’s up to each individual if they want to contribute anything, but at the least I’d like people to take a look and really give it some thought, these guys really deserve it.
Well, I actually have nothing to say re. the SLG fundraiser — it’s just that that’s the most recent post on your site and it has a comments link. What I *did* want to say is that I just picked up a couple of YA novels at the library and– Well, to start with, I haven’t had a library card in at least a decade but have been spending way to much on my Kindle lately, so I finally remembered the library and got a new card. I was so excited that I wandered the library for hours, intoxicated with the idea of an unlimited selection of books to take home. The teen fiction section grabbed me because I used to live in that section in this exact same library when I was in jr high and high school. So I checked out a couple of promising looking titles for nostalgia’s sake. The first one was absolutely awful. It was, in fact, a blatant rip-off of another YA book I’d loved years ago, but this one was a travesty. No compliment whatsoever. I opened Winter Town with home and some trepidation, then, and was incredibly relieved to find that this one was a winner right from the first page. Thanks for reatin such a great character in Evan Owens and making him thoughtful, creative and funny, but at the same time, troubled and unsure about the future.
[Cont. from previous garbled comment, sorry! And sorry for any and all Droid-produced autotext errors! It's not allowing edit placement of cursor.]
Hmmm — I think the site was trying to tell me my comment was long enough already because it broke, and wouldn’t her me finish before sending. Whoops. So the rest was just to say that Winter Town was great, the dialogue was absolutely believable and true, and the illustration was fantastically inspired and inspiring. Thanks so much!
–Gillian
P.S. Maybe a little update to you site intro is in order — Winter Town is no longer a future, upcoming publication, but a fantastic book in print, and the last update to that once-”daily’ Lemon strip was ten months ago, according to the info above those last panels. ;) Cheers!
Yeah, I definitely need to update the site for sure. Thank you for the compliments, so glad you loved Winter Town!!