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Re: Dan DiDio out as Co-Publisher at DC

Hey, in that picture he skipped drawing Batman's whole body except for like part of a leg. What other corners do you want him to cut? :)

Personally, I'm all for better, more detailed art as long as you make the schedule such that they can do whole arcs and have fill ins in between. There's an old interview I always bring up in other threads where McFarlane and the like were basically hated by the old guard, at least partially because they put all these tiny details in the panels (like those webs!) whereas these other guys were putting in way less so they could cover more books/draw more (Perez being a notable exception, the guy's work ethic must have been incredible)

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Originally Posted by Josh-da-man (Post 13697139)

I would guess that running things behind-the-scenes is easier and less labor-intensive than sitting at a drafting table and drawing for eight hours a day. So when folks like Quesada, Lee, and McFarlane got an opportunity to abandon the table and pencil they took it.

Even in the early days of Image, the founders, outside of Larsen, started outsourcing the art duties on their books to copycat artists.

I know Lee has a giant family to support, something like ten kids or something.

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Originally Posted by PhantomStranger (Post 13696753)

How did we end up with two of the greatest artists of all time managing business affairs instead of drawing? Jim Lee and Todd McFarlane are wasting their talents.

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Originally Posted by Josh-da-man (Post 13697139)

It's not less intensive or demanding. It may actually a little more, but it also pays much more than what they were getting as artists. See, both Lee and McFarlane knew that they money was by being the boss, the publisher, not the artist/writer. Todd still wants to be the boss but doesn't want to work in the corporate world. Jim Lee on the other hand doesn't mind working in the corporate world as long as he's the boss, which he has been for a while. Joe Q is on the same boat. These are people that are some of the greatest artists of their generation but they get seven figure salaries (or close to it) doing what they do.

The Image Revolution documentary (available on Amazon Prime) discusses this topic. That's why those guys bolted from Marvel and founded Image. They would have not only control of their characters, but would get the money from licensing.

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Originally Posted by PhantomStranger (Post 13697470)

I know Lee has a giant family to support, something like ten kids or something.

He sold Wildstorm to DC for something in the neighborhood of twenty million. I don't think he's hurting. And even before that, Wildstorm was Image's most prolific imprint, putting out about ten or more titles a month.

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Originally Posted by Trevor (Post 13695150)

While we’re off topic, I guess I’ll give my thoughts on digital versus physical again.

Early in the digital game, I was adamantly pro-physical, and still buy physical every month, and have no plans to sell most of my ~100 boxes. But now, if I had to choose, I’d choose digital with no hesitation. Assuming a decent and large tablet, comics look so much better, and the portability, just wow. My ~100k books are with me 24/7 in the most beautiful presentation possible.

And the price can’t be beat. You can own every mainstream comic for less than a dollar an issue. No store can touch that.

As for Comixology going under or revoking my license to my purchases, I have no fears of that happening. And even if it does, I have my receipts, and will just read those issues online by whatever means necessary whenever I chose. Other than that, pirates are absolute scum, but it’s my backup plan only on my rightfully purchased books.

Hey, Trevor (and anyone else with thoughts/advice)-- what do you use to read your digital comics on? I am hopefully going to get something that I can use for them as I just made a big move of my floppies-- and I never want to do it again.
I have read that an iPad Pro is a good/comparable size to a comic page. And I know others use laptops that flip (but I am uncertain if I'll like having my keyboard exposed like that).
And since I've already derailed the thread: how do you access them? Download and save them to an external drive? Don't even bother because Comixology/Amazon/iTunes are all stable enough?
Sorry for the rudimentary questions. I am very behind the curve on computers/tablets and would love some ideas on what has worked for people before I make the plunge.

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Originally Posted by teameck (Post 13704524)

No apologies necessary. I’d recommend a tablet with a 12+” screen. They’re expensive, but anything much less and you’re shrinking the size. The iPad Pro gives you a screen slightly larger than a comic, and likely the best looking screen, but also the most expensive tablet by far.

For me, the difference is huge, and I wouldn’t bother with digital comics on anything less, but I’m probably a minority. I do literally everything on this Pro, basically haven’t used a computer in years.

For my Comixology books, I have backed some of them up, but largely don’t bother. I save all my receipts, and may someday create a spreadsheet/database of what I own. I just download the titles I’m currently reading and do it all on the tablet.

For Humble and other bundle purchases, they also keep them in their clouds for whenever downloading, but I’m leaning towards downloading all of those, as I’m less sure of those companies survival and maintaining the files.

I’ve been using the Chunky app to view those CBZ files, but I know there are a lot of options for viewing.

We might want to take this convo to the digital thread, as I’m sure it may provoke multiple replies and we’re quite off-topic.

Re: Dan DiDio out as Co-Publisher at DC

I agree with Trevor - read digital comics with as big a screen as you can afford.