This past weekend was the
Motor City Comic Con, of which I had a publishers booth at. I had a good time. It was nice to start seeing familiar faces... creators I've met at other cons and fans who purchased
Elemental Fources books in the past and stopped by to pick up the rest of the series. The MCCC variants on issues #4, 5, & 6 didn't go over as well as I expected, so I am offering the few remaining copies for sale through the web site
bookstore.
Kurt Anthony Krug stopped by to introduce himself. Kurt interviewed me for the Oakland Press article last year, but this was the first time we had met face-to-face. We had a nice chat about Tom DeFalco, whom he had just interviewed for
Mania.com:
LINK Kurt is going to be providing a back-up story for our follow-up series to
EF.
Speaking of
Tom DeFalco, the highlight of the con was being able to shake the hand of the
man who got me into comics. A very nice man, Mr. DeFalco signed my copies of
Fantastic Four #360 and
Amazing Spider-Girl #30 and provided some encouraging words for our comic book publishing venture. It was a real pleasure to give him complimentary copies of
Elemental Fources.
The
New Baby Productions booth was adjacent to
Randy Zimmerman's Flint Comix booth. Mr. Zimmerman is a guy I can learn a lot from. He has been in the comic book industry for many years and had a lot of interesting stories to tell me about Diamond from his days as Editor-in-Chief of
Arrow Comics. His latest venture,
Flint Comix & Entertainment is taking off. A free publication that is distrubted locally in Flint, it carries a unique blend of comic strips, cartoons, and comic book style stories from local, as well as national artists. It is paid for entirely by the advertisers. Great concept... I see this sort of thing moving into other markets very soon.
Mr. Zimmerman was kind enough to give me copies of his
Spank the Monkey: On the Comic Market series. Although almost 10 years old, this three-issue series is still relevant today. Mr. Zimmerman uses his Spank the Monkey character to provide some history on comics book, explain what is wrong with the industry, and offer some suggestions on fixes. No punches are pulled as he rips on Diamond, publishers big and small, creators, and even fans. Anyone in the industry or a fan of the industry
SHOULD read these books. Order them directly from the
Arrow Comics web site.
Eric Mullarky, Publisher
New Baby Productions
www.ElementalFources.com
