By Zack Quaintance — In a normal week, the last post of the day for this site goes up around 3 p.m. Eastern Time. I’m often proud that this happens so reliably. I don’t know if anyone has ever noticed, but, damn it, it means something to me. This, however, has not been the case with this week, no where close, not with the advent of my new Kickstarter campaign for Next Door, the book that gave rise to this blog.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — One of the questions I’m being asked the most as I promote this campaign is how did our team of four creators come together. And, I must admit, before I started making this comic, that was the question I found myself asking other creators on Kickstarter most frequently. So, in today’s behind-the-scenes blog, I’m going to tell you how our team came together to make Next Door, and then I’m going to tell you what I think the underlying secret was to me (a writer who can’t draw) finding such talented collaborators.
Read MoreBy Zack Quaintance — So, I’ve been writing about comics a long time, and one thing I get hung up on is how all new books pick an equation of existing properties to market themselves. On a light week, I probably read at least two new book announcements, and every book has one. Like for example, Game of Thrones meets Spy vs. Spy (hey, that sounds cool…). The idea is to find a magical combo that will fire dopamine in readers’ brains, making them think MY OLD FAVORITE THING + MY OLD FAVORITE THING…this must be MY NEW FAVORITE THING!
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