Goodbye PV Comics… I knew you well…
Ok. So, not that anyone has been paying any attention, but Yirmumah had been updating at PV Comics on Sundays and Mondays. Well, we’re not doing that anymore. I can’t figure out any real reason TO do that anymore, or what purpose I’m serving there.
PV was a GREAT idea. A Great vision.. .. 12 creators, banding together, one KICK ASS web designer, a solid plan… but pretty much, it’s been a ghost ship with a skeleton crew for awhile now. Many of the original “12″ left long ago, for various reasons. Then, one day on the phone with Logan DeAngelis, I put a bug in his ear about print on demand from home…… so he looked into it and COMIXPRESS was born. The Yirmumah mini was the first book printed through the system to test it out and get it ready for a more “public beta” version of the print service. – Needless to say, Comixpress exploded and our fearless leader and doer, Logan, was swallowed up by the DEMAND monster, never to be heard from again….. well, on occassion. So… I’ll take a little of the blame and say my encouragement shot PV right in the foot. But hell! You HAVE to go with what works. And PV wasn’t working, ESPECIALLY moneywise. — I have to say, there couldn’t be a better bunch of guys there though. Everyone has/had the BEST intentions.
I’m left with a feeling of failure/frustration kind of. To once be called “The Image COmics of Webcomics” to…. well, nothing. Not a whimper or a whisper… POOF!!! FRRT!!! An idea I thought would REALLY work. And it didn’t. Well, at least Comixpress is working. I of course can’t take full credit for that, but it was one of those floating dream ideas I shouted about, and at least IT worked. But the “12 creators, one vision” thing… nah, that went bust a goo while ago. — I’m a little frustrated/sad about it. I’m frustrated that I still get e-mails from people who subscribed who after the thing went free, they were never contacted, and they were really unsatisfied with something they paid for being opened up I guess. It was managed… poorly. I wish i had more control over all of that.
Maybe one day, if a plan comes along they can get ahold of me and I’d help in anyway I could.
So with that, I guess any new books won’t be under the PV label. So we might be looking for a publisher… any takers out there??? heh…
to be honest, I’m missing homemade mini-comics more and more each day.
Viva La Independents!
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Oh damn.
I always liked Pv, and I liked the creators - a talented bunch, the whole lot. I’m sorry to see it go. Damn damn damn.
Comment by psychoandy — 5/29/2005 @ 11:30 pm
Conixpress is pissing me off. I’ve been waiting over a month for books I ordered. 2 e-mails sent, none replyed.
Comment by NateHammer — 5/30/2005 @ 5:15 am
I left PV Comics and ComiXpress back in January.
Comment by Stuart Robertson — 5/30/2005 @ 5:47 am
I’m surprised to hear about the lateness on actual sales orders at Comixpress. Usually those go through REALLY fast. Try e-mailing jodi@comixpress.com – They usually do get back to folks really quick. I hope everything is ok their way.
Oh, and I just want to add, PV isn’t DONE just because I left. There’s still stuff updating there.
Comment by DJ Coffman — 5/30/2005 @ 6:32 am
Yeah, we’re still around. More or less.
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Comment by Brandon J. Carr — 5/30/2005 @ 1:26 pm