VODKA O’CLOCK 2020-01: MARIO CANDELARIA
AMBER LOVE 03-FEB-2020 My work is supported by the generous backers at Patreon.com/amberunmasked who appreciate my reviews and my stories; and they also get first access to what’s happening with my books and podcast.
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Making Comics:
Maria Candelaria has been making indie comics for years through great small press publishers like 215ink, Red Stylo Media, Grayhaven Comics, Alterna, Action Lab: Danger Zone, and others. To make up for lost time, Mario and I talked for a good 90 minutes about making comics and what’s going on the industry. Learn why we don’t use the word “aspiring” to describe our writing careers.
Staying Healthy:
Both Mario and I agree that the key to good health is work/life balance. There are some scary tweets out there about people — usually artists — having to work for 16 hours a day or staying up all night to meet a deadline. First of all, writers, DON’T do this to your creative team. We’re talking about putting the penciller/inker, color artist, letterer, and production staff at DEFCON 1 in order to meet deadlines. Frankly, it’s a shitty thing to do. And Publishers, if you have to miss a deadline, it’s much better to apologize for a delay than to lead your under-insured teams into medical crises.I’m embarrassed and delighted that some of you think this is a real thing.
I haven’t laughed this much in a while. Made my day. Thank you. https://t.co/ikHKIG6Kp7 — Jonathan Hickman (@JHickman) January 9, 2020
You guys aren’t going to believe this, but @RodReis drew the entirety of today’s issue of New Mutants in two days because of how late the script was.
TWO DAYS. Imagine if he would have had three. — Jonathan Hickman (@JHickman) January 8, 2020
Mental health and how abusers come back into the industry without apology — or technically, they don’t even disappear like a latent virus. On this we discussed Roc (now going by John) Upchurch, Eric Esquivel, and Eddie Berganza.
Comic Reading Recommendations:
- Oblivion Song by Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo de Felici (Image Comics)
- Killadelphia by Jason Shawn Alexander and Rodney Barnes (Image Comics)
- X-Men — Mario’s favorite long-running series and franchise.
- Forgotten Home by Erica Schultz with artwork by Marika Cresta, coloring by Matt Emmons and Jackie Von Spanks, lettering by Cardinal Rae and Natasha Alterici covers.
- On the Stump by Chuck Brown, Prenzy, and Clayton Cowles (Image Comics)
- I Can Sell You a Body by Ryan Ferrier and George Kambadais (IDW)
Links:
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“Between the Bookshelves” published by: Mike Genato Music, ASCAP (50%) and Freeplaynjj, ASCAP (50%)
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of AmberUnmasked.com and Vodka O'Clock Podcast. Author of The Farrah Wethers Mysteries, comic book short stories, prose, and non-fiction. Cosplayer and figure model.