Before I pop off (NO! I'm sticking around) and have my toast and beans I thought I would nswer a question someone asked a while back.
"What do you miss from the early days and Zine Zone International?"
Honestly? The seat of your pants editing for one. "Hey, I have 5 pages I need to fill in the next issue--" before the week was out I would get pages (this was pre internet and by post).
I also miss the contributions coming in from the USA, Germany, France, Finland and Australia to help promote new creators rather like I did with Previews Comic that got so many artists work in the industry. There was the sheer fun of seeing what people came up with (some I reposted last year on the Black Tower Blog) -sci fi, horror, humour, slice of life and so on. Just the fact that we were not all greedy feckers wanting to grab every pennyand the fact that a couple of issues the person's work appeared in was payment -they had something they could show around and, no, I never made any money!!
I recall talking to two comic artists at a UK Comic Art Convention and I described myself to someone nearby as "a comic hack". The response from the two creators? "Yeah, like ----. You just love art and comics! Now if that quote came with money I'd be happy!
When people found fun and joy in drawing comics and had no major egos. I miss that.
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