I will never understand the gleeful hope to see things fail. It's so weird. But so prevalent.

That’s disappointing

It was Steve Mitchell, inker and co-writer of Chopping Mall, not to mention a few other low-budget movies with Jim and some of the other Corman protégées

Weirdly, I saw a screening of this with Jim before it aired on Showtime or wherever it premiered. My inker at the time sometimes wrote scripts for him, though I don’t think he worked in this one.

Nowadays with more of us doing at least the inking ourselves, if not the coloring, too, I suspect they want a finished page of whatever roles you’re assigned to in a day, which is a lot more work.

Back in my day working more regularly for places like DC and Marvel, you rarely inked or colored yourself, so it was a page of pencils every day.

Very true.

Or the bee dogs.

Yeah, in the kids space, I've finished books before there ever even WAS a deadline. Things can get tight on the graphic novel side too, as I understand it, but it doesn't seem as regimented as mainstream monthly comics.

I mean, everybody does things very different, but every monthly mainstream comics assignment I've had, a page a day was the expectation. More an editorial scheduling thing than anything else. (And now that I'm doing my own books in a kids style, I do far, far more than 1 a day. It's all relative.)

They pop up every once in a while.

I have come to think that any drawing you get on a page every day is good. We're not machines. We break. Really easily. The trick is to just do it every day. And then keep doing it. This guy is basically encouraging people to break themselves to prove they're "real" artists. Utter bullshit.

I'm not sure I would ever be famous enough to make it happen, but you might, my friend. Just name a character after me. A cool one. With, like, big muscles and stuff.

Blame Sean for stealing your likeness for Sleeper. He even got your chiseled, dimpled chin in there. And your cold steel eyes.

For the love of Kirby please do not listen to anyone who says you should be doing two finished pages of comic book art a day. It is a recipe for burnout, misery, and eventually, the destruction of your career. Industry standard is one a day, five a week. Period. Got it?

Thanks, Jodie!

He's THE BEST! I love him so much. Maybe one day.

Like, for real. LOOOOOOVE them.