hightower

I traded emails with Daryl Auclair of High Tower Comics this morning.

It has been awhile since I came across a new indie publisher with their respective heads on their respective shoulders. Their books look great, very high quality, and I look forward to giving them some press in the weeks to come.

http://www.hightowercomics.com/


Completely makes up for my dealings and fallout over the last several days with Joe Keatinge, the Marketing Director hack at Image Central. Multiple emails over a couple months with nary a response, until I finally explained to him how to do his job and suggest he do the industry a favour and off himself. That triggered not only a couple of immediate and colourful replies, but also his office number with a dare to make use of it. Which I did. Nobody intimidates me.
He was unable to explain why he neglects 75% of his line.
Not like there are dozens of hard-working creators who depend on his job description being at least adequately performed so as to feed families or anything.
I mentioned to him how we had just run a review of popgun3, one of the few sites to review the book which he himself was a co-founding editor of. This was only possible because one of the contributors had taken it upon themself to forward Rodrigue a reviewable pdf.
Keatinge is shallow and plastic, in the camera hound corporate flake sense. He is far more interested in selling himself as a trendy comics creator, milking whatever connections and perks his position at Image offers, instead of actually doing his hired function.
Fuck him.

Companies like High Tower make him look like a stooge, by passion alone.