{"id":14492,"date":"2017-06-11T15:54:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T20:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/?p=14492"},"modified":"2017-09-07T21:27:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T02:27:14","slug":"the-tick-wants-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/?p=14492","title":{"rendered":"The Tick wants your help"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(<\/span>Tick sneak previews below…right after the info you need to get it\/rant about independent publishing)<\/span><\/p>\n

When you have things published in the comic book industry and you are not part of the big 2 ( Marvel and DC) you have to work your ass off, take no chances, and get a lot of help.<\/span><\/p>\n

That first one might be an unfair shot at people who work in the big 2 who also work their ass off.\u00a0 Some of them do great work.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of them just coast and bask in the glow, and lie to themselves about the value of their contribution because the fact of the matter is, they are working on “insert 50 year old character here” and they will get many thousands readers no matter how awful their work is because there are 50 years of people with an emotional investment in that character and they will buy that book because they love the character and if your work sucks…they’ll just push through until someone better takes on the reigns.\u00a0 So some of them don’t do great work. some of them.\u00a0 There is a safety net of generations of readers with the big 2, is my point.
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Publishing independently is another matter. You are at the beginning of something and every aspect of the book has to be better, or at least different in some way than everything that came before it…otherwise, what reason does anyone have to pick it up instead of something they already know about?<\/span><\/p>\n

Publishing something for the big two is like a boxing match, it takes a level of skill, but as long as you show up for the match, you’re getting a paycheck.\u00a0 Publishing independently is like a knife fight in an alley…you come out on top or you die.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even with a book like The Tick, you can’t take chances.\u00a0 It may be an even more precarious predicament. A lot of people know and love The Tick, but most of them know of him from T.V.\u00a0 Many may not even know he is a comic book character.\u00a0 Those people and even the ones who know, have to be informed that a new series is starting.\u00a0 This is the “more precarious” part.\u00a0 The Tick is well know and will get some notice, but he’s not as well know as most of the big 2’s characters.\u00a0 The Tick is relatively young, but not brand new. The book isn’t a plucky underdog and it’s not Batman. It’s an independent book competing directly with the big 2 for exposure.\u00a0 The worst scenario would be for everyone who loves The tick to assume it can live off it’s own reputation and doesn’t need their help spreading the word.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Tick has had a cartoon, and now two t.v. shows.\u00a0 If this was 1990 that would make it a big fish in a small pond.\u00a0 But it’s 2017 and that just makes it a medium sized fish in the Atlantic ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n

So, I hope you’ll understand that I’m going to raise hell about this non-stop and ask you to spread the word as well.\u00a0 This is a knife fight, and I’m not going to stop stabbing until someone pulls me off the body.<\/span><\/p>\n

This brings us to the semi confusing way in which comic books are ordered.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Tick is in the distributors catalogue now.\u00a0 This is the catalogue stores order from.\u00a0 Stores order, the distributor gives the count to the publisher, the publisher sends the books, then you get them at your store.<\/span><\/p>\n

Success or failure is going on RIGHT…NOW.\u00a0\u00a0 Right now is when everyone who wants The Tick to have a nice long successful run needs to make sure their store knows about it.\u00a0 That catalogue it is in, is the size of a NY phone book, so just assuming stores have noticed The Tick is not a good policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

All the info you or any store could need is below.\u00a0 If you don’t have a local store there are plenty of online comic shops that will place the order for you now (NOW).\u00a0 Pretty much all of those online stores are good. Like…if you wanted to make money scamming people online, setting up a front to fake order 4.00 comic books isn’t the way you’d go about it.\u00a0 But if you want a recommendation, this store here<\/a> <\/strong>is solid and I’ve used them before.<\/span><\/p>\n

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and if anyone wants an interview for their website, just let me know at douglaspasz\u00a0 at arseniclullabies . com.<\/span><\/p>\n

Below is the page of the catalogue featuring The Tick no.1\u00a0 Most stores only need to know it is published by New England Comics, but just in case…here’s a shot of the whole thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

*Here’s a link to that page in case you wanna email it to anyone <\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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There is the cover you see above and an alternative cover (below).\u00a0 I don’t actually know how you order that cover, maybe it comes out later?…I’ll try to find out for you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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and for having to sit through my plea for help…here’s a bunch of sneak previews…just so you know I’m doing best on that “work your ass of” part.<\/span><\/p>\n

There’ll be more sneak previews for the next two weeks, here<\/strong><\/a>, on instagram<\/a><\/strong> and on Facebook<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0 Please share often.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks in advance!<\/span><\/p>\n

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  ***UPDATE*** (Tick sneak previews below…right after the info you need to get it\/rant about independent publishing) When you have things published in the comic book industry and you are not part of the big 2 ( Marvel and DC) you have to work your ass off, take no chances,\u2026 Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/arseniclullabies.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}