There’s so much *ish to teach yourself: penciling and paneling pages in a comic vs. being just a guy who can draw / inking / writing & story construction / scripting – which is not the same as writing / designing & trying a production flow / designing your web presence / webcomic or not? / who are all these small publishing houses? / Direct Market vs. Diamond / Creator-behavior-at-a-Con training / How to deal with what fanboys & fangirls do online / and last but not least, learning who’s who in the zoo in commentary and criticism… (I’m sure I’m forgetting some things)… takes too long and is too tough for all but the craziest of us who start this path. but I digress.

All I can say is us future creators of color who wanna make great, exciting, interesting books that enthrall you month after month and who are sensitive to race & gender issues – we read you. And we read the entries of your partners in crime here on 4thletter. And we are listening. It just takes a LONG time to put the skill set(s) and resources into place to be able to put out a book that’s of high quality – right out the gate. But we hear you and we’re taking your order. Black Superhero vs. a well developed Black Super-Gangster villians (we got it). Esther Inglis-Arkell is mad about b.s. propaganda in the mouths of female characters (we working on it -it’s high on our list of things to avoid/address). Whatever we do, Don’t serve you a black character with a patois in a way that belittles so many things in too many ways? We sent the chef for training on it and he came back and briefed the whole staff – we’re all over it). Comments from 3 years ago, updated this week? Sounds good to us .. Please Keep Blogging. We *are* listening.

I would’ve put Edsel from Matt Wagner’s Mage on here.