Creators' Breakout
Dreamed c.1995 by Rick Veitch
NOTES
About his dreams of this year, Veitch writes:
Self-publishing... in the beginning greets the neophyte with an extremely steep learning curve. To survive past the first year, I was forced to come to grips with rapid changes in market dynamics in a way I never had to think about as a simple freelancer. The machinery for getting comic books to market in this country had broken, and publishers big and small were scrambling..."
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Curiously, this dream echoes a career-advice dream over 30 years earlier, in Veitch's childhood: he's trapped but climbs through a window to meet a guru advising him that comics are The Only Way. The echoes help clarify the dream's about his art, but the message is quite different! The original dream led him into comics; this one implies he's outgrown the industry as it is--built-in inequities that starve original creators and reward hacks.
SOURCE: Rick Veitch's Pocket Universe, 1996, King Hell Press (a collection of his comics series Rare Bit Fiends, issues 9-14), pp.103-105. I added title to aid searches.
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