So a few weeks back Ron posted a piece of writing on Tumblr called “Stop doing spec pages: Why DC, Marvel, Boom etc. should pay you for your test pages.” He wrote about how the Majors of the comic book industry shouldn’t solicit free spec pages from artists they might want on their comics. We talk that and some of the discussion it caused in some places online. We go into more comic business ethics talk and identity within the culture of comics. There are some tangents on film and television.
On this episode I talk to my friend Jared K. Fletcher. He’s a letterer in the comics’ industry getting his start on staff at DC Comics years ago. He’s worked on many comics and a lot of modern classics like DC: The New Frontier, Batman Year 100 and new stuff like Southern Bastards at Image. He’s also an accomplished designer designing a lot of the modern logos for Marvel Comics hot titles. We talk about a lot of our thoughts on the business of comics and the mind state of the people within it. We then trail off on talks about Akira Toriyama and Legos.