My BFF Troy Little
has recently been picked up by IDW publishing for a hard cover version of his graphic novel
Chiaroscuro. The serendipitous turn of events came about when Troy contacted his comic inspiration and closet-Feminist Dave Sims, creator of
Cerebus, for a foreword to his hard-won book. Mr. Sims wrote a thesis on why he wasn't going to do it and published Troy's Letter and his response to it on his blog,
The blog and mail posting. Dave gave Troy a lot of praise but felt that Troy needed to establish himself first and then associate himself with the dirtiest of the dirties of the comic world, lest Troy hinder his comic book future. Fair enough Mr. Sims has tons of comic book street cred, he supported himself doing comics. He also has some very stauch beliefs about "the ladies" and this gets him into a lot of shit. He's allowed to say what he wants we live in a free country. Once Troy gets established (2nd printing) Dave will reconsider writing him a foreword. That's totally cool, something else to be hard-won and I believe Troy will get there cause he's hardcore. Regardless, Mr. Sims published response on his blog garnered the attention of IDW president and
Cerebus fan Ted Adams. Teddy received a pre-copy of Troy's book, liked what he saw and contacted Mr. Little to talk. The rest is history. Troy now has to pick out cool things like ink and paper stock. Hooooweeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!! Those are probably some of the sweetest decisions to make, like what kind of ice cream do you want. Anyway I am proud of Troy, wish him the best, and am completely inspired to go out and meet my artistic fate. The book is intriging and we should all go out and support this emerging artis
t. Check him out at www.meanwhilestudios.com.
has recently been picked up by IDW publishing for a hard cover version of his graphic novel Chiaroscuro. The serendipitous turn of events came about when Troy contacted his comic inspiration and closet-Feminist Dave Sims, creator of Cerebus, for a foreword to his hard-won book. Mr. Sims wrote a thesis on why he wasn't going to do it and published Troy's Letter and his response to it on his blog, The blog and mail posting. Dave gave Troy a lot of praise but felt that Troy needed to establish himself first and then associate himself with the dirtiest of the dirties of the comic world, lest Troy hinder his comic book future. Fair enough Mr. Sims has tons of comic book street cred, he supported himself doing comics. He also has some very stauch beliefs about "the ladies" and this gets him into a lot of shit. He's allowed to say what he wants we live in a free country. Once Troy gets established (2nd printing) Dave will reconsider writing him a foreword. That's totally cool, something else to be hard-won and I believe Troy will get there cause he's hardcore. Regardless, Mr. Sims published response on his blog garnered the attention of IDW president and Cerebus fan Ted Adams. Teddy received a pre-copy of Troy's book, liked what he saw and contacted Mr. Little to talk. The rest is history. Troy now has to pick out cool things like ink and paper stock. Hooooweeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!! Those are probably some of the sweetest decisions to make, like what kind of ice cream do you want. Anyway I am proud of Troy, wish him the best, and am completely inspired to go out and meet my artistic fate. The book is intriging and we should all go out and support this emerging artis
t. Check him out at www.meanwhilestudios.com.
