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An online webcomic about a group of cowboys/cowgirls and their Zombie herd.
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Of course, the sleezer gave them expired food XD
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Chuck acknowledged that the bucket “survival food” was old, with the potential of being bad, but admitting it still had the potential for being good! 🤣
Con in Pasadena? I had to check, Cali, not TX, tho they have smaller shows at the college, I figured not likely, as Pasadena/Deer Park is in the news again, for all the wrong reasons (again), after an SUV crashed into a LNG pipeline, turning it into a blowtorch.
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534 – Compliments To The Cook
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Hearkening back to the events of page 269!
Meanwhile, this weekend we're bringing Zombie Ranch to the wide-open spaces. Comparatively. The trade volumes will be among our offerings at the annual Pasadena ARTWalk at Booth #32 in the shady lanes of Green Street.
The ethics of going until someone says “no”…
“He just shows up early, sets up his gargantuan booth and takes down the signage for the people next to him. No regard for anyone else…The shows don’t stop him so he just continues his ego-fueled awfulness year after year.”
I remember Arthur Suydam, I’ve seen him at the Long Beach cons with a similarly large set-up, but I guess like most everyone I assumed he’d negotiated for it. Maybe he did? But from the amount of people that started coming out of the woodwork with horror stories, it began to sound like Arthur Suydam, or at very least his operation, had a history of shady practices, making the statement issued by his publicist in response and laying the blame squarely on convention organizers seem disingenuous. In this case it wasn’t even unknowns that Suydam displaced but well-known artists like Francis Manapul, the man responsible for illustrating the Flash comic that I spent a whole blog gushing over a single page of. Had I gone by the convention program I would have ambled to Manapul’s assigned space only to find it taken over and Manapul nowhere in sight, since the convention’s solution was to give him another random table elsewhere on the floor. But it shouldn’t matter how big or small a name is being displaced under these circumstances; it just isn’t right. Is it in Suydam’s contract that he always gets four tables, and if the convention fails to provide that the onus (and blame) is upon them? Again, the claims that this is repeated behavior are enough to make you question why–if it is clearly in his contract–these table grabs keep happening. Also there was this gem in the comments section of CBR’s report on the situation:“I was contacted by Renee to book Arthur for our local comic con. Originally she said he requires 4 booths. I told her that was not possible. We negotiated it down to 2 booths on an end cap. I drew up a contract and had him sign it. He also agreed to do an exclusive piece of art for us to use for the events guide, flyers, and posters. A few weeks after getting the signed contract, Renee emailed and told me Alamo City Con booked him without his knowledge and had already purchased his airline tickets (I don’t believe a convention would buy tickets without confirming an artist’s attendance). She basically told me he felt obligated to go since they already put money out for him. It didn’t seem to matter to her/him that I had a signed contract with him. I had to scramble, but I ended up with a much better artist. I was gonna keep it to myself and chalk it up as just one of the problems of putting on a convention until I read about Arthur’s boorish behavior in Montreal. I think everyone should know his unprofessional actions aren’t reserved solely for fellow artists. His word/signature is worthless.”
“Renee” in this case refers to Renee Witterstaetter, Suydam’s publicist. Suydam has a posse, you see, and it’s their job to promote Arthur Suydam. They do it well. Perhaps too well, if this backlash is any indication, and yet I suppose they give him a sense of plausible deniability. You see, the thing I find most personally baffling about all of this hubbub is that in the course of it it came out that the publicity stills of signing lines that were being sent out to conventions to prove Suydam’s status as a “#1 draw in comics” were photoshopped to appear far bigger than they were. Exhibit A is already in the articles above, but here it is in case you didn’t click on those: The response from Suydam’s posse on this was that “no photos have been doctored in any way, as can be attested to by anyone that has seen Arthur at any show. To suggest otherwise is rather laughable.” Right? I can’t imagine ANY artist going so far as to photoshop their lines to appear like more of a big shot so they could get special treatment by conventions. I mean that would just, indeed, be both laughable and pathetic. Summarily occupying your neighbors’ tables is already pretty narcissistic, but that would just be beyond belief, particularly if you weren’t even smart enough to use your own private photos instead of public photos that someone could actually find and post– Oh goddammit. God-freakin-dammit. What do you have to say about that, Art?“Thanks for bringing the photo to our attention. I’m on the road with no Internet, but if it’s the one I think by the description, that’s a rather old one that one of my former assistants pulled off the Internet. Probably a pic that a client was using to promote an appearance…I had liked the photo because it was a side view and showcased the fans as well and the convention experience. It seemed representative.
“We had no idea anything in the photo was apart from the original, since I do have a lot of folks visiting–especially on Sunday when I do free sketches for kids. We do that at all shows and offer other promotions as well– I just assumed it was one of those days.
“I haven’t updated that site in years. As said, thanks again for pointing it out.”
Plausible deniability, indeed. Okay, I guess it’s more of an implausible deniability at this point. I suppose there are two options here: one being that Suydam, despite being described as a nice man in person (and then again, so are most serial killers), is a thoroughly corrupt, out-of-control narcissist who only now, similarly to Rob Granito, is finally reaping the whirlwind he has sowed lo these many years; the other being that it’s his publicity team that’s corrupt and he needs to summarily fire their asses now that their shenanigans are leaving flaming bags of poop at the door of his lofty artistic cloud. Or I guess there’s the third option that they’re all bastards. Sometimes it should be ethically obvious that keeping on with your bad behavior until someone stops you is not the proper philosophy to follow. Like I said, I’m no saint. But I like to think I stop short of being a devil, or at least being a humungous jerk to my peers.Calendar
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