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Athena Voltaire

by Josh Crawley

Making comics isn’t always easy. Making comics doesn’t just end when they’ve been made. There’s printing, advertising, distribution, as well as complying with up on each as well as every one of those; repeatedly. giant multinational corporations have it easier, however some people don’t want to provide up manage of those comics to somebody else.

Sometimes personal work has to be shelved for business tasks that pay the bills.

Anyone who’s satisfied Steve Bryant understands he’s worked difficult on Athena Voltaire. You likewise understand he’s one of the nicest guys in comics. (I understand that’s stated a lot, however I believe that speaks well for this market when there are so many nicest guys. anyone who understands me understands I’m not stating that to take anything away from Steve. He’s put up with me after an entire night of me being “social,” as well as he was fantastic about it!)

For those of you who don’t understand (Steve or Athena), Athena Voltaire is a sassy, tough-as-nails aviatrix adventurer whose stories are set in the tumultuous 1930s, full of globe-trotting heroes, supernatural creatures, as well as villainous Nazis! (And now this column can’t be checked out in Germany; oops.) Steve has been illustrating for years, including 24: chilly Warriors, together with routine Westfield Comics blog contributor beloved Smith.

New Athena Voltaire adventures have been missing in the specifies now long sufficient you may believe a few of those Nazis lastly punched her ticket. Thankfully that isn’t the case. The culprit is a much more horrendous fiend: the shelf.

You can assist fight the shelf. Steve is currently running a Kickstarter campaign for his next mini-series: Athena Voltaire as well as the Volcano Goddess! With your donation (which only gets processed if the entire donation amount is reached by the deadline), you aren’t just paying somebody to sit as well as draw what he likes. True, he does enjoy drawing Athena Voltaire, however you likewise get other payment for that donation. You’re assisting to fuel a new economic design of entertainment.

Have you ever noticed exactly how many obtrusive advertisements are in the basic business comic book, as well as then compared it to the cost of the book? have you likewise looked at a similar little press comic book? The business comics seem to be getting more costly even though they have that ad revenue while most of the little press books aren’t about answering to shareholders however about entertaining you.

Athena Voltaire is near as well as dear to Steve, so much to ensure that it amazes me he’s selling his original art. however that’s exactly how important it is to Steve to produce new Athena Voltaire adventures to entertain you.

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Josh Crawley is the tenured Master of catastrophe (whether he’s heroic or evil stays to be seen) for Westfield Comics, not to be confused with Josh Crawley, the keyboardist for Everclear.

josh@westfieldcomics.com

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