Comments on: give the people what they want

By: gjdldeqzws

gjdldeqzws — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 12:38:16 +0000

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By: AnnaP

AnnaP — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:53:04 +0000

wish I could have participated but since I`m able to check the blog once o month know I had no chance. But I did get them all right at once, wich is scary in deed.

And I just discovered that if I read all the DTWOF books at once, I start to have dreams in which I`m sitting at the local diner with Lois and Mo.

By: Ellen Orleans

Ellen Orleans — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:30:22 +0000

Kate,

It sounds like you’ve done created a calendar before. Are you doing one this year? How do we find out more?

If you had great monetary success with a calendar, more power to you. I’m curious if it ran as smoothly as you described? Were things indeed “a snap” as you say or did you, for instance, experience:

–three times more hours needed than projected to create cool cover art and individual calendar pages?
–deadlines bumping up against each other when suddenly three projects are due within two weeks of each other?
–a garbled .pdf file that has to be sent back and forth three times?
–customers writing in, saying, “Why should I pay $29 for a calendar of old strips? I already own the books.”?
–3% of the calendars unusable because of a printing error? Prolonged negotiations with the printer?
–miscalculation on how many copies to print, leaving 300 calendars sitting around as the months slip away?
–orders missing crucial information; customers having to be individually re-contacted?
–customers not wanting to use Paypal?
–bounced checks and returned calendars with problematic addresses?
–customers saying, “Hey, I never got my calendar” ?
–assistants saying, “Hey, I sent it out.” ?
etc. etc. etc.

That’s a taste of the everyday reality most of us artists experience. Things run smoothly one day; messily the next. The nature of the small business beast.

All this would be worth it if creating calendars is your passion. But if writing and illustrating memoirs and an on-going narratives are your passion, why bother with calendars?

By: Danyell

Danyell — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:54:12 +0000

That mousepad is soooo coool! Where do us non-winners procure such fantastic wares?!

By: AK

AK — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:14:24 +0000

Finals week kept me out of the running. I got all including #3 immediately, except #4 was a mystery.

Sabversive – Strangely, I too always think of #3 when I think of the character who inhabits that particular tush.

It feels a little weird that I’m patting myself on the back for being able to ID snippets of drawings, because I suspect I wouldn’t be as good identifying …say… hands. Hmm…

By: *tania

*tania — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:26:21 +0000

nic h: say “tchoch-kees”!

By: Dani

Dani — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:56:53 +0000

I totally thought “nome same” must be something ancient and Latin. I was all, “That Alison Bechdel! So literate and fancy!” So I googled it and boy, I was kinda wrong.

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:47:44 +0000

I second Aunt Sooozie’s ‘rant’ to keep our shirts on! I can’t choose though between tushes or breasts…..both are quite nice! *blushes*

By: nic h

nic h — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:08:52 +0000

**NLC Says:
April 26th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
nic h asks: “and just what is/are tchotchkes?”
In short bric-a-brac, or knick-knacks.
(or, nic-nacs as it were…) **

so, from now on I shall call myself tchotchkes….. if only i knew how to pronounce it.

By: Sabversive

Sabversive — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:24:56 +0000

If Alison does decide to produce tchochkes again…I want to say that my vote is for DTWOF MUGS and TOTE BAGS.

I suppose I prefer items I can both use and show off to the world at the same time. I can get a lot of use out of a tote bag.

‘Course, if she decides that she can’t revisit the “tchochkes empire” at this time, I will adoringly support her decision.