Are you not making a report? Are you saying you have no responsiblity to get the facts correct? I find that amazing. If I were reporting on a company I would consider it paramount that I have my facts in order. Then again, I suppose real reporters no longer do this so why should anyone else.

Success is the best revenge so keep an eye on us.

I have to disagree with you about self-publishing, though — Finder, for example, is a brilliant comic everyone should read, not any kind of vanity trash.

I am a creator from Greece and, if it weren’t for VCS, I probably would stand little chance of promoting my work in the States anytime soon. The guys there have been helpful – to the extent a new comics studio can be to a new, unknown creator such as me – and very supportive to me thus far. I have no reason to believe they will try to take advantage of me and my work and all the internal deals and contracts we’ve had so far were clear and specific, professionaly done, without so-called ‘fine print’.

I must also add that I don’t really consider “self-publishing” as publishing. You are right, it’s easy to be published nowadays, and bookstores, as well as the internet, are full of trash-style publications by vain writers and artists. However, there’s a certain amount of collaboration in VCS that leads me to the assumption it is good to be part of that Studio and be supported by it. They don’t seem to be a vanity publisher to me, and help me better my skills. Most probably, cash won’t flow towards my pockets very soon but, through VCS, I think I’m bettering my chances for this to happen sometime in the near future. And I guess that’s good steps in the right direction, at least for me.

Thank you for giving readers the space to add comments in your page. To me, it shows your intentions are good, even though you might be harsh sometimes, as you said yourself.

I appreciate the offer, but it’s not my job to seek out information about you, it’s your (or your PR person’s) job to get the information out there. And right now, all I have makes you sound like one of any of a number of similar companies, all of which I find vaguely dodgy until they prove otherwise.

Proving yourself is the best strategy you have, and if you do, then no one will remember what I said. The odds are against you, but maybe you’ll be one of the few to win through.

It’s…it’s just not the same…

;)

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