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Random Quote-- Gillen on the high price of making comics

This Kieron Gillen interview at Comics Alliance just makes me sad:

"We've done this wonderful thing we're crazy-proud about. But if the whole economic system was just a couple of degrees to the left, everything would have been different. I mean, just to give you an idea about narrow the margins are between what we are and what we could be, if we were selling 6K instead of 4K, we could have done those 44 issues. The difference between breaking even and actually being able to do it in comics is insane. It's like being kept under ice, clawing. I feel like a bonsai plant."

But then we get this from the same author:

"Was "Phonogram" a mistake? Yeah, probably. But it was a glorious mistake and I'm lucky to be able to have been able to do it. I often think of people who've been working in comics for a lifetime and have never done something as warped and personal as "Phonogram." We're lucky. Despite what I said earlier, I know that totally. I managed to do something I wanted to do, just because it was right, just because I thought some other people would feel likewise. And -- f--king hell -- they did. How awesome is that?"

And finally this:

"The price of doing "Phonogram" is the price of doing "Phonogram." We were always willing to pay it."

If there's one title I look back on over the last 10 years that has really surprised me, it's been Phonogram.  The first series was really good but the second series, The Singles Club, was something special, an experience where you really saw two creators really step up their game and create something fantastic.

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Phonogram: The Singles Club should be available soon from Amazon.