Political Power: Ted Kennedy

I have been reading some of the press about the Ted Kennedy comic book. Some made me laugh and some is kinda insane. For the record we sent out the press release about "Political Power: Ted Kennedy" at 11:00 am yesterday and found out a 6am today that he passed away. People that are writing that we did this knowing that he was going to die. I have to say that I am not that good to predict his death the day before we sent out the press release.

We have critics who say we "kill people", yes we did a Michael Jackson after he passed because he was a huge comic book fan. We are not rushing it out and having it come out October. We are also working with his official fan club to make this something for his fans. We do biography comic books, it is what we do. The "Political Power:Ted Kennedy" comic book was started in March when we started to develop the title, it was solicited through Diamond in June of this year. It has been on TFAW for over a month as well... We have also done biographies on Ronald Reagan and Princess Diana and they have been dead long than I have done comic books.

TIME Magazine is rushing out a Ted Kennedy issue out for this Friday. A ton of periodicals did specials on Michael Jackson. So I am in good company.

My meetings with Wlliam F. Nolan

Over the past 4 months I have been meeting with William F. Nolan about the Logan's Run comic book series we are planning for January. He has come over to my house with Jason and Sunni who work with him. They have been great meetings talking about his vision for the relaunch of the series, from artwork to plot points. We usually get Paul Salamoff on the phone (the writer of the comic book series) and hammer it out a lot. These are pretty funny conversations sometimes. Jason and Bill have this amazing relationship and they bicker like brothers. We talk about the film Logan's Run and how Bill thought that Logan looked like he was running around in his pj's and how he hated that. You will see how the Sandman characters now are exactly how he envisioned them. Getting to know Bill over this while has been a great experience This is a man who has done so much in the industry and such a talent. I had no clue he used to do Disney comics, draw and write. We spoke about his life over dinner one night and I was amazed. He told me that he has the George Perez cover to the Marvel Comic's Logan's Run comic cover (which I am dying to see). I not only want to do Logan's Run because it is a good story, but I want to keep it going because the meetings are priceless.

Getting burnt out....

There are times in my life where I get so overwhelmed because there are too many things going on. I really need to pull the covers over my head and call it a day. I am sure most of you have these days. I really enjoy what I do for the most part, but I have to be honest and say I am burnt out. I only slept 2 hours last night.

We are getting our August titles to print, making new deals with some exciting new people. Dealing with the books that are in production. I am a person who is sort of a control freak - and I know that I need to handle a lot of this stuff myself. I do feel like I am at the computer 12 hours a day.

This usually ends when I see the final products that we produce. I am still a fan of what we do here at Bluewater. I go through this burn out a couple times a year and I need to do something that gets me away from a computer. One of the best places to go is to Meme's and Bops house. They are the grandparents. We sit and play "Phase 10" the entire time. A great game I recommend! So I will be doing this in a couple weeks. We already have the plans to load the dog in the car and go off to Montana.

Then the batteries will be recharged for the September titles!

San Diego Comic Con

I looked at Entertainment Weekly today, one from a couple weeks ago and noticed it was the San Diego Comic Con edition. I thumbed through it and noticed it had one manga comic book listed - for "Twilight". Many people asked why I did not go to Comic Con this year and that right there sums it up. Why would the new "Sherlock Holmes" movie be there... is it based on a comic book? I know there has been comic based on the famous investigator, but I am sure that was not even discussed. That is only one of the many examples of what Comic Con has turned into - a huge media promotion for movies. Comic Books are totally lost there. It is really sad to me that a place that was a haven for comic book publishers is basically a circus for the entertainment industry. I am glad that there is something for the pop culture medium, but really change the name to reflect what it really is...POP CULTURE CON. It would make it easy to swallow when I am told that being a comic book publisher that next year is already sold out to companies that has nothing to do with comics.

A new day.

This is a new blog for me to talk about things, without it being part of the Bluewater community. This will be also a good way for people to get to know the real me. There are so many things said about me that I really wanted a venue to talk about them and vent. Once again this will touch on things from Bluewater, but mostly me and my role in the comic book community.