Geek Syndicate Issue 7 | Page 23

Geek Syndicate
Michael Moreci, writer of Skybreaker: Absolutely. I see great value in the digital market and definitely want to be part of it. Look, I know that the digital versus print debate can be a touchy one. I’m no iconoclast when it comes to digital. I don’t think it’s going to eradicate print, not now or in my lifetime. Such dramatic shifts are rare, like TV wiping out the radio drama. In that case, it was getting something completely different in a new format. Digital comics are the same thing, just a different delivery method. The two work hand in hand and, I think, can compliment one another and cultivate new readers on both sides. Because you look at what Mark Waid is doing with Thrillbent, or the Batman 66 comic, and you think “wow--this is a great reading experience!” Ideally that experience will turn shoot people down the rabbit hole that includes absorbing the print comic experience as well. Plus, at the base of it all, I want
Image © Monkeybrain Comics, 2013 Image © Monkeybrain Comics, 2013

first lets us have some cake, eat it, too, and still have more cake to go around!

above I’d have to say the larger collective of Monkeybrain creators. We’re not a gang, not legally, but we help each other promote books, we tend to become friends, and everyone there is busy making the comics they’ve always wanted to make. There’s a shared bond in the “Look what we get to do!” joy of it all. There are MB creators I met through them doing books and just saying hi that have become great friends. Michael Moreci, writer of Skybreaker: There’s so much praise I can throw at Chris and Alison. They find the perfect harmony of being supportive and granting freedom to make the book you want to make. They’re responsive, kind, and all-around awesome people. It’s a joy to be included with such stellar creators doing excellent work--so much so, that I’ll be doing it again in the fall with a new series! But that’s hush hush for now... It’s obvious that both the publishers and the creators are excited about what Monkeybrain is doing. And who can blame them? They produce high quality comics at low prices and give creators that chance to tell the stories they most want to tell. For readers, it’s hard not to check out a new comic when it’s only $0.99, and Monkeybrain is taking full advantage of that. While it likely won’t make any of the creators millionaires, it’s definitely making some good stories and some happy comic readers.

my work to be accessible--I want people to be able to discover it with as little effort possible. If you can flip on your ComiXology app and buy one of my stories for .99 cents, that sounds good to me. GS: What’s been the best part about publishing through and working with Monkeybrain? Christopher Sebela, writer/ co-creator of High Crimes: The freedom they give us to do the best work we can do without interference, deadlines or worrying. The worrying part, especially. When they said yes to HIGH CRIMES, it wasn’t dependent on how well we sold or whether we grew our audience by such and such a percentage. It was about us telling our story, for however long we needed to tell it, which is a huge weight off, knowing we could take this all the way to the end and Chris and Allison would shoot straight with us and support us all the way. Adam P. Knave, writer of Action Cats, Amelia Cole, Artful Daggers: Outside of the stuff
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