How I Saved $999,990.00

You can create a million dollar movie set on a ten dollar comic art board! Here’s the plastination set in Pretty Vacant -- complete with Still Life's plastination vat, body shape moldmaker, flourine shower, cryogenic freeze and storage units, courtesy of Robert Zailo, Oscar DeAnda and myself:

Comics, thank goodness, are content related. People buy your book if they are interested in the subject matter inside. I’m not above taking advertising money, but that doesn’t dictate whether or not I publish. Compare that to television, where shows were renewed and or cancelled based on the level of advertising interest.

Of course, placing your material on the internet has little or no cost at all, but how many people make money on the web? Comics are still the cheapest way to get your vision across and make a little cash.

So if you want to make those million-dollar high-tech sets with cgi special effects, knock yourself out with a comic book! It won’t cost nearly as much as a summer movie blockbuster...