Frequently Asked...

If I give you the money, will you get me published?
Nope. I no longer work for a comic book publisher. My husband Philip and I run offregister.press for our personal work. Although a ton of the Information you’ll have access to through this website will lead you in the right direction.

If I skip the latte twice in one week, will you put in a good word for me with [insert your favorite writer or artist I know or don’t know]?
Nope. Not gonna happen.

Will you publish my work at Vertigo? 
I no longer work at Vertigo. And Vertigo is no longer Vertigo. It’s DC/VERTIGO. See i-Doppelgänger: Portrait of The Comic Book Editor in the 21st Century.

If I give you $50/month, what do I get?
Access to my library that I share with my Comics Editing students which includes interviews with a slew of talents offering great advice that might rub off on you. Handouts, tips and tricks of the trade. And the opportunity to book one-on-one consultations.

I hear you wrote the book on Comics Editing. Why can’t I just buy that instead?
You certainly can. We sell signed copies at our website, offregister.press at many fine comics shops through powerpulpcomics.com, a comics collective distro community that’s one way forward since the death of Diamond Distribution. But if you crave more—as in more examples of my trade secrets, I’ll be annotating the three books that make up my graphic memoir editing trilogy throughout the next year. For four months each, I’ll walk through the books and give you additional examples of key points to my method/madness of comics editing and more secret histories.

Will I get to meet my favorite British artist of Geezer, Philip Bond?
Wow, isn’t that a bit… random? That’s one for the (comic) books. But who knows? There could be a Philip Bond live appearance in Random Selection…

What if all I really want to know is how to break into comics, and whether it’s okay to send direct messages to editors on social media. Seems pretty harmless…
Yeah, sure—until it happens to you. I’m revealing the magic formula right here very soon so stand by...

Got a payment plan? I just spent all my Christmas money/Hanukkah geld on records and British chocolate.
If you pay in advance you save on both packages. If you pay monthly, it’s a bit more every thirty days, but think of the knowledge you’ll accrue… at your fingertips… Or pay monthly.

What if I join for January, download your handouts and library materials including that F&G Workbook, and then cancel my subscription in February?
There’s nothing I can do but ask you to reconsider. It’s taken three decades for me to work out how to teach about the art and alchemy that’s part of my editing process. I'll be adding more info each month, so you'll continually be getting more from this subscription.

There are a few other websites dedicated to making better comics. Why yours and not theirs?
Why not both? I’m sure we offer different tips and strategies to get over the fear of making comics and start making them ready for print. But to respect the comic book editors around me, and those who have come before, I’ll feature a Q&A section in each monthly digital digest that shares another working editor’s insider info. And retro photos from the glory days of Vertigo.

What about this hardcore editing you speak of that involves vats of red ink?
We’ll get that monthly. Sometimes through riding shotgun with me as I edit writer/colorist/editor Oliver Mertz’s 4-page comic, E.A.T. Records. He’ll be there with us too. Plus, there will be legit ink scrawled onto most pages that I share. Brave, talented young artists Lid Thom and Asimina Hollingworth gave me permission to expose the stages of editing behind the panel borders.

What else?
I’ll share a few different artistic interpretations of scripts and how my editing approach changes what eventually gets committed to the page. For better. Or worse. Or both?

When does it start in earnest?
Next Tuesday! Just in time for your New Year’s Resolution to Make Amazing Comics! Tell your friends and frenemies!

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