Poison said it: --There are way too many employees overall in that picture. What the hell do they all do? A comic-book is something that is made on a computer and transferred to various departments digitally; productive people do not need to be in the same state, let alone the same building. So why are there thirty people all huddled together?
A collegue of mine, in a former government job, had a text on his wall which went a bit like this: "There was once a bridgekeeper whose job it was to collect toll from those passing the bridge and raise the bridge if big ships wanted to pass beneath it. He lived in a small house next to the bridge and was happy. Then an inspector came around who decided that the bridgekeeper needed an assistant to help him. The bridgekeeper objected: he could do his job on his own perfectly well, but new regulations stated that at least two people should man a bridge and so the bridgekeeper got an assistant. Now there were two people at the bridge and soon a supervisor was appointed. Three people in the little house next to the bridge meant there needed to be a cantine. Then a CEO was added and the CEO needed a secretary and a HR officer and all the paperwork meant there needed to be an administration... The little house could no longer house all the people so a new office was build next to the bridge. The toll needed to be raised, of course but still finances was tight. "We need to economize!", the CEO cried, "The one with the smallest wage is the least important and has to be let go". And he fired the bridgekeeper."
You can read the important difference between the images in the text "passionate people" One photo has people passionate about making comics and a business. The other photo has people passionate about virtue signalling a social message.
I read a lot of books about the history of companies (not sure why) and so many start off with pictures like that. A handful of schlubs in a cramped space with big ideas.
IDW; my favorite video subject. Last month, they decreased offerings by 20 titles, from 60 to 40, which they blamed on 1 less week in March. They've lost soooo much money that they literally look like (IDW) bc of the brackets, and it looks like Q2 will be more of the same. Editor in chief out, too; what a mess. Edited to add...no increase in y2y profit since 2014.
I mean I don’t know if we could see that for all the women there because I’m a woman and I would like to draw a comic book series one day. Also are you saying that it’s a problem that they couldn’t find a job in the field that they are working in? or the fact that this comic book company decided to hire them to do a job that they did not want? Or is it both?
Well your a woman so just go apply to Marvel, they will hire you just for the fact your a woman. But it be cool if you surprised everyone and actually had skill and write a decent comic. If not you'd fit in with the rest of the SJW losers at marvel and from the why you answered b sher... I'm guessing it's for SJW but hope I'm wrong
Outdoorsy Comic Book Nerd then you would be wrong because I don’t want to be hired just because I’m a woman, I want to work at a place that will hire me for my quality as an artist and writer, also how does my response make it seem like that I’m in it for the SJW? (I mean sure i’m in it for the money as well because I don’t want to be homeless, also in it because I like to draw and write) Because I absolutely despise people like that, now if I where to ever see one on the streets will I be so quick to judge them? The answer is no because how can I judge them when I’m busy running away from them to the opposite direction.
this comic book company decided to hire them to do a job that they did not want. that. comics are art, art is a passion project. to make the best art, you need to bleed for it. and we can see that they have no concept of the art form or history or tone of comics, so they are diluting the art by pushing it in direction of their interest and veering comics away from the intended audience, which is young boys and males. yes there is room in comics for any type of story you want to tell, like love and rockets or louis riel, but superhero comics are meant for young males and are about conflict, thats just the way it is. watch any of zach's videos about the new wolverine comics, why would they make wolverine into a comic for girls where they sit on a couch and talk about their feelings? because women don't like wolverine, they don't like violence, so they are changing the comics into something they want, when there is no audience for it. and there IS no audience for it. 99% of girls like archie, not wolverine.
I've always said if your only business is business you have no business in business. You need to know your field if you're going to be handling the business aspect.
You know, I've noticed something. Women need to know what men are doing at all times. Whether or not they're married to them. But once they're in, they want to change everything to suit their interests. But at no time will they let men in on everything they're doing, citing things like 'me time' or a 'girls night out', and men simply accept both situations.
Those 5 guys on the far right look like the only ones who actually do the grunt work in regards to seriously working on the comics. I bet when they soy-boy walked in and tootled "picture time!', they all grumbled, stood together in the far end, then went back to work. The other 3/4ths of the employees went to starbucks.....
You see this shit in a lot of warehouses now. You'll have a crew of five guys doing 99% of the grunt work. Then they'll quota hire like 40 women putting stickers on shit, sweeping, or sending emails. Then they pat themselves on the back for having an "equal" workplace.
ketherga one of the major factors which i discuss is disagreebleness .men are nore disagreeable than wahman and generally men are more successful than men . Disagreeble people are less likely to agree with sjw principles which on several accounts we have seen caused humougous failures in bussiness . Other factors are competency A competent man is less likely to depend on clique /poltics to perfom well and would not be bullied into sjw cultures. There had been numerous accounts on female writers that made great books not because they were women or focused on feminism or lobster sue heroines but because they were comptent and knew the first step in writing a good story is to write a good story.
I grew up reading comics and going to drawing comic classes after school AND I WAS THE ONLY GIRL THERE FOR YEARS. And whenever a new girl popped up cause her brother was in the class or something I would get really suspicious... eventually other girls became permanent students but we were a minority and it was cool. The guys were nice and we had a good community. Anyway this many girls in a comic book company is weird. NONE of my actual present day friends who are girls know a thing about comics other than whatever movie they watch, AND IT'S FINE, with them I talk gossip and fashion and with ma bois comics. Also yes, that room looks like the room the comic book class I used to go to look like and I'm pretty sure it smelled the same, cheese feet, spilled ink and someone who used a moldy towel to dry after a shower :P
Mermaid Pug THIS!!! For me it was sports and gaming more so than comics, but I totally feel ya. I was not a “female sportswriter” and a “gamer girl” ... i was a sportswriter and I’m a gamer. The moment you try to separate yourself within a community, you’re looking for special treatment.
Normally you do this sort of thing for a twentieth anniversary, hot a nineteenth. Of course given how things are going there's likely not going to be a twentieth.
I feel bad for you comic book guys. There was literally ZERO gap between everyone making fun of you for being in a hobby that had no girls and suddenly people attacking you for not recognizing how many girls are among you. It's actually STILL considered OK to attack you for not knowing enough girls, WHILE attacking you for denying that an equal number of girls are into it. You literally cannot win.
I'm voting mean, but true. That Buzzfeed lookalike picture definitely explains why they're wrapping up their G1 Transformers continuity in September. The license with Hasbro expires at the end of the year, and despite the fact that Hasbro has gone on record saying they're continuing to work with them as part of their brand unification going into 2019, I'm inclined to believe the license will go somewhere else.
dude, if IDW is nearly 20 yrs old, they at best were playing PS1 games like Crash Bandicoot or Tomb Raider. Dig Dug and Pole Position are 80s games, get with the times solider! :-P Seriously though, i've seen this situation alot in gaming- 30 yrs ago Nintendo games were created by passionate nerds with a mushroom obsession. Now, it's a big team akin for a movie production. Same thing with Konami and other companies. Growth tends to be a death knell in nerd culture, as becoming mainstream kills creativity and focuses on appearances and not product. To quote the song "Eye Of The Tiger"- "You trade your passion for glory".
I'd agree with you if Japanese games weren't going through a Renaissance, which they are. Nintendo games have never been better. Don't be so black pilled.
fair, but I brought up Nintendo to illustrate how game production went from small passion projects to big movie-esque productions. I didn't mean to throw shade on the Big N. I apologize for that. Super Metroid is still one of the most moving pieces of interactive art I have ever seen.
Totally fair point and I agree. But at least games can be made by small teams. There's more diversity in project size and scope. Movies are all billion dollar or garbage now. Count yer lucky stars, kid!
i think adding HotPinkGeek was a good move. Having genuine plurality and intellectual diversity of minds is good. There is no way to objectively look at the IDW picture. They have ruined Transformers and GI Joe. It's like not being furious at the person who you watch keying your car, who then tries to defend their actions. That picture could be an Office Depot store as easily as a.comic company. It's not easily distinguishable. The disgust from their iconoclastic abominations is all you can see once you know who they are.
Omio Rahman while you are correct in your statement, I was referring to her being on the -jawbreakers: lost souls -team. I would venture to say that there is a surprisingly high amount of females in this particular community, and that they are much cooler than a random sampling of another community. There is no scientific way of verifying that, but I will stand by that statement.
The biggest thing I see between the two is that the first photo looks like people you'd actually know and talk to while the second one looks like a hospital staff photo
Recipe for disaster? IDW did that with Aubrey Sitterson(who bad mouthed 9/11). Not to mention Chris Ryall wants to keep him employed. And yes that picture is shenanigans. IDW only has themselves to blame for pissing off fans.
A better comparision. You want a personal trainer, meet your trainer and him/her and everyone else working there are Blobs! Would you take them seriously?
Consider reaching out to Nick Koumalatsos in regards to reaching a wider audience with JB Lost Souls. Nick is a former Force Recon Marine, and MARSOC Marine Raider. He created The Raider Project and has 83k YT subs.
The first thing I thought of (in the photo with 2 Italian families worth of people) was actually: that's alot of people for an indy publisher. Maybe I'm wrong.
It made me think of how (as Zack had pointed out in other videos) Marvel is producing too many titles, which means they're employing alot of extra people. But alot of those titles are trash that aren't even getting promoted and the people are low-quality. I don't know if IDW has that same problem, but that's the impression I got. I thought Zack was going to talk about something along those lines, but then he just made fun of their appearance.
Your comment about "take a mental health day" and leaving early got me thinking... I used to work in an office...and I shit you not. One of the women I worked with seriously had to take the day off work...BECAUSE SOMEONE BROUGHT PARTY BALLOONS FOR SOMEONE'S BIRTHDAY...a latex allergy was what she got hot and bothered about. I'd never even heard of such a thing but balloons granted this person the rest of the day off. Something just felt really off to me about that.
She can definitely have an allergy to the material balloons are made of however there is no reason to leave work. The material she's allergic to isn't aerosolized so there's no chance of her inhaling it.
"she can get reactions when a balloon gets on her skin" So I guess when balloons are in the room they HAVE to touch everyone. Those damn balloons!! wtf are you talking about? You act like her work place was a latex free zone... I BET there were other latex products in that office just not floating on strings...
Just because a balloons in a room doesn't mean it's touching everyone... What is the office the size of a closet? You act like they made a balloon drop for the party and it was showering everyone with balloons. Out of all the parties I've been to that had balloons I never saw one touch someone or myself without people purposefully touching it themselves.
Plug Jawbreakers at the beginning of every video. Pin the link to the top of your Twitter. Tweet out about behind-the-scenes developments you're comfortable sharing. Even stupid stuff like budgeting and testing out printers. Double down whenever you write updates. What you did with the Quartering was excellent. Try to get more interviews on other channels. Maybe ask Megan Fox if she can write a piece for PJ and plug it a little.
Collecting comics. Great idea, a quick plug during the campaign in the beginning and end of the vids would be good for catching "looky-loos" who don't know about it. Little updates would be good too, makes The customer feel like they are a part of the process. Plus it's fodder for video material. In case the twitter drama ever dries up. Am I being naïve that that will happen?
IDW was the merchandising/licensing arm of Wildstorm. They did the card games and crap like that. Their division got let go in the DC buyout, as they were unnecessary, and they formed Idea and Design Works in order to keep doing what they do. It was a while before they started doing comics with 30 Days of Night. I remember Kris Oprisko showing me the black and white pages at SDCC before it came out. Kris, Ted Adams, Alex Garner, and I don't remember the fourth guy... Is that Chris Ryall?
A collegue of mine, in a former government job, had a text on his wall which went a bit like this: "There was once a bridgekeeper whose job it was to collect toll from those passing the bridge and raise the bridge if big ships wanted to pass beneath it. He lived in a small house next to the bridge and was happy. Then an inspector came around who decided that the bridgekeeper needed an assistant to help him. The bridgekeeper objected: he could do his job on his own perfectly well, but new regulations stated that at least two people should man a bridge and so the bridgekeeper got an assistant. Now there were two people at the bridge and soon a supervisor was appointed. Three people in the little house next to the bridge meant there needed to be a cantine. Then a CEO was added and the CEO needed a secretary and a HR officer and all the paperwork meant there needed to be an administration... The little house could no longer house all the people so a new office was build next to the bridge. The toll needed to be raised, of course but still finances was tight. "We need to economize!", the CEO cried, "The one with the smallest wage is the least important and has to be let go". And he fired the bridgekeeper."
The gender percentages in the company should reflect the audiences. For instance, here in Russia there are way more girls who are into comics than in America, and you could see that reflect in Russia's biggest publisher, Bubble Comics. I think it's like 50%-50% there, and believe me Russians hire on merit, no pc culture over here.
Anna Presman russia has the worlds best programmers and modders they could wipe the floor with sjw sarkessians if they had huge plans in gaming industry
The surfboards also smelled of Seaweed, sandy feet, and board wax. Family friend from are old church is an avid surfer. Lived on Camp Pendleton when my dad was in during the 90's (OOR-RAH), but sadly never went to La Jolla, Old town San Diego, or Comic Con. Did go to the Del Mar fair, Knotts Berry farm(many times), Belmont Park, Sea World, and the wild animal park. Also, DISNEYLAND SUCKED! Also, watch TRANSformers by Flashgitz sometime, it feels like something Mags would have honestly tried to do.
I miss going to Knotts. Used to go there every time we went to California to visit family. Who needs overpriced Disneyland when you could have a much more inexpensive day at Knotts as well as some of their tasty preserves.
How much are you benchmarking Pulido's Lady Death as an example? He promotes the heck out of his books. His web site has regular updates, interviews, and promotions: www.ladydeathuniverse.com/. The square bound books have glossy & durable covers. But you have to be very careful with gutter loss on two-page spreads because the square-bound books won't just lay flat like a stapled floppy comic. Also, he puts promotional flyers, stickers, and coupons for next purchase in the bag & boarded books. The inside cover is used for the credits, including the web address. And the inside back cover and last 2-5 pages are ads for the next comics/kickstarters, a fan club with rewards for members, etc. No space is wasted in his books, and the design is clean, legible and uncluttered. I can post some pics to Twitter if you're looking for samples.
I dont know if you solved the issue of how to get the JB Lost Souls books signed by Jon Malin and Brett Smith but have you considered just using bookplates? They are basically like labels that they could sign and then you just stick them inside the front cover. Lot cheaper to ship back and forth than all of the books. Just an idea I had because I would love it to have everyone's signature on mine. Also PIMP THE BOOK! I want to hear about it everyday!
Pace mah boi Zack, Pace. Gotta be in it to win it! Sweat is the sweet aroma of success! Ramen is the breakfast of champions! Luck is for those that suck! Merit is the burden for those who can bear it. and the classic winners don't quit and quitters don't win. Mahalo brother, Aloha to you and yours as well as everyone else working on the book.
There are some attractive women in the picture. So, I doubt those girls are really into comics. In all the years I been to comic shops I never seen a good looking woman. If I did see a woman (and it was rare) she was not buying Marvel and DC. She would be buying shit like Strangers In Paradise. And she was never pretty.
Dude, I was wondering where you were. I don’t think you realize that by put out 3 or 4 vid’s a day, you have us hooked on your channel. I was literally watching youtube last night thinking, “Why am I not getting D&C notifications?” as I refreshed your page between clicks. But, no pressure.
There are way too damn many girls in that picture/company now, the wrong kind at that. Way too much priss in IDW comics. IDW obviously did not learn anything from the story of Adam and Eve. Entitled chicks will do stupid things that get her and the guy royally screwed over! I hate typical entitled chicks! I'm sure feminuts and everyone at IDW would claim I have internalized misogyny. I want all of Hasbro's titles to be pulled from IDW I'm so over them like the direction they've taken I'm glad and I hope they really are losing Transformers. I want my true/real Decepticons and my true/real Autobots back. I love my evil despotic Megatron unless we're talking about the shattered glass universe.
Eh, sex has nothing to do with it, Japan itself has very competent mangaka for both sexes, perhaps one of the greatest shonen manga to come out in the last 10yrs is Full Metal Alchemist which was created by a woman. The problem with IDW is diversity hiring and the picture does say a thousand words. To the left you have a picture that shows passion, people at work. On the right you have a group photo, no personality just a bunch of people acting like the quantity of members working at the company equates to quality.
@airget While there is some truth to what you said, comparing US comics to manga isn't really a fair comparison. Comics are largely a niche market in the US, where manga is mainstream enough in Japan that it's pretty damn common to see people reading them while riding the bus or train, and that doesn't even touch on how they target individual manga for all kinda of demographics where US comics really only have a few demographics that they put any effort into selling them two.
All American Slacker You just described the reason comics is dying. See, it USED to be the way Japan is with manga. Then Comics Code Authority hit and everything fell apart, slowly but steadily, til we get where we are now.
Jimmy Two Times That's the kind of work culture I want to create. Well not to the fullest extent - I don't want people showing up to work high as that's literally illegal and I could get sued, and sorry no socks with sandals that's just tacky LOL - but a relaxed, enjoyable environment for everyone. So long as work gets done, and done well, I couldn't care less what you do, provided it's not illegal and that nobody is intentionally left out. It's the place I'd want to work anyways
The modern work environment is so STIFF and REGIMENTED... It's actually counterproductive to be that way. I feel like that's part of the reason American businesses are going the route they are... Their severe mishandling of their work environments.
They are dead wrong then. The women who like comics don't read comics to read "women creators" most of the time. They keep trying to attract an audience who doesn't like them. Imagine Burger King doing a mass overhaul to appeal to vegans- the vegans most likely don't dine there because Burger King is already associated with meat, and taking meat away just angers the burger eating public. Strive to appeal to those who like what you produce. Add options, sure, but turn away your entire customer base just to appeal to a small margin who are not interested in your product anyway is foolish and a quick way into unemployment.
So Zack is telling me that I shouldn't work in comics. That's fine. I will still read them though! TBH I do make lots of comments bout the boots super heroes wear. Stuff like, "Girl! You are gonna fall right over cause the heal on that boot is offset from the toe!" And... I am waiting for the comic where a busty female hero is in a fight and her boob flips up out of her bra and she gets smacked in the face with it. Strapless bras look nice but they don't keep things in when you are bouncing all around. Just sayin! Wait.... disregard all that. Keep drawing them those nice strapless tops please! Comics should be a bit impractical!
Amy Minty comics need to be fantastical. We need to keep the SUPER in Superheroes. All the impractical costumes. The amazing feats. The wild & crazy unreality. Just a step away from being real but enough to make it not just Die Hard or any other action movie.
Amy Minty I think Zack's message came out wrong in this video, or he didn't think it through. I've never heard him say that more women = failing comic industry, but that's almost what it sounded like he was implying here. He only ever had a problem with specific women, particularly the Milkshake crew. The problem is bringing in women onto a team to meet a diversity quota instead of just hiring the best person for the job.
His message has always been hire the best talent, not the person whose gender or lifestyle helps your company look more diverse. Talented female comic book pro's are very rare, not because women can't be talented, but because there just aren't that many female comic book pros out there. When you see a company with such a high percentage of women on staff (for the industry) it means they have either cornered the market on all the available female talent, or they are hiring based on gender instead of skill and talent. IDW is struggling and it is at least partly because they have placed the appearance of diversity over creating quality product. If you want to work in comics, go for it. Practice, work hard, and do your best to get your work noticed. If your work is good, people will eventually notice it and will hire you for your work.
IDW I thinks needs to go back to the beginning. Start anew get back to that very same room take a deep sniff, and get back to work with like 4 or 5 guys.
Update around 2.5 years after release, their fall has continued, there stock is now under 8% of what it was when this posted. Plus it seems like investors have not yet reacted to the problems in comic distribution have had for them, and a plausible recession starting soon is likely not going to be good for their near future either.
When I heard Zach say "this is the end" I was going to make an Apocalypse Now joke, but then I thought about it and it is actually a pretty good analogy. Closer to Heart of Darkness than Apocalypse Now though. A few dude bros start a comic company in the 90s in California. They are good and competent, but are brought low by the natives that they love. In the end they allow themselves to be carried off to their deathbed aboard the steamer, abandoning the natives. The horror.
It's actually shocking how different these companies look than the readership. As you said, I've never seen a group of people like this in a comic store in my life.
Meyer, something that I've always admired about you is that you're not afraid to speak your mind. If I started a comic book company today and I had to choose one of these two groups to start it with, it's DEFINITELY the one on the left. It has been my experience in business that men are almost always the pioneers, even in predominantly female domains, like the fashion or culinary industries. Men work lean, keep long hours, and BUILD businesses, particularly white men, which may have something to do with that risk-taking pioneering element to your culture. Unfortunately, once the proverbial terrain is settled, society dictates that companies of a certain size (like 12 or more employees, I think) must be inclusive and diverse. Perhaps it even makes the men feel good to give opportunities to people from broad backgrounds. But, the reason why these companies are failing is that they have more cash going out the door than coming in, they're building insolvency into the fabric of the company by hiring superfluous people who have no essential role in the production, sale or distribution of their core product. Selling comics isn't rocket science, IDW shot themselves in the foot with 'diversity'. Of course, we both know that. there are some world-class female writers, editors, and artists out there-- but this gaggle of goofballs ain't it.
Damn, I miss my puka shells. Significantly, the comparison to who you see in comic shops and who actually works in the failing industry was a paramount point to be made.
I would assume this was an important photo to celebrate 19 years in business, yet there are several short dudes in the back and you can't even seen their faces, just the tops of their heads. Imagine being one of those guys, feeling unappreciated would be an understatement.
Yeah the minute I saw that picture I knew. The best days of my working life were when I was working mostly with other men. We could get mad, have disagreements, be passionate and then have a beer at the end of the day. That's how great things are built with sweat and tension. I bet those guys in that little room drank, laughed, blew up, bragged about the girls they just met and smacked each other on the head more than once. When women dominate the office one must be nice and polite and getting along and not hurting feelings is prized above honesty, directness and greatness. My wife has said she would always rather work in an office dominated by men than women any day. Thanks Zack for speaking the truth.
The four guys in the first picture look like they shared a two bedroom apartment together inbetween college kids who host weekly Quake tournaments and a couple who breaks up every 15 minutes while Foo Fighters is playing in the background and it's always the same album they play because you know the songs by heart without even trying. If you or someone you know was like that, God bless you. LOL XD
the present day photo . probably still only 4 people actually making a comic
John Joe In any business there is the critical core of people who get work done. There is a lot of fat that needs to be trimmed in the industry today.
Poison said it: --There are way too many employees overall in that picture. What the hell do they all do? A comic-book is something that is made on a computer and transferred to various departments digitally; productive people do not need to be in the same state, let alone the same building. So why are there thirty people all huddled together?
A collegue of mine, in a former government job, had a text on his wall which went a bit like this:
"There was once a bridgekeeper whose job it was to collect toll from those passing the bridge and raise the bridge if big ships wanted to pass beneath it. He lived in a small house next to the bridge and was happy.
Then an inspector came around who decided that the bridgekeeper needed an assistant to help him. The bridgekeeper objected: he could do his job on his own perfectly well, but new regulations stated that at least two people should man a bridge and so the bridgekeeper got an assistant.
Now there were two people at the bridge and soon a supervisor was appointed. Three people in the little house next to the bridge meant there needed to be a cantine. Then a CEO was added and the CEO needed a secretary and a HR officer and all the paperwork meant there needed to be an administration...
The little house could no longer house all the people so a new office was build next to the bridge. The toll needed to be raised, of course but still finances was tight.
"We need to economize!", the CEO cried, "The one with the smallest wage is the least important and has to be let go".
And he fired the bridgekeeper."
Smallpotato1965 Neat story!
I love how the guys in the first picture are all so comfortably dressed, and someone's pet is casually hanging out behind the chair.
And there's a dude in shorts happily manspreading without anyone to nag him.
2nd picture should be a sea of interesting T-shirts... there's ONE... maybe
Gary Hughes I don't see the dog.
it would be interesting to ask the people in the second photo how old they were when they bought their first comic
doomed huh Chicks don't buy comics.
Some of them still haven't bought their first.
+Poison Control
Do you actually think that's true?
You can read the important difference between the images in the text "passionate people"
One photo has people passionate about making comics and a business. The other photo has people passionate about virtue signalling a social message.
I read a lot of books about the history of companies (not sure why) and so many start off with pictures like that. A handful of schlubs in a cramped space with big ideas.
IDW; my favorite video subject. Last month, they decreased offerings by 20 titles, from 60 to 40, which they blamed on 1 less week in March. They've lost soooo much money that they literally look like (IDW) bc of the brackets, and it looks like Q2 will be more of the same. Editor in chief out, too; what a mess.
Edited to add...no increase in y2y profit since 2014.
Looks like Sonic is gonna have a very short run at IDW....
Devilsblight86 gonna go fast...
Devilsblight86 I’d say take sonic and in my personal opinion tmnt and the Disney comics and give them to publishers who can continue the sagas
Matt Kugelman Sonic, TMNT, the classic 80's comics and Godzilla is all I care about. If IDW goes down, I hope all of them can go to better companies.
Devilsblight86 same here man
Devilsblight86 *they are too slow*
my eyes doth not see one alpha male among the crowd.
GO WOKE, GO BROKE.
the women in that picture didn't want to work in comics, they wanted to work in PUBLISHING, comics is just where they landed. that is the problem.
I mean I don’t know if we could see that for all the women there because I’m a woman and I would like to draw a comic book series one day. Also are you saying that it’s a problem that they couldn’t find a job in the field that they are working in? or the fact that this comic book company decided to hire them to do a job that they did not want? Or is it both?
Well your a woman so just go apply to Marvel, they will hire you just for the fact your a woman. But it be cool if you surprised everyone and actually had skill and write a decent comic. If not you'd fit in with the rest of the SJW losers at marvel and from the why you answered b sher... I'm guessing it's for SJW but hope I'm wrong
Outdoorsy Comic Book Nerd then you would be wrong because I don’t want to be hired just because I’m a woman, I want to work at a place that will hire me for my quality as an artist and writer, also how does my response make it seem like that I’m in it for the SJW? (I mean sure i’m in it for the money as well because I don’t want to be homeless, also in it because I like to draw and write) Because I absolutely despise people like that, now if I where to ever see one on the streets will I be so quick to judge them? The answer is no because how can I judge them when I’m busy running away from them to the opposite direction.
this comic book company decided to hire them to do a job that they did not want. that. comics are art, art is a passion project. to make the best art, you need to bleed for it. and we can see that they have no concept of the art form or history or tone of comics, so they are diluting the art by pushing it in direction of their interest and veering comics away from the intended audience, which is young boys and males. yes there is room in comics for any type of story you want to tell, like love and rockets or louis riel, but superhero comics are meant for young males and are about conflict, thats just the way it is. watch any of zach's videos about the new wolverine comics, why would they make wolverine into a comic for girls where they sit on a couch and talk about their feelings? because women don't like wolverine, they don't like violence, so they are changing the comics into something they want, when there is no audience for it. and there IS no audience for it. 99% of girls like archie, not wolverine.
I've always said if your only business is business you have no business in business. You need to know your field if you're going to be handling the business aspect.
"In the front there are Mexicans..." made me laugh. Guero
You know, I've noticed something. Women need to know what men are doing at all times. Whether or not they're married to them. But once they're in, they want to change everything to suit their interests. But at no time will they let men in on everything they're doing, citing things like 'me time' or a 'girls night out', and men simply accept both situations.
Those 5 guys on the far right look like the only ones who actually do the grunt work in regards to seriously working on the comics. I bet when they soy-boy walked in and tootled "picture time!', they all grumbled, stood together in the far end, then went back to work. The other 3/4ths of the employees went to starbucks.....
You see this shit in a lot of warehouses now. You'll have a crew of five guys doing 99% of the grunt work. Then they'll quota hire like 40 women putting stickers on shit, sweeping, or sending emails. Then they pat themselves on the back for having an "equal" workplace.
Some math.
IDW then: 4guys - 0gals (100% male - 0% female)
IDW now: 29guys - 15gals (66% male - 34% female)
Not even 50% females and they're already tanking. O_o
VideaVice25 that's just one factor from the multi-variables analysis
If you gendered them properly it would probably workout to 35% male, 40% female, and 25% other.
ketherga one of the major factors which i discuss is disagreebleness .men are nore disagreeable than wahman and generally men are more successful than men . Disagreeble people are less likely to agree with sjw principles which on several accounts we have seen caused humougous failures in bussiness .
Other factors are competency
A competent man is less likely to depend on clique /poltics to perfom well and would not be bullied into sjw cultures. There had been numerous accounts on female writers that made great books not because they were women or focused on feminism or lobster sue heroines but because they were comptent and knew the first step in writing a good story is to write a good story.
We need to get more guys into the Harlequin Romance novel offices.
VideaVice25 did you count the soyboys?
I grew up reading comics and going to drawing comic classes after school AND I WAS THE ONLY GIRL THERE FOR YEARS. And whenever a new girl popped up cause her brother was in the class or something I would get really suspicious... eventually other girls became permanent students but we were a minority and it was cool. The guys were nice and we had a good community.
Anyway this many girls in a comic book company is weird. NONE of my actual present day friends who are girls know a thing about comics other than whatever movie they watch, AND IT'S FINE, with them I talk gossip and fashion and with ma bois comics.
Also yes, that room looks like the room the comic book class I used to go to look like and I'm pretty sure it smelled the same, cheese feet, spilled ink and someone who used a moldy towel to dry after a shower :P
Mermaid Pug THIS!!! For me it was sports and gaming more so than comics, but I totally feel ya. I was not a “female sportswriter” and a “gamer girl” ... i was a sportswriter and I’m a gamer. The moment you try to separate yourself within a community, you’re looking for special treatment.
same here. m y passion was gaming.
I must say, those are some specific yet accurate descriptions of smells lol.
Normally you do this sort of thing for a twentieth anniversary, hot a nineteenth. Of course given how things are going there's likely not going to be a twentieth.
I was thinking the same. Their publicity machine must have misfired.
"Can't wait to see what the future holds!"
Never saw somebody so eager to see their business shuttered.
You can smell the soy coming from the photo.
That's not a group picture, that's a going away party photo
e gutierrez top ten photoes taken seconds before the tragedy
I feel bad for you comic book guys. There was literally ZERO gap between everyone making fun of you for being in a hobby that had no girls and suddenly people attacking you for not recognizing how many girls are among you. It's actually STILL considered OK to attack you for not knowing enough girls, WHILE attacking you for denying that an equal number of girls are into it. You literally cannot win.
Zac thanks for your military service and your service about exposing the SJW phonies.
I'm voting mean, but true. That Buzzfeed lookalike picture definitely explains why they're wrapping up their G1 Transformers continuity in September. The license with Hasbro expires at the end of the year, and despite the fact that Hasbro has gone on record saying they're continuing to work with them as part of their brand unification going into 2019, I'm inclined to believe the license will go somewhere else.
bassmasta605 we need YaBoi Comics to pick up that license lol
My feeling is the same.
“Handful of passionate employees”
Yeah, passion for destroying a comic company
Jay Alexander i didnt know sociopaths have passion
Back in the day i was always the only chick in the comic shop. It made me feel special
They would never hire me b/c i'm a free thinker and offensive stuff is my bread and butter...#MoreAssnTittiesInComics
The truth is seldom pretty.
The amount of sticky Mountain Dew stains in that old office.
Buzzfeeders? More like bottom feeders.
Zing!
dude, if IDW is nearly 20 yrs old, they at best were playing PS1 games like Crash Bandicoot or Tomb Raider. Dig Dug and Pole Position are 80s games, get with the times solider! :-P
Seriously though, i've seen this situation alot in gaming- 30 yrs ago Nintendo games were created by passionate nerds with a mushroom obsession. Now, it's a big team akin for a movie production. Same thing with Konami and other companies. Growth tends to be a death knell in nerd culture, as becoming mainstream kills creativity and focuses on appearances and not product. To quote the song "Eye Of The Tiger"- "You trade your passion for glory".
I'd agree with you if Japanese games weren't going through a Renaissance, which they are. Nintendo games have never been better. Don't be so black pilled.
fair, but I brought up Nintendo to illustrate how game production went from small passion projects to big movie-esque productions. I didn't mean to throw shade on the Big N. I apologize for that. Super Metroid is still one of the most moving pieces of interactive art I have ever seen.
Totally fair point and I agree. But at least games can be made by small teams. There's more diversity in project size and scope. Movies are all billion dollar or garbage now. Count yer lucky stars, kid!
With few exception the AAA games today is shitty and i only buy then on the sales on steam.
The Western AAA scene is hot garbage. The Japanese one is going through an all time high.
So let's raise a glass and toast their 19th anniversary cause I doubt we will see the 20th.
janetracer The writing is on the wall for them. They have a few years left, but a company can't lose money forever.
i think adding HotPinkGeek was a good move. Having genuine plurality and intellectual diversity of minds is good. There is no way to objectively look at the IDW picture. They have ruined Transformers and GI Joe. It's like not being furious at the person who you watch keying your car, who then tries to defend their actions. That picture could be an Office Depot store as easily as a.comic company. It's not easily distinguishable. The disgust from their iconoclastic abominations is all you can see once you know who they are.
J K she is not the only woman in the comics gate community there are many , some hide under puesodnyms
Omio Rahman while you are correct in your statement, I was referring to her being on the -jawbreakers: lost souls -team. I would venture to say that there is a surprisingly high amount of females in this particular community, and that they are much cooler than a random sampling of another community. There is no scientific way of verifying that, but I will stand by that statement.
The biggest thing I see between the two is that the first photo looks like people you'd actually know and talk to while the second one looks like a hospital staff photo
Recipe for disaster? IDW did that with Aubrey Sitterson(who bad mouthed 9/11). Not to mention Chris Ryall wants to keep him employed. And yes that picture is shenanigans. IDW only has themselves to blame for pissing off fans.
A better comparision. You want a personal trainer, meet your trainer and him/her and everyone else working there are Blobs!
Would you take them seriously?
Dude, this video was SAVAGE.
"It's called receivership." LOL. Nice!
Congratulations! Indiegogo campaign passed $40K :)
Add a few sandbags and that first room would look like some of the repurposed offices I worked through in BIAP/VBC.
Promote away... until you don’t have to... just, PROMOTE, PROMOTE, PROMOTE!!!
Jennifer McMahon why promote while the sjws at twitter are doing it for him 😂
This video proved you know more Spanish than Gabby Rivers, and oddly enough its the sentence you'd think she would know lol.
One of these things is not like the other,
One of these things is kinda the same...
Consider reaching out to Nick Koumalatsos in regards to reaching a wider audience with JB Lost Souls. Nick is a former Force Recon Marine, and MARSOC Marine Raider. He created The Raider Project and has 83k YT subs.
By now, you should have as many backers as Roxxon has employees.
Look at the photo on the right, you can count the number of comic book readers/fans on one hand.
This is a petty video. But you're not wrong.
*raises hand from bed* Not mean. Just true. *back to sleep*
The first thing I thought of (in the photo with 2 Italian families worth of people) was actually: that's alot of people for an indy publisher. Maybe I'm wrong.
It made me think of how (as Zack had pointed out in other videos) Marvel is producing too many titles, which means they're employing alot of extra people. But alot of those titles are trash that aren't even getting promoted and the people are low-quality. I don't know if IDW has that same problem, but that's the impression I got. I thought Zack was going to talk about something along those lines, but then he just made fun of their appearance.
Your comment about "take a mental health day" and leaving early got me thinking...
I used to work in an office...and I shit you not. One of the women I worked with seriously had to take the day off work...BECAUSE SOMEONE BROUGHT PARTY BALLOONS FOR SOMEONE'S BIRTHDAY...a latex allergy was what she got hot and bothered about. I'd never even heard of such a thing but balloons granted this person the rest of the day off. Something just felt really off to me about that.
She can definitely have an allergy to the material balloons are made of however there is no reason to leave work. The material she's allergic to isn't aerosolized so there's no chance of her inhaling it.
she can get reactions when a balloon gets on her skin.... you don,t know how allergic she is..... but yeah maybe she didn't like the party ...
"she can get reactions when a balloon gets on her skin" So I guess when balloons are in the room they HAVE to touch everyone. Those damn balloons!!
wtf are you talking about? You act like her work place was a latex free zone... I BET there were other latex products in that office just not floating on strings...
yeah you bet but baloons flow around or are they static that nothing can move a baloon ?
Just because a balloons in a room doesn't mean it's touching everyone... What is the office the size of a closet? You act like they made a balloon drop for the party and it was showering everyone with balloons. Out of all the parties I've been to that had balloons I never saw one touch someone or myself without people purposefully touching it themselves.
Hello and welcome to comics
young dark vader welcome comics to hello
Plug Jawbreakers at the beginning of every video. Pin the link to the top of your Twitter. Tweet out about behind-the-scenes developments you're comfortable sharing. Even stupid stuff like budgeting and testing out printers. Double down whenever you write updates. What you did with the Quartering was excellent. Try to get more interviews on other channels. Maybe ask Megan Fox if she can write a piece for PJ and plug it a little.
Collecting comics. Great idea, a quick plug during the campaign in the beginning and end of the vids would be good for catching "looky-loos" who don't know about it. Little updates would be good too, makes The customer feel like they are a part of the process. Plus it's fodder for video material. In case the twitter drama ever dries up. Am I being naïve that that will happen?
LOL IDW = I Don't Want!
Fackyo Couch IDW= Idiots Destructive Weasels
IDW was the merchandising/licensing arm of Wildstorm. They did the card games and crap like that. Their division got let go in the DC buyout, as they were unnecessary, and they formed Idea and Design Works in order to keep doing what they do. It was a while before they started doing comics with 30 Days of Night. I remember Kris Oprisko showing me the black and white pages at SDCC before it came out. Kris, Ted Adams, Alex Garner, and I don't remember the fourth guy... Is that Chris Ryall?
Mike Miller I had thought they had some connection to Image.
Yup. I used to do all kinds of work for them at Wildstorm before the buyout.
That's a bingo! :) Thanks!
Where is Pendragon? I grew up in San Jo. Comics N Fantasies was my shop back in the day.
Mike Miller Cool. I'll check out your channel.
A collegue of mine, in a former government job, had a text on his wall which went a bit like this:
"There was once a bridgekeeper whose job it was to collect toll from those passing the bridge and raise the bridge if big ships wanted to pass beneath it. He lived in a small house next to the bridge and was happy.
Then an inspector came around who decided that the bridgekeeper needed an assistant to help him. The bridgekeeper objected: he could do his job on his own perfectly well, but new regulations stated that at least two people should man a bridge and so the bridgekeeper got an assistant.
Now there were two people at the bridge and soon a supervisor was appointed. Three people in the little house next to the bridge meant there needed to be a cantine. Then a CEO was added and the CEO needed a secretary and a HR officer and all the paperwork meant there needed to be an administration...
The little house could no longer house all the people so a new office was build next to the bridge. The toll needed to be raised, of course but still finances was tight.
"We need to economize!", the CEO cried, "The one with the smallest wage is the least important and has to be let go".
And he fired the bridgekeeper."
The gender percentages in the company should reflect the audiences. For instance, here in Russia there are way more girls who are into comics than in America, and you could see that reflect in Russia's biggest publisher, Bubble Comics. I think it's like 50%-50% there, and believe me Russians hire on merit, no pc culture over here.
Anna Presman russia has the worlds best programmers and modders they could wipe the floor with sjw sarkessians if they had huge plans in gaming industry
And that's fine. Wait...those Russian girls are all beautiful AND love comics? That's...that's...no fair.
Came in at 666 views. Zack is the devil confirmed.
And you ruined the experience for me! No Devil Zack now :(
arcanask The meep of the beast.
The surfboards also smelled of Seaweed, sandy feet, and board wax. Family friend from are old church is an avid surfer. Lived on Camp Pendleton when my dad was in during the 90's (OOR-RAH), but sadly never went to La Jolla, Old town San Diego, or Comic Con. Did go to the Del Mar fair, Knotts Berry farm(many times), Belmont Park, Sea World, and the wild animal park. Also, DISNEYLAND SUCKED! Also, watch TRANSformers by Flashgitz sometime, it feels like something Mags would have honestly tried to do.
I miss going to Knotts. Used to go there every time we went to California to visit family. Who needs overpriced Disneyland when you could have a much more inexpensive day at Knotts as well as some of their tasty preserves.
Michael W and candles you can dye your!
15:25 as someone who often went to printing workshops as a kid i would like to add to the mix the various smells of chemicals and inks :P
How much are you benchmarking Pulido's Lady Death as an example? He promotes the heck out of his books. His web site has regular updates, interviews, and promotions: www.ladydeathuniverse.com/. The square bound books have glossy & durable covers. But you have to be very careful with gutter loss on two-page spreads because the square-bound books won't just lay flat like a stapled floppy comic. Also, he puts promotional flyers, stickers, and coupons for next purchase in the bag & boarded books. The inside cover is used for the credits, including the web address. And the inside back cover and last 2-5 pages are ads for the next comics/kickstarters, a fan club with rewards for members, etc. No space is wasted in his books, and the design is clean, legible and uncluttered. I can post some pics to Twitter if you're looking for samples.
I dont know if you solved the issue of how to get the JB Lost Souls books signed by Jon Malin and Brett Smith but have you considered just using bookplates? They are basically like labels that they could sign and then you just stick them inside the front cover. Lot cheaper to ship back and forth than all of the books. Just an idea I had because I would love it to have everyone's signature on mine.
Also PIMP THE BOOK! I want to hear about it everyday!
Pace mah boi Zack, Pace. Gotta be in it to win it! Sweat is the sweet aroma of success! Ramen is the breakfast of champions! Luck is for those that suck! Merit is the burden for those who can bear it. and the classic winners don't quit and quitters don't win. Mahalo brother, Aloha to you and yours as well as everyone else working on the book.
I swear I saw Dray on the roof of the current year photo
That second photo is like a reverse "Where's Wally?" of terrible creators......
Johnny D wally is an offensive degratory term more like where is person?
You find a reference to a book series derogatory ? Take a spoonful of cement and harden the fuck up .
Almost forgot about Jawbreakers until I saw this vid. Add one more reader to your count, muh dood!
You can surf at Mission Beach, Silver Strand, Ocean Beach, Oceanside, Pacific Beach that's just some of the main stream spots.
There are some attractive women in the picture. So, I doubt those girls are really into comics. In all the years I been to comic shops I never seen a good looking woman. If I did see a woman (and it was rare) she was not buying Marvel and DC. She would be buying shit like Strangers In Paradise. And she was never pretty.
None of them look attractive to me. They all look like the girls who try to be, then get pissed if someone notices them or not.
What wrong with sandals in the office lol
just don't wear them with socks
John Doe I wear socks and sandals when I feel lazy and don't want to put shoes on lol
hope you don't wear it outside on a rainy day , not making that mistake twice
Not too many Highly Dark Skinned people like myself in that second IDW. All that diversity...
Geoff Shaw Hey, I think I see Dray back there!
„It’s called receivership“... ROFL. What a zinger.... love your sense of humor, especially the hard-hitting one liners you drop from time to time....
Dude, I was wondering where you were. I don’t think you realize that by put out 3 or 4 vid’s a day, you have us hooked on your channel. I was literally watching youtube last night thinking, “Why am I not getting D&C notifications?” as I refreshed your page between clicks. But, no pressure.
There are way too damn many girls in that picture/company now, the wrong kind at that. Way too much priss in IDW comics. IDW obviously did not learn anything from the story of Adam and Eve. Entitled chicks will do stupid things that get her and the guy royally screwed over! I hate typical entitled chicks! I'm sure feminuts and everyone at IDW would claim I have internalized misogyny. I want all of Hasbro's titles to be pulled from IDW I'm so over them like the direction they've taken I'm glad and I hope they really are losing Transformers. I want my true/real Decepticons and my true/real Autobots back. I love my evil despotic Megatron unless we're talking about the shattered glass universe.
Eh, sex has nothing to do with it, Japan itself has very competent mangaka for both sexes, perhaps one of the greatest shonen manga to come out in the last 10yrs is Full Metal Alchemist which was created by a woman.
The problem with IDW is diversity hiring and the picture does say a thousand words.
To the left you have a picture that shows passion, people at work. On the right you have a group photo, no personality just a bunch of people acting like the quantity of members working at the company equates to quality.
@airget
While there is some truth to what you said, comparing US comics to manga isn't really a fair comparison. Comics are largely a niche market in the US, where manga is mainstream enough in Japan that it's pretty damn common to see people reading them while riding the bus or train, and that doesn't even touch on how they target individual manga for all kinda of demographics where US comics really only have a few demographics that they put any effort into selling them two.
All American Slacker You just described the reason comics is dying. See, it USED to be the way Japan is with manga. Then Comics Code Authority hit and everything fell apart, slowly but steadily, til we get where we are now.
Jimmy Two Times That's the kind of work culture I want to create. Well not to the fullest extent - I don't want people showing up to work high as that's literally illegal and I could get sued, and sorry no socks with sandals that's just tacky LOL - but a relaxed, enjoyable environment for everyone. So long as work gets done, and done well, I couldn't care less what you do, provided it's not illegal and that nobody is intentionally left out. It's the place I'd want to work anyways
The modern work environment is so STIFF and REGIMENTED... It's actually counterproductive to be that way. I feel like that's part of the reason American businesses are going the route they are... Their severe mishandling of their work environments.
Those beard look mighty thirsty #metoo
I'm sure this is more about that phantom audience scenario. They believe they can attract much more women into the comics audience of they hire women.
They are dead wrong then. The women who like comics don't read comics to read "women creators" most of the time. They keep trying to attract an audience who doesn't like them. Imagine Burger King doing a mass overhaul to appeal to vegans- the vegans most likely don't dine there because Burger King is already associated with meat, and taking meat away just angers the burger eating public. Strive to appeal to those who like what you produce. Add options, sure, but turn away your entire customer base just to appeal to a small margin who are not interested in your product anyway is foolish and a quick way into unemployment.
Man, I used to love IDW. I was on their forums all the time, drawing Transformers and GIJoe fanart and comics. Sad.
VEE IS LOVE
Mr Zolo vee is life
The late 90s/early 00s: when a Hawaiian shirt immediately denoted a leadership position in a small company.
So Zack is telling me that I shouldn't work in comics. That's fine. I will still read them though! TBH I do make lots of comments bout the boots super heroes wear. Stuff like, "Girl! You are gonna fall right over cause the heal on that boot is offset from the toe!" And... I am waiting for the comic where a busty female hero is in a fight and her boob flips up out of her bra and she gets smacked in the face with it. Strapless bras look nice but they don't keep things in when you are bouncing all around. Just sayin! Wait.... disregard all that. Keep drawing them those nice strapless tops please! Comics should be a bit impractical!
Amy Minty comics need to be fantastical. We need to keep the SUPER in Superheroes. All the impractical costumes. The amazing feats. The wild & crazy unreality. Just a step away from being real but enough to make it not just Die Hard or any other action movie.
Amy Minty
I think Zack's message came out wrong in this video, or he didn't think it through. I've never heard him say that more women = failing comic industry, but that's almost what it sounded like he was implying here. He only ever had a problem with specific women, particularly the Milkshake crew. The problem is bringing in women onto a team to meet a diversity quota instead of just hiring the best person for the job.
If you're a fake geek girl than yea he's talking to you.
His message has always been hire the best talent, not the person whose gender or lifestyle helps your company look more diverse. Talented female comic book pro's are very rare, not because women can't be talented, but because there just aren't that many female comic book pros out there. When you see a company with such a high percentage of women on staff (for the industry) it means they have either cornered the market on all the available female talent, or they are hiring based on gender instead of skill and talent.
IDW is struggling and it is at least partly because they have placed the appearance of diversity over creating quality product.
If you want to work in comics, go for it. Practice, work hard, and do your best to get your work noticed. If your work is good, people will eventually notice it and will hire you for your work.
I'm not a geek, but my friends do call me a lovable dork. Maybe that's the same thing? Idk. I'm a dork for a good story! How bout that! ^_^
Oh my god, look at that "LOL I'M COMING TO WORK DRESSED LIKE AN ANIME PRINCESS" girl.
Up and early. Your a real go getter for an old man
IDW I thinks needs to go back to the beginning. Start anew get back to that very same room take a deep sniff, and get back to work with like 4 or 5 guys.
Alex nooooo merit and quality doesn't matter only representation does
Your depiction of the first photo gave me everything I needed.
🤣🤣🤣
I really hope that cult never gets their claws on Batman.
You know what? No one is throwing $25 at any creators at IDW to read their books.
That picture looks like a ton of work wives.
Update around 2.5 years after release, their fall has continued, there stock is now under 8% of what it was when this posted. Plus it seems like investors have not yet reacted to the problems in comic distribution have had for them, and a plausible recession starting soon is likely not going to be good for their near future either.
*Perfect Strangers Theme Plays*
When I heard Zach say "this is the end" I was going to make an Apocalypse Now joke, but then I thought about it and it is actually a pretty good analogy. Closer to Heart of Darkness than Apocalypse Now though. A few dude bros start a comic company in the 90s in California. They are good and competent, but are brought low by the natives that they love. In the end they allow themselves to be carried off to their deathbed aboard the steamer, abandoning the natives.
The horror.
I'm definitely going to buy a copy but something on the cover intrigues me. Does the fella in front have a Fu Manchu mustache? I MUST KNOW THIS!
It's actually shocking how different these companies look than the readership. As you said, I've never seen a group of people like this in a comic store in my life.
Meyer, something that I've always admired about you is that you're not afraid to speak your mind. If I started a comic book company today and I had to choose one of these two groups to start it with, it's DEFINITELY the one on the left. It has been my experience in business that men are almost always the pioneers, even in predominantly female domains, like the fashion or culinary industries. Men work lean, keep long hours, and BUILD businesses, particularly white men, which may have something to do with that risk-taking pioneering element to your culture.
Unfortunately, once the proverbial terrain is settled, society dictates that companies of a certain size (like 12 or more employees, I think) must be inclusive and diverse. Perhaps it even makes the men feel good to give opportunities to people from broad backgrounds. But, the reason why these companies are failing is that they have more cash going out the door than coming in, they're building insolvency into the fabric of the company by hiring superfluous people who have no essential role in the production, sale or distribution of their core product.
Selling comics isn't rocket science, IDW shot themselves in the foot with 'diversity'.
Of course, we both know that. there are some world-class female writers, editors, and artists out there-- but this gaggle of goofballs ain't it.
"Can't wait to see what the future holds!"
Bankruptcy.
Fimbulwinter Everyone in the current year photo looking for jobs elsewhere.
Wishing you huge success with this!
I have never, ever, purchased or read a comic book; but, for some reason, I enjoy the hell out of your content.
Just started getting notifications for your videos again
Damn, I miss my puka shells. Significantly, the comparison to who you see in comic shops and who actually works in the failing industry was a paramount point to be made.
If this group photo were an inanimate object, it would be a pack of crayons.
The nineteen years later photo looks like where genuine passion and crafting talent go to die.
I would assume this was an important photo to celebrate 19 years in business, yet there are several short dudes in the back and you can't even seen their faces, just the tops of their heads. Imagine being one of those guys, feeling unappreciated would be an understatement.
Yeah the minute I saw that picture I knew. The best days of my working life were when I was working mostly with other men. We could get mad, have disagreements, be passionate and then have a beer at the end of the day. That's how great things are built with sweat and tension. I bet those guys in that little room drank, laughed, blew up, bragged about the girls they just met and smacked each other on the head more than once. When women dominate the office one must be nice and polite and getting along and not hurting feelings is prized above honesty, directness and greatness. My wife has said she would always rather work in an office dominated by men than women any day. Thanks Zack for speaking the truth.
It’s shocking looking at this 2 years later and you can see, plain as day, why they fell.
The four guys in the first picture look like they shared a two bedroom apartment together inbetween college kids who host weekly Quake tournaments and a couple who breaks up every 15 minutes while Foo Fighters is playing in the background and it's always the same album they play because you know the songs by heart without even trying.
If you or someone you know was like that, God bless you.
LOL XD
The guy standing is Ted Adams, the main dude. The guy on the left is Alex Garner.