just let it go man

[davemerrill]

Chuck Austen advises former Tokyopop creators, "move on already." I had no idea he'd been so busy. In fact I really never knew he'd written a comic for Tokyopop. Or that he had created 'Tripping The Rift', which might have been comedically written, but was the hands-down ugliest, least appealing animated show on television. He's got good advice, but the timing of this piece is interesting.

Comments

[keenmixer.livejournal.com]

Wait...Tokyopop is still relevant?

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

this is what makes the timing of the piece so interesting, in that it would have been a lot more timely two or three years ago.

[sixstop.livejournal.com]

nothing set it off? i guess the interviewer just ran into the guy and asked?

[warpig1979.livejournal.com]

Way back in the middle of the boom years, when Tokyopop was signing people like Austen to these deals, I distinctly remember a hellacious amount of noise from people saying "man these deals Tokyopop is giving to original creators are incredibly horrible one-sided ripoff deals."

Can't say as it comes as a great revelation when it goes from the present tense ("you are being ripped off, pretty soon you will be out of luck") to the past ("Tokyopop has ripped you off, you are out of luck").

Apparently the peculiar timing of the article, though, comes on account of Tokyopop just recently took some of its old original series out of the morgue and put them up on the web.