Retailer Follow-Up
From:
Parker Smart
To:
'Mile High Comics'
Subject: Spilled Milk Follow-Up...
Hey Lyn (Moulton’s Comics),
Thank you very much for responding to my initial e-mail.
Please skip to the “Catching Up” section if you were expecting this
follow up. If you believe you have
received this e-mail in error then please let me know and I can take you off my
list. You may have also received
this e-mail in error, because I already had you in my Outlook contacts as part
of the Spilled Milk Mailing List (or some other reason) and I had marked you
with the “Retailer” category.
I sure hope you didn’t receive thousands of these,
because this is the first time I’m using the MS Word mail merge with more than
10 people. I hope this worked.
I don’t trust Microsoft.
I built the website in late 1998 so I hope that you’ve
got Internet access. That’s the
best way to read all the information you care to absorb about the goings on at
Spilled Milk. If you don’t have
Internet access then please let me know and I can send you select images via
e-mail.
Almost all of the current work in progress is out in
their respective ‘images’ section. There
are full color images for issue #1 complete with text (which is intentionally
blurred). Don’t worry, you will
be getting text soon enough. Most
of the inks for issue #2 are out there too.
For issues #3 and #4 there are some pencils.
http://www.SpilledMilk.com/images.htm
I invite you to check out the entire site (a daunting
task and surely not done in one sitting). I
know I don’t spend my time surfing the web unless something really interests
me. I hope you will stick it out
and check out the progress of the series.
My biggest issue now is trying to get Jason (the
penciller) to hand in his stuff so I can ship it off to the inker.
I’m hoping to have the first issue published in August and I AM in
contact with Diamond Previews. They require the first three issues inked and lettered.
I’m definitely in this for the long haul and would like
to produce an ongoing series. I
don’t have any plans of doing any other titles, because I feel that will
degrade the flagship title. I do
have a script for an Elseworlds Batman that is based on the Big Island of Hawaii
all ready to go. But this will only
be submitted if CiCi gets a pretty good following.
Unfortunately I’ve been pretty tight lipped about the
project, but what I can say is that it’s definitely science fiction.
Since I’m a programmer by trade and have read a few books on genetics
(many by Richard Dawkins) and on nano-technology (K. Eric Drexler).
Many comics that involve nano-tech. don’t really talk about the
technology, they just say the word and then move on.
I hope to expand on the possibilities of this technology and how affects
the characters. I got tired of
reading fantasy books because nothing is really explained.
Well it is explained, but it’s explained with more Fantasy jargon.
I tried to integrate my extensive programming background and tried to incorporate
this knowledge into the story. My
goal is to tell a good story, but also to teach and I hope to make people think.
All I’ve got right now is the promotional card that I
made for San Diego 1999. You can
take a look at it at the following link: : http://www.SpilledMilk.com/cover01.htm . I’ve only got a few thousand of
these left, but I’d love to send you a few so you could stick them in your
hold slots. I’d like to get the
word of mouth going pretty quickly and hope that the comic buyers will be
interested enough to sign up for the mailing list.
I will be producing an ashcan of the first couple of
pages really soon. It will be gray
tones on the inside and MIGHT (that’s a big might) have a color cover.
I will definitely have an ashcan of the entire first issue for retailers
only as soon as it goes to Previews and possibly sooner if I get enough
feedback.
This is the best way to find out what’s going on at
Spilled Milk. I’m always looking
for feedback and the fans right now are a pretty good resource, but I know that
retailers really know their stuff. By
responding to my previous e-mail I’ve already added you to this list.
If you don’t want to receive this update then just let me know and
I’ll remove you. It’s just that
easy. I will, however, notify you
when I’m going to be in Diamond Previews (it’s the least I could do, and
should do).
If you’re still starving for more information you can
check out the archived Spilled Milk updates at the following link: http://www.SpilledMilk.com/updates.htm
If you’ve already checked these out you can see there are many
obstacles to overcome when publishing a comic. I’m
sure I’ve addressed many questions in my updates, but if you don’t have the
time to pour through them then feel free to ask.
I like to keep up my records, so if you haven’t done so
I’d like to get your address and other pertinent information that will help me
identify you. You have sent me the
following information:
First Name:
Lyn
Last Name:
Moulton
Company:
Moulton’s Comics
Phone:
FAX:
Email:
littleton@milehighcomics.com
Well if you like this kind of information (well not the
information directly above, that’s stuff is pretty boring) or you have any
questions, then please stick around.
I hope this project is a success and I hope I can count
on you and all the other retailers out there for some support.
Moral support is good too.
Thanks,
Parker
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Parker D. Smart
Spilled Milk, Corp.
Creator / Writer / Editor / President
psmart@SpilledMilk.com