Fuck
From Warren Ellis' Brainpowered column:
Modern Tales must have at least 2000 subscribers at this point, possibly closer to 3000, but that's not making anyone rich. No-one's getting a mortgage on the strength of their online comics cashflow.Underlining that: Justine Shaw's just had to suspend NOWHERE GIRL indefinitely. Still hoping to get her to do an artbomb.net piece -- we pay a professional rate for our webcomics. But she really had no mechanism for monetising NOWHERE GIRL.
Fuck.
From news from nowhere:
10/05/2003
Admitting the obvious to myself and to people who actually liked this site, Nowhere Girl is suspended indefinitely. I'm very sorry and it kills me to write this. I simply don't have the time to work on it right now. I hope to resume work on it in spring of 2004 with a hopeful release date of late that year. In the meantime, and on the decidedly brighter side, I am working on 2 other comics projects, one of which will be out late October, the other of which is a much bigger project and I hope to have that late this year or early 2004.
Ok, good news on the October Project, but otherwise, again, fuck.
One last thing: I don't wanna discuss this topic via email. I'm furious with myself for letting my life spiral out of my own control. Please don't contact me regarding this issue, except if you want to yourself from the mailing list via the above link. I am deeply sorry to anyone and everyone who has read this comic and who liked the characters and wanted to see where the story would go next. I can promise this story will continue, but I can only guess as to when. I'm very, very sorry. Bye for now. ~ Justine
So don't bug her about this.
Just. . . fuck.
Comments
*sigh* Another artist has to suspend doing what she loves in order to make a living. Not a real surprise. I remain optimistic that Justine will be back in fairly short order. Nowhere Girl is absolutely fantastic, but obviously very time-consuming.
Posted by: Elayne Riggs | October 17, 2003 4:14 PM