"His attaches went unnoticed."
i used to do a webcomic, and it blew. that's a slight exaggeration, but it wasn't nearly as funny and subversive as the writers thought it was. i did it because i needed the experience, and hopefully the exposure. it became apparent pretty quickly that this wasn't a good fit.
for starters, i'm not much of an action artist - i wish i was, because i have all sorts of "serious" comics i'd love to draw, but in the end, the cartoony style is the way i go. also, drawing is time-consuming, and the boys at that comic didn't have the patience for it. they had a grand goal to create a political satire that would match up with the 2004 elections and tell the story of an "alternate universe" with a thinly - and i mean thinly - veiled George W. Bush and company. so they hired artists to help fill in the blanks and catch up (keep in mind, i was working for free - with a possibility of a percentage in profits).
we had started out as partners, but they bought me out of my contract and gradually wrote me out of the book's history, . my name still appears in the credits, but for what reason, i don't know. they hired someone to redraw the two issues i had done (using my layouts, which is half the work - ask any artist), and any art i have left appears on the website, but is not credited to me. in fact, i was never informed of any of this - i found it out one day when i was showing one of the guys at work what i had on the web.
seeing as i was intregal to creating the book and giving it its look, i'm annoyed by all of this. it's easy for me to forget it ever happened and chalk it up to experience, but every once in a while, i get a piece of junk mail - along with everyone else on their mailing list - asking me to buy their merchandise or vote for them on webcomics lists.
the book's not very successful - i looked them up on the webcomics list they offered, and they're ranked nearly four thousand of five thousand listed, and their fans who left comments aren't exactly literate. so i don't feel TOO much like Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster, but i can appreciate, on a minor level, what they went through having sold the rights to Superman for a hundred dollars. they made out better than i did when i signed away my rights to character designs. God forbid the book was actually GOOD - then i would be really upset.