Heh

[mariness]

From Fandom Wank comes a cheery tale of a comics conman, which I mention only because I briefly saw this guy at Mega-Con. (Briefly, because, as I mentioned, crowded. What's entirely left out of this story is how remarkable it is that Ethan Van Sciver and Mark Waid managed to get to his table at all

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[xeyewake]

Great post! I want to see a follow up to this topic

[jackolantern]

At some point, I started to edge over into the almost-feeling-sorry-for-him camp, just because everyone is piling on him, but he keeps putting the "Kick Me" sign back on, sometimes even bigger and brighter than before. The part where his wife/business manager/possible sockpuppet accuses Duy of "slander and defecations of character" is the veritable maraschino cherry on top.

[mariness]

I wasn't planning on posting about this until I heard that he was attempting to charge for interviews. Which, god no. Hell, even if you are Charlie Sheen at this point, god, no.

(Maybe if you are Angelina Jolie, but, you know, a lot more people actually want to interview her. And I suspect that if she gets a lot less excited about interviews than I do, even she probably treats interviews as part of the job/free publicity.)

I realize that they are panicking and now that they've been outed they can't even sell fan art at cons, but, still. eBay! Admittedly they've showed little creativity so far, but, surely they could find something.