Thought Bubble 2015: Writers' Roundtable(2/2)

 MB - no formulaic way to break into comics. "Kelly Sue DeConnick - get your worst comics out of the way now so you're ready sooner". MB - Digital webcomics/building a fan base/awareness is very good for practice and meeting people. Fawkes - against more established comics' way of doing it. Less bias of people - i.e straight white males was most likely. If they know here's an audience for this person's books, hen more likely to hire. Kurtis didn't set out to be a girl power book, just wrote the characters. Thought it would fail horribly. Thought 'fantasy setting by two dudes' would receive eye rolls. No amount of marketing etc could do what the fans do - tumblr, cosplay, getting attention that way.

 Emi - patreon with reader support. A lot of stress but feels good to know people will support her but now has to put out work - more pressure. Has less time to do stuff with her own Plutona book now though. Charles - more diverse and niche markets b/c internet etc really helps. Will continue 'flowering of cool comics' in M/DC and creator owned comics. MB - new blood - stronger and better ---> how will tech change industry? Fawkes - large comp - telling stories over and over won't work so more diverse titles out there, more individual voices + higher reader responses.

 Emi - excited - plutona ignored 15 years ago. Everyone accepting and excited for new comics, more and more art style out there. Kurtis - digital landscape open things up a lot. Webcomics grew but hard to break in - now easier to find and read online. Instagram etc makes everything much more interactive. Fawkes - wide range of things comics can do that TV etc can't and comics can still be more widely explored yet. Emi - think in pictures. Kurtis - love collaborative spirit of i, another creative person takes it and makes it better. MB - form follows function - stories diminished in other forms of media. Charles - amazing seeing it done a few months later. Likes breaking story a lot - public place let ideas come, caught in flow of the place. MB - not a gig in which you get rich. Fawkes - thank god romance comics brought back. Sci-fi re surge recently, love to see more horror. Uzumaki tricks only work in comics.