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3000 copies. It’s not exactly enough to be considered a national best-seller, but it’s a big deal to me (and Kajo) since it’s the first time we’ve ever done anything that sold more than 500 copies. It was such a big surprise when Nida, our publisher, told me that TRESE Book 1 had already sold 3,000 and is now on its second printing. (And Book 2 has already sold 1,000 copies.) Thanks to all the comic book store owners, book store managers, and most especially to all readers. Me and Kajo are still working on Book 3. It’s a bit delayed, we know, but we just want to make sure you have as much fun (and feel as much fear) when you read Case #9 to 13. We hope it’ll be worth the wait. For the ones who are still trying to hunt down for their own copy of TRESE, it is now available in the following stores: Best Sellers Comic Odyssey Comic Quest Fully Booked National Bookstore Pandayan Bookstore Powerbooks If your local branch or favorite bookstore/comic book shop doesn't have copies, just g

Originally posted by Marvel editor C.B. Cebulski at: http://twitter.com/CBCebulski Every year, [the] same "writer" tells me how he's better than Bendis, and same "artist" can't understand how Bachalo gets work over him. No, seriously, I heard "I deserve..." and "I'm just as good as..." maybe 5 or 6 times at NYCC from writers & artists looking for work. This has been going on for four years now, con after con, and neither has broken into the top five publishers in that time. I wonder why? And just to clarify, while I meet and talk to writers, I can't read pitches & proposals or discuss stories. My job is to find artists only. Oh, I'm not venting, just trying to head off any potential confusion. Don't want people pitching me when they shouldn't be. Hope that helps. Ultimately, it's the editors who hire the writers & artists. They choose the talent on their books. Disturbing but eye-opening fact: No writer

Comic book writer Brian Michael Bendis talks about … MAKING YOUR LAST COMIC BOOK: I’m always amazed by the people who work so hard to get here [a job in Marvel], or so lucky to get there. It takes an insane amount of work to get there and when they get there and they start bucking around, they start diva-ing it up and get high and mighty and totally forget … [you have to remember] what job you have in comics, someone else had that job before you. Settle down! And work! Now is the time to do the work of your life. Now is the time to express yourself like no one else has ever done. You should [write or draw this comic book] like it’s your last, like you’re going to be fired after this. And I do this. Remember … someone else had this job and someone else will have it after you. It’s up to you how long you can keep it. Big name people –BIG NAME PEOPLE—cannot get work because they act the fool. PROMOTING YOUR WORK: Just getting the book out … just birthing it to the world… is not enough. T