Red Letter Days

Prediction: one day the New York Times is gonna report this story, about how the owners of a scrappy comic-book-company startup organized themselves on Facebook, and how social networking sites are slowly becoming places for like-minded entrepreneurs to meet and get their incorporations on. That said, for a few months now I’ve been one of the proud coöwners of Red Letter Comics, Inc.

Many many months back, I started a public experiment on this blog of how long it would take me to break into comics. I loved them since I was two (ask Great-grandma), and I’m really on that “all is mind,” law of attraction shit. This summer, I had to focus more energy into book #3 for the moment, but along the way, Red Letter Comics took shape. Coincidence, sun. (Nudge, wink… there are none.)

There’s still not a heck of a lot to report. Following the lead of Stephen Cardigan, officer of the Let’s Create a Comic Book Company group over on Facebook, a bunch of us (30 maybe?) threw in as little as $20 each to become shareholders in incorporating. Comics vet Tom Mandrake is involved. We all voted on a name together, and last month, Red Letter Comics won. (My vote? Zeitgeist Comics. What better name for a company created through Facebook associations? Copyright issues, sun.) The mission now is to publish one anthology of stories, featuring different characters of people involved in the creation of this joint venture. Whichever gets the most attention is what we run with for the long term, at least as far as I understand it. Which means maybe The Masters gets to see the light of day. We shall see.