Olivia Cuartero-Briggs On The Latest With AfterShock Comics

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool ran complaints from comedian guide creators, reportedly with points getting paid from AfterShock Comics. Despite repeated makes an attempt to elicit remark from Aftershock Comics, they didn’t return e-mails. They did reply to Comics Beat and ComicBook to say “Thank you for reaching out. For easy reference, here is our statement on the matter, the company is addressing late payments as outstanding funds owed to the company come in. There are no non-payments. Everyone who is owed money will be paid. We recognize our obligations and consider creator compensation our number one priority. We apologize for this situation and are making our best efforts to rectify it as quickly as possible.”

Olivia Cuartero-Briggs acquired in contact to inform us her perspective as the author of Mary Shelley Monster Hunter, Bram Stoker Monster Hunter, and Silver City, each with Aftershock. She tells me “from everything I know personally, and from what I’ve heard from other creators, Aftershock has, indeed, suspended payment to many of its freelance creatives. It sucks, and I have a feeling there are folks out there who are owed a lot more than I am, so I really feel for them. Brian Cunningham has been very candid and transparent with everyone, and it’s much appreciated. Aftershock has its issues for sure, but they put out great books, support weird, diverse creators like myself, and take real, bold chances. This is definitely a scary time for those of us who have books now currently in limbo at Aftershock, but myself and many others are holding out hope that the company pulls through. The last thing our community needs is one less indie publisher.”

From different sources near the decision-makers, I perceive that AfterShock Comics are making funds as they’re accessible, and there are examples of quite a few creators getting paid updated of late, however clearly, they’ve a good quantity to get by way of. Brian Cunningham was employed as a brand new Aftershock EIC again in October, after an extended interval as Senior Story Editor of DC Comics. But the opposite particular person employed alongside Brian Cunningham was Chris Ryall, as Publishing Consultant. However, I perceive that appointment did not truly occur this 12 months as introduced, as introduced and is unlikely to go ahead. We shall be checking in with different Sftershock creators to see how the cost schedule performs out.