Comic Creators And Their Problems With Scout Comics: The Long Read

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Last week, comedian ebook creator Jarred Luján sparked a wide-ranging dialogue amongst creators about writer Scout Comics.

For the previous couple of months, I’ve been listening to comedian ebook creators’ dissatisfaction with a variety of comedian ebook publishers, however few are prepared to offer specifics. Scout has been talked about a variety of occasions, and I had been taking notes. But final week, comedian creator Jarred Luján put his head over the parapet. He wrote the one-shot comedian All The Devils From Here,  revealed by Scout Comics final April.

All The Devils From Here

Jarred Luján posted to TwitterX, “If you’re a new creator, please avoid Scout Comics like the plague. Haven’t paid me for a book out over a year. Won’t answer emails. We delivered a completed, profitable book and still got screwed. Spoke to the Editorial Director and he implied we’d be blacklisted for complaining. CEO came in acting like he’d help, and now he’s ghosting us too. If it’s like that at the top, you know why everything else sucks. I’ve tried for a year to work with these people, and it’s clear they have no intention of working with us. Nothing resembling a partnership. I also got a single statement about book sales and not a single one since. Can’t promote books, can’t pay creators, but they got a full @Whatnot schedule! My last email a month ago was, “Hey, are you able to simply cancel our contract, and we will transfer previous the cash you owe me?” and they still didn’t answer. That would have cost zero dollars, for whatever that’s worth.”

Now, Scout Comics is a smaller comedian ebook writer distributed via Diamond and Lunar, based in 2015 and has revealed over 300 titles, has a lot of multi-media TV and film choices to announce, and is thought for its digital, publishing and different collectable innovation features for comedian books. So they’ve a lot of creators on their books, who began to share their grievances. It in all probability could not have come at a worse time for Scout Comics, who right this moment introduced new funding and a relaunch this summer time.

A quantity, however not all, of those points are disputed by Scout Comics and are addressed beneath within the Scout Comics Responds To Bleeding Cool part beneath. But particularly relating to Jarred’s claims above, Scout Comics states that All the Devils Are Here “was released in April 2023, refuting that it has been over a year since Mr. Lujan has not been paid”. Additionally, they point out that they sought to pay Jarred in August 2023, and have but to obtain his banking data to take action. I spoke to him about this final week, however since then, Jarred has stated that he’s not responding to press inquiries.

Comic Creators And Their Problems With Scout Comics

But after his preliminary put up, a lot of different comics creators began to get in contact. And I obtained in contact with Scout Comics. CEO Brendan Deneen who informed me, initially relating to Jarred, “I reached out to him today and we plan to continue our attempts to rectify the situation fairly and civilly.” Seconds after that Jarred informed me that Deneen had certainly obtained in contact. Jarred later wrote, “Scout is drafting a termination agreement for us and claims to intend to pay us, though I will hold my breath until the money deposits and the paperwork is signed.”

And different comedian ebook creators had been sharing their very own tales, publicly and privately. There was a standard thread of comedian books being accomplished however not revealed, editors and publishers not replying to enquiries, statements not being issued, and questions on gross sales and royalties being ignored. Also, editors simply disappearing, one thing I found when researching this story, emailing Scout Comics staffers to search out one left and their e-mail was bouncing. But none of their creators appeared to know that they’d left.

One huge situation, it appears, is that folks consider Scout Comics as one writer with a variety of imprints, like DC Comics, which to be truthful, is how they current themselves. But truly, they’re a sequence of publishers beneath one identify, like Image Comics. So the likes of Black Caravan, Scoot, Chispa, Europe, and so on are extra like Top Cow, Wildstorm, Extreme, and Skybound beneath Image Comics. And that’s the reason the Black Caravan imprint, created by Joseph Schmalke and Rich Woodall, is not publishing books via Scout Comics. And why my emails to Don Handfield, introduced in as Partner and Co-Owner to Scout Comics in 2020, to launch a few of these imprints, had been all of a sudden bouncing.

We’ll get these different creator accounts in a minute, however Scout Comics launched the next assertion, despatched to me by James Haick, President of Scout, but in addition posted on social media with feedback turned off.

Dear Comics Community,
Scout began as and stays an organization created by and for creators. We love comics. We love studying comics, making comics, and publishing comics for different creators. We love the comics group.

While Scout has at all times strived to take care of excessive ranges of service to our groups, just lately a artistic group expressed their frustration publicly resulting from having not had a response to their considerations in a number of months. This is true. We dropped the ball by failing to reply in a well timed method. We take full accountability for our lack of response at the moment resulting from inner miscommunication.

Regardless, we’ll proceed to try to do higher and enhance communication with all of our creators. Despite the complaints we have now seen on-line, Scout has had only a few creators attain out to us immediately with considerations. We have truly had a number of creators attain out in assist, which we admire.

As with all companies, there shall be missteps. The most vital factor is to study. At this time, we’re overtly welcoming any creator with a title at Scout Comics to succeed in out to our COO Lesa Miller at lesa.miller@scoutcomics.com with any considerations they could have. All considerations shall be listened to and all inquiries shall be responded to in a well timed method.

As creators ourselves, we perceive the problems which were offered to us. Thank you in your persistence and style whereas we endeavor to study from the suggestions we’re receiving.

Before that, a lot of Scout Comics creators had been speaking, and I took their considerations to Scout Comics. Lesa Miller issued Bleeding Cool the next assertion, which tackled extra of the problems talked about beneath. Highlights in daring are mine.

Scout Comics Responds To Bleeding Cool

“First, and most significantly, Scout Comics wish to take full accountability and apologize for any lapses in communication with our creators. We do our greatest to get again to everybody as shortly and as totally as potential, however it’s an space that we’re actively enhancing. We are a small firm with a small employees, however communication is the lifeblood of any group, and we acknowledge that we have now work to do right here — work that we’re doing.

“To that finish, we’re within the technique of reaching out to each energetic creator and discussing our imaginative and prescient and plan for his or her title, together with any excellent points/issues and methods ahead. Most creators have been very receptive to our plans, and a few of these creators have additionally requested for higher general communication, which we perceive — and we admire the constructive criticism. Second, and in addition vital, there are two main features of the damaging on-line posts which are false. Those are relating to non-payment and threats.

“Regarding the primary allegation, having added a number of income streams, producing royalty statements takes longer than it used to. Distributors additionally do not at all times remit funds in a well timed method, making it inconceivable at occasions to supply significant statements as shortly as we want. We try to create statements and pay creators as quickly as potential as soon as income is acquired and have despatched royalty statements to all creators, and despatched cash when it was due, primarily based on the royalty charges agreed to in our contracts. I’d wish to level out that each single Scout Board Member can be a Scout creator, and we have now signed the EXACT SAME contract as all of our different creators. I’d additionally wish to level out that a lot of the Scout Board group (together with myself, Brendan Deneen, and James Haick) haven’t taken a SINGLE PENNY in wage because the firm launched in 2015. 

“Regarding the second allegation, we might by no means, EVER threaten ANYONE. It’s a surprising allegation and 100% false. Regarding advertising efforts, throughout the previous few months, and in an ongoing method, James Haick has reached out to most of our creators with a selected advertising plan, suggesting a variety of out-of-the-box ideas to generate gross sales. I’ll ahead an instance of one in all these letters in your overview. As most individuals know, 2023 was a difficult yr for the comedian ebook business, so we did our greatest to be revolutionary. It’s stunning to see criticism of our Pressworks program, a model new collectible that no comedian firm has performed earlier than, particularly since that particular merchandise put a variety of our books into the black. We consider in and promote all of our books, not simply because it’s mutually helpful, however as a result of we consider in them.

“Regarding our involvement in movie/TV rights, our CEO Brendan Deneen has been promoting literary IP into Hollywood for fifteen years, and earlier than that was a film studio govt. Unlike different comedian ebook firms, we do not have a movie agent. Brendan sells this materials into Hollywood himself, and we have now bought Scout comics to Amazon Studios, Disney, Warner TV, FilmNation, State Street, and Rooster Teeth, amongst many others. (This features a Phillip Kennedy Johnson Scout ebook that’s in energetic improvement with the one of many showrunners of DAREDEVIL.) I wish to level out that Scout doesn’t personal ANY of our creators’ IP. Even if we carry a proposal to them, they’ll say no. These are creator-owned books. 

“But film/TV has NEVER been our primary goal. Every single Scout exec LOVES comic books. When we get in submissions, our first question is always: Is this a great comic book in and of itself? Our second question is: Would this make a great TV show or movie? But we never get to the second question if the first answer isn’t, “Yes.” We have revealed Ringo Award-winning comics and a number of other of our books have been chosen by the National Library Association. We are very pleased with and humbled by these recognitions.

“Since this situation broke last week, we have heard from a significant number of Scout creators who have told us that they support us and that they appreciate everything we’ve done and continue to do for them. Those messages are very, very meaningful to us during a difficult time. Finally, as we have said repeatedly since last week, we actively encourage any and all Scout creators to reach out to us via email and ask questions or raise concerns. We are committed to making our creators feel comfortable about their future with Scout.”

I’ve additionally been offered proof of in depth advertising plans shared with creators, particularly A Haunting Of Mars, which does not counter all the claims relating to the publishing of that comedian, however does present that, botched or in any other case, a press launch was removed from the “only ‘marketing’ they do for the book”. Here are the considerations which were posted publicly or raised with Bleeding Cool by comedian ebook creators, which Scout was replying to.

Death Comes for the Toymaker

Dakota Brown of Death Comes For The Toymaker at Scout Comics wrote “I’ve not seen a dime off of Death Comes for the Toymaker. According to my contract, I’m to start out making royalties after manufacturing prices have been met, which hasn’t occurred but. On my finish, for this reason I have never seen any royalties. That is not to say that there have not been unlucky choices that led to this. Over ordering inventory with further covers and variations of situation one I used to be not made conscious of made it very unbelievable that manufacturing prices can be met. Of course, a giant situation can be what occurs with the extra inventory after the unique order is made for comedian shops. I do not know many readers who go to a comic book writer web sites to order comics and subscription bins can solely achieve this a lot. Yes, there have been some wild miscommunications and lengthy durations of time with out solutions. I do not know what the repair is, however I hope to work with the writer to search out it. With the commerce of Death Comes for the Toymaker already completed with pre-orders, I’ve to stay it via. I utterly perceive everybody’s frustrations and assist anybody’s determination to get out of their contracts and transfer on. I simply hope that readers perceive that a few of us should not have that possibility. And I hope Death Comes for the Toymaker continues to search out its viewers.

Sh-tshow

Adam Barnhardt of Sh-tshow at Scout Comics added “I’ll double down on the idea that transparency is non-existent and there’s little to no structure or communication. Person A tells you to contact Person B, who tells you to contact Person C, who won’t respond to emails or messages. For the record, I don’t believe I’m owed any money—because that’s what the statements I have received tell me. But that has been a chore in and of itself. Though both my deals say royalty statements are to be sent semi-annually, I didn’t receive a single one in 2023. In fact, since the first deal was signed in 2019, I’ve only received three rounds of royalty statements, with two of the three only coming after months of consistent inquiring. Then there were some question marks—printings of new editions that pushed the account into the red. New editions or packagings that weren’t sent to me—the sole copyright holder—for approval. Editions that weren’t marketed in the slightest. I didn’t know they even existed or were available for purchase until I got the royalty statements. It’s extremely evident that signing titles with potential for film and television is the primary focus of the company—the one with Comics in its name.” As to what would make it proper, he informed Bleeding Cool. “I just want the contracts canceled and the rights back—both for comics and film/TV.”

Cult Of Ikarus

Karl Slominski of Cult Of Ikarus informed me”I am currently awaiting termination paperwork from them regarding my next ogn. Once that’s signed, I’ll be as candid as possible.” But till then, he was fairly candid, telling us about

• “CONSTANT delays. Our ebook had a STUNNING debut (we had been informed, one of many highest for the corporate) and situation one SOLD OUT- nonetheless, we had been NEVER TOLD till visiting our LCS and the proprietor got here out to congratulate us primarily based on the Diamond website. (it had additionally bought out by way of Lunar, apparently- not like anybody would inform us). The determination got here down (roughly a month later) to go to second print- printing prices that got here out of OUR PROFITS.
• “NOBODY. ANSWERED. EMAILS. After the departure of Charlie Stickney (literally, the only person at the company that “cared” about indie creator relations), it took weeks. MONTHS. To get a response from anyone outside of our editorial- which, while considerate, had ZERO editorial experience. This included questioning my writer’s (a Hollywood screenwriter) pacing. This level of condescending behavior permeated Scout’s “editorial” via our tenure.
• “Issue one was late. Issue 2 was 4 months late. Issues 3 & 4 got here out the identical week. Nuff stated.
• “Our trade was backpedaled/cancelled due to “low preorders” regardless of different titles that faired lower than ours had been fast-tracked to capitalize on momentum.
• “PAYMENT structuring was modified, regardless of particular wording in our contracts that we would obtain updates semi-annually, they despatched them yearly. And months late. I did not attend Harvard, however an oversight corresponding to this CLEARLY places them in breach of contract for… i dunno, ALL of their books if these practices are carried throughout the board.
• “Their “PRESSWORKS” collection on their webstore (https://www.scoutcomics.com/collections/scout-pressworks) once described by their higher ups as “raiding the trash” is actually framed CMYK print plates of pages of artwork from choose Scout titles. Cutting into the unique artwork market that freelance illustrators make a 3rd of their earnings from. I actually noticed somebody purchase a presswork web page of my unique artwork for 3x what they may’ve gotten the unique ink on paper for. F-ck, if I solely had a body and a few hack emblem to slap on my originals.
• “Based on the faith instilled by their FORMER heads of operation (this company has had more turnaround than I’ve EVER seen in my 20 years in indie comics and that’s only in 5 years), I signed a deal with them to publish my modestly-funded all ages OGN. As b&w manga-style book, it was met with disapproval, pleas for a “coloured model” (out of my pocket? in COMICS?), and inevitably sitting on the ebook for over 4 years after signing stated contract. While I used to be assured by the CEO that publishing delays do occur– oh, wait, have we talked about that the ceo writes youngsters comics for MARVEL?!
• “While we should acknowledge the company started out with the best intentions, they’ve rapidly devolved to being a product of the disposable cynicism generated by a post-film-to-comics machine. They treat the books they pick up as SPRAY AND PRAY IP, hoping to sell the material for film/tv while not giving the proper attention to the source material they help produce. There are DOZENS of creators effected by this.”

Provenance Of Madness

Kiyarn Taghan of Provenance Of Madness at Scout Comics gave me an extended response initially, as did his co-creator Christian DiBari of Provenance Of Madness, Rad Wraith and Electric Black. However after a backwards and forwards, between the pair, and Scout Comics, Yaghan truncated it to the next; “We asked to be released from our contracts after multiple incidents that made it clear to us that Scout weren’t going to push or promote our titles. They refused to terminate the contract unless we paid for all of our remaining stock which we were told would be somewhere between $32.5k to $75k when we said we would not buy our stock of them they would see the contract out. In the meantime they took our comics off the webstore and stopped taking our products to conventions. So they actively supressed our products in an incredibly petty way as though it would teach us a lesson.”

Atlantis Is Not For Tourists

Eric Palicki of Atlantis Is Not For Tourists at Scout did not make any particular remark. He simply gave his full sequence away free of charge as a PDF, saying “Here is a complete graphic novel for you to read. Free. For reasons.”

New Rat City

Honor Vincent of New Rat City from Scout informed me “I signed on with Scout in August of 2021, with a publishing and multimedia agreement for New Rat City. Like other Scout creators I funded the book out of my own savings and crowdfunding. I was excited about the agreement at the outset: it was validating, and I was thrilled to have a publisher behind me to help market the book and get it into Previews. The latter happened, but not the former. I quickly found that communication was spotty and getting worse; release dates were never communicated to me, marketing plans were excitedly floated and then never happened, and my book was never on their table at cons. Issue #1 of my book sold almost 2,000 copies via Scout, with no promotion from their end and very little (because I didn’t know it was being released until the day of the FOC!) on mine. My royalties from that and some reported WhatNot sales were about $80. At this stage, all I want (and what I want for other creators) are my rights to the book back – they aren’t using them, and to tie them up without the ability to publish the book is terrible and demoralizing. I also want a better industry and better publishing agreements. Publishers are seen as validation by creators, especially newer ones, and they are also the easiest way to get wide distribution for your work through Lunar and Diamond. We’ve seen in multiple cases that they can – through incompetence or shadiness – take advantage of creators because of this. (And there are also wonderful publishers out there!). There’s a fear of reprisal that comes into play too, which is awful: if you’ve had something like this happen I hope you aren’t afraid to speak up. The one silver lining and wonderful thing about the present is that it’s easier than ever to A. crowdfund a book and B. talk about issues like this openly.”

A Haunting On Mars

Zach Chapman of A Haunting On Mars from Scout Comics gave me lots, saying “A Haunting on Mars has been fully complete since this time last year. All five issues are fully drawn, colored and lettered. It’s essentially been ready to print for over a year now. Scout offers no advances, and a 50/50% split (AFTER they make back their printrun). They also want a cut from any TV/Film option deals, something that an agent might get, despite NOT being an agent or TV/Film producer. So signing this document and agreeing to work with Scout was already probably a poor choice on my part. But the other publishers who were interested in A Haunting on Mars were smaller, and I wanted the largest distribution for my project.”

“It starts with a botched press release (which is the only ‘marketing’ they do for the book). They just copy and pasted the entire synopsis from my pitch materials to create what they sent to the comics press sites. This includes major spoilers, character deaths and the details of the finale… in the press release for the series. I freaked out and asked them to have those taken down and they told me it would be fine, that spoilers only mattered for ongoing series like Batman and Superman. Not really knowing how to respond to that brick wall, I started contacting press sites myself with an updated press release and arc. I discovered a few things here: 1) something happened a year ago where they stopped sending many sites press releases (see Rik’s email response to my press release back in September): “Zach I used to get weekly press releases from Scout. But that stopped a yr in the past RIK OFFENBERGER | Editor-in-Chief FIRST COMICS NEWS” And 2) they don’t send out any arcs. Which doesn’t instill any confidence in their books. I had to send out a ton of arcs to comics press myself to get any reviews.”

“They asked me if I had any ideas about variants, that all issues needed variant covers. So I went out and commissioned covers for every issue out of my own pocket. Meanwhile, my emails about #1’s release go unanswered and I ask my local comic shop if I’m in previews yet. And they say, yeah here’s A Haunting on Mars right here and show me the cover A and cover B variants. They hired their homie to do the main cover and pushed Ruairi Coleman’s (the co-creator) to B variant. I was immediately upset since the co-creator should have the main cover–not to mention that Hugo’s cover (while very cool) is too graphically gorey to be shelved at some shops. I brought these concerns up to Scout. 1) that I hadn’t even known about this cover until it was in previews and 2) that it’s the main cover instead of the co-creators and they just said well you signed this contract that says we get to pick your covers and we know best, and look you’ve got over 2k orders so we were right. So outside of a spot in Previews and their botched press release, there was zero marketing for my book outside of what Ruairi and I did.”

Now I talked to Scout, and in addition to the opposite responses above, they needed to state that Zack did know that Hugo was going to be doing the quilt in query, and shared e-mails that confirmed he gave course to that finish. Zack clarified to me that “I did not approve anyone as a main cover. I sent over some instructions and ideas on directions for a variant… I do love Hugo’s work and that cover but that’s a creative decision to make it the main cover. Especially considering I’d commissioned five other variants. And trust me, I found out about the cover when I asked my LCS if I was in their system to pre-order”

Zach continued, “So for the issue 2’s Lunar and Diamond preview text they used a different book Howie the Hell Hound’s issue 2 ad text. When I brought this up to them and asked them to fix it, they blamed Lunar. Then the day before release I see that on my Comics Geek’s app the release has been pushed back by a month. They didn’t have the decency to let me know that they’d delayed the book by a month and when I inquired, they gave no reason as to its delay. Then the book gets delayed again and again. And when I ask, they make vague mentions of investors and NDAs, etc.”

“A Haunting on Mars sold around 2500 copies. They sent me a royalty statement of $48. I still have not received a check or anything. How that breaks down is: they ordered 5500 of my books. An insanely large print run considering the order numbers of #1. And in the contract they make it to where you have to earn back your print run on sales before they split revenue with you (still keep in mind they’ve paid nothing for the art or labor that went into this book). My book made back its entire comically large print run order, and now I’m left with a statement for $48. I’d just like Scout to either release our books–trade paper backs, issues or whatever. Or if they can’t due to funding issues, then they need to stop holding our creations hostage and let us take our books somewhere else. These comics are our hopes and dreams and Scout’s bloated corpse of a publishing company is just sitting on them.”

Blood Run, Forever Maps & Beyond The Beyond

But amongst all this (and extra to come back) there have been dissenting voices. Evan Ok Pozios of Blood Run at Scout, who informed me, “I noticed the unfortunate Twitter drama today involving Scout. For what it’s worth, I could not think of a more hard-working, professional, and transparent publisher than Scout Comics. Their EIC is a convention warrior with a heart of gold, promoting other creators’ works at every opportunity. Their CEO personally welcomed me to the fold, even though I only signed a ONE SHOT with them. They think out of the box in terms of maximizing creator revenue and exposure, while signing IPs to well-respected studio deals. I could not be more proud to be associated with Scout Comics, now, and in the future.”

Michael Lagacé also posted “I’m nonetheless completely happy that The Forever Maps is with @ScoutComics. They stated sure when a bunch of publishers did not, and I would not have been capable of get it out to market on the identical stage alone.

And Christian Tropeano, author of Beyond The Beyond at Scout shared a letter he had despatched to his editor on account of the opposite accounts.

“Hey Andrea, Just wanted to let you know that I really appreciate everything you and Scout have done for me as a creator. I truly enjoyed editing my comic with you and cherish the invaluable insight you provided. If it wasn’t for Scout I would have no writing career. No other publisher gave me a chance. My dreams would’ve been dead years ago. Without Scout, I wouldn’t have had my work in printed in high-quality color, and sold in shops across the country. I also wouldn’t have had my work sold at conventions far from home, or learned how to pitch my work to a live stream audience. Scout has provided a voice to people who otherwise would have none. First-time creators are having their graphic novels distributed through Simon and Schuster. It’s an incredibly lucky position to be in. Running a small business is tough, let alone in the shrinking comics industry. really believe we can move past this bump on the road. Here’s hoping that we can all hangout at a convention soon!”

Back To All The Devils From Here

And after the Scout Comics preliminary assertion, Jarred Luján who had kicked this all off quote tweeted rather than replied “How was it an internal miscommunication when your CEO, COO, Publisher, and President were all in the same email chain across six months? I respect that Scout is taking “accountability” despite not apologizing for how disrespectful and unprofessional they’ve been to us, or how often they ignored our emails, or how we are on contact #6 now in a course of one year, but I don’t need to be pissed on and told its rain. Out of respect for Lesa and our negotiations, I will not delve further into this statement and how much I detest it. But anyone who thinks I can’t prove every word I’ve said is wrong.”

Kiyarn Taghan wrote “Where was this accountability when we repeatedly asked for details and figures and were instead greeted with anger. Denied a contract termination unless we paid 75k for the huge overprint we didn’t ask for. This is a company full of grifters, don’t believe a word of this at all.” and he informed Bleeding Cool, “I went to see the comments on the Facebook page and saw that me, Christian and others have been blocked from the page, so they’re actively blocking creators too. Not a fantastic look.”

Christian DiBari of Provenance Of Madness, Rad Wraith and Electric Black added “Wow, so brave – I’ve got an idea, instead of this poor excuse for communicating, how about you guys return our rights back to the books WE created instead of holding them hostage?!”

Adam Barnhardt wrote “I’ve officially requested the rights back to both SH*TSHOW and Keepers of the Cosmos.”

Louis Southard wrote “I’ve inquired to terminate my contract for MIDNIGHT WESTERN THEATRE.” He additionally posted a hypothetical account of what might need gone down., together with the paragraph, “Imagine having your book scheduled for one week, and then having it delayed for weeks or months or on indefinite hiatus. The worst part is that you’d be lucky if they even told you when it would be released. They certainly won’t tell you if it’s delayed. In some cases, the hypothetical Ranger will sporadically release the book ahead of time on their webstore. They claim it’s their right. So, what of the comic book stores purchasing their books? Where is the incentive to keep supporting this publisher if the publisher is their direct competitor for new books that don’t even show up when they’re supposed to.”

While 5 Meats Comics of Mashbone & Grifty at Scout Comics replied “Scout Comics’ post makes @jarredlujan ‘s problem sound like an isolated incident but its business as usual. We got nothing but broken promises followed by radio silence from Scout AND their imprint.”

So, lots of claims from lots of offended and pissed off individuals. Scout Comics has made some agency commitments to sort out these points, and Bleeding Cool intends to observe this up with these named creators, those that stay nameless, and people who haven’t but come ahead.

I had additionally been informed that some creators have been knowledgeable that Scout Comics is anticipating a serious funding to announce imminently, which could assist type out any present monetary pressures. This seems to be the Element Media Global announcement, however it does appear that communication points are much more vital proper now. I thank each the comedian creators named and unnamed, and the executives of Scout Comics, for talking so candidly as they felt they had been ready, with me.

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