In the '90's I lived on the same block as the vice president of king features. He liked my work andt gave this advice. Every year they get more than 3,000 submissions for 25 spots in the papers. Editors buy packages so they don't have to deal with individual artists. The target audience is a seventh grade mentality and potential for after-marketing deals is desirable. Like Dilbert and office supplies. My panel was not fitting the 7th grade mentality, so I struck out on my own. My typical rejection letter mentioned 7th grade minds. Usually editors hand wrote a similar comment like, " Our readers have 7th grade minds and though I like your fresh ideas but I don't know what to do with them. Our whole office also likes them, have copied, enlarged them and have them all over their cubicles." I was confused. If their whole office was willing to (illegally) copy and decorate their offices shouldn't that indicate there was an audience ready for them? Though I picked up 35 papers in the Midwest it wasn't enough to pay the bills. Now I've just finished a book about inner deepening and knowing is better than believing. Faith based -ism 'believers probably won't like I claim there is a neglected path other than studying fragments of ancient hearsay. Though I embedded the deep knowledge to blend into a fictional tale I expect there will be push-back, so at the base of my porch I have a bin with a sign, 'Please leave pitchforks, torches and beheading axes here before entering.' I hope it may help make a better world. I titled is 'I Am is Inside Out'. I located it on Amazon in the book category.
What I can't believe I found somebody on this topic. I sent a comic strip to United media and I couldn't stand Carol Gerschwitz Or Jake Morrissey. It's funny how a jake Morrisey declined on my idea but stole some things out of my drawings. Oh yeah and then he quit the job and went to a new one. I still have the letter to this day. Very brief letter telling me my stuff was an artwork. If it wasn't artwork why don't you take some things out of my SketchBook. Telling me it was in a bad current form. The stuff they declined on was from my former Art School portfolio. If it wasn't so much as artwork why did I get A and B at the Art School.
If you don't believe me there is an article and business week everything that I sent to Hasbro. Look it up easy ball at Mattel it's a PC ball Mouse. Everything that I sent on the paper with the new idea that look like SpongeBob they took everything off of that paper to for their own advantage. As I mentioned I had an ant comic book. The article mentions about ants rocket ships and stars. Everything that was printed on my paper that I drew. I tried again I wanted to be a comic strip artist. I sent some drawings to United media. Carol Gueshewitz yelled at me like she was going up on an elevator. She scream no Erinn no. I've even been through it with the brokers wanting me to pay them.
When you're syndicated by Uclick- 1. Who owns the copyright of your comic? 2. Do they demand exclusivity? I looked at their submissions guidelines but they don't mention these things. Thanks for the great, informative videos!
Hi John! Depending on the type of contract you get. For online syndication (like me), I obtain all rights to my work. For print, it's a bit different. I believe it's exclusive rights. I know they'd like first dibs on any comic collections, too. Generally though, these days, they're pretty good with you maintaining ownership. Thanks for the question! Nate
@@natefakes9444 Yep. Creators were first to let cartoonists keep copyright, but now all the syndicates do. But they will all go for some kind of exclusivity in usage in print, if you are syndicated in newspapers. My contract has all rights reverting to me at the end of syndication. That's why you will often see strips that have ended their newspaper run being in reruns on GoComics, even if they were with King Features before.
Oh yes Erinn Wharton did all of the work. Maybe I need to pay a visit to New York. Bust up in everybody's office. Find United media on Madison Avenue. Hunt down Mattel and Hasbro. Pay a visit to Viacom or Nickelodeon. shiver with fearr and say Erinn Wharton in the building.
You wouldn't believe me if I told you I created the SpongeBob character. I received my first copyright on a cartoon when I was 18. Of course they delayed the copyright because I had drawings and text and no models . Every time I tried to submit an idea they lie and say they don't like it. Doctor up the idea because I was young there was a lot of things missing. Yes SpongeBob came about by me. In 1997 I was Arts student at AIP. I sent this round and not Square rubber latex mold of what looked like SpongeBob. He had the grin with crooked teeth like him. He had the pop-out eyes of blue. Only thing he didn't have a nose like Pinocchio. I know it was my idea cuz I to Hasbro also had a drawing which was my brainstorm panel that most industrial designers put together. It was a Xerox copy of the idea sort of like a blueprint. I hate to tell you I had to individual smiley red ink faces on the Xerox copy. My character was in yellow mostly on the Xerox copy. What they did was decal the smiley faces on my actual model. I was only 27 years old.
You know I'm telling the truth anytime people were answering telephones and responding to me telling me that it's not my idea. I'm crazy. Oh boy that Dylan King he was messing with me the one that sketches SpongeBob. And oh yeah that Adam Smith head of Viacom. I bet you Darlene horn found out really fast about me. Yes in 1997 I spoke to the world-famous Miss Darlene Horn at the Hasbro company. When I called her and told her that she stole my idea she said she didn't work with Viacom. That's a bunch of Bologna. Well she'll be pissed off when I finish telling the whole world.
And oh yeah Hasbro I still have your letters to for when I sent you that idea. Trust me anyone is reading this I'm not lying. I've been creating since I was 17. They don't want people to beautiful copyrights trademarks are patents because they want to steal people's ideas. Have you pay all this money for lawyers and brokers.
Oh yeah I'm telling the truth this time around before it all goes down. This is my big chance to tell all Mattel and Hasbro toys how they stole from me. They've been stealing to me ever since I was 17. All of them laughing at me on the telephone. To show you how powerful am I always get to speak to them. Oh yeah thousands go in the newspaper not yours.
Oh yeah Jake Morrissey I still have your letter. That is just Jake Morrisey that so-called works for Random House now. Hey Jake why did you quit your job after I sent my idea to you.
The boots does SpongeBob has on his from my Army ant comic book. I had kept the official copyright document and the actual cartoon comic book that I met when I was 18 years old. It really shocked Hasbro that I submitted my cartoon idea from 18 with the new ID at that I created when I was 27. I went to the art school to learn how to make models and prototypes. They actually ran me out of the arts school because they didn't want me to know that by a comment Hasbro and Mattel stole my ideas. I had a 1997 art portfolio. Yes I made Dylan King the sketch artist for SpongeBob Viacom very angry Dylan King told me that you made money off of my idea. He admitted to it. And oh boy Adam Smith the head of Viacom got very pissed off telling me that I'm crazy and I need to go to a mental hospital. Of course I did this one Nick Cannon had issues with Viacom. I contacted Nick Cannon I told him that they do steal and that they're Savages.
Great job explaining the syndicats. Thanks
In the '90's I lived on the same block as the vice president of king features. He liked my work andt gave this advice. Every year they get more than 3,000 submissions for 25 spots in the papers. Editors buy packages so they don't have to deal with individual artists. The target audience is a seventh grade mentality and potential for after-marketing deals is desirable. Like Dilbert and office supplies. My panel was not fitting the 7th grade mentality, so I struck out on my own. My typical rejection letter mentioned 7th grade minds. Usually editors hand wrote a similar comment like, " Our readers have 7th grade minds and though I like your fresh ideas but I don't know what to do with them. Our whole office also likes them, have copied, enlarged them and have them all over their cubicles." I was confused. If their whole office was willing to (illegally) copy and decorate their offices shouldn't that indicate there was an audience ready for them? Though I picked up 35 papers in the Midwest it wasn't enough to pay the bills. Now I've just finished a book about inner deepening and knowing is better than believing. Faith based -ism 'believers probably won't like I claim there is a neglected path other than studying fragments of ancient hearsay. Though I embedded the deep knowledge to blend into a fictional tale I expect there will be push-back, so at the base of my porch I have a bin with a sign, 'Please leave pitchforks, torches and beheading axes here before entering.' I hope it may help make a better world. I titled is 'I Am is Inside Out'. I located it on Amazon in the book category.
What I can't believe I found somebody on this topic. I sent a comic strip to United media and I couldn't stand Carol Gerschwitz Or Jake Morrissey. It's funny how a jake Morrisey declined on my idea but stole some things out of my drawings. Oh yeah and then he quit the job and went to a new one. I still have the letter to this day.
Very brief letter telling me my stuff was an artwork.
If it wasn't artwork why don't you take some things out of my SketchBook. Telling me it was in a bad current form. The stuff they declined on was from my former Art School portfolio. If it wasn't so much as artwork why did I get A and B at the Art School.
If you don't believe me there is an article and business week everything that I sent to Hasbro. Look it up easy ball at Mattel it's a PC ball Mouse. Everything that I sent on the paper with the new idea that look like SpongeBob they took everything off of that paper to for their own advantage. As I mentioned I had an ant comic book. The article mentions about ants rocket ships and stars. Everything that was printed on my paper that I drew. I tried again I wanted to be a comic strip artist. I sent some drawings to United media. Carol Gueshewitz yelled at me like she was going up on an elevator. She scream no Erinn no. I've even been through it with the brokers wanting me to pay them.
When you're syndicated by Uclick-
1. Who owns the copyright of your comic?
2. Do they demand exclusivity?
I looked at their submissions guidelines but they don't mention these things. Thanks for the great, informative videos!
Hi John! Depending on the type of contract you get. For online syndication (like me), I obtain all rights to my work. For print, it's a bit different. I believe it's exclusive rights. I know they'd like first dibs on any comic collections, too. Generally though, these days, they're pretty good with you maintaining ownership.
Thanks for the question!
Nate
@@natefakes9444 Yep. Creators were first to let cartoonists keep copyright, but now all the syndicates do. But they will all go for some kind of exclusivity in usage in print, if you are syndicated in newspapers. My contract has all rights reverting to me at the end of syndication. That's why you will often see strips that have ended their newspaper run being in reruns on GoComics, even if they were with King Features before.
Oh yes Erinn Wharton did all of the work. Maybe I need to pay a visit to New York. Bust up in everybody's office. Find United media on Madison Avenue. Hunt down Mattel and Hasbro. Pay a visit to Viacom or Nickelodeon. shiver with fearr and say Erinn Wharton in the building.
You wouldn't believe me if I told you I created the SpongeBob character. I received my first copyright on a cartoon when I was 18. Of course they delayed the copyright because I had drawings and text and no models . Every time I tried to submit an idea they lie and say they don't like it. Doctor up the idea because I was young there was a lot of things missing. Yes SpongeBob came about by me. In 1997 I was Arts student at AIP. I sent this round and not Square rubber latex mold of what looked like SpongeBob. He had the grin with crooked teeth like him.
He had the pop-out eyes of blue. Only thing he didn't have a nose like Pinocchio. I know it was my idea cuz I to Hasbro also had a drawing which was my brainstorm panel that most industrial designers put together. It was a Xerox copy of the idea sort of like a blueprint. I hate to tell you I had to individual smiley red ink faces on the Xerox copy. My character was in yellow mostly on the Xerox copy. What they did was decal the smiley faces on my actual model. I was only 27 years old.
Oh yeah buddy I know how the business operates.
You know I'm telling the truth anytime people were answering telephones and responding to me telling me that it's not my idea. I'm crazy. Oh boy that Dylan King he was messing with me the one that sketches SpongeBob. And oh yeah that Adam Smith head of Viacom. I bet you Darlene horn found out really fast about me. Yes in 1997 I spoke to the world-famous Miss Darlene Horn at the Hasbro company.
When I called her and told her that she stole my idea she said she didn't work with Viacom.
That's a bunch of Bologna. Well she'll be pissed off when I finish telling the whole world.
Can you be syndicated by more than one company at a time?
And oh yeah Hasbro I still have your letters to for when I sent you that idea. Trust me anyone is reading this I'm not lying. I've been creating since I was 17. They don't want people to beautiful copyrights trademarks are patents because they want to steal people's ideas. Have you pay all this money for lawyers and brokers.
Oh yeah I'm telling the truth this time around before it all goes down. This is my big chance to tell all Mattel and Hasbro toys how they stole from me. They've been stealing to me ever since I was 17. All of them laughing at me on the telephone. To show you how powerful am I always get to speak to them. Oh yeah thousands go in the newspaper not yours.
Oh yeah Jake Morrissey I still have your letter. That is just Jake Morrisey that so-called works for Random House now. Hey Jake why did you quit your job after I sent my idea to you.
The boots does SpongeBob has on his from my Army ant comic book.
I had kept the official copyright document and the actual cartoon comic book that I met when I was 18 years old. It really shocked Hasbro that I submitted my cartoon idea from 18 with the new ID at that I created when I was 27. I went to the art school to learn how to make models and prototypes. They actually ran me out of the arts school because they didn't want me to know that by a comment Hasbro and Mattel stole my ideas. I had a 1997 art portfolio.
Yes I made Dylan King the sketch artist for SpongeBob Viacom very angry Dylan King told me that you made money off of my idea. He admitted to it. And oh boy Adam Smith the head of Viacom got very pissed off telling me that I'm crazy and I need to go to a mental hospital. Of course I did this one Nick Cannon had issues with Viacom. I contacted Nick Cannon I told him that they do steal and that they're Savages.