Grievance? Haha. Nope. I think I’ve made my “grievance” very (embarrassingly) clear. So thanks for the email address, but as you know, since we used to email each other practically everyday, I am fully aware of how to contact you. I would also extend the same offer to you the next you feel the need to hide behind a screen-name and criticize me in public. I would post my email address here as well but I don’t feel the need to make such so bold, a passive-aggressive statement.

Best wishes!
Brian

if you believe you have a grievance with me, please feel free to bring it to my attention directly. my email is stseanoftheknife@austin.rr.com or my AIM is stseanoftheknife.

thanks!

sean

So I would find it unfortunate for all parties if there’ve been bad incidents between you and Sean. As part of my ongoing effort to transform the cynical part of me, I can only hope there’ll be an opportunity to put the past to rest, and I know that’s between you and he.

Maybe if/ when my story is finished you might be interested in giving me your thoughts, especially if any or all of it doesn’t work for you. At least it would provide the chance to see it through another person’s eyes and come away with a better understanding of the work, and potentially the audience. The worst comment there can be in my opinion is “it’s interesting”.

Thanks for responding and for the comments aimed at me.

The way you chose to express your thoughts does perplex me. To each their own. Personally, I think there is more than enough room for writers of every stripe to work with an artist to present comics. The medium needs diversity, just as the LGBT community as a whole is diverse. Heck, the entire world. I don’t get a lot of yaoi though it’s extremely popular here and in Japan. It doesn’t stop me from enjoying some yaoi. One day soon I hope to finish my own little comic and present it in some fashion. Before I even started I accepted that its appeal would likely be very narrow, but I’m doing it for myself and the story because I haven’t seen anything exactly like it available in this country. I think part of the answer to the “what is the price of a writer” question I asked Sean is to have one’s work put out for public consumption and either to have it ignored or disparaged for various reasons. Which is not to say I think people can’t find faults with a work. It will hurt if people trash my (future) work, but I can hope that it will be done as constructive criticism that I can take to heart and grow. That’s one of the purposes of a critique that I learned while at Chicago’s Art Institute, my alma mater. But the internet is rarely conducive to that kind of discussion.

I’m sorry that I’ve not yet re-published my review of the first issue of SSD on this new version of Gayleague. It wasn’t a slight to the work, just that I’ve not quite decided on the best format to re-present older reviews. I will try to correct this though.

BTW, there seems to be some straight porn spam on your Friendster profile
http://profiles.friendster.com/1296451

Again, your stopping by is appreciated!

Joe

Asking with sincerity here, would you mind sharing some of your favorite writers?

Joe