http://www.samcostello.net Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:57:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I write a lot of taglines. Many, many more than ever see the light of day, as you might expect. To get to a suite of 3-4 taglines that get presented to a client, I write anywhere from 20-35 taglines. As a result, I spent a decent amount of my ... http://www.samcostello.net/2008/09/06/when-taglines-attack/ Remember those submissions I mentioned a little while back? Well, count at least one of them as a success. I've sold my first ever comic script (I've published a bunch, but no one paid me for them). Sometime in the future (not sure when yet), I'll have an 8-page story ... http://www.samcostello.net/2008/09/04/submission-success/ By Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra The final collection of the five-year series about a gender plague that leaves only one man alive on the planet. A great, though slightly hurried, wrap up to a great series, with one of the most effective slow motion (or, for the comics fan, ... http://www.samcostello.net/2008/09/02/y-the-last-man-vol-10-whys-and-wherefores/ I haven’t done as good a job as I might have keeping up with listing the clients I’m working with these days, so here’s a summary post. I’ve been doing a ton of work with Schwadesign – which is great, because they’re awesome and their clients are awesome – for ... http://www.samcostello.net/2008/08/29/new-clients-with-schwadesign/ Funny, profane, repetitive, shocking, heartbreaking. All of what I remembered this collection to be. While it bogs down under repetition of themes and purposeless stories about drinking or being cranky, “Animal Crackers in my Soup” is one of my favorite short stories, a great horror tale, and a strong shot ... http://www.samcostello.net/2008/08/26/tales-of-ordinary-madness-by-charles-bukowski/ Just a little hint of things to come: Sometime before the end of 2008, I’m going to be redesigning this site and turning it into something more useful and better looking. This site has served me well for a few years, but it’s time to upgrade. I know the look ... http://www.samcostello.net/2008/08/23/redesign-coming/ The third volume of these brutal slice-of-life comics from Japan circa 1969-72. Nothing like the popular image of manga, and full of frank and shocking sex and violence. Very few other comics creators approach short comics this way – like literary fiction. This is the last planned collection; I hope ... http://www.samcostello.net/2008/08/19/good-bye-by-yoshihiro-tatsumi/ I mentioned back in June that I’d put some book and comics submissions out into the world. No word on some yet, a few rejections on others. Still, the dude abides. As of now, I’ve got a short comic script in with the editor of an established publisher and am about ... http://www.samcostello.net/2008/08/16/even-more-submissions/ A terrific high-concept – five friends wake up after a night of hard partying to find a sixth friend who they all remember, but was never there before – undermined by a weird plot about secret government weapons and a heroine who is entirely unlikeable and unredeemed. Too bad; I ... http://www.samcostello.net/2008/08/14/faker-by-mike-carey-and-jock/ A bruising collection of short stories that will ring unpleasantly true for anyone who’s lived very long in rural New England. Though some of the stories are a little slow, the best ones punch you in the face and then curse at you with a Maine accent. Which is a ... http://www.samcostello.net/2008/08/10/why-the-devil-chose-new-england-for-his-work-by-jason-brown/