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November 3, 2015 2:21 PM Subscribe
C. Spike Trotman (previously, previouslier) went from teen comics geek to porn anthologist and crowdfunded comics publishing guru. But that’s only part of the story - as told awesomely at this year’s XOXO.
(via MeFi's own waxpancake.)
(via MeFi's own waxpancake.)
Yeah, she's straight up awesome sauce, and I've been following her on Twitter since I had an account. I can always tell when she's saying something I need to listen to:
It stings.
posted by Mooski at 3:49 PM on November 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
It stings.
posted by Mooski at 3:49 PM on November 3, 2015 [2 favorites]
Wow, yeah so this is kind of coincidence because I just started digging into these XOXO videos, so I watched it not cuz of this post. And I had never heard of Spike Trotman at all, and I'm not really a comics reader, but that talk is fantastic and inspirational.
posted by dnash at 7:19 PM on November 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by dnash at 7:19 PM on November 3, 2015 [1 favorite]
Spike has been doing everything she can to make the webcomics world a better place for quite a while.
posted by jefflowrey at 5:34 AM on November 4, 2015
posted by jefflowrey at 5:34 AM on November 4, 2015
As one of the founding editors of Smut Peddler, I have a love-hate relationship with it. I love it because I helped publish it for three volumes way back in the day, back when it was a flip-book 'zine. Sending out the call for submissions, curating the submissions, keeping track of all the art, working with Carla Speed McNeil and Sean Bieri to put the book together and get the covers printed. I loved all of that.
I hate it because for over a decade, I spent way too much time trying to become solvent enough to revive the publication after I fell into a depression after my friend Kelly died in 2005 and didn't have enough money to pay contributors the way Spike is able to now because I was trying to get out of debt and improve my financial situation. And then Spike took the ball and ran away with it after I was a submissions editor for volume 4, and I'm in a better financial place, but still not good enough and....
The marketplace is big enough for two crowdfunded sex-positive, female-friendly porn anthologies, right?
posted by TrishaLynn at 6:05 AM on November 4, 2015 [2 favorites]
I hate it because for over a decade, I spent way too much time trying to become solvent enough to revive the publication after I fell into a depression after my friend Kelly died in 2005 and didn't have enough money to pay contributors the way Spike is able to now because I was trying to get out of debt and improve my financial situation. And then Spike took the ball and ran away with it after I was a submissions editor for volume 4, and I'm in a better financial place, but still not good enough and....
The marketplace is big enough for two crowdfunded sex-positive, female-friendly porn anthologies, right?
posted by TrishaLynn at 6:05 AM on November 4, 2015 [2 favorites]
I love that Spike has been such a success. I hate that it means less time for Templar, Arizona, which is on semi-permanent hiatus now.
posted by enjoymoreradio at 6:56 PM on November 4, 2015
posted by enjoymoreradio at 6:56 PM on November 4, 2015
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Also well worth following on Twitter.
posted by Artw at 3:35 PM on November 3, 2015 [5 favorites]