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What Happened....
On the trip I mentioned I stopped at a roadside store to buy a soda and when I brought me purchase up to the clerk I said: "How are you doing?" She said: "It's cold." It was a beautiful early Fall day, probably 50 degrees. She must have thought I was asking about her entire life. I've never...- MikeKardec
- Post #399
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Men's Adventure Magazines
That stuff is pretty cool. I have a friend who's business uses printing equipment like that to do templates for the wood, fiberglass and metal pieces they use for making RVs, occasionally they'll do an ad wrap on a promotional vehicle. My buddy comes in at night (he owns the company) and uses...- MikeKardec
- Post #82
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What are you Writing?
From some notes I made when teaching a class at Colorado College (these are interesting but I'm not sure I'd deal with the subject the same way today): The Writer’s Contract with the Audience – The audience has a real life that they are living. That is the subject that is important to them...- MikeKardec
- Post #294
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What Happened....
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- Post #392
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
Random thoughts: It's a kind of a pulp convention to have a character who is being aggressive use the other character's name a lot. Sort of like the aggressive character is "accusing" the other person of being called that. It's hard to describe but I've seen it a lot. Of course a con man...- MikeKardec
- Post #391
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
And I thought it was fun that was supposed to be miserable!- MikeKardec
- Post #372
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Happened....
I got a bit of a laugh out of this. For part of my youth I lived not far from the Big Reservation, the Navajo Reservation. To the older Navajos, if you used their name while talking to them it was considered odd or slightly insulting ... a name was what you called someone when they weren't...- MikeKardec
- Post #371
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Men's Adventure Magazines
It's no wonder some of the comic book artists had some rather odd, or self entertaining, interests. The work load for most of them was insane, they virtually never got away from their work tables. I know of one old guy who drew so much, worked such long hours over the years, that he completely...- MikeKardec
- Post #79
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Hoboes, homeless and such during WW2?
My father was an occasional hobo between the year of this painting (1924) until the early 1930s. Like many others he was in his teens and twenties at the time. Here's a couple of his quotes on the subject - "For years there had been a surplus of labor in the United States, but it was largely...- MikeKardec
- Post #23
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What are you Writing?
It's a mixed bag ... and a shame because we were completely ready to go. But we're still fighting over not so minor details about the overall relationship rather than publication of the books themselves. The problem is if we went ahead without having everything finished we'd lose all our...- MikeKardec
- Post #293
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Hoboes, homeless and such during WW2?
I agree, there was likely a sort of domino effect where men entering military service left open jobs that were taken by the previously chronically unemployed, that is not to say that the chronically unemployed were all that good at their jobs but many didn't need to be. We know that as younger...- MikeKardec
- Post #8
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What are you Writing?
It turns out I will NOT have a book coming out this fall. The contracts STILL aren't done and the long-lead promotion opportunities need four months to come into play. I can't say I'm too disappointed. I was very nervous about the lack of bandwidth the election is causing and that will only...- MikeKardec
- Post #289
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What are you Writing?
The contract probably won't be complete gibberish, I doubt you'll have much trouble if you have to go through it on your own or with an editor from RH ... but digital contracts are different from one and other and it's good to know the differences between them. Gold Medal was the granddaddy of...- MikeKardec
- Post #288
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What are you Writing?
Go for it! But be sure you read the Alibi contract carefully. It is a LOT better than it used to be but it still does not pay the up to 70% royalty that Kindle does ... they do offer better service and it doesn't contain that wacky, 'we can change our terms' clause that Kindle had the last...- MikeKardec
- Post #286
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Indiana Jones V
You are totally right, among many other book sales related things I have a website that exclusively sells the Star Wars books ... sorting the new version of canon and making it clear to customers was a giant pain. When I mentioned YIJ I just meant that there were a number of ways of dealing...- MikeKardec
- Post #95
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Indiana Jones V
Just for the record: Indy has been done to death in the form of Young Indiana Jones. I never particularly liked that show but there's actually more in the Indy library than there is in Star Wars.- MikeKardec
- Post #93
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Men's Adventure Magazines
The real shocker in my experience was while researching Helmet & Dress or Heavy Gear diving I discovered that there is some tangential aspect of gay culture that seems to fetishize copper helmets and rubberized or oiled canvas diving suits. I hope there are recreational versions of this gear...- MikeKardec
- Post #42
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Men's Adventure Magazines
The scary answer: everything. Playboy was actually one of the best fiction markets in the 60s and 70s. They didn't publish enough material so that an author really had a chance writing something for them but, if you had a short story and you were a major author or it was a great story, that...- MikeKardec
- Post #41
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What are you Writing?
Benz, that's excellent! I find it kind of disturbing that not only do I tend to get a charge out of a sale but it releases additional creativity that was lurking somewhere. I always wonder where it came from and why I didn't have it at my finger tips EARLIER! Congratulations!- MikeKardec
- Post #283
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Men's Adventure Magazines
Thanks for posting these. You got me doing some research and I'll have to amend my theory a bit; it seems the straight adventure didn't morph, it died away leaving only it's creepy cousin to lumber on through to the early 1960s. I notice in one of the sources that Ten Story Book is mentioned...- MikeKardec
- Post #36
- Forum: The Golden Era
