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Name: Kody Chamberlain
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I understand that some of you read Rich Johnston's rumor column a few years ago about what happened with PBM and you took it as fact. The truth is that I was NOT getting paid on PBM, it was supposed to be a back-end deal based on the books profits. I was paid to do the covers, but I got little to no money on pages being drawn. The book sold very poorly, and at some point I realized there were probably no profits coming my way. And no, I didn't get any movie option money, the writer is the owner of the property, not me. Any movie money goes to him.
My wife was seriously ill for about 5 months with what doctors think may have been a first episode of MS. She couldn't work and I had to slow down a whole lot on PBM to take on some paying work with other publishers. Life priorities took over comic book priorities and I knew that decision would cause some grief. And it did. Eventually we were far enough behind on PBM that the book was canceled.
So yes, the cancelation is my fault because I took major amounts of time away from PBM to do some paid jobs, but my decision had absolutely nothing to do with any film pitch or film option cash. My decision was based on my family and our welfare.
I have no beef with Rich because he CLEARLY marked his rumor column as "rumor," and he often speculates about what's going on, but he often jumps to conclusions based on limited info. Please use more caution when you read something like that, and you'd probably be better served to avoid insulting creators and/or their work based on rumors you've read on someone's website.
I got a couple new covers up here for my new Image series, have a look:
http://kodychamberlain.blogspot.com/
Wow, hey, thanks for the great review!
But more importantly, thanks for taking a chance on a new, and unproven book.