Well for once procrastination worked in my favour.
I had received a letter from the Zia lady about a month ago in which she said a few things that looked like she hadn't read my letter or seen the attachment. She also requested a formal request. Well as we know, instead of waiting and dealing with all this, I just made my own sun symbol. I kept putting off writing her back and telling her I had decided to go with something of my own to avoid controversy.
So we had no further contact. Until today. In part:
...We have received your letter requesting permission to use the Zia Sun Symbol on your comic. On behalf of the people of Zia, the religious leaders of Zia, and Governor Jerome Lucero, thank you for asking permission to use our Zia Sun Symbol. We appreciate the respect you have given us by asking for permission before using the Zia Sun. The Zia Sun Symbol is one of our most sacred religious symbol and we don’t approve all requests. Your anticipated use appears to be one of respect and it is a beautiful design...
Really? Cool!
So they ask for a donation of any amount and they will send me an authorization letter saying I am free to use it.
It looks like someone actually read what I said and saw the art.
The best part will be when the Self-Righteous Brigade comes down on me and I can say, "Fuck you! I have a LICENSE, motherfucker! Hah! Didn't expect THAT, did you!"
That's a lot of work! Really nice job! I wouldn't have put that much detail in the background but that's more of your thing than mine.
It IS a lot of work but on the other hand, not as much as it looks like because of all the Photoshop cheats. For instance, I lifted a couple of ferns from the Lionman and copied and pasted so I didn't draw a single one of those for this. Also the stippling you see is a brush set on "Scatter". And a lot of that far background stuff and ground clutter is what Comic Legend John Byrne refers to as "argle-bargle".
Honestly, what took as long was the !$#@%$#& anatomy.
I'm sure if this was under some sort of deadline, though, I wouldn't have put that much into the background either. But you're right; I can't really help myself.
And apparently, it wasn't as much months as I thought. Because for some reason, while I got the email saying they'd received the submission and acceptance, none of the other emails came thru. I had to end up using the wife's email. On that June 23 up there, the stoopid thing had already been up since May 25th. Only cause I went and looked did I find out.
So from February 28th to May 25th is, I'm given to understand, just about as fast as it goes. There was no trouble with the files so that helped.
I'm now trying to get on at Indyplanet but before you do that you have to go thru Ka-Blam and part of that process is ordering a hard copy for proof purposes. Will let y'all know when that gets here sometime next week. Thanks for all the support.
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