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Why The System Hates Dick Dale

April 09th, 2007 | Category: Inspiration, Educational, Video



The video comes via Cartoon Brew, via Boing-Boing, via Tommy Liberto.

Parts of this will be turned into Mantra.

8 Comments so far

  1. Blair kitchen April 9th, 2007 10:23 pm

    I love this clip. I have watched it a dozen times on Cartoon Brew, and now here, and everytime I do, I feel good about what we are doing with our comics. It’s easy to question when you are losing money at first, but if you stick it out and put in the hard work, you will benefit way more in the long run. Dick Dale is a wise man.

  2. M Kitchen April 10th, 2007 8:29 am

    Yes he is. Matt Campbell would be wise to heed Dick Dale’s sage advice.

  3. Matt Campbell April 10th, 2007 8:46 am

    lol, when I watched this all i could think was, ‘Awesome, Mike Kitchen would be wise to heed Dick Dale’s sage advice!’ I more took away that this guy has a strong business plan to make money; To use the system, not ‘fuck it.’

    I love how his answer to the question was not “Believe in yourself” or some equally anesthetizing soliloquy.

  4. M Kitchen April 10th, 2007 9:06 am

    LOL. So, does that mean we were saying the same thing?
    Damn.

    I’m all for the business plan to make money.  I think that is smart.  Where I think Dick Dale veers from your stance last topic is that he is saying to make the CDs (re: Comics) yourself and sell them out of your trunk, and he is saying do NOT get a corporate investor to make the CDs for you.  And then when Mountain Dew wants to use your song (re: Comics) in their commercial, then you get to cash in without corporate investors pillaging your profit.

  5. Matt Campbell April 10th, 2007 9:20 am

    This is where my rant starts with “Online is the new trunk.” But that’s just arguing the semantics of an analogy. Being an artist hired to make someone else rich is dumb, you should fight to get away from that every chance you get.

    Since last week, you’ve convinced me that a graphic novel or comic is an excellent promotional tool to launch an IP.

  6. M Kitchen April 10th, 2007 9:28 am

    What’s an IP?

  7. Matt Campbell April 10th, 2007 9:33 am

    Intellectual property

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property

    It’s a big stuffy lawyer term for, “Mine, not yours”

  8. M Kitchen April 10th, 2007 9:34 am

    Ah. Gotcha.

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