If you spend any time around independent comics, you’ve probably heard the phrase: “Print it once, print it often.”
Keeping books available for readers — whether through my store or at conventions — is part of of being an indie publisher. In that sense, I’m 100 percent committed.
But revisiting your own work years later is another story entirely.
Time changes how you see things. Looking back at older work, you inevitably notice details you’d handle differently today. Some are small and easy to accept as part of the process. Others make the more experienced version of you itch to make adjustments.
I ran into this recently while revisiting Scab, the two-issue series I created with Steve Niles back in the 1980s. Looking at the updates I made, I realized something interesting: the younger me and the older me actually make a pretty good creative team.
Later this year I’ll be releasing a collected edition of Margo: Intergalactic Trash Collector, bringing together issues #1–3 along with short stories and pinups. It’s a project I’ve been revisiting and refining for several years.
I’ve also been serializing the material over on my sister page. Admittedly, the schedule has been… flexible. But I’ve filed a formal complaint with the circulation department, and the one-man staff assures me the matter is under review.
Keep creating,
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