Publication Schedule Quotes

Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're working on chapter three of your masterwork, chapter one is already in print. You can't go back and suddenly decide to make this character a woman, or have this one fall out of a window.

It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.

I think there's a responsibility of the publisher, of the company, to make sure the staple books that have been around for decades come out in a timely manner.

Having set its tonal template, Vertigo Crime laid low for a few months before starting in earnest at the beginning of 2010.

You do not give a great biographer a timetable. You let them do their work and, in due course, publish it.

For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.

National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.

It's very rare that publications double their frequency.

I don't want to wait more than a year and a half or two years between books.

What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

I am due at the page.