tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post1461811753465595472..comments2024-03-27T12:09:07.950+00:00Comments on CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: KID KLASSICS - THE MEASURE OF SUCCESS...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-69719841753825681172014-07-29T21:59:03.125+01:002014-07-29T21:59:03.125+01:00Who knows - you may even see his.Who knows - you may even see his.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-9405173449673144642014-07-29T16:56:59.352+01:002014-07-29T16:56:59.352+01:00No, the person who's devoting sizeable chunks ...No, the person who's devoting sizeable chunks of his apparently endlessly rewarding life to slagging me off has nothing to do with comics, thankfully. (Although he does fancy himself as a stand-up comedian, but don't hold your breath waiting for any television exposure - I've seen funnier funerals.)Mr Straightmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15248257907210303372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-54322089141931521982014-07-28T21:32:05.862+01:002014-07-28T21:32:05.862+01:00Would this be the same guy tasked with turning aro...Would this be the same guy tasked with turning around the fortunes of The Dandy - only to half its readership within a few months, leading to its cancellation?<br /><br />Now that's what I call failure.<br /><br />Funnily enough, when these guys were producing their own self-published stuff, they didn't seem to consider themselves failures - so why do they consider others to be?Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-33040595830886981372014-07-28T20:49:37.422+01:002014-07-28T20:49:37.422+01:00Someone on Twitter (naming no names, I'm not g...Someone on Twitter (naming no names, I'm not giving the lanky, pretentious, stuck-up waste of flesh and bone the oxygen of publicity) has accused me of being a failure simply because my underground comics are only read by 'a fraction' of the regular readership Viz enjoys.<br />The logic this irritating ponce employs runs along the following lines... because I draw underground comics, I must immediately be 'in competition' with Viz, and my stuff has fewer readers than Viz, therefore I'm a failure. Hmmm. As it happens, I'm just happy to have found a publisher who likes my stuff well enough to grant it an audience, however large (or indeed small). I try to produce the best possible product which I hope my regular readers (yes, I do have some) will enjoy, and in that respect, I think I'm succeeding. To accuse me of being a failure because I don't have 60,000 readers like Viz? By that token, Viz is also failing, simply because it no longer has the 1.2 million circulation it enjoyed at its peak.<br />Some people have to measure everything by numbers, it seems...Mr Straightmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15248257907210303372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-25494738859299886432014-07-27T01:50:40.637+01:002014-07-27T01:50:40.637+01:00I once knew a total prat of a guy who had once don...I once knew a total prat of a guy who had once done quite well for himself, but had fallen on hard times. He used to regale me with stories of how, when he owned a Porsche, his less-well off mates on the five-a-side football team he played in, used to say what a great bloke he was for mixing with 'ordinary' working guys like them instead of hanging out with better-off people. Even I knew he only did it because people with serious dosh wouldn't have been impressed by his Porsche and his fancy house (they all have them, don't they?), whereas his 'ordinary' pals all envied him. (Which was what he revelled in.) Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-37472929143567170752014-07-27T01:15:19.674+01:002014-07-27T01:15:19.674+01:00I wanted to add something to this discussion becau...I wanted to add something to this discussion because I think it is a very important subject,but i have been lost for the right words.<br />Anyway,I hope this is sufficient for now.<br /><br /><br />I met a guy i was at school with,I had not spoken to him since school,but i greeted him by name and we blethered.<br />In the conversation he told me that a guy we were at school with had moved to america and had become a successful something or other (not important)<br />This guy then went on about how this guy had remembered him from school and he was really moved that he had.<br />i did not have the heart to point out the obvious.baabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07388667792167744260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-19529590137642374632014-07-26T13:58:42.833+01:002014-07-26T13:58:42.833+01:00And what an interesting 'rant' it was, CJ....And what an interesting 'rant' it was, CJ. Keep 'em coming.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-65500974719243617012014-07-26T13:54:51.170+01:002014-07-26T13:54:51.170+01:00A lot of people obsessed with "success" ...A lot of people obsessed with "success" - acquiring consumer goods, "status", "aspiration" and all the rest of it are the ones who have ended up with massive personal debts when it all backfired in the credit crunch. And instead of blaming their own greed they demonise the poor or immigrants or blame politicians for everything - when Gordon Brown said "I've ended boom and bust" I knew perfectly well it was bullsh*t but a lot of these avaricious morons (oops, I mean "aspirational hard working families") believed every word of it because it suited them. And those at the pinnacle of success should remember the poem Ozymandias - "look on thy works and weep" (or whatever it is) - all fame and power is fleeting and they'll be dust one day. That's my rant over, Kid !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-61453932424203890422014-07-26T12:29:12.534+01:002014-07-26T12:29:12.534+01:00The old ones are the best, Moony.
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Success...The old ones are the best, Moony.<br /><br />******<br /><br />Success, to me, seems to be merely an excuse for some people to look down their noses at others who haven't chosen the same career path. There's nothing you've written there, DSE, with which I'd disagree.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-14809793091568337392014-07-26T11:15:33.972+01:002014-07-26T11:15:33.972+01:00I don't really view success as a particular vi...I don't really view success as a particular virtue in itself. That's probably out of step with the current mode of thought, when is seems any dishonesty or malfeasance can be excused as long as those practising are endowed with the status their 'success' has afford 'em. How folk attain their success, or otherwise, is what I consider when appraising people, do they conduct themselves with honour, are they trustworthy? The popular notions of success are asinine too, its tallied by status and possessions, what car you drive, where do you send the misses to get her hair done? Such concerns may be stir the devotion of those eager to advance themselves through association with those considered 'successful' but it has no place for anyone wanting to exercise their own volition. DeadSpiderEyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07687178085803686186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-38609134974230566172014-07-26T07:46:31.362+01:002014-07-26T07:46:31.362+01:00In my opinion nobody succeeds better than a parrot...In my opinion nobody succeeds better than a parrot with no teeth.... :)moonmandohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01426512355313104656noreply@blogger.com