Colleen Doran shares artwork from Technique, a mini-series from the now defunct Milestone Media she drew that ended up being shelved:
Personally, I never had a problem with the publishers. Honestly. And in the case of the unpublished Technique miniseries for Milestone, I have no reason to suck up and hide wicked backstage facts in the matter because Milestone doesn’t exist anymore. I’m not getting any brownie points being nice to people about this, because there’s nothing for me to gain out of it. Milestone not only treated me with nothing but courtesy and respect, but when the series got axed in progress, they also paid me a very fair kill fee for which I was most appreciative.
The writer was the same person who had written the killed-in-action Fallen Angels mini-series for Marvel for which I did 100 pages of art (unpublished), who self published the killed-in-action Nestrobber series for which I did some interior and cover art (and I wonder what happened to the original art), and since Technique was the third project in a row I worked on with the writer where writer/editor/publisher disputes/deadlines/god-knows-what difficulties came up, I decided to move on and find other writers to work with. Have a nice life and all that, but we were 0 for 3 here. Karma, bad luck, personality conflict, I do not care. Whatever it was, it wasn’t working for me.
Jo Duffy, in case you’re wondering, was the writer. An upcoming issue of Back Issue magazine will tell the “untold story” of what happened to the second Fallen Angels mini-series.
January 22nd, 2007 at 7:27 pm
What happened to Jo Duffy, anyway? She wrote the best Power Man and Iron Fist ever, and for a while, I was sure she’d take over the X-Men when Claremont left — but he lasted much longer on the book than I expected.
January 23rd, 2007 at 12:18 am
I interviewed her back when she worked with Busiek on the reworked Defenders (The Order) a number of years ago. At that time (2001/2002) she discussed doing some Powerpuff Girls work and work at Claypool. And she apparently did some work on a Naruto book back in 2003. After that, I can find nothing on her.
January 23rd, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Tim,
Thanks for the update. I’ll try to check out her Claypool stuff. I did read the Order and enjoyed it.
February 2nd, 2007 at 8:55 pm
First, I should point out that Milestone Media is not defunct, but has simply stopped publishing comics. Note that the company was behind the hit cartoon Static Shock.
Milestone co-owner Dwayne McDuffie has the full clarification of the company’s status:
http://www.thevhive.com/forum/?webtag=DWAYNEMCDUFFIE&msg=814.9
Now, I applaud Colleen Doran for sharing her excellent artwork from Technique. I was really looking forward to the mini because Technique is one of my favorite heroines.
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:56 am
Defunct: not operating or functioning. Inactive.
When they do another cartoon or comic or whatever (and I sincerely hope they do), they will no longer be defunct.