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03:25 / 26.10.05

well, IMO editors could have placed a little more trust on his creator-owned proposals; LeSEXY was turned down at Vertigo and can't be taken elsewhere.

Didn't GM state on his ossified wedsite that LeSexy WAS going to be published elsewhere?

And look at the Fallen Angel example again: DC stuck a deal with Peter David and gained something in x-change for letting go of a low selling title. And FA sold higher than SEAGUY, I recall, perhaps mistakenly.

Is there back up the the idea that DC scotched or waylaid SG2? GM had 7S in the works, plus We3 and Vimanarama on the way: that's a lotta woik. I imagine they'll get around to Seaguy once all the One Year Later material nears conclusion.

12:36 / 26.10.05

I do believe this myself.

the thing with exclusivity is that sometimes - like you mentioned in the Peter David example [I'm reminded of Ellis' elastic contracts] - the author can take creator-owned stuff elsewhere, but usually if the work was announced previously to the contract itself.

of course there are special negotiations. don't know if it's the case here. anyway, it'd be great if LeSEXY came out somewhere...

back to SEAGUY; as we've discussed here, to make sure the 2nd book comes out and to help Cameron buying more shoes, showing book 1 to people is the best way to build momentum:

giving out the singles if you bought the collection, buying the latter as gift to friends that may like it, pasting a link to the proper Amazon page at your blogs etc.

hope the following help in the Seaguy Appreciation Campaign:

Khepri link [$6.95]

Mail Order Comics link [$6.46 - maybe there's a minimum buy, don't know]

Amazon US link. [$9.95]

Amazon UK link [7.19 Pounds]

13:11 / 25.11.05

FYI, Cameron Stewart drew a short Jonny (not Jonni) Future story in the recent ABC book that just came out - written by Steve Moore. It looks great.

20:33 / 27.12.05

Cameron, if you're out there, it seems Newsarama has removed its holiday gallery from their main page of news items (the holiday gallery was on there about 3 days ago), and I remember that gallery featuring a fun pin-up by you (or at least it seemed your style and the signature at the bottom seemed to be yours, even though it was tiny, I thought I could make it out) of Clark & Lois with a Superman Returns theme. It was a great pin-up, and I wanted to post it in the Superman Returns movie thread, but now I can't find it. Was it really you who did it, and can you put it up there?

17:56 / 22.02.06

Seaguy Returns!

(only in a drawing I did for someone)

18:01 / 22.02.06

You shouldn't tease us like this, Cameron.

's not right...

18:47 / 22.02.06

FROM HELL took a decade for completion. SEAGUY will prevail. I hope. Yoiks!

18:58 / 22.02.06

Jaysis... seeing Chubby again this way made me feel nostalgic in the way you'd feel with a band you loved for decades and just came to listen again in years...

Seaguy not being continued is a little abysmal gap in pop culture.

20:39 / 22.02.06

At wondercon GM quipped that threatening him with death may inspire Vertigo to publish subsequent issues of Sea Guy.

21:48 / 22.02.06

Whilst I can feel your pain just remember how long I've been waiting for more from the world of Sebastian 0. Even the book took the best part of a decade to appear.

10:27 / 30.03.06

This blog features the plot of the first issue of Seaguy 2, as related by Grant Morrison at a Wondercon panel:

Apparently our hero has been brainwashed by the agents of Mickey Eye, when he realizes that the parrot who replaced Chubby the Choona at the end of the first series is a BAD GUY. Seaguy is transformed into El Macho, world’s greatest matador! But he’s not a normal matador. See, you can’t kill bulls now, they’re sacred. So instead of poking them with a sword, you have to dress them and by doing so, utterly humiliate them. No really. The ghost of Chubby appears to Seaguy and ultimately, Seaguy follows him out of his artifically crafted life (apparently abandoning his pregnant wife.)

Of course, she isn’t pregnant. She says “Well, we just couldn’t keep him” to her round belly. Then she lifts her shawl and underneath it is not an unborn child, but a Mickey Eye.

End first issue. Cue applause.

11:25 / 30.03.06

whoaaaa! hahahaha, el macho!

vertigo, please commission this!

thanks for the link, man. does anybody know whatever happened to newsarama's panel transcription?

14:45 / 30.03.06

yeah, that transcription seems to have never quite shown up. I bet Newsrama would respond if someone emailed them about it.

I have images of Elmer Fudd dressed in women's clothes, looking embarrassed, when I read the part about dressing up the bulls to humiliated them.

16:40 / 30.03.06

Actually I did email Matt Brady weeks ago. So far, no response.

17:32 / 30.03.06

That transcipt fails to capture the various accents GM used in the telling of his story as well as his jumping out of his seat to act out the bullfight. Including a pantomime of the bull stumbling around in High Heels, great stuff.

22:52 / 03.06.06

From Newsarama:

Speaking of Grant Morrison at Vertigo, Wayne said that, according to Berger, Morrison does have a Vertigo project in mind for after some of his commitments to the DCU are completed. The project would be something in addition to his planned continuation of Sea Guy.

So... more Seaguy?

16:38 / 04.06.06

sounds promising...moreso than we've heard before, at least.

18:42 / 04.06.06

21:27 / 04.06.06

Oh this is good. Oddman is enthused.

23:04 / 04.06.06

WARNING. Expressing too much enthusiasm about SEAGUY on this thread can be DANGEROUS. The mods censored and edited the original post (& title). Big Mod Brother is watching you...

23:07 / 04.06.06

Get a grip, furioso.

After the series' artist asked, the title was altered, because it was - at that point - factually inaccurate. I'm interested to know if it would be now.

21:22 / 05.06.06

According to this:

Wayne said that, according to Berger, Morrison does have a Vertigo project in mind for after some of his commitments to the DCU are completed. The project would be something in addition to his planned continuation of Sea Guy.

21:39 / 05.06.06

Look six posts up, Moam.

02:08 / 06.06.06

I've been fielding a lot of emails about this today. Time for an official response...again...

At this time, I have not been told by anyone at DC that Seaguy 2 has been approved. I have not signed, or even been given a contract, I have not put it in my schedule (I'm currently hip deep in filth and gore drawing The Other Side - out from Vertigo in October, check it out y'all!) . There's no plans currently in place, and any suggestion that Seaguy 2 will soon be available on store shelves is - as far as I know - entirely premature.

However.

I HAVE heard from a couple of relevant people at DC that while Seaguy 2's status was formerly absolutely dead, its condition has now been upgraded (if you'll forgive the terrible metaphor) to merely in a coma with a weak pulse, with a slim chance of resuscitation. So, that's something, and suggests that we should all sit waiting patiently at the bedside for at least a little while longer.

I'm continually pleasantly surprised and gratified when these rumours seem to elicit such positive response, I'm asked about Seaguy at conventions all the time and I thank each and every one of you who bought the first series and have offered your support. Hopefully we'll get to do the sequel as soon as we can...

(Feel free to quote this post on other boards, if there's reason to.)

02:56 / 06.06.06

You see? "Returns" is open ended. Seaguy 2 could be with us, a la Lucas, twenty years from now.

And as far as getting a grip goes, try loosening your bumcheeks oh uptight one several posts prior!

04:03 / 06.06.06

>> condition has now been upgraded (if you'll forgive the terrible metaphor) to merely in a coma with a weak pulse, with a slim chance of resuscitation.

"on the bubble" using TV-speak...sort of. Thanks for the update, Cam - a second SEAGUY series WILL happen and WILL become a reality and WILL be published because you, me and many others WILL it to be so.

ONLY NICE THINGS

12:18 / 06.06.06

furioso: If you were being censored, your worthless contributions would have been excised from Barbelith across this thread. As it is, you are free to whine, claim victimhood, insult people and generally convince us all that you are a pointless waste of space to whom nothing of any genuine emotional or practical significance has ever happened, not least because yoou have spent your entire life shuttling from comic shop to darkened bedroom, pausing in your frantic, compulsive masturbation only to wonder if you can get comics delivered in order to free up more time for self-abuse. I've seen your hand move straight from penis to pizza, furioso, and it's not hygeinic.

Isn't freedom of speech grand? Please go about your business, all.

14:25 / 06.06.06

Is Cameron Stewart a lock on Seaguy if it returns? Is it possible they might use a different artist?

14:57 / 06.06.06

I'm going to guess that you're kidding, but in the event you're not - no, there is absolutely no way that another artist will draw Seaguy. Grant Morrison and I co-own the property.

15:02 / 06.06.06

I didn't know that. I guess I'm not sure on how Vertigo stuff works these days. But Cameron, if you co-own, you could let someone else draw it and sit back and collect the money couldn't you?

15:30 / 06.06.06

Are you looking for work, Jack? I'd like to sea your Seeguy.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:42 / 06.06.06

I think Jack (with Cameron's permission, obviously) should do us a reinvention of Seaguy. Come ON! Dude made Green Lantern cool! Think what he could do with a property that was cool to start with!!!

16:00 / 06.06.06

16:07 / 06.06.06

>>>But Cameron, if you co-own, you could let someone else draw it and sit back and collect the money couldn't you?<<<

Well, in theory yes (an artist other than co-owner/creator Pia Guerra drew some of Y the Last Man), but why would I want to? I loved doing the first one, so I'd definitely want to draw the sequel.

Trust me, they won't do a Seaguy series without me.

17:47 / 06.06.06

Ddaaaayymmmnn, look at those skillz! Nice seadiver headgear; and I dig the ciggie in that squiddy/replacement for Chubby thing's mouth. And such fast work! Editors would love you, Jack. (no disrespect intended, Cameron, to your work, which is almost as good as Jack's)

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