A FINE MADNESS
(originally published in
THE GORBLIMEY PRESS CATALOGUE
1975•76)
Having
been asked on so many occasions for the detailed story of why, exactly,
I
left my career with Marvel Comics, Conan the Barbarian and all that,
I thought this publication, a report on my first year as a freeman,
would be the vehicle I might well choose to explain my feelings and
chronicle
episodes that led me to take this maverick path from the well known
commercial outlets. This, I am told upon my inquiries, would interest
and enlighten
people everywhere.
I attempted
such an article a few times but generally became confounded by the
discriminating line between candour and plain old muck-raking, and
in
the final
analysis I chose to consider the point from the readers' view, and I consider
you (not wrongfully, I trust) to be uninterested in muck raking and dwelling
upon conflict long past, and in the long run, meaningless anyway. |
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So I choose
to say this: Since founding the Gorblimey Press in February of 1974 I
have discovered much about art, people and myself. I have realized satisfaction
in producing a work that I conceive of, create and sell to anyone who
would find pride in owning it. Production line efforts, a distillery
of creation, something I was quite used to and had to regrettably accept
as normalcy, does not exist here; everything is treated individually
as a new concept and accorded whatever time it needs to fulfill itself.
This is something I thought worthy. And I'm proud to be captain of my
own ship. |