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FROM IVAN VELEZ JR:
Dwayne McDuffie wanted me to represent
Milestone and write the intro letter to the DC
Comics In-House Newsletter... a pretty polished
magazine that featured many of the freelancers
and their views. I was so honored and felt blessed
for the opportunity to speak for us all. Well..
I thought I did a decent job presenting my feelings... but another artist and writer
felt slighted by what I said. Oh well. He objected right away. A rebuttal to an intro
letter. Sigh.
Holy Cow. My first month at Milestone and DC and already I had to fight? Dang.
Dwayne also defended me in the same issue. It would not be the first time.
After all, I was a nobody,
and a gay Puerto Rican nobody from the Bronx at that.
Who was I to dare criticize a whole industry?
I think Dwayne would laugh if he ever knew how much I really cherished this letter.
Yeah, we had our
bad days, and we ended up not ever speaking again...
but here he called me his friend... and it made
me think that he really was...
a genuine friend.
Wouldn't you know that feeling was short-lived...
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And that was a piece of history from former Milestone Writer, Ivan Velez Jr. This was printed to
give a sense of the history of creation is not always pretty and it seems to have an interesting
paralell to the multiculturalism that has struck mainstream comics of late. Let's see what the
future holds and learn from our past.
- CBC EIC Frankie Rodriguez
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