Tag: Silver Bullet Comics

Behind the Curtain: Absolute Edition

Brant Fowler

As things with Silver Bullet Comics started to settle down and fade away, I found myself at a loss for what to do next. I had just spent the last year and a half working from home on a comic news website. I was bringing in some money doing lettering, of course, but not enough to sustain myself at the time. So I had to do something. Luckily, a friend and former colleague brought an idea to mind and pushed me in that direction: my own comic news website! I…

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Behind the Curtain: Silver Bullet Comics Part 3

Brant Fowler

I’ve told you how I got involved with Silver Bullet Comics (SBC), and the good things that came of it. I also told you how things started to sour because of the retail store attached to the site. Now, it’s time to talk about the conflict over trademarks, more issues with the retail side, and how I left the site. As I said before, things were going well for the press side. Our numbers were climbing, we had features with big comic stars, tons of original columns, many reviews, and…

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Behind the Curtain: Silver Bullet Comics Part 2

Brant Fowler

I was happy with a job for the first time in my life. When I was in college, I studied computers because they interested me, but I wasn’t sure what aspect. I picked one and ended up hating the profession it led me into. I don’t feel like college was a waste, though, because I also gained business degrees and found my love for writing while there. Still, I held crappy jobs that I hated until I started working for Silver Bullet Comics. Doing comic news, like lettering, was something…

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Behind the Curtain: Silver Bullet Comics Part 1

Brant Fowler

The details are a little foggy, but at some point, Comic Avalanche started to fade away into obscurity. Writers left for other sites, or to work on their comic projects, and I got very busy with my growing lettering work. Bryan had other interests he was tending to as well, and eventually the site just went dead and withered away. About mid 2006, I stumbled across an ad looking for an editor for another comic news site, a more prominent one. One that was offering a paid position for press…

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