In case you hadn't heard--I recently quit my job.

It wasn't that I didn't like being the publisher at Image Comics-- I did-- but over the years it became obvious that as effective as I was as a publisher--it was getting in the way of creating comics and I got into this business to be a creator--not an administrator. The ideas were stacking up like cordwood and I simply did not have the time to get things done. I had a new project that I wanted to work on (I pencilled the first issue) and that was just sitting there gathering dust--and there were other projects that I had intended to work on--the Kirby stuff--and it looked unlikely that I'd ever get started on that. That, and Savage Dragon was perpetually late and that was a constant irritant because it was a book set "in real time" and sometimes that meant I was only covering a day or two out of a year.

No fun.

So--I quit my job.

Now--I know how much everybody loves a good conspiracy theory. I know it would be a lot juicier story if I had been leaned on to resign or if a bloody coup had been staged or some such but it wasn't the case. I was at a convention in Charlotte and fans were bemoaning the lateness of Savage Dragon and it really hit me how much I missed the book--and missed working on the book--and how much I wished it was coming out on a regular basis too. After talking things over with a few pals and coming to the realization that Eric Stephenson was ideally suited for the job and that since the pieces were in place and the ship sailing in a good direction there really could be no better time to make the transition-- I made a decision. By the following week--in Chicago--I was telling anybody who would listen that I'd made the decision to step down.

So there you go.

Look for a hell of a lot more comics from me and a lot of great things from Image Comics.

As far as I'm concerned--this is the best news ever!