Open letter to Mark Shainblum (see previous post)
Hi Mark,
I am very angry with you (fakes anger). Apart from stealing my name, you have stolen my invention, the "Comiculum Vitae", and I don't care that you came up with it before me. Joking aside, I thought your Comiculum was great. Have you had any success with it? I just sent mine off, so fingers crossed.
Seriously, though, we're leading parallel lives. Like you, I'm into comics (if only recently), have penned a sci-fi novel (currently being rewritten), and have been an editor. I am even sometimes mistaken for a Canadian. Okay, so there the comparison stops. I wasn't married in Vegas, for instance.
Oh, I'm writing this also as an open letter on my weblog as well (like you I am a shameless selfpublicist), so if you reply, let me know if it's okay to put your answer on the blog.
Greetings and salutations,
Mark
PS: Did you know that Comiculum was also the name of a Roman town, since disbanded?
posted by Platypus Bill @ 10:52 pm
1 Comments:
Hi Mark!
I'm sorry it's taken me so long to respond to your road to employment rage. I've been busy. Sue me. :-)
Actually, it's very nice to know that SOMEBODY actually saw the thing. You can believe that I didn't get my current job at a major Canadian university with that CV (although some of my previous comics publications DID come up during the interview).
I'm really surprised more people in the comics field don't use comiculum vitaes. This iteration hasn't helped much, but an earlier version I did in 1995 secured me a gig with now-defunct Broadway Comics. That was, incidentally, the strangest writing gig of my career to date in ANY field, but that's a story for another time.
We DO seem to be living parallel lives, especially the part about not being married in Vegas! I was married at the Shaare Zion Congregation in Montreal (which is about as psychologically far from Vegas as you can get and still be on the North American continent). What an amazing coincidence!
I've yet to completely finish a novel, but I recently published a novelette in the anthology Island Dreams: Montreal Writers of the Fantastic, and another in the online SF magazine Would That it Were, at www.wouldthatitwere.com/breakinspector.htm.
And (what the hell, in for a plug, in for a pound!), I also write a regular superhero webcomic at www.sandycarruthers.com/canadiana.
Thanks for getting in touch and for the eerie, synchronistic parallels in our lives.
All my best!
Mark Shainblum
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