Speakeasy

In the midst of the whole Speakeasy dustup two weeks ago, Ed Cunard made an interesting point that I wanted to address on the front end of the blog. Of course, Guy, you're also friends and coworkers at Pop Culture Shock with some creators that got screwed by Speakeasy. Just saying--it seems like everyone talking about this story has some horse in the race, or at least a pony or something else small and horse-like that runs. He's referring to the Elk's Run gang there -- Josh and Jason, in particular -- both of whom I wouldn't hesitate to consider…

[Originally published by Buzzscope on 2/28/2006, the full text of this post was retrieved via the Wayback Machine and archived here on 11/14/19. No edits were made beyond the removal of images that were no longer accessible.] Several creators still in the dark about their fates It's been less than 90 days since we first reported on fledgling publisher Speakeasy Comics' making waves with their announcement of a stricter policy regarding minimum thresholds for comic books they distribute, and since then, those waves have claimed several victims, but none bigger than Speakeasy Comics itself. Yesterday afternoon, on his blog, Elk's Run creator/writer, Joshua…