Found this post from
Jason Craig at the following blog:
http://bentcorner.com/jason-craig-comic-book-rips-off/
Jason Craig says:
November 1, 2013 at 6:26 pm
Most people wouldn’t walk in my shoes for a second. I have been paying people back and completing commissions. The problem is when one person starts an internet linch mob everyone follows behind. I have really awful mean , cruel emails sent to me, back when i was homeless last year, lost everything and I had people calling me out only making me feel worse….you think my family knowing what i have been through likes to see my picture up here and all you people whom I don’t know jumping on the band wagon?
I got Kyle Roy paid back in June(and I have been going down the list) and asked if we could bury the hatchet so to speak, but in the mean time this wild fire of hatred has blazed and all you people stand judge jury and executioner…..you don’t know me…..yet you judge me, why? What give you the right when none of you have all the facts….you only have what i have made public…the rest I Have asked each board member to contact me privately but some chose to light torches instead.
I lost my family and my home, me and my son were on the streets last year, yet that message board went out of its way to make sure I wouldn’t get work when I needed it most….what did that mean…I couldn’t pay people back, I had no work….couldn’t take work….I was homeless….my fate was sealed…..
Now that I am back trying to get on my feet, people still throw stones when no one has the right, even the ones so called ‘ripped off”
How can you be ripped off if i have been either paying back when I can, or completing the commission order that had no actual due date and the money was accepted with , you will get it as soon as I can, etc……
Even further…if I wanted to rip a board off….why would I stay in communication with them? They have my email….they should ask how I am….not send me threatening emails, or hacking my boards, or anything else…which is illegal by the way…but that doesn’t count….
Fact is I took commissions WAY under scale, peanuts on the dollar, and the moment they had to wait a min longer then they planned they started a full scale lynch mob.
Its things like this that sadden me, and depress me… you might as well go beat up a homeless person, or kill your nephews favorite puppy….people seem to take pleasure in hurting people when there hurting most, and doing it with a smile never once thinking to ask whats really going on
I will get everything settled….and i plan to do work in the industry, but before this started, when things were good I said “the fans are killing the comic book industry” this has only proved further my point…..and its made me ashamed to be associated with it if this is how we treat each other
Jason Craig
