Mythomatic.com is now live!
Greetings future Mythomaniacs,
Allow me to thank you for signing up early to receive updates from Mythomatic. Your enthusiasm is both humbling and energizing! You’ll be happy to know that Mythomatic.com is now finally live! (Took me long enough.)
But what is Mythomatic anyway?
Well basically: it’s a publishing initiative. Somehow just saying that can imply Really Big Things, but I have no allusions about taking the publishing industry by storm or anything like that. But, having begun to put out self-published works in recent years (or at least, partially self-published anyway), the notion of creating some kind of umbrella such works might exist under seemed to make sense. Especially that I’ve envisioned these works to largely follow the same ethos, and in some cases… share the same universe even.
I am however fully aware that when companies—especially those operating in comicbooks—launch multiple series that share the same universe, it right away reeks of gross corporate greed and top-down authoritarianism. For my own endeavors though, my interest in the possibility of exploring works within a shared universe stem from creative curiosity more than anything; how a fictional occurrence might affect a diverse range of fictional characters across time and space. And it doesn’t all have to comix either, it can be any mode of storytelling. But I am primarily interested in exploring ways to converge the written word with visual language.
Another reason behind launching Mythomatic stems from my frustration with existing approaches to publishing, which—generally speaking—seem to consider the printing of books as a completely divorced feature from the content. So much that a one-size-fits all approach seems to be largely standard practice, whether undertaken by mainstream publishers or the independents. Each publisher’s standard dimensions, paper stock, and choice of printing-process is just blindly applied to all the books they create. The reasons being largely economical, but as far as I’m concerned, the production of a book is an extension its content. This may just be my “art background” talking, and the obsession it might have nurtured in regards to medium in relation to subject matter, but… if I’m reading, say, a Western? I want it letterpressed on handmade paper with decaled edges, none of this full-color on coated paper bullshit, and certainly no fake-ass digital aging effects thank you very much.
Okay, going full letterpress on a whole book might be prohibitively expensive, but you could at least do it for the cover or something.
Anyway, no need to bring Westerns into this when my primary concern is science fiction. At least for now anyway, or at least as per Mythomatic’s current offering: The Solar Grid #1-5, produced in collaboration with the wonderful folks at Radix Media. Issues 6-10 will appear as they are made available, finally followed by a handsome hardback collection shortly after completion. 🤞
That is as far as I have planned for now (Lies!). We’ll see what comes next.
Thanks so much for reading. Till soon,
Ganzeer
Houston, TX