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Date:

June 7th, 2007 4:45 PM

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Warning to all artists by Tony Isabella

Bulletin:

om: Tony Isabella

Date: Jun 4, 2007 11:04 AM
Subject This month's Rick Olney warning
Body: Believe it or not, you can keep a bad man down...and dozens of comics industry pros and fans are doing just that.

WARNING ABOUT RICK OLNEY

A message to all my friends and readers...

If you are approached by an individual named Rick Olney or a representive of this man, if you are approached by Olney or anyone else representing entities known as The Mighty Mini-Con, TightLip Entertainment, ORCA, or the Mohawk Valley Newsletter, I strongly urge you to run in the other direction. You can find more details here:

http://www.unscrewedcomic.com/

Please, if you trust me, do not attempt to do business with Olney. In fact, please pass along this warning to any comics professionals, aspiring comics professionals, retailers, exhibitors, media guests, and fans you know.

Olney is not someone you want to do business with. Though I had originally hoped not to involve myself in this in such a public manner, with Olney again advertising a convention, claiming that he is still planning to publish comic books, targeting foreign artists he hopes will not have heard of him, and attempting to recruit naive American artists, the greater good demands I and my fellows speak out.

Check out the UNSCREWED website for the impressive list of creators who have signed a version of this warning. Feel free to repost this warning to any forum you like.

In another updates...

Olney has yet to announce a venue for his alleged June convention and here we are in the first week of June. He now claims he has changed this into a "private event" as a result of threats he falsely claims were made against him and the event.

Anything Olney is involved with should always be consider suspect.

Olney continues to troll - trolling as in a pimp hanging out at the old bus station - MySpace and message boards and Yahoo groups looking for fresh meat to exploit, for naive young artists foolish enough to believe that he's going to give them their big break. Before they work for him, they should really talk to the many writers and artists who he hasn't paid for past work. They can find many of "Olney's Orphans" at the Unscrewed website.

This last bit isn't an update, but bears repeating,.

Despite threatening to sue me and others, Olney has yet to institute any legal action against anybody. Indeed, he's on the receiving end of lawsuits and has already had several judgments against him...with more certain to follow.

You've been warned.

To repeat, feel free to pass this warning around or post it wherever you like. Oh, sure, I'm setting myself up for another impotent threat from Olney, but that's a chance I'm more than willing to take if I can prevent even one fan or pro from getting involved with this blight on comicdom.

Tony Isabella

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