So Why do I Have Issues?

A couple years back I formally started my own production company.

I'm a television editor, so decided I would get my poop together and actually treat my career as well, a career.

I knew what I wanted to do, I had the experience and the tech to do the job, all I really needed was company name. And considering production companies are a dime a dozen, I wanted a name people would remember.

After about 5 weeks of stressing, the best I could come up with was "Pumpkin Eater Productions" (playing on the Peter, Peter pumpkin eater crap I have heard all my life) and even that was a suggestion from a friend.

Then April, the love of my life, suggested "I Have Issues Productions". Which is a great play on the fact that I have tens of thousands of issues of comics, not mention my general lack of mental health.

And while I love the name for simple fact that people tend to remember it (which is gold to a freelancer), they best thing about the name is it lead me my dream job.

With all due respect to my current employer (and I really do love my current job), the greatest gig I ever had was on a Comic Book documentary series called Ink: Alter Egos Exposed.

I was asked to interview for a reality series (I think it was going to be called "Who's your Nanny") I introduced myself, we made small talk and they commented on my company name, which lead to the topic comic books.

And about 5 minutes later I talked myself out of the job.

As much as I love editing, I also know my strengths and weaknesses, and it was clear very quickly that the show they wanted, on the system they had, and in the time framed they needed it was not playing to my strengths. So I told them so.

I'm good at what I do. Actually, I'm really good at what I do, and part of that is knowing what is best for any given project. So I told the producer, I would gladly take the job (I was a freelancer, so you never turn down work), but I was not the best editor for them.

So I didn't get the job. But apparently the producer walked out of my interview and handed my I Have Issues Productions business card to another producer who had just started filming Ink: Alter Egos Exposed and told him "You have to meet this guy"

It was a 10 part documentary series about writers and artists that make comic books. And not just local people I had never heard of. It was the some of the best in the business. Brian Michael Bendis, Grant Morrison, John Bryne to name but a few. I worked my butt off on it, and spend many lunches just watching the raw footage cause I was so into it.

It aired on IFC Canada, SKY Tv in the UK and apparently in Russia!

I'll tell write more about it later (If you thought it was odd that the company name lead to the interview, wait till you hear what actually landed me the job)

For now why not take a look at the comics I have listed on this site.

$1.00 each, how can you go wrong?