Do you know what's FOC?
I didn't know until I got into making creator owned comics.
My life used to be more comfortable when I worked for Marvel and only had to take care of doing my part, I received a script, drew the script, send the pages and start over again.
Now I am a responsible author, now I have to know what a FOC is.
Kelly Sue explains perfectly what is FOC here in her newsletter, but if you are as lazy as I am, I can paste it here for you:
FOC” stands for Final Order Cut-off. While it’s not exactly a “term of art” (since it’s mostly used within the comic book industry), it has a very specific meaning for comic book professionals. A book’s FOC date is the deadline by which retailers must submit their orders for that book to the distributor.
We talked about it in our minicomic and it is the reason why we've been Blueskying all week long.
We've shared come images here and there but let me centralize everything in here, first the covers.
Left to right:
David López: Yours truly.
David Lafuente: I have him on speed dial, he's the guy I go to when I have a doubt re: anything comic related, he's a savant and I have a YouTube channel with him.
Emma Ríos: She's a dual-class witch-fencer that lives in the magic lands of Galicia in the North Western part of Spain, her talent goes out of scale.
Álvaro Martínez Bueno: He's Multiclass but he doesn't like to talk too much about his former life. He's the best painter and the best dude, he's amazing the world with his Nice House on the Lake and on the Beach.
And then there are the Incentive covers, these are the ones you can buy for every 20 of the regulars you buy, it is crazy, but that's how it works.
Left to right:
Nicola Scott: She is the only non Spaniard artist doing covers for issue 1, she's made Historia with Kelly Sue and she must be a witch too cause she's made Black Magic.
Pepe Larraz: He's the biggest talent of the decade in Marvel, he's drawn everything there and has done everything better than anybody else, do you remember House of X? He built that world.
In The Mary Sue they've made an extended pre