Recent content by A Virtual Stranger

Although my experience with Adamant Entertainment was unpleasant at best, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that Gareth finally paid me for my work. Also, he released my remaining illustrations, that I might sell them elsewhere. It's nice to see the matter resolved.

I posted publicly four days after the month of October was over.

Thank you...and you are reading it right. I was not notified about this sudden change in payment due to fourth quarter losses until mentioning non-payment here. I have not received an email since the one Gareth sent to me on October 21st informing me that I should expect a check by the end...

I did. Gareth promised a payment in June. When it didn't arrive by July I approached him about it and he said that he had sent it and he was waiting for it to be cashed or returned. It never arrived. Nor did it arrive in August. By September and October he blamed a wrong address and then an...

Today marks the three year anniversary since Gareth-Michael Skarka accepted the artwork that I created for one of his M&M Superlink publications at Adamant Entertainment. Three years have come and gone and I have never been paid.

I have received the email.

Ambiguity seemed the gentler course, considering the subject matter and the public here, but as you've decided to step into the limelight I shall answer your questions. I interviewed you on the Gamer Market. I was hired through the same 'Gamer Market' by your associate who sent me the...

I'm not holding out hope of that. The company in question posts here regularly and on the other forum where I posted the horrible experience. I even took the opportunity to remind the owner of the company by dropping a not so subtle reminder about not getting a check into one of his threads...

Strangely enough, a company with strong ties to the gaming community. A company that seems to be on the up and up in every possible way, as I can't find evidence of such negligence anywhere else. I alone seem to be their whipping boy, balancing out all of their good karma as their one closet...

I second the drool cover, that being a cover to drool over and not a cover of drool... ...though given the subject matter, both may be appropriate.

A similar thing has happened and is still happening to me, so I thought that I would share. This was previously posted elsewhere. Now let me begin by saying that this is simply written as a request to all publishers great and small to treat artists, and also writers, with respect. I'm...