SteveRude

 On our last exciting installment of Dude's Daily Diatribe I reported that I had contacted DC to offer my services as artist.  I also promised an update is that situation changed in any way.  Well, the latest is...nothing's changed!  DC has never formally responded to my offer, and, I suspect, with little expectations of any to come. As I was informed by friends who monitor such things, it so happens that just after I had sent my letter to DC's top people, I received word that the company had plans to relaunch their books with new #1 issues for their entire pantheon of characters.  I don't know if this had anything to do with my not hearing

AND NOW, A WORD FROM THE DUDE... Today, instead of just talking about the latest thing in my life, I'm going to do something different.  And instead of Gino doing the selling, I, the Dude, will now assume one of those duties.  It's about my oversized art book that came out in '07. When I first received a copy of Steve Rude Artist in Motion, I knew I had scored big. John Fleskes was this books co-author and publisher, which had everything to do with this success.  There was discussion with another publisher at one point, and had I the misfortune of going through with them, it would've been a shameless disaster.  When John stepped up to the