Editor's Journal (Day 3)

I do accept I am human and make mistakes. I do accept that some misspellings have infiltrated in El Investigador, and some I just noticed now that we're re-editing in English. Making mistakes in normal, accepting them is something worth of admiration, I think, since there are a lot of people making mistakes and, I don't kno why, simply do not recognize it, don't want to see it even when the stuff is so clear.

"What is this about?" you may ask. Well, Here I am, giving opinión when no one asked me, but I concern since I'm Editor in chief of El Investigador:

The General Director of the  magazine usually promotes it on his personal facebook wall. Last year this month the theme was Steamgoth and a picture from that issue was shared:

Negr O Inmunsapa: "Steamgoth has a darkest point of view abut the environment where Steampunk is  developed, including magical or paranormal elements in its plot. Where Steampunk shows a Victorian Era of Science Fiction, Steamgoth does it under the espectrum of horror and fantasy"

 Next, as you can see in the picture above, himself shares some related images, and then a comment appears from someone who used to be called "Profesor Heitmann" who contributed with us in October 2011 (El Investigador 8 - Steamgoth), with an introduction article. From then on the mess began...

Javier Darren: Uy, Negro, the article I wrote in "El Investigador" about Steamgoth!! That's my favorite side and the one I better met in Germany... Let's see if I do contribute again with your great magazine... XD

Negr O Inmunsapa: Yes, Javier, I also remember you wrote a very long article about Alesteir Crowley (2500 words, which is the same to 5 pages when in that time our columnists used to have 2 and a half) and we asked you to cut it or make the arranges to publish it in 4 issues. You didn't want and disappeared without saying anything else, not even said thank you. Do you remember? 

Javier Darren: mmm... yes, of course I remember, I remember that you didn't told me about the limit of lines, cutted the article as you wished to, afeter several days looking for information to write it, also, without telling me you just cutted the article saying it was too long when if you're looking for contributors the logic thing is you want material and do not reject it as you did with mine. You say I didn't said thank you...ah so I had to say thank you because of working in an article for you magazine without a paymet and just for the love to the art and for, then, you reject it? Well as we say here in Spain... If you want "I'm the whore and we can use my bed". However, I have nothing else to say about it, I wish you luck in your proyect.

Well, since then on, Profesor Heitmann (Javier Darren in the picture) felt ofended and make false accusations. The mess is too long, but is that basically, he say that we cutted the article about Steamgoth, that we rejected the one dedicated to Alesteir Crowley and also he has offended to everyone who has contributed to El Investigador, from our columnists to external contributors the same, something I can't allow since the entire team has been very professional and committed all the time.

Now, here's my version of the story in a summary of the mails Profesor Heitmann exchanged with me. The translation is below the picture:



Click here to zoom in.
If there's still to small, download it, please.

 

October 18th 2011

Greetings comrades,
Here I attach the article about Alesteir Crowley in a Word file. I wish you like it, I've tried to make it as nice as I can, the result is a little long but I think it might be that way, since every single paragraph is vital to understand very well the life of this big personality of the Ocultism.
Attached too the zip file with the pictures I'd like to include with the article. That's all.
Regards
Profesor Heitmann 

October 18th 2011

Dear Profesor Heitmann
Talking about a personality such as Alesteir Crowley is, of course, a very long work, there are a lot of things to say and explain about him, however, I am really sorry to tell you that, even it is interesting, your article is excessively long and have to ask you to cut it  800 words long, the pictures and illustrations you sent are great, Mr. Xpk is going to have a big repertory to choose, the only thing is to fix the text, please.
I do understand is going to be a very complited work, but if you don't really want to cut it, then I ask you to fix it for  four issues, this one we really need of 800 words top, and next can be 1200 each one. We'll be waiting for the edited file tomorrow 21:00hrs GMT-6.
In the future I really beg you to limitate your contributions to a maximum of 1200 words, but this time we really need 800 because of space.
Taking advantage of this letter, I want to ask you to, in case you decide to cut the article, think about what you're going to submit for December and January's issues which we have to have for the month, that's the only way we can have Winter Vacations.
I'm relly sorry about giving this kind of news but that's my job xD, don't be stressed too much, be happy, eat fruits and vegetables and send me your edited article :)
Regards from this side of the stars
 

October 19th 2011

Greetings Lady Von Marmalade and Negr O Inmunsapa:
I do understand very well your requirement, and even when, being sincere, I don't like the idea of dividing the article about the figure of Alesteir Crowley, as I said, it is necesary  to understand and explore everything my article have to say in order to have a general vision about such a remarkable occultist (and taking on count there are a lot of things I didn't say), I see myself in the obbligation to divide the article in several parts, since the option of cut it down is one I don't think could be acceptable, since I already said, I reduced it so much  concentrating a minimum of information and data that will result as enjoyable as possible to the reader, and if I delete any part of them, the article will loose the sense. Said that, I will send you the one of three parts of the article, if you like since four is kind of excesive to me, but as you prefer.
On the other hand, I didn't know about this limitation of 800 or 1200 words for each article, but don't worry, I will take it on count for future contributions.
Without anything else to say, I send you the first part of the article you can title like that, as a first part. I think that don't exceed tha 800 words, but if it does, you can delete the part you consider convenient, your have my permission to do it.
Regards
Professor Heitmann
Nocturne soldier of Legión XIII

October 19th 2011

I'm sorry, I didn't attach the file. Here it is.

December 7th 2011

Dear Profesor Heitmann
From the Editor's office we write to you to say hello and to ask you abput your article about Alesteir Crowley which the first part was already published in our 10th issue and need to know if there's going to be a second part before the next friday 9th.

I want to remind you that we're going on vacation and won't come back until January.
I'll be waiting for your answer as soon as possible.
Regards from this side of the stars.

Since then I didn't have any news abput Profesor Heitmann untill this mess began. He didn't say "I don't want to continue" nor even an excuse was given, nothing but a tumbleweed.

If you'd like to read the entire conversation Profesor Heitmann and El Investigador's General Director are having on facebook, follow this link (it's in Spanish but there's always Google Translate).

If you want further information about how we met Profesor Heitmann, how we accepted his submission and many details more, even if you would like to receive the original file Profesor Heitmann sent to me, the one that apperas as an attachment in the picture above and the one about Steamgoth, I will send them to you so the judgement is yours. I have nothing to hide.

Editor's Journal (Day 2)

This sunday has been a very busy day. First, some housework and then to the bati-office to work in the design of this month for the El Investigador's blogs. Since last night had the idea: I wanted a faery and hole complicated animation but, well, step by step I decided to change it doing it easily, couldn't ask for so much.

The day was very cloudy and soon started to rain cats and dogs. Meanwhile, I was visualizing the idea of how the banner should be, started to draw and during the process of definition and ink, the light shut down. Lucky me it was back a few minutes later.

The pic before becoming digital was just like this:

Next step was to give it a shower of digital color, to define what have to be defined and to correct what have to be corrected. After a while, the result is the one that can be seen in El Investigador's blog:

 

So then, why a faery? and why is it green? I'm sure "Absinthe" would sound familiar to you.

 

By the way, can help to mention that this month in El Investigador, we have an interview with a VERY important personality of Steampunk. I hope we can translate it soon in order to let you, who do not speak spanish, to know what is this about.

 

So, now, time  to hit and run! Got to go to watch that old series, the one that make me thing on role playing game Aberrant... yeah, NBC's Heroes.

An Entire Country?

This time I just want to share with you a fragment of the leading article of "El Investigador" (Issue 18 - August 2012)

I feel so ashamed whenever see people who disrespect the work of everyone else, not only not recognizing but insulting the effort and dedication that everyone put in their creation, plus assaulting and taking the role of dictators. And I feel so embarrassed to know that those individuals are from my own country, Mexico, and they also degrade the work of international personalities. But I must admit that three or four persons are NOT a country and, if they take the time to insult, it's clear that either represent that country, even less if they come from another country to make trouble just because people can't stand them in their own.

Of course, if in a situation like this you show passive then you're deffinitely in the oppressor's side. And it's not necesary to be violent to show the wrong they are, it's just to not play their game and either to aplaud their unsporting behaviors.

What is this about? Well, the administrator of the Facebook's group called "Steampunk México" have been having a very deplorable behavior with a lot of people, people who do not agree with them in whichever way, it might happen in any group but when international personalities are target of this behavior, I want to know if there is someone in the world safe, I mean, someone who still thinks him/herself, someone who does not agree with a comment, a photo, an opinion...

Fortunately those 4 individuals are not Mexico.



And I want to say something else, the flag they are using as their logo was designed by Mr. Xpk (gorgonzola666) - the one who makes the El Investigador's editorial design and the general image of Mercenarios de DIOS-, and that group of administrators are not recognizing the rights.

1st Anniversary of El Investigador

Happy first anniversary to "El Investigador" and to all the Merceanries who works a  lot every month to reach the deadline without dying.

This is kind of New Year...

I remember that last year was figthing against the Boss, I just didin't want to write anything, word are not exactly the best thing I do, as you've been noticed here, I just can't update too much. Well, in the end I wrote the article about vampires in Sabine and the page of "In The File", and also the thing about Wells Fargo.

I remember that watched a documental on Discovery Channel, February 9th (2011), I just had a very bad year and that day cutted my hair after kind of 10 years letting it go long, it was a big change but also was time to stop crying like a baby, however I saw the entire documental (ok, I must conffes I was a little sleeppy so I watched it again on the internet), in order to write the uchronia "European Assassins arrives to our peaceful Sabine?", for the first issue of the first Retrofuturism themed Magazine in Spanish.

Today, a year ago to have been released that first issue, I thank to my entire past because all that made me become what I am now, all that made me look for role playing games in my country, and that made me find El Cuenta Cuentos (The Tales Teller). He give me his proyect called "Retrofuturism: 1875" and a graphic, kind of a brochure "The Rapido of Sabine", there is where everything begun, there was born the legendary "What if we make a magazine?"

The Flu

Autum. Winter's almost here, and... it happened, yes I have the flu, you know how it feels, headache, bone pain, fever, fatigue and things like that...winter is not helping, either the A/A at one of my part-time jobs.

As you know, the time is still passing by so I've to work, hunting pictures, checking spelling in texts, sorting, packing, trying to draw the "Making of..." comic and to write the review I have to.

But this is not that bad, the flu makes me feel kind of distracted, more than usually, so I have found a lot of things, things that I usually do not see, events, articles, celebrities and step by step I thing about next El Investigador's issues.

By the way, if someone out there wants to contribute with us, just send an e-mail:

A-a-achoooooo! Got to go to sleep...