best article-yet about current animation MONOPLIES and how badly "consessions' need to adapt to every financial-political situation. after six years of trying to figure out how an individual -creating origional concepts-must 'operate'...one must come to the conclusion that 'plimpton' style operations(one creator-busting his-her- ass ,18 hours a day) are only for the 'work -a -holics'and type "A" personalities. this article re-inforces my continued idea-approach regarding 'marketing' of origional toon concepts.it no longer matters if your concept is VIABLE...and all that matters is that the lowest of 'hopefulls'(and YOU number in the thousands) atempting to make any money in the toon biz, must turn to self publishing-via kids books-comics- licensing products(make-sell them yourself)and hope the big "TOON GOONS" sign you-on? then, these independant studios that can keep; 'the right distance from the sun' -BARF!!! will be working with you-the lone-creator-at the bottom of the 'dung-heap'...of toon -wannabeez...??? as a 'lone -toon-creator' you must keep hope forever-burning(like our ultimate hero"PLIMPTON") who-even-now,plimpton....goes ; begging for a chance to be working for the big toon goons? did they finally 'beat you down'-BILL? are YOU being made 'an example" of what happens to single-creators-who attempt to market their ideas,without 'begging'(please buy out my concept!) for a 'crumb' ,from the big toon goons throne? how sad...that our only (go-it alone)hero has succumbed to the network (are YOU being made the example?) bullies-who obviously have a greedy(proprietary) strangle-hold on cartoons! and how pitifull is -it.... when american animation-for hire studios need to "BOW"...to the "QUEEN"... of canadian-subsidized "DEALS" that require all sorts of conditions-then require vancouver-kanooks (only)canadians-create the animations??!!! thats 'outsourcing'! seven years ago i was sent a 'contract' which i was required to 'sign'-before i was allowed to approach cartoon network,but (wisley) i never got involved-because their contract stated-somthing like this ; "of course-we may be doing the exact same concept that you are working on...." and this says it-all,so why is this article any different than the past-day sitiation? nothing has changed-just the money-hungry 'creatives'-as they are politley and carefully avoiding the real issue....and that involves 'fair trade'. this pisses me-off to no end,and i am determined to launch my own concept...FAR-FAR from the "SUN" or these 'son of a bitches'who think they can dominate the toon biz,with corprate-big money brutality! in business-one knows when they are taking a 'beating' ,and no one said YOU can not fight-back.i see a lot of toon'prostitutes' who will do anything for a few bucks,just to be doing cartoons. sad-indeed. DAWK