Rick Olney: Still does not pay freelancers or anyone else.

[MyNameIsNotLarry]

Outsider, thank you for that. He had another post on one of the old blog sites about one of his (possibly imaginary) cons doing a celebrity auction where the proceeds were donated to the Mohawk Valley chapter of the Make-A-Wish foundation, which several people pointed out doesn't exist and never did.

I don't know if this relates to what you are looking for but it's the press release for a Mighty Mini-Con in 2002 that claims to be raising money for the Mohawk chapter of Make-A-Wish. I can't find the reference in a recent blog though.

http://www.606studios.com/bendisboar...=1#post8040984

[J.R. LeMar]

I came across this, I'd totally forgotten about it. Michael Netzer's Open Letter To Rick Olney: http://michaelnetzer.com/rEvolution/content/view/113/

I like where he quotes one of Olney's early lies from when this all started: "Since this has began we've nearly completed Tales of The Spooky ..2, hired and placed 4 new artists of note, in motion. And anchored our June 07 Mighty Minicon."

Right, I remember when he claimed he had a "stable" of artists still working for him. He wouldn't name them, but he swore they were all getting paid, because they didn't break their NDA's, and that TOTS #2 and #3 would be out in 2007. Obviously, that never happened, although we know he did have that successful 2007 minicon. Similar to his recent claim of currently having 6 artists working for him and getting paid. Not to mention how, last fall, after Clayton and Michael and all the other confirmed guests had dropped out, he said he had 6 new guests (the "secret 6") signed up to appear @ the Adirondack ComicFest, but he wasn't going to reveal their names publicly until a month before the actual event, so that no one could warn them off (great way to promote and event, BTW).

So the lesson here is, Rick Olney's Imaginary Life is wonderful.

[MyNameIsNotLarry]

Damn, I just looked over to see if he'd blathered anything new today. 10 new posts, all before noon and starting before 7am.

4 more posts and he breaks his meltdown record. Pretty impressive for a guy who once claimed he never reads this thread.

[Artful Angie]

I don't know if this relates to what you are looking for but it's the press release for a Mighty Mini-Con in 2002 that claims to be raising money for the Mohawk chapter of Make-A-Wish. I can't find the reference in a recent blog though.

http://www.606studios.com/bendisboar...=1#post8040984

That's the one I'm looking for! Thanks, NotLarry!

[MyNameIsNotLarry]

I have created a new page.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rick-O...211717?sk=wall

There is also this one...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rick-O...42884132461719

Both these linked fine last night and I saved them as bookmarks. Today both links just take me to my own profile.

[J.R. LeMar]

I was thinking, considering Gail said she plans to remove some irrelevant posts when she locks this thread, it's probably best for us all to refrain from adding new posts (as tempting as it is, even for me), unless it's something completely new, and important, to save her the trouble of having more to go through. So with that, I bid as-salaam-alaikum.

-J.R. (not "Junior") LeMar

[KJ!]

Why does he have such a bug up his arse about me being Aussie?

I find it humourous.

''He said this, but HE IS AUSTRALIAN!!!!!!!!!''


Envy?

[Artful Angie]

Damn, I just looked over to see if he'd blathered anything new today. 10 new posts, all before noon and starting before 7am.

4 more posts and he breaks his meltdown record. Pretty impressive for a guy who once claimed he never reads this thread.

Yeah, and I know we're trying not to comment about his thread anymore (because that's what all the new posts there are: a cry for the attention we're taking away) but I have to just try and clear up the sequence of events in my head:

1) He comments about my post here how no one can ever actually say they've been paid everything they're owed by Rick. He says "not true! I just won't let them speak out!" So the people who owe him money are everybody who broke their NDAs to speak out against him, and the people who got paid and can show the world what a responsible person Rick is? He won't let them out of their NDAs to do just that.

2) Then Alec comments "No. Kim Draheim of Kim's comics says Rick paid him. He just paid him with comics". Rick's response to the one person in the world who could for all intent and purposes be able to defend him?

Yeah, I kicked Kim to the curb already. I have to actually disagree with you though on those books that I handed to him. I gave them to him freely for all the rig-a-ma-roll over the time I needed to give him my next order. He had no money in the pot owed to him. So either he's as touched in the head on the truthful details, or you're manipulating whatever he shared with you. At any rate, I bought three of his music band's CDs and I can now trash those. I don't keep nothing from people that are insincere and scummy... Nice way to alienate retailers from the comic book club, Alex. I'll bet that they'll all be so proud of you for dragging them into your self righteous shit.

"All the rig-a-ma-roll"... Gosh, imagine having to pay someone before they will let you rack up another bill with them! The horror! No wonder he's been banned from every comic shop in Central New York.

3) Then later that same night, Rick posts about a conversation he had with Kim.

Rick -
I have just withdrawn myself from all discussion of any of it. If pressed I tell people that you were square with me, and that is all that I know firsthand. I am friends and have dealings with many of the people involved in those on-line discussions. I read and contribute to none of them. I appreciate your sympathy for my daughter and our family.

And Rick's respoonse is basically "Gosh. Kim is such a good friend to me. I hate that he seems like he has to stop being my friend... After I just "kicked him to the curb" and everything in an earlier post. Good thing I won't be giving him "monies" to put in his pot anymore."

I don't like losing friends. I'm simply not going to be a topic of discussion by people presenting themselves as being my friend. Kim is a straight shooting type of guy. He's just not somebody I'll be buying anything from in the coming years. So yeah, it sucks to lose a person I thought was a friend, but Alex Frazier sucks more.

Hope it makes more sense to you guys than it does to me.

[KJ!]

I was thinking, considering Gail said she plans to remove some irrelevant posts when she locks this thread, it's probably best for us all to refrain from adding new posts (as tempting as it is, even for me), unless it's something completely new, and important, to save her the trouble of having more to go there. So with that, I bid as-salaam-alaikum.

-J.R. (not "Junior") LeMar

I'm curious what he could have possible meant by this bit (Your post, content regarding Doc Absurd): ''Now before I go and say something that wouldn't be politically correct, Junior, you'll need to go back over what I actually did say to Tolbolski''

[Artful Angie]

And one other tidbit I find funny:

Which reminds me, I have a couple ORCA invoices here to be paid. Can you handle that? I mean, you are representing yourself as being a 'responsible person/party' to (ORCA) Organized Readers of Comics Associated, are you not?

So thanks for admitting that you in fact still have outstanding bills for ORCA that you never attempted to resolve. Because you "forgot" that bills have to be paid.

Yeah, go ahed and send them on over! I guess the real ORCA will have to show you how it's done, Rick. A lesson in how to be responsible is long overdue for you. You got the snail mail address. Or better yet, scan them and send them on over to my email address: ArtfulAngie@gmail.com . I won't hold my breath waiting for you to send me an email. Just like I'm sure those vendors didn't hold their breath all these years waiting for you to pay them.