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Speakeasy Comics Shuts Down
By Insomnaic
Published: March 7, 2006
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 Comic publisher Speakeasy Comics is shutting down due to “payment problems and low sales.”
Adam Fortier, owner and operator of Speakeasy Comics, had this to say when asked his reasoning for closing the company: “We didn’t get money…money that was supposed to come through never materialized for a number of months.” “Right now, I’m working on getting money so I can pay back the printers and the creators. All in all though, the creators aren’t really owed a great deal of money – not even a Dreamwave amount, and much less than a CrossGen amount.” “I’ve called all my creators, I’ve called all my artists, and basically everybody knows that we’re going to take as good of care of them as we can. We’re not leaving anybody out in the lurch, we’re not declaring bankruptcy, we’re not running away from debt, so that’s something, at least.” “I don’t see Speakeasy coming back…I just don’t have any passion for this. The last number of months was full of constant problems, and the last week was just full of working…not even to keep people happy, but just to keep people satisfied. It’s just too tough. It’s not necessarily a great place to be anymore.” “There’re so many different things, and it’s kind of tough to point to one thing and say, ‘My God, this is the one thing that’s destroying all of us!’ It’s very much a self-fulfilling prophecy. In order to be very successful in the comic book industry, I believe that people believe – and so it becomes true – you need to have your series done before you solicit it. You need to be able to show people, you need to be able to give people confidence in the product, and then you need to be able to pay your bills anyway if they don’t have confidence and they don’t really want to support it. Of course what happens there, is that there’s no way to run a company like that. You just can’t do it. Nobody has money like that. Even with millions, like CrossGen, it couldn’t be done. So, if the multi-millionaires don’t have money to be able to run a company like that, what hope does anybody else have?”
Speakeasy was the publisher of print versions of webcomics Athena Voltaire and Butternut Squash.
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