The World of Myth Magazine

12pm

Dave opens meeting with mission statement

Roll call – Kevin – Present

Dave – Present

Walter – Present

Alan – Present

Stephanie – Present

We have the entire Board present for the meeting.

Treasurer’s Report

Starting Total -

Money in -

Money Out -

Balance -

Secretary’s Report – The Secretary apologizes for the lack of minutes and promises to try harder.

Business arising from the minutes – Minutes for August were not available.

Dave shared the news that the United Steel Workers will be covering the entire cost of the light tunnel for the 501^st for PCE

Touched on how we solved the Randy/Nuwave issue. Updated us on Higher Learning, John has decided to move on and do his own thing. Dave encourages John with his new endeavour Anthi Entertainment, saying the competition is always welcome. Idris is finished. We hired two new people Dark Myth Comics, Inker is Godspower Patrick, and the colourist is Godstime Ishmal. We also hired Carlos Ramos who is going to be doing American Smash artwork, he also inked issue one, Patrick did issue two, working on issue 3. Dave puts up pictures in the for all of us to see.

Dave also mentions that we have talked to Matt Wall and he agreed to become to the producer for the Jayzomodcast. He is the son of Dave’s mentor Terry, and is excited to bring him on board. Dave will send him the contract after the meeting.

Dave informs the Board that his job as chairman will be up as of January 1^st. So he has decided that he needs to focus on getting distribution ready. He is going to take over and build Outsider Distribution over the next year. He will no longer be the Chairman of the Board, and he has also decided that he can not be CEO of the company as well, he wants to run for President of his Union at work. so as of January 1^st he is stepping down. He is not giving up the publishing. He will still be a member of the Board. He will still be at every meeting. Dave has been talking to Alan for many months, and he has also agreed, because he has gone into Nursing School, he will be stepping down as Chief Business Officer.

Dave nominates Walter as Chairman of the Board, Alan seconds.

Walter accepts.

Dave nominates Stephanie as CEO of the company. Walter seconds.

Stephanie accepts.

Dave nominates Nolan Smith as Chief Business Officer.

We had not heard back as of yet from him.

Dave nominates Gary Falls for CFO.

Dave wants us to have our own distribution package even though we will still have to use Diamond and Lunar to start.

Walter suggests a Chief Creative Officer.

The game plan is to come back in 2024. Dave is still going to work on PCE.

Dave feels this is the direction we need to go.

Kevin has new business, and jumps in with it, he wants to know if we did a Hall of Fame for anyone. We hadn’t, then he wanted to know why, and we told him it was money. Dave explained that the original concept was that it was supposed to be a black-tie dinner after PCE and that never happened because we could not get a venue or get it coordinated with the time frame. Kevin suggests that it is more about the recognition from the company for the individual who has turned out consistent work for us for the year and thinks that we should recognize those people. Stephanie mentions various idea’s as to how we could go about naming Member of the Year. Walter suggests that we start with the relaunch as our starting point. Who is our greatest of that time? Major contributor? Stephanie can come up with 5 names easily.

Kevin suggests that we come up with a certificate, signed by the Board for our Member of the Year.

Stephanie suggests that we get back to a serious sit-down interview with our winners, aside from the Myth Master. Agreeing that we want to have the fun side, but also have a serious side.

Leadership Reports – Jai Bailey was able to join us, Henry was absent due to his daughter moving. Walter explained to Jai the situation with Nu Wave Comics. We had the secretaries report, no business from the previous meeting. Walter needs to train Jai for the OCC. Dark Myth Publications has a ton of things underway, Steph reassures that she will not be leaving as Editor in Chief, Dave says that we will probably cut down on our publications due to inflation. Gary gave his report on Myth Mart, basically we are level for it. Gary is reaching out to Scholastics to get our books in there. Gary and Steph are still working on the Mythketeers box. Henry is working on American Smash. Liberty’s Run is just getting started for the comic. Live Events committee will have a proper light tunnel for the 501^st. Jason Mewes agent has approved, just waiting on the talent. Tim is doing well for Mythbits, American Nerd just wrapped.

Dave has information on Scarefaire. One of the Vendors from last year Scarefaire paid through PayPal, and they filed a refund through PayPal for their spot, they paid Eddie through that avenue and PayPal gave them back their money and that overdrew the account.

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Next meeting: October 23, 2022