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Hey dude. Graduate high school first, generate a portfolio of scripts, and pay artists up front to illustrate your work, otherwise nothing will ever, ever happen.

I work on an anthology dedicating to helping first-time creators get their first published experience, and we pay artist and writers a small rate. We get 100+ pitches a year, and sift out the best 20 to develop. Think about your pitches in that context - could it stand out against 100 competitors? Is it as concise, unique, and emotionally compelling as it could be? We regularly have artists turn down a paid opportunity because they're not interested in a script, so you need to have something that is really, really good to convince an artist to work for free.

I recommend Save The Cat and Jim Zub's Pitch Tutorials as good places to learn more of the craft. I do wish you the best and hope to you see submit something in a few years.

Agreed. As-is, while the drawing is fairly strong, the composition is far too simple.

/u/FatherJTodd, every panel in this page puts the subject in the center of the page in a straight-on shot (one shot is from the 'side' but the camera is still at the same level). While this means the story is understandable, it's also very 'wooden' and somewhat devoid of drama; there's so much more you could be doing with composition to give this page some life.

Compare your page to what Tradd Moore does in Luther Strode. Tradd is a master of dynamic comic composition-- he varies the size and shape of the panels, the "camera" angle, the location of the subjects within the panel, and the amount of black to create a visual feast for the eyes.

That's not to say you have to immediately start going crazy like Tradd does... but you should definitely start thinking about composition more. Check out Wally Wood's 22 Panels that Always Work for ideas of how to change up composition, and buy/read Marcos Mateu-Mestre's fantastic book Framed Ink for a more in-depth explanation of composition for graphic communication.

For what you're talking about specifically, you might try looking at the Best American Comics anthologies. Here is the 2017 edition, for example. I'm sure there are great periodicals dedicated only to that, but I don't know—some are probably mentioned in the anthologies. As for short fiction in general (not illustrated), a few literary magazines that are popular these days that are a little varied in flavor include:

Online:

• Paper Darts
  
• Hobart
  
• Diagram
  
• Pank
  
  Print:
  
• Noon
  
• Tin House
  
• A Public Space
  
• McSweeney's Quarterly Concern
  
• Ploughshares
  
  A lot of different work appears in these sorts of mags, and they're not quite what you're talking about, but if you want to just see a bit more of what contemporary literary short fiction is out there, I suppose these are good places to start.

That's great to hear -- I'm really glad it's helping out.

I also find his "How to Draw" and "How to Render" books hugely valuable, as well.

I raised $25,000 on Kickstarter for a film project:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/596784753/thane-of-east-county

I would say that 90% of the funding came from friends/family/acquaintances of mine and of the actors and crew on our film. Part of what helped make it successful was we had our whole team (~40 people) in place before running the project and all of them helped push the campaign to their own social networks.

I went through every Facebook friend and every email address I had, no matter how tenuous the contact was, and sent a personal message to each starting with "hi remember me! [Personalized anecdote], [copy/paste block of text about the project] [request for money and social media shares]". I did that in the first week, the I did AGAIN in the third week.

It is my firm belief that Kickstarter donors are almost always people that already know and like you. Do you have 1 million twitter followers? Or have you already produced something people have liked? Those people already know and like you... If you don't have that, it's gonna be friends & family. And you have to spend the whole campaign WORKING to make contact with them all and get that $$$.

This is true of films - I know a number of people that have done this. I don't know anyone who has done a comic Kickstarter but my guess would be that it's the same deal.

The rules are totally different for products/gadgets that people actually want to buy, rather than artistic products. And occasionally something goes viral like the potato salad guy. But IMO, you really shouldn't plan on that.

Oh, and if you want to see the film we made, it's on Amazon Prime (we changed the name...)
https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Will-Have-Carr-Cavender/dp/B07961JG3G/

Hey, all! I'm Matthew Summo, former writer for Double Take on the bestselling comic entitled "Dedication" (For sale [here] (https://www.amazon.com/Dedication-Checked-out-Fire-I/dp/0997289937/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1485377797&sr=8-1&keywords=Dedication+matt+summo) )

I'm always open and available to collaborating with artists! Looking to start a kickstarter soon as well!

Please feel free to reach out to me here or on Twitter


Thanks!

http://www.penciljack.com - Level up through the forums. Loston Wallace + Smitty (The Legendary Paul Smith) are frequenters. Get tips from people that know what the fuck they're talking about.

I suck at drawing, but I know the good books, and they'll likely recommend them too:

http://www.amazon.com/Figure-Drawing-All-Its-Worth/dp/0857680986/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377364025&sr=1-1&keywords=andrew+loomis

Anything by Loomis. Steve Rude, Alex Ross, and many more see his books as integral to their artistic education.

http://www.amazon.com/Perspective-Made-Easy-Dover-Instruction/dp/0486404730/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377364049&sr=1-1&keywords=norling+perspective+made+easy

http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Right-Side-Brain-Definitive/dp/1585429201/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377364114&sr=1-1&keywords=drawing+on+the+right+side+of+the+brain

Good luck!

I was curious to see your script, but the two links you provided are the same. They both pointed to your prose

If you're learning how to script, I recommend checking out this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Panel-One-Scripts-Writers-Comics/dp/0971633800

I found it really helpful!

Awesome web resource is Jim Zub's blog. He covers tons of topics. Very honest and helpful.


There are a lot of great book resources you should check out too, but they tend to go more into the process of making a story. More about the craft and less about the process.
Scott McCloud's Books, "Understanding Comics" and "Making Comics".
Bendis's book, Words for Pictures

I'm not a pro, but I have been learning the past months how to letter.

Rather than correct the page, this is how I'd do it in a quick fashion. Probably there's a few mistakes in mine's but it gets the ideas across. (Mostly my balloon tails are very basic but hey, this is a two minute mock-up...)

http://i.imgur.com/rrzamz5.png

Now, my corrections would be: Your text alignment needs to be more rounded in order to make the balloon shapes almost like circles.The balloons also shouldn't cover important art on each panel as much as possible. The text inside every balloon needs space to "breathe".

My recommendations would be:

Illustrator is pretty much the de-facto tool for lettering, so get used to learn it. Try Lynda or online tutorials and learn all the basics & intermediate lessons about Illustrator.

Check out Nate Piekos (Blambot) tips on the most basic lettering mistakes and the "rules" of comic book grammar.

http://chrissamnee.tumblr.com/post/87175204420/mylittledoxy-yopatrick-some-good-tips-about

https://twitter.com/blambot/status/517362038503669760/photo/1

http://www.blambot.com/grammar.shtml

Check out Scott McCloud's intro tutorials to Lettering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhsqRjBehmw

Also, Jim Campbell has a whole PDF text on the basics of lettering.

http://www.jimcampbell-lettering.co.uk/

And get this book by Comicraft to get more info on the subject

http://www.amazon.com/Comic-Book-Lettering-The-Comicraft/dp/0974056731

Hope it helps you.

The single best resource I've found for comic writing is Denny O'Neil's
dc comics guide to writing.

Personally, I set objectives and let the organically come out over a set number of pages. Example: I need to add A, B, and C over the next 22 pages. This gives you enough wiggle room to make changes along the way.

I host the Comic Book Creator Podcast that you can check out for more tips.

First thing first, buy and read Alexis Van Hurkman's Color Correction Handbook.

Then buy and calibrate a colour monitor and use something like a Blackmagic Design microconverter to drive the monitor.


Do all of the exercizes in the handbook and then find some footage to download and correct. Then get some jobs and work for 10 years. You might be a colourist by then.

• If you need some leads on how comic scripts look, here are a few examples: Here, Here, Here, & Here
  
  
• If you want to dive in deeper, you could buy these books: Writers on Comics Scriptwriting Vol 1, Writers on Comics Scriptwriting Vol 2, & Panel Two: More Comic Book Scripts By Top Writers

¿This is a paid job?

My name is Juanfran Moyano. I am professional comic book artist with more of 6 years experience. I have worked at editorials like Dynamite, IDW, Devil 's due, Arcana. I at present am available and look for for some project, series or graphic novel.


My email of contact: [email protected] or use my Facebook's page to contact with me: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Juan-Francisco-Moyano/666852250020687






These are some referential links.

https://pulllist.comixology.com/previews/JUN083866/Forgotten-Realms-Starless-Night-1


http://www.amazon.es/The-Worlds-Dungeons-Dragons-Volume/dp/1934692352


http://www.gwthomas.org/elminster.htm


http://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1606905694


http://comicbookrealm.com/previews/7474/idw-publishing-gateway-issue-1


http://majorspoilers.com/2014/03/04/gate-way-3-sneak-peek/


http://www.arcana.com/view_title.php?id=64






http://www.comicvine.com/juanfrancisco-moyano/4040-63791/issues-cover/

https://www.amazon.com/Writing-10th-Anniversary-Memoir-Craft/dp/1439156816

Also see: The 2000 AD Script Book https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1781084688/ref=aw_wl_ov_dp_6_6?colid=3KVQ6NM8TTA3N&coliid=IBAFK5IV769FA