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Dear all,
I've been wanting for some time to put together an Anthology book (graphic mainly) as a showcase for those talents who want to get into the field of comics but can't because there's no money in them thar hills and anyway have you had anything published...etc.
I know this stuff has been done before, and 2000ad is alive and well and Warrior folded years ago, but basically, what I'm proposing is a book that serves as an apprentiship for bigger and better things.
My outline is as follows;
The book is to be called 'Prologue' - the way I see it it is unrealistic to look at weekly or even monthly releases, and quarterly titles never really hit the mark, especially if they contain several on-going but short story lines. So a bi-monthly or even six week window seems best.
It will contain 5 - 7 stories per issue, each about 5-7 pages long (keeping within the 2000ad framework, also makes for tighter story telling and less padding). These can be on-going strips told in chunks (books or whatever you want to call them, thus allowing rotation).
Each part of the whole (ie the writing or art or lettering or editing) will be completed by a person per-part. Basically, I see this is a way for a person to prove that they can do whatever part of whatever field they want to do - so no writer/artists and although collaboration is part of this process undoubtedly, I don't think that it's fair that artist a tells writer x how to do it, or vice versa. It's a springboard apprenticeship.
All works ownership is to be retained by the creators - naturally.
This is not a money making scheme, it is purely for the love - any money made will go back into the book to provide materials and better paper, printing processes shipping etc.
Okay, I know it's all a little pipe-dreamy, but I have wanted to self-publish for ages, and have had trouble with artists, paper, printing everything, so what I'm proposing is getting together and using all of our strengths to produce something. Not just writers and artists - anyone who thinks that they can manage the whole affair, or wants to be an editor, or letterer or colourist, I could go on and on - basically, it's a low-fi way of showing the hi-fi people out there that you can do what you want and a nice little piece for the cv.
Any advice, help or takers? |
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