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03-24-2009, 12:39 PM | #4221 |
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03-24-2009, 12:40 PM | #4222 |
Forever Ronin
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wish i knew some headz here in NC... would i sound retarded for saying i could spend e WEEK nonstop just playin' G.I.Joe/paintball/watchin' Joe eps/creating Joe concepts?
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03-24-2009, 12:46 PM | #4223 |
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Andy Schmidt is the editor of the Joe line for IDW.
Go to IDW's website and read their submissions policy. ALOT of comic companies aren't taking "off the street" (unsoliciated) submissions anymore, not sure if IDW does or not. Absolutely DO NOT send anything to a writer or artist. especially if it's new concepts. Something using the writer/artists established characters is okay. Also, chances of IDW using unsoliciated character designs is pretty slim. They'd take things from in-house or Hasbro first. Anything new would have to go thru them to Hasbro then back again and there would be copyright issues, liscensing fees, having to "buy" the character, etc.. Not trying to crush the dream or anything, sorry. Your best bet is to produce the concepts as your own thing. Write and draw your own comic with the concepts. Or even use them in some kind of Joe Fan Fiction and post that on the web. That's the best chance of it getting seen. Anything comics related, you have to break into the biz and work your way up before can start dishing out concepts. I've tried. |
03-24-2009, 12:51 PM | #4224 |
Forever Ronin
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andy schmidt is the editor of the joe line for idw.
Go to idw's website and read their submissions policy. Alot of comic companies aren't taking "off the street" (unsoliciated) submissions anymore, not sure if idw does or not. Absolutely do not send anything to a writer or artist. Especially if it's new concepts. Something using the writer/artists established characters is okay. Also, chances of idw using unsoliciated character designs is pretty slim. They'd take things from in-house or hasbro first. Anything new would have to go thru them to hasbro then back again and there would be copyright issues, liscensing fees, having to "buy" the character, etc.. Not trying to crush the dream or anything, sorry. Your best bet is to produce the concepts as your own thing. Write and draw your own comic with the concepts. Or even use them in some kind of joe fan fiction and post that on the web. That's the best chance of it getting seen. Anything comics related, you have to break into the biz and work your way up before can start dishing out concepts. I've tried. |
03-24-2009, 12:59 PM | #4225 |
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Was thisclose to breaking in a long time ago, but the publisher folded. I did have a comic character named after me though. Back in the early days of the 'Net, I spent alot of time on the AOL comic forums (this was way back in '94 or so, when the only place out there was AOL). Was "co-in-charge" of this Wildstorm fan e-mail club thingie, even got to visit Homage Studios and did Tequila Shots with Jim Lee at SDCC once. The person I handed the thing over to was a girl named Lorelei Bunjes, who lived out that way in San Diego and thru this thing ended up doing work for Wildstorm and eventually made her way to the fledgling IDW Publishing (not sure if she's still there or not). Anyways, one of the people I regularly talked to was Jeff Mariotte. He wrote a Wildstorm book called Hazard, only lasted 8 issues or so. A character in the book Hazard, named Dr. Shock, his real name was named after me. Another character, Nitro Grrl, her real name was after the other person who had been "co-in-charge" of the e-mail thing. I have tons of files on the computer of 1/2-created book concepts. Novels that have been started and stopped. My problem is that I hate my writing. I love to write. Just hate how my writing sounds. I love creating and coming up with concepts, just hate my own writing so never get anything finished. Now I like my writing in comic book form, in script form. It's just novel form I can't stand. I have a redone Joe concept, how I think Joe should have been done in the first place with a new take on Cobra.
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03-24-2009, 01:02 PM | #4226 |
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It used to be, back in the day, that hanging out on message boards and such was a way to get noticed. But nowadays, not so much.
Kurt Busiek used to write into the letters pages all the time. The editors were impressed with how his knowledge and such that they gave him a start. I believe, don't hold me to it, that Matt Fraction (current Uncanny X-Men writer), got started a similar way. It's really the editors that you have to impress, not the "talent" itself.
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03-24-2009, 01:03 PM | #4227 |
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Cool! There's an editor in Witchblade whose name and likeness is based on me (I won a contest online), and Jim Cheung has slipped my name into New Avengers a few times (the Fogger Shipping Warehouse is where the Skrulls congregated in the recent Secret Invasion storyline).
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03-24-2009, 01:17 PM | #4228 |
Forever Ronin
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wow, i feel extremely outclassed (... and under-dressed.)
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03-24-2009, 01:28 PM | #4229 |
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I have tons of files on the computer of 1/2-created book concepts. Novels that have been started and stopped.
My problem is that I hate my writing. I love to write. Just hate how my writing sounds. I love creating and coming up with concepts, just hate my own writing so never get anything finished. Now I like my writing in comic book form, in script form. It's just novel form I can't stand. |
03-24-2009, 02:08 PM | #4230 |
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