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Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2005 12:47 pm Post subject: Artists needed for new imprint!
If I'm breaking any forum rules here, please someone tell me. I'm not promoting; I'm inviting.
On several of the forums I frequent, we all keep saying someone should put comics back on the newsstands. Well, these last few months I've been working hard towards just that.
I'm setting up a publishing house for graphic novels and comics. Some material will be downloadable online, some POD (print-on-demand: the customer orders one, it's printed and despatched), and some - the holy grail - distributed to newsstands (initially in the UK, but it's a start).
Some of my own material is visible on my website, but despite the progress I've made since putting all that up, I can't produce everything I'll need myself. So this is a call for contributors.
I need artists and writers, particularly artists (although if you've got a great story or character, shout). There's no house style, although submissions will be electronic and I imagine most artwork will be from 3D, like mine. There will be superheroes, but there will be other genres too, and a variety of lengths. Most material will be all-ages, and there will be no porn.
Also, when I say artists... In traditional comics, there's the separation of pencillers, inkers and colourists. If you can set up a scene with a background, interesting-looking characters and facial expressions, and a range of interesting camera angles and panel shapes, don't worry if you don't know how to ink or finish or whatever - because I can do that. On the other hand, the more you do, the more you'll get paid for. If you've already got the art skills and a cool character but no idea how to write the story, we'll deal with that.
The hard bit? There are two. Firstly, you won't get paid up front. There's nothing to invest but time, but from then onwards, it's profitsharing. This means there are no guarantees, but potential rewards are unlimited. If you help to create a character who goes on to feature in a series of blockbuster films...
The other hard part is that you'll need to be good enough. If your work's no worse than mine, I can use you. But if you can't do character design, posing, expressions, lighting and cameras - whether we're talking 3D art or old-fashioned pencils - please don't apply. Similarly, be honest about what you can produce: don't say you can do sixteen pages a month if you can only do eight. There will be opportunities at all sensible lengths.
If you can make use of these opportunities, e-mail me and let's get rich together.
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:43 pm Post subject: Re: Artists needed for new imprint!
Well, one of the ideas is a book - for bookstores! - called something like BEST OF ONLINE COMICS, featuring entirely shorts of about eight pages. That's only eight pages.
Eight pages.
IMP. _________________ RIVER: skin on the outside. First chapter FREE from www.ianmpalmer.com
Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 11:39 am Post subject: Re: Artists needed for new imprint!
The Legend.
Okay, try this. This is for anyone who can do the whole package - story, art, letters - but might only manage eight pages. Remember the rule that if it looks like a Poser screenshot, it's not good enough. Artwork should either be Hollywood-quality 3D, or look like comics. Remember, too, that the below is my copyright, and I'd suggest anyone who wants to do a piece send me a script and a style sample first: you don't want to do a week's work on my character and then have me reject it and tell you you can't show it anywhere else.
This is an "open brief" for an anthology series, which has a unifying character but can accommodate stories of pretty much any type, style or setting. This means that anyone can contribute anything they like (with the usual conditions, like no porn), as long as they can lever in the very flexible character described below.
Trust me.
When Michael Mann - if that was his name - chose for himself the nickname The Legend - if he did - it was an act of prophecy. If he lived, he has become a legend, second only perhaps to King Arthur.
Looking back from our distant perspective, it seems impossible to separate historical fact from romantic fantasy. Most accounts place his birth somewhere between the eighteenth and early twenty-third centuries, although at least one story locates him in first-century Palestine while, inevitably, the many time-travel adventures complicate the issue. It seems likely that he operated in some way outside the main stream of social order, as either rebel, vigilante, thief or free agent - although occasionally he does operate on behalf of the establishment. He might have possessed some extra-human abilities, but it is not generally suggested that he could fly or fire force-beams from his eyes or hands.
Little else is consistent. His supporting cast and explanations of his abilities and motivations change frequently, while his recurring nemesis, The Menace, sometimes an individual and sometimes an organisation or an entire species, appears in fewer than half of the surviving narratives. There is even a substantial "alternative" tradition featuring Michelle or Michaela Mann, a female Legend. Visually speaking, two elements have been in use for so long that it can no longer be known how authentic they are: the blue-and-white colour-scheme, and the question-mark motif which, unless rooted in history, indicates a certain knowingness on the part of the storytellers, already sensitive by their time to the enduring mystery of their hero.
There is no single version, accepted as canon, of The Legend's end. Indeed, there is a lasting popular belief that he never died at all, and one day will return...
We have another portfolio concept, less wide-ranging than The Legend, (and which some of you will have heard me mention before) which is 1942. The concept is: it's 1942. You can tell any story you like (again, no porn), as long as it's 1942. It might not seem like much, but if you think about it... _________________ RIVER: skin on the outside. First chapter FREE from www.ianmpalmer.com
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