JoMaC2k
07-26-2006, 11:11 PM
I've decided it's finally time to get my act together. I'm never going to be a writer sitting at home pining over how much I'd like to be a writer. But, well as a writer, it's hard to show of your talent without having concise to show off. Now granted, I could just try and put together story ideas with a bit of sample script, but that really doesn't seem to work all that well. So, I'm finally going to self-publish a comic.
But I have a question for any of you creators or those editorially inclined. I want to put together a comic to showcase myself as a talent, because I want to focus on myself as a writer, I was thinking of doing three short stories to show variety in genres and writing styles. On the other hand, one 24 page story would have more saleability and it would be an example of working in the regular comic format rather than short stories. Which do you think would be a better show case of talent, a variety of fully formed short stories or one 24 page story?
Another issue for consideration is I want to be able to pay whatever artist(s) work on this project with me. If I do three separate stories, it's less of a long term commitment for the artist and conceivably, with three artists working simultaneously, could have a quick turn around. One longer story means I only have to deal with one artist possibly flaking out or disappearing, but if they disappear after doing 10 pages, that's a lot more that I need redone in the long run.
So to those of you who have put together your own comics, and those of you who would potentially be looking at this as a sample of my writing, which do you think is stronger: one 22-24 page story or three 8 page stories? Both would also have plot, character, and script samples and probably sketches to final page breakdowns.
But I have a question for any of you creators or those editorially inclined. I want to put together a comic to showcase myself as a talent, because I want to focus on myself as a writer, I was thinking of doing three short stories to show variety in genres and writing styles. On the other hand, one 24 page story would have more saleability and it would be an example of working in the regular comic format rather than short stories. Which do you think would be a better show case of talent, a variety of fully formed short stories or one 24 page story?
Another issue for consideration is I want to be able to pay whatever artist(s) work on this project with me. If I do three separate stories, it's less of a long term commitment for the artist and conceivably, with three artists working simultaneously, could have a quick turn around. One longer story means I only have to deal with one artist possibly flaking out or disappearing, but if they disappear after doing 10 pages, that's a lot more that I need redone in the long run.
So to those of you who have put together your own comics, and those of you who would potentially be looking at this as a sample of my writing, which do you think is stronger: one 22-24 page story or three 8 page stories? Both would also have plot, character, and script samples and probably sketches to final page breakdowns.