Which is exactly why you just replied to it, and were so hurt by said opinions that you actually thought I was out to “ruin your dreams” when it’s clear the intent was anything but. By all means get into comics, but you have to realize something now:
What is going to be the motivation for you and your artist?
Answering what motivates you is going to be easy. You have a story and you want to share it. If you didn’t want to share it, you wouldn’t bother putting it on paper or having an artist draw it. You’d just keep it in your head. You wanting to put it down on paper and turn it into a reality? That’s you wanting to share it with the world, if not even one person.
But how about your artist? What will he have at stake when rendering your characters, dialogue and fight scenes? Why should he bother? One reason is that he’s also invested some input into the story and likes it so much that he also wants to bring it to life. Another reason could be that he wants to put comic pages in his portfolio. Yet another could be that you’re paying him.
In other words, you need to lose your self-righteous attitude right now, because you have to give your baby up to an artist to draw it, and you need to give him a good reason.
If this really is your intention, then you fucked up. I’m a writer/artist, I gave you *constructive criticism, *and then you shot me down. You said earlier that you didn’t want to compromise your erratic vision for your story, and didn’t have to because you weren’t writing for a big publisher. Now you want to enter the industry? It’s one or the other, man. If you want to enter the industry, you’ll be encountering guys a hundred times harsher than me, for good reason - comics are their livelihoods. You know all the best creators? Lee, Kirby, Ditko, **Eisner? Comics put food on their table. When how well their art is received determines whether or not you can feed your family tonight, you better believe that’s a motivator to get your shit together.
Your synopsis for your story turned me off. The first thing you need to do is somehow figure out how to make at least an overview of your story sound interesting. Remember, the synopsis you’re going to use to attract any potential artists has to be clear enough to understand, concise enough to understand quickly, and exciting enough to want to learn more. If you want to get into the industry, you need to learn how to be a good salesman, because that’s exactly what you’re going to be doing - selling yourself and your ideas. You tried to sell everyone reading this thread on your story. I told you I didn’t like it. What you should have done was show me an example of why your story’s worth following - what you did was tell me to fuck myself.
It’s fine to treat anonymous posters on the internet like this, but if you think you can treat your collaborators or potential investors like this, you should hang it up and not quit your day job.
Edit: Somewhat unrelated to the discussion at hand, but Sano’s art is charming. You should post in Fan Art.
