Card Cheat pencils, kicking off!
Posted in Work » Card Cheat on January 30, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Reposted from my Flickr page: Lettering at pencils ensures that I've left enough space for dialogue, allows the writer (Marc in this case) to make any tweaks that he thinks it's needs, and let's me starting making design choices.
Marc and I are rethinking how we're pitching the book a bit.... at least what we're putting in the pitch packet.
With all the announcement of Diamond raising the benchmark selling points for books, conversations through out the Web have been about how this affects the "indies"... those books not put out by Marvel and DC. I'm sure it affects them as well, but what it REALLY affects are companies like Image, IDW, etc. Basically all the companies that are viable options for us to submit The Card Cheat to submit to. For the past two weeks I've been reading reports of cancellations, format changes, and other methods of dealing with Diamond's change.
Even though both Marc and I have previous comic experience, we haven't produced a monthly comic. Marc's first two unfortunately got caught in the Speakeasy Comics disaster, and I just... haven't. So we have to prove ourselves right out of the gate all over again.
We're putting together the entire first issue, along with the other usual submission requirements (plot synopsis, cover art, cover letter, etc). The first issue will be colored, lettered, the whole shebang. It'll take longer to put together, but we need to show the publishers that we can put together more than 5 to 7 pages of quality content. We can put together entire issues of consistently quality content. Plus I have to prove to them that I can draw horses.
I feel like it's a good in-between of just making five pages and what Larry Young talked about over at Robot 6.
Of course once the pitch is out, I'll be working on subsequent issues, so interested publishers can see more if they'd like. And even better, once it's picked up, we'll already have a lot of pages in the can.
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