Skottie Young on Making Comics #4
In this Podcast episode, the multi Eisner Award winning writer and artist, Skottie Young, who has been working at Marvel comics for 10 years talks with Daniel Lieske and Jason Brubaker about making creator owned comics!
This episode we talk about choosing which hats to wear in your quest to publish comics, what might be the benefits to self-publishing, going digital, printing through Image and a host of other random things.
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Check out Skottie’s website at: http://www.skottieyoung.com/.
You can download some sweet digital books from his online store here: http://skottieyoungdigital.bigcartel.com/
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Great talk, I’ll probably be thinking about it for a while. I’m not so sure about the specifics of “the theory” but a book that looks impressive obviously has an advantage over books that looks, um, less impressive. Size and number of pages probably help.
I’m looking forward to the next podcast. I love Powernap! Yay!
It was interesting to hear how Image is different from other publishers. But to the typical struggling comic artist like myself, that’s still a huge layout in cash that I would have to make (even if it is on the back end) in order to have someone publish me. And of course, that assumes Image is even interested. How many books do they actually publish a year?
It all circles back to why we self publish. Because the opportunity jar is only open to a select few. Very few of us are a Jason, Daniel or Skottie. It’s great you guys have some options, but truthfully, most of us won’t get those opportunities.
That’s why tools like Kickstarter are so great, and that’s why this website and Jason’s articles have been great, because it allows the bulk of the struggling artists to further their craft and get a bite of some success.
Jason, I would love to hear more detail about your publicist. As I am nearing the end of my big story, where I will likely pull all my strips together in one big book, I am trying to think of ways to get that book into places like libraries, etc. But I realize the cost can be high.
Also, regarding libraries. If you are up for putting in some footwork, you can get your books in local libraries. You simply walk in and ask to talk to the person in charge of acquiring books for whatever section your book would go in. (For a lot of us, the young readers or teen sections). They often like to get local artists books on their shelves. In this way I got my daughter’s book into a few local libraries. In some cases, they will actually pay you for your book, too.
Best of luck to Skottie and his project, I’ve bought one of his digital books and love his style, looking forward to what he comes up with.
really great podcast guys. Very informative. Skottie is a great guest and one of my favorite creators working today.
Also i’m shaking my fists at you in damnation!!! These things tend to inspire me to want to get back to work on my own book…except i’m at work, working on other things that keep my bills paid! GRRRR. haha
Haha! I think we are all shaking out fists as we are forced to make money. It really is the ultimate dream to be able to quit your job to solely focus on your own creative projects. It will happen, Oh yes, it will happen. :)