Meme + Comic
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torenheksje:
Guess what: I'm working on a new short comic - not HP-related, I'm afraid, but something that is actually publishable, if a magazine will have it. I'm eyeing Plots, of course - the magazine formerly known as Het Salon. I wasn't too happy with how my previous submission was treated, but I have to face the facts: there just aren't a lot of alternatives as far as getting comics published is concerned. Besides, the Plots Team is more experienced now. They have just published and launched their fourth issue and have been very active on the comics front all year. In fact, as they have been getting more and more submissions, I will once again be nervous about getting accepted at all... But then again I too have learned and improved, so I think I should try my luck :-).
Making short comics is a difficult business, I find. It is not easy to tell a complete story in a mere few pages, especially for someone like me, who thrives on character development and is bad at plotting. A short comic requires a plot like a bullet, fast and compact. I am always at a loss for things like those, and that really annoys me, because if I want to draw any attention to myself at all, I have to be able to show samples of my work from time to time. My projects are always so huge that it takes ages until something is completed, and the important thing about a comic is the quality of the storytelling, not that of sketches and stills.
Yesterday I had a Eureka moment in the bath. I will be adapting a literary text, once more - a poem of sixteen lines with a complete plot in it :D. I do hope that I can pull it off... The sketching is fun, in any case.
Anyway: if I am quiet on the LJ front, you know what I am doing inbetween my jobhunting :P.
The original pages of my first published short comic, The Useless Resurrection, are on display in an exhibition that is shortly to go on a tour of comics shops in Flanders. At the moment it's on view in my hometown. See? It really is time I produced something new... And force the Plotsers to publish it... ;-)
torenheksje:Guess what: I'm working on a new short comic - not HP-related, I'm afraid, but something that is actually publishable, if a magazine will have it. I'm eyeing Plots, of course - the magazine formerly known as Het Salon. I wasn't too happy with how my previous submission was treated, but I have to face the facts: there just aren't a lot of alternatives as far as getting comics published is concerned. Besides, the Plots Team is more experienced now. They have just published and launched their fourth issue and have been very active on the comics front all year. In fact, as they have been getting more and more submissions, I will once again be nervous about getting accepted at all... But then again I too have learned and improved, so I think I should try my luck :-).
Making short comics is a difficult business, I find. It is not easy to tell a complete story in a mere few pages, especially for someone like me, who thrives on character development and is bad at plotting. A short comic requires a plot like a bullet, fast and compact. I am always at a loss for things like those, and that really annoys me, because if I want to draw any attention to myself at all, I have to be able to show samples of my work from time to time. My projects are always so huge that it takes ages until something is completed, and the important thing about a comic is the quality of the storytelling, not that of sketches and stills.
Yesterday I had a Eureka moment in the bath. I will be adapting a literary text, once more - a poem of sixteen lines with a complete plot in it :D. I do hope that I can pull it off... The sketching is fun, in any case.
Anyway: if I am quiet on the LJ front, you know what I am doing inbetween my jobhunting :P.
The original pages of my first published short comic, The Useless Resurrection, are on display in an exhibition that is shortly to go on a tour of comics shops in Flanders. At the moment it's on view in my hometown. See? It really is time I produced something new... And force the Plotsers to publish it... ;-)
