How To Get Working In Comics Quick!

 

A typical kid in college who wants to be working in comics will spend 5% of their time drawing, writing, or creating ideas and then 95% of their time reading comics, watching TV, playing video games, talking about comics, learning other subjects hoping, wishing, praying, and thinking they could be working in comics.

That rarely works.

Hoping and wishing is good sedative for the creative soul, because actually working in comics has mainly been about freelancers striving to make big companies rich by giving them cheap labor. Artists typically just want an outlet for their creativity and have been willing to sell their soul just hoping that they can be recognized enough to satisfy their creative ego. 

And at what expense? Hostile editor stories from the seventies bring up images of the heart and soul of the artist being squashed under the editor's feet who also want to be working in comics, but can't draw--so they get to tell everybody else how to draw.

It's about time times change. If you want to be working in comics, you need to do these 3 things.

1. ASK YOURSELF. "Why do you want to be working in comics?" Write it down. Put it in a safe place. Refer to it often. It will be incredibly easy to give up if you don't know why you are working in comics in the first place.

2. MAKE NO EXCUSES. Don't think you can't be working in comics just because no one will give you job, you don't have time, or you can't afford it. Do you always let others boss you around so easily?

3. MAKE COMICS. Get off the couch. Use what materials you have at your disposal. Put it out there for the world to see. We want to see a talented, beautiful you that will fulfill our deepest desires and wishes through your story.

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