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combatbrodom asked: Thank YOU. For all my love of comics, I don't think I've ever asked an artist, writer or any kinda creator about the financial ins-and-outs of the industry as it is today. Of course, now I'm gonna be a nosey parker and start asking a whole buncha other questions. Questions like, "Have you ever gone to conventions and shown your stuff to talent scouts like CB Cebulski?" If not, what sorta other ways do you go about getting work?

Yeah, comics are rising in popularity again, after the decline around the 1970’s, I wanna say. It’s tough because the audience’s attention shifts so rapidly in such a short period of time, that what I’m growing up knowing as a popular comic style, subject-matter, and mode of publication, isn’t what it’s going to be in the year that I decide to start a graphic novel then actually publish it. The time between starting and finishing, my audience will probably want…I don’t know, a comic about people skydiving, and the thoughts they have while they’re falling, then land. Or some second-person POV comic. Who knows? Artists have gotta keep really up to date and work their asses off to be one step ahead of the game. 


…Ramble.
I haven’t gone out to seek talent scouts yet, no. Craig Thompson, Jeremy Tinder, and Laura Park have seen my comics and made critiques on them, though. As for going about getting work, I’m still in school so I can’t really afford to take on an art related job on the side, that’d be NUTS. But when I leave school, I’m hoping one of my professors will recommend me to a hiring place, or a professor will request to collaborate with me, and by word of mouth, I’ll be sought after. At least, that’s the ideal situation. Otherwise, I just have to seek out galleries or draw for the newspaper, seek indie musical artists looking for CD cover artists, etc. 


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