FinnyD
07-21-2005, 04:27 PM
Please forgive me if this is the wrong forum! It looked like a good choice!
I have just about finished putting together an entry for Dark Horse's newcomer contest. The script is 90% done for two issues, but I but need a solid artist to illustrate. The story is non-superhero, and deals with the occult mythology of the old south. Setting is in early 1800’s. It has heroes, villains, and supernatural happenings, but no costumes or brawling splash pages. If forced to make a Hollywood-style pitch for it, I would say " Constantine / Hellblazer done in the vein of Shelby Foote or Bruce Catton." Think “Devil in the White City,” with the supernatural. I have been a comic fan most of my life, but have not keep up with them in the last 5 five years or so, although I have friends who pass along the "must-reads."
I have some small publishing experience. Currently, I write a feature for a regional magazine, have done history pieces for zone newspapers, and wrote one issue of a locally produced comic back in the 90's. I will have co-author credit on a book (print run 1,000) of a non-fiction subject to be published later this year. Hardly anything that has made me any $ or established a reputation, but I mention it to show that I am deadly serious about making a go of this- I have always wanted to break into the comic world, and this Dark Horse contest looks like a good way to do it,
We would need to get the 5 pages done by end of December to meet their guidelines. If anyone out there is interested, please drop me a line. Serious inquiries only. Thanks for reading, and glad to be part of the forum!
-Mike A.K.A FinnyD
I have just about finished putting together an entry for Dark Horse's newcomer contest. The script is 90% done for two issues, but I but need a solid artist to illustrate. The story is non-superhero, and deals with the occult mythology of the old south. Setting is in early 1800’s. It has heroes, villains, and supernatural happenings, but no costumes or brawling splash pages. If forced to make a Hollywood-style pitch for it, I would say " Constantine / Hellblazer done in the vein of Shelby Foote or Bruce Catton." Think “Devil in the White City,” with the supernatural. I have been a comic fan most of my life, but have not keep up with them in the last 5 five years or so, although I have friends who pass along the "must-reads."
I have some small publishing experience. Currently, I write a feature for a regional magazine, have done history pieces for zone newspapers, and wrote one issue of a locally produced comic back in the 90's. I will have co-author credit on a book (print run 1,000) of a non-fiction subject to be published later this year. Hardly anything that has made me any $ or established a reputation, but I mention it to show that I am deadly serious about making a go of this- I have always wanted to break into the comic world, and this Dark Horse contest looks like a good way to do it,
We would need to get the 5 pages done by end of December to meet their guidelines. If anyone out there is interested, please drop me a line. Serious inquiries only. Thanks for reading, and glad to be part of the forum!
-Mike A.K.A FinnyD