Looking for an artist...

[PatrickMM]

I’m looking for an artist for a 64 page science-fiction graphic novel. This is the first comic I have written, but I feel confident in the script, and story. I’m not particularly concerned about your previous artistic experience, or the speed at which you can finish the book. I’m open to different styles of drawing as well.

The title of the book is Make the Future Now, and it is about a scientist in the future who has discovered a way to let people relive their memories. This technology has become a global obsession, and people are becoming more concerned about reliving the good moments of their past than they are about living in the present. The corporation the main character is working for, and helped to build, has lost sight of its original goal, which was to invent and develop new technologies that can help people. Instead, they have become concerned only with making more money. The book takes place on the day of a new product launch, but also loops through time to show the company’s evolution. The primary character focus of the book is the relationship between the two scientists who built the company from nothing, as they slowly drift apart. The book is sci-fi in the mold of Phillip K. Dick, or Transmetropolitan, in that I hope to use a future setting to comment on our current world state, and to show what technology can do to people.

I’ve written most of the script, and have the entire story direction, but I am still very flexible about the look of the book, and would love to have a full collaboration with the artist, in structuring panels, designing characters, and even in forming story details.

I’m hoping to get the finished book hooked up with an established publisher, but if that does not work out, I’m ready to self publish the book. Either way, the work is going to get seen. If that sounds interesting, e-mail me at patrick.meaney@verizon.net, at which time I can send you script samples, and a more in depth discussion of the story. And, if you draw this project, you will have equal control of the property, including fifty percent of all profits made on the book.

[DAMON]

sounds good interesting concept im sure there will be tons of people keen to help here and theres no shortage in talent

[whoreable]

wrong place?

[kelpo]

sounds a bit like total recall

[PatrickMM]

sounds a bit like total recall

I haven't seen that film, but looking at the plot overview on IMDB, it does look like there are some similarities. However, the major difference is through this book, I hope to show the global implications of technology like this, instead of simply using it as a premise for some mind-bending action. Still, it's a valid point.

[alric]

well,about 5 minutes til this one is moved to announcements........


I'll try out for it.

[jv7x]

I'm interested. I'll fire off and e-mail to you. JV

[Jel]

Sounds interesting, but also really a rip-off from a short story by Dan Simmons called Flashback (BTW if you don't know this guy, you should, he is god)...

I'm not saying that you ripped him off, but go read it, you might like it and also see how disturbingly similar to his your story is.

[Juan]

SOMEBODY, ANYBODY MOVE THIS THREAD!

[daredevil30269]

Are you looking for an inker as well?