New Magazine submits your work to all comic editors!!!

[Mike S Miller]

I'm an artist, as some of you may know. I know the time, money and effort it takes to get your artwork in front of editors at Marvel, DC, Top Cow, Dark Horse, etc. It takes a LOT to get noticed and get work and make a living.

Taking that knowledge into account, I and my publishing partners at Alias comics have decided to create a magazine that will be distributed directly to every editor at every major (mid-sized and above, and probably some smaller companies if they request the book) company in the comic industry! We've yet to name the book, so we're still open to suggestions.

Anyway, how do you get in the book? You PAY for it. For only $250 for a single page, or $400 for a double page spread, you can have your artwork, your information, and your website address printed in this exclusive magazine!

Space is limited, and only the best submissions will be published. You don't pay unless you're accepted for publication.

Get published!
Get noticed!
Get work!
Get PAID!

I only WISH I had something like this back when I was breaking into the industry, but you don't have to wish, you just have to SUBMIT!

Email submissions to SUBMIT@aliasenterprises.com

When we get our first 32 SOLID submissions, we'll go to press. Thereafter, we will be producing issues on a monthly basis.

The best submission of the month will get to be on the COVER of the magazine!

We haven't worked out EVERY kink yet, so we're open to suggestions, but that's the gist of it.

Thanks!
-Mike

[theGOBLIN]

Interesting Concept and I am sure will have many people buy the pages but I think I take the old fashion route.

[Mike S Miller]

BTW, please repost this anywhere you think there might be an interest!

Thanks,
M

[Mike S Miller]

Hey Goblin,

I understand that feeling. I just remember spending 80-100 bucks EASY, and HOURS upon HOURS of my time creating submissions packets to send to editors. Nowadays, with most artists having Deviant Art accounts, or their own websites, it would just be so much easier to do it this way, plus, the art will go to so many MORE editors than you might even know contact information for.

That's bad grammar, but whatever. lol.

[Mechangel]

It's a bit steep considering it costs about $50 in postage and maybe $20 in printing to make packets to send to an editor at each publisher.... even if you don't pay unless you get in that's still what, only a couple hundred copies made for the purpose, at $5000+ made from the submitting artists accepted into it?

[Mike S Miller]

It's a bit steep considering it costs about $50 in postage and maybe $20 in printing to make packets to send to an editor at each publisher.... even if you don't pay unless you get in that's still what, only a couple hundred copies made for the purpose, at $5000+ made from the submitting artists accepted into it?

AN editor. So about 1/3 of the cost of a page in this magazine, and you'll hit ONE editor at each company. Do you think editors routinely sit around comparing submissions? DC has something like 30 different editors, each with books of his or her own that they manage the hiring for. And they get piles of envelopes just like the one you send every week. This is a printed book, that they will have delivered to them, and they will most likely take the time to flip through it. If your work stands out to them, then you're in a great position to have them contact you.

If you can't see the advantage in having your work seen by every editor at every company worth its salt, then yeah, it's too steep. Just having been there and done that, I don't personally think it is too steep.

Oh, I didn't mention that you also get free copies of the book.

And yes, the idea is for us to make money off of providing a service. I'm a charitable guy, but I'm not going to waste time, money and effort in producing a book like this just for kicks. I've got way too much other stuff on my plate. lol.

[Phatman]

AN editor. So about 1/3 of the cost of a page in this magazine, and you'll hit ONE editor at each company. Do you think editors routinely sit around comparing submissions? DC has something like 30 different editors, each with books of his or her own that they manage the hiring for. And they get piles of envelopes just like the one you send every week. This is a printed book, that they will have delivered to them, and they will most likely take the time to flip through it. If your work stands out to them, then you're in a great position to have them contact you.

If you can't see the advantage in having your work seen by every editor at every company worth its salt, then yeah, it's too steep. Just having been there and done that, I don't personally think it is too steep.

How can you guarantee that this book will get looked at more than an anonymous packet of pages or another published work by editors?

Is one or two pages enough to grab an editor?

I think a better idea would be to take the money ($250-400) and print up your own mini-comic or save it to show your stuff at the nearest convention to editors in person.

[black_fish]

You are SO right Phatman

$200 can print you a lot of minicomics or ashcans to give out for free at conventions or send around.

Let's no forget too that most small publishers accept email submissions (even Alias! :P )

[Mike S Miller]

Is one or two pages enough to grab an editor?

I think a better idea would be to take the money ($250-400) and print up your own mini-comic or save it to show your stuff at the nearest convention to editors in person.

First point, is a cover on a comic enough to grab you, as a consumer, to pick it up and look inside? Then the answer is the same for an editor looking at your art.

Second point, sure, pay that much to print up your own mini-comic and then spend the time and money you need to get to a convention and stand in multiple portfolio review lines and hope that you get to an editor who actually has the ability to hire you. Keep in mind that the big companies only hit the big cons, and it's a slim chance you happen to live near one of those cons.

Then, when you're several thousand dollars in the hole from trying that for a con season or two, shoot me an email.

[Phatman]

First point, is a cover on a comic enough to grab you, as a consumer, to pick it up and look inside? Then the answer is the same for an editor looking at your art.

Most editors want to see your ability to tell a story in a sequence of pages (hence, the term sequential art) and not some single image or 2 page spread. Why pay to be in an anthology book when there are plenty of other resources out there to publish you for free or some small page rate? If your art is worth a Marvel or DC editors' consideration, then you can find a small publisher to hook up with here on PJ or on Digital Webbing. It's better to get something published for no page rate than to pay to be in anybody's book.

Second point, sure, pay that much to print up your own mini-comic and then spend the time and money you need to get to a convention and stand in multiple portfolio review lines and hope that you get to an editor who actually has the ability to hire you. Keep in mind that the big companies only hit the big cons, and it's a slim chance you happen to live near one of those cons.

Again, the resources are out there if your work is deserving of publication. What is wrong with your idea is that it takes advantage of people who haven't gone to a convention or had any feedback from an editor, and have no idea where they are skill wise. Would you take the money and print the work of somebody whose art is obviously not of pro-quality? If so, how bad does it make the rest of the artists' work look? In your scenerio, if an editor thumbs through the first 5 artists in the book and they suck, the guy on page 20 is never going to get looked at. IMO, this is a bad idea and the wrong approach for any artist looking to break in to take. Again, as an artist or writer you are better off drawing and writing comics, not working on submissions, to hone your skills. Try to draw a 22 page book in 30 days before you say this is what you want or can do for a living. If you have some ability, don't be suckered into all of these contests, how-to-break-in, and "I've got connections" scams that are out there. There are other ways to get your work published for free, and an editor will read your comic with the same odds as this guy's idea.

Then, when you're several thousand dollars in the hole from trying that for a con season or two, shoot me an email.

Nothing personal, Mike, but this whole thing sounds like a bad deal. I'd rather see a publisher, like yours, using your resources to print a few good books by a few aspiring creators, than this shotgun approach. If a creators' work is worthy of the major publishers they can get noticed without your help by just getting some consistant visibility-mainly through the small press, a website, conventions, and mail-ins.