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.

[randy_yeah]

Yes, it is steep. But relatively speaking, in the long run, the payoff via gigs and foot-in-the-door face recognition could, as the advertisements say, be priceless. Illustrators and graphic artists spend thousands of dollars per page for similar books that art directors subscribe to just for the chance of being seen and contacted. Some of the artwork in these books are topnotch, but some are really crude and amateurish. So for now it is too steep for me as currently I just don't have the money to pony up for this. Otherwise, it's what many in the art industry refer to as an "investment" in their futures and when I finish paying the bills, I hope this is still around.

-Randy

[Mike S Miller]

Someone also just pointed out to me on another thread that I should include advertising agencies in our shipping list. Spot on! Comic work is great, but Ad work pays many times what comic work pays. I have friends who have gotten ad jobs that paid 5 and 10 thousand dollars for what was essentially a weekends worth of work.

$250 to get your artwork in front of the kind of people who can get you THOSE jobs? Hell, I may put my own work in this book. lol.

[black_fish]

Let me see, 32 pages at $250 that's $8000 pocket money for Alias that they could even make monthly if wanted.
Price to publish that 'anthology': some overtime for an intern (free), printing roughly 30 copies (don't think there are more publishing houses than that) I'd say about $120 even with an expensive print shop like Ka-blam, and maybe $300 to mail. That's a profit of $7580 on one book. Better than most indie comic can make those days!

Now since Alias wants to be an agent (a publisher that is also an agent for other publishers?!?) why don't they do what any other agent would do: invest a little money (the $320 I was talking about) and only ask for a percentage (let's say 10%) of any deal that could happen through their anthology? That seems very fair to me, that's really helping the industry and the new talents out there. That's useful.

But then on the other hand there is also $7580 that you get for printing something and mailing it randomly without a care in the world. That is pretty good money.

Somebody told me: if you are paying to get paid, you're getting screwed.

[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.