Warriors of the night

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Aussie_kid

on July 13, 2008

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Last week was a busy week for me. Was anyone aware how much work it is to send off proposals for a comicbook? Or how expensive it was? $1.20 for each coloured page, $0.30 for a B/W page. $4.00 for an A4 envelope. $6.25 to send the entire proposal to America. Now the most expensive was Dark Horse, which asks for eight comic pages ($9.60), then the synopsis and cover letter and contact information ended up adding up to seven pages ($2.10). Add that to the postage costs ($10.25) and I spent $21.95 to send off my proposal.

Luckily, the other places only ask for 3-5 pages, so the average price was about $17 for each proposal. And I sent off nine of them (Thankfully, Avatar lets you submit online). So yeah, I've spent quite a bit trying to get this thing printed so far.

Now this would be so much easier if I could just submit to all those companies online, but I know that will never happen. These people are already flooded every day with half-done attempts by "Artists" and "Writers" who barely know how to draw a straight line and ink with a ball-point pen, and yet expect themselves to be discovered as the next Frank Miller or Jack Kirby, even though their works are nothing but a rip off of something everyone knows of, except with a Mary-Sue and Deus Ex Machina based plot line.

And before anyone says anything, I know Warriors of the Night isn't the best thing out there. I don't see myself as better than Frank Miller or Neil Gaiman or even close to their level. I see myself as ambitious. I may only be nineteen, but that doesn't mean I have absolutely no chance in the industry. I have a plan laid out before me that I want to see succeed before my 30th birthday. I've given myself a deadline and I will beat it.

I may be delusional and I may be wrong in thinking I'll do the tasks I've set for myself, but I'm still going to try anyway. It's my life and this is what I want to do with it. It's what I enjoy and what many have told me I'm good at. And in the end, that's what it's all about.

Until next time
The Aussie Kid