Failure in successfully approaching the big mainstream publishers, whether it's failed PR or a thousand and one rejection letters of your comics pages, or both, is the majority reason most webcomics and self-published comics exist to begin with. Everyone from Rob Schrab to Jhonen Vasquez to Jim Mahfood to McFarlane and Dave Sim. Well, all my favorite classic now-famous artists anyway.
At some point you stop giving a fuck about making money and just throw stuff out therefore the hell of it on a web comics site or a gallery at DevianART or a blog update or whatever. You know, whatever's coming hot off the presses of your PC printer paper your doing ink drawings on for the day or whatever. Ain't no shame in this game. I'm actually still a bit of a lurker in the publishing industry. But I realize that could always change at some point. I'm not putting any stock in that possibility just yet though.
You do what you can to get bye. Even if WHAT YOU CAN DO is just a page or two of web artwork no one will see at the moment. Everything builds on everything else in your career. Small things can become big, and big things can fail. Be prepared for anything, including hazards. Financial, Emotional, Public Relations, or otherwise.
You do what you can to get bye. Even if WHAT YOU CAN DO is just a page or two of web artwork no one will see at the moment. Everything builds on everything else in your career. Small things can become big, and big things can fail. Be prepared for anything, including hazards. Financial, Emotional, Public Relations, or otherwise.
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