Looking For Artists

Besides fiction writing and increasingly infrequent blog post, I have been quietly working on some comics projects, and though I can doodle with some effectiveness, I'm not at the level of artist I would need to be to complete these projects on my own. I could probably take the classes I should have taken a long time ago and get somewhere with that, but for the moment, I need a collaborator or two. I also like the idea of collaborating on something creative. That's one of the reasons I enjoy playing music with other musicians.

I have two projects I'd like to get some movement on, whether through self-publishing, on the web, or through a publisher. Both fall loosely into the crime genre, though both center on character and don't fit into the more typical urban settings of crime stories. I'll be up front -- right now, I'm not in a financial position to pay much if anything.

Project One: 90+ pages, a self-contained story, black and white. This has a completed script. It's complex, involving the same cast of characters through multiple time periods and requires strong "acting" from the characters. Looking for style similar to Chris Samnee (Capote in Kansas, Queen & Country: Operation Red Panda)

Project Two: 48 pages, a self-contained story with potential for more, could be color or black and white. I've finished a first draft of this script. It's pretty straightforward. One character is a 9-year-old boy. Again, "acting" is important, but this story also involves a bank robbery, so an ability to draw muscle cars and shotguns is a plus! Still, I could see this going a little more cartoony. I keep imagining the kid with Orphan Annie eyes.

If you have any interest, leave a comment or e-mail me.

Check out character descriptions and the first 7 script pages of Project One in my Comicspace Gallery.