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Having been ignored several times by 2000ad, and their submissions window now seemingly perpetually closed, I turned to DC Thompson and had my first pitch for Commando accepted. I don't know of any other comics publishers who accept unsolicited script pitches that don't already have an artist working on it. I did Scott Snyder's comics writing 101 and he said you have to bite the bullet and pay an artist. That's easy for him to say, I wish I could pay out a grand or more for 10 pages of sequential artwork and concept art. He got his first comics gig with Detective comics after having some short stories published. I guess if you're good enough, you just "lucky". It feels like kickstarter is the best option for being published these days, but again, you need to pay and artist, letterer, editor, etc. It's hard.
Having been ignored several times by 2000ad, and their submissions window now seemingly perpetually closed, I turned to DC Thompson and had my first pitch for Commando accepted. I don't know of any other comics publishers who accept unsolicited script pitches that don't already have an artist working on it. I did Scott Snyder's comics writing 101 and he said you have to bite the bullet and pay an artist. That's easy for him to say, I wish I could pay out a grand or more for 10 pages of sequential artwork and concept art. He got his first comics gig with Detective comics after having some short stories published. I guess if you're good enough, you just "lucky". It feels like kickstarter is the best option for being published these days, but again, you need to pay and artist, letterer, editor, etc. It's hard.