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Pitching Your Comic Book: Pitch Outline Template (UPDATED)

Posted on January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 by Stephanie Cooke

I’ve been getting asked quite a bit about pitching to an editor, agent, or publisher. There’s no standard way to pitch in comics, but there are certain elements of your book that should be included no matter who you’re reaching out to. I’ve melded my own personal way of pitching with Jim Zub’s method (from…

Timeline Template for Artists in Comics (UPDATED)

Posted on June 7, 2021January 20, 2023 by Stephanie Cooke

Something that you hear a lot about in the industry is that timelines for comic artists are way too tight. They’re given an unrealistic deadline to complete XX number of pages for a project, with way too small of a page rate. Some creators don’t have an idea yet of what their personal timeline is…

Free and Cheap Adobe Alternatives for Creators

Posted on February 4, 2020January 28, 2020 by Stephanie Cooke

Understanding Flatting: An Interview with Ray Nadine

Posted on November 27, 2019November 21, 2019 by Matt Ligeti

About a year ago, I wrote this article on colorists. It was as much to educate people new to the comics medium as it was to educate myself, who had recently decided to start reviewing comics with little to no knowledge on how the things get made. While researching the coloring process, I heard about…

What To Include In Your Portfolio: A Guide for Comic Creators

Posted on September 12, 2019September 12, 2019 by Stephanie Cooke

This post is meant to help out creators who want to put themselves out there for work, preferably of the paid variety. Editors and creators in general are always on the lookout for new talent. Seriously. I keep an ongoing list of the creators I come across that I want to find a project for…

Rising Action

Posted on April 25, 2019April 25, 2019 by Marlowe Bochs

We’ve covered conflict and exposition. Now it’s time for the rising action. Rising action is the majority of the story. Everything that happens between the inciting incident (introduction of the problem) and the climax (solution to the problem) should be rising action. What does rising action mean? It means that the events are moving toward…

Artist Commissions Survey 2019

Posted on April 10, 2019April 10, 2019 by Stephanie Cooke

Featured banner art is Swamp Thing by Yanick Paquette. Something that we strive for at Creator Resource is to help with transparency in the comics industry and helping you better navigate all aspects of your career. Among the many things that can be confusing as an artist is trying to figure out what rates to…

All About Exposition

Posted on March 27, 2019April 1, 2019 by Marlowe Bochs

Last time, we discussed what a story is. A story is the life of a problem. It starts when the problem is first encountered and ends when the problem is solved. When the problem is first encountered, it’s called the inciting incident. When the problem is resolved, it’s called the climax. However, the telling of…

What Is a Story?

Posted on March 19, 2019March 15, 2019 by Marlowe Bochs

You are in the end aisle of a supermarket. You hear a loud crash. Somewhere close a woman is shouting obscenities. A jar of pasta sauce rolls out of aisle seven and into view. What just happened? Take a moment to decide. You may not even need a moment. Perhaps, as you were reading, a…

A Literary Agent’s Guide to Querying Your Graphic Novel

Posted on March 18, 2019March 13, 2019 by Maria Vicente

You may have noticed that more of trade book publishing is finally catching on to what so many of us have known for a very long time: comics are amazing. Imprints are actively acquiring graphic novel projects like never before and the influence of highly illustrated books can be seen in every category and genre…