Thursday, 16 September 2021

GOOD COMIC BOOK ADVICE FROM ERIK LARSEN.

My best advice to anybody who wants to break into comics is to produce comics.
Just start cranking them out.
Put them up online.
If you're "just a writer" then write a handful of imaginary books, month after month. Create characters--or just pretend to write the fucking X-Men. Write full scripts. Post one every Monday. Get cranking. Get in motion.
If you're an artist--improvise. But crank them out!
A big part of it is simply figuring out "can I do this?" So--try. Do you have that many great ideas? Show me. And by "show me" I mean "DON'T show ME." I mean show yourself--prove it to yourself. It doesn't matter if anybody sees them. Post them in Facebook if you must. Post them elsewhere.
Start a blog. It's not even about getting seen--it's about getting that rhythm. It's an exercise to see if you can do it.
We all have to work through the bad shit to get to the good shit. There are kinks to be worked out and it won't happen watching TV.
I wrote and drew almost 70 full comics, many as long as 100 pages, before anything saw print. When I broke in I was already a vet. It just helped.
Every comic I've ever done starts with me saying, "how the hell am I going to DO this? It's impossible!" That feeling never goes away.
You just have to do it.

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