If you’re trying to break into writing comics you’ve probably found that few publishers actually accept scripts. This makes sense, I mean it takes a while to read a full script and know that the person writing it has the chops to be hired. Art on the other hand they can just look at and almost immediately tell “Hey, this guys good enough”.

So you may be a bit disheartened that you can’t find anyone to take your golden ideas! Well fear not, here’s a list of the publishers that will accept your scripts. Understand though that most of the time they want a script featuring their characters, also they generally only want maybe 10 pages max. Check their individual submission guidelines.

• 2000 A.D. : They only want future shock episodes from new writers. Future Shock is their proving ground. Write enough that they like and you might be    moved to one of their other titles. It was good enough for Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison, and Garth Ennis… it’s good enough for you.
• Avatar Press: OK, for these folks you need to turn in a script featuring one of their characters…..here’s the hitch though, it’s a bit hard to figure out who their characters are! Try Pandora she’s basically their flagship character.

Nowadays those are essentially the only companies that will accept unsolicited writing samples. Even with these two don’t expect a whole lot back, the editors there are only reading slush scripts when they have time…and I suspect they don’t have much time.

Keep writing.

-Steve

So Shadowline is running a contest for writers. They want you to create a new Super-Heroine for a 3 issue miniseries. Kris Simon the editor-in-chief of Shadowline is going through them and will choose the top 10, those 10 write a 5 page script and from those scripts 5 will be chosen to be voted on by the public at Newsarama.

So I submitted something like 8 proposals so far but I realized …. I’m not giving them what they want! Shit! Yeah so I misinterpreted what they were asking for.. or actually I just got confused by some of the thread. I initially submitted what they wanted on two proposals; a full breakdown of the series in about 7 or so sentences with ending and all. Then after reading some of the thread it seemed they wanted just a quick synopses sort of like a blurb. That was wrong so I wasted like 6 good ideas on that.

Ah well I’m to an idea I really like and I’m going to give some good thought.

In other news, my new comic Misspent Youth is going into art production later this month. I’m really happy with this one. I collaborated on this one with David Boozer, one of my buddies. We have a guy named Paul Williams doing the art. He’s quite the talented Brit! We’re really excited that he’s doing the art and I think the series will be really fun.

As far as Right Way Wrong goes Anna has finished something like 20 pages and she’s working on the cover! We’ll start pitching that pretty soon, so hopefully we’ll have some good news soon.

–Steve