20 June 2011 @ 12:40 pm
I want this "You" situation taken care of  
So before I get to anything else, I have an important question for comics-friends on my flist, especially people who've published before, since I know there's some awesome artists here who've done that before...

I'm getting really close to finishing up Lunargyros. Like, just a couple of pages left to draw (even if I've still got a lot more to post.) So I really want to try and find a print publisher for it! I've tried out a couple of places, but not gotten really far thusfar. Either contract problems or just no interest. So I wanted to ask: does anyone know of a good company to go to that would be willing to publish something like Lunargyros, probably in two or three books? It's going to be 350 pages total, plus whatever supplemental stuff I want to add. And obviously Tokyopop isn't going to work out now...

Or that failing, I know a few people have self-published! What's a good print-on-demand company that you can recommend, especially for books that large? I heard Ka-Blam is pretty decent? How do you usually go about promoting/selling self-published comics, aside from at cons and online? (I don't think I can afford a table at SDCC unless I shared with many people...maybe Anime LA would work better...) Any thoughts are welcome!


Last night for Father's Day we went out and saw X-Men First Class, and it was highly enjoyable! :D Would totally recommend dudes go see it! It was definitely better than the third one or Wolverine, anyway...


- Young!Xavier was sooooo cuuuute. And they were totally laying on the subtext heavy with Xavier and Erik, but TBH I wasn't paying that much attention.
- The one thing that really annoyed me was the fact that even in this movie about diversity and being who you are, they killed off the only black guy. And he had cool powers, too. Come on movie, why'd you have to go and do that?
- The action scenes were pretty dang awesome, especially the end. And I was somewhat impressed with how Erik kept coming up with new ways to kill people with metal.
- ...I thought Hank was cuter when he was furry and blue. >>
- Banshee was also a lot of fun.
- The part where Azazel was picking up guards and then dropping them from 200 feet up was legitimately freaky.
- So yeah! Worth seeing.


And finally, we have up another episode of our Let's Play Kingdom Hearts 2!



We'll record more tonight, and hopefully it'll go well! /o/

Drawing: LG, need to do some more practice stuff

Writing: Tags
 
 
Current Mood: curious
Current Music: MST3K - The Human Duplicators
Current Location: Operator
 
 
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[identity profile] lynxgriffin.livejournal.com on June 20th, 2011 11:35 pm (UTC)
Oooh okay, I haven't heard of Rink Printing yet. :Oa I may give them a try if they have good customer service and can tailor things to what I wanna do. (Or at least find out how it'd go.)

Hmmm, right now I'm not working on any sort of deadline (def. not prepared to go showing LG at Comic Con this year unfortunately), but I've really had enough of being left in the waiting game forever, too...at least that's another option.

Yeah, it seems like manga companies are on the downslide. I tried Oni Press, and they said they weren't interested. :( Haven't tried Dark Horse or IDW yet, though.
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[identity profile] bluejeans07.livejournal.com on June 21st, 2011 06:34 pm (UTC)
Just read this about Image Comics: http://www.imagecomics.com/submissions.php

You should give them a try!
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[identity profile] lynxgriffin.livejournal.com on June 21st, 2011 09:26 pm (UTC)
Ooooh...nice that it's all creator-owned, although it looks like they talk mostly about proposals! Do you think a book that's already finished is outside what they're looking for?
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[identity profile] bluejeans07.livejournal.com on June 22nd, 2011 05:44 pm (UTC)
I have no idea but it's worth a shot to ask :D
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