Your Guide To Comic Books

I have been designing a little comic strip that I believe would be kind of entertaining in a newspaper. Could someone just explain to me the series of steps i need to go through in order to get my strip published. I understand that you have to submit them to a "syndacate" or something which then sends it to newspapers, but what exactly is a syndacate and how to I find one?

Look up the following: King Features Syndicate,

http://www.kingfeatures.com/subg_comic.htm

United Features Syndicate:

http://www.unitedfeatures.com/?title=Submissions

Universal Press Syndicate:

http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/submissions.htm

Things are pretty consistent — they four to six weeks of continuity for example.

Good luck.

I need to know what comics are in the sin city movie. I know there is the hard goodbye. but what are the other storys called? like in their original comic form? thanks.

The film is based on 3 of the Sin City Books. The Hard Goodbye (like you mentioned), The Big Fat Kill and That Yellow Bastard.

I am looking for a good super hero book powers or no powers but I need one that is not about a comic book hero(spiderman batman superman….ect)
Does anyone know any good books like that?

http://www.amazon.com/Twilight-Superheroes-Stories-Deborah-Eisenberg/dp/B002NPCSWI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264462755&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Superhero-Stories-People-Extraordinary/dp/1412041864/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1264462755&sr=1-2
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I feel like if I were to draw a manga or comic, the character would look like a slightly different person in each frame.

Some of it is hand drwn and some of it is digital.

If the artist has captured the face and the body of the character, they can just re-create the same character in a different pose using the help of computers.

Yet, some are so good they dont even require digital assistance.

If so, what is it called? (by the way i wanted to edit my drawing and comics to make them look better that just normal sketches, i want them to look like actual comic pictures/drawings) anyone who how the "pro’s" do it?

Some artists do use a computer program (I saw one in use at a manga exhibition), but a lot just use pen and ink

I am on xp and i am trying to know how to save the program comic life (file) to jpeg file so i can put it in a movie program to make a slide show. Does anyone know how? Or can I?

There is no way to do that.

I’m totally new to comic books, but I’m really interested in them, especially superhero ones. Since it’s such a vast world, can any fan tell me what i should do and where i should start?

Sorry - I’m out of touch. I could have told you 30 years ago….

Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com

Me and my friend want to know how do we start our own
comic book/graphic novel company LIKE Marvel/DC.I am a comic writer
who also writes novels while he is the artist who draws
most of the work.We have money but not a WHOLE lot
of money.We know we must hire people like artist,writers,editors,
pencilers and colorists.But what else must we do to get it started?

You need editors, authors, artists, colorists, a printer, distributor and legal advice, at least. But before you need any of those, you really ought to work on a Business Plan. When you do the research to write your business plan, you will discover what else you need, and you should put all your needs into the BP, plus how you plan to address each one. Your BP should also describe who you expect will buy your comics - and you should find people who fit the model of your expected customers and see if they actually like your work, and ask them how much they would pay for it.

When you have a good BP, you should create a couple of issues of your first title, hand drawn and lettered and produced on a copier, if necessary, and look for investors.

Business plans sound like a downer, a pain in the ass, and something that will delay you from starting your company. But if you have a good business plan it will alert you in advance to a lot of the issues you are going to have to face, and give you a good idea how to overcome them. And you’ll have real problems finding investors without one.

I have been out of the comic book world for 15 years and a friend recommended Josh Whedon’s Astonishing X-men vol 1 - 4. I loved it and looking for more comic books that are just a fun read with great art. What do you recommend?

I personally loe astonishing x men by josh whedons story line. I loe how kitty pryde sacrafises her self to save the world and infuses to a bullet. I would recommend spidergirl that is a great read about the future of alot of the marvel charecters especialy spiderman. This is a summary of the story.

http://www.spider-girl.net/characters/spider-girl.html

I heard somewhere that Alan Moore released a list of songs to accompany reading the comic version of the watchmen and I was wondering if anyone knew what that list was.

While I’m not sure if this is the specific list, there are songs that are featured at the end of some of the chapters in the graphic novels.

Those songs include:

Desolation Row- Bob Dylan
The Comedians- Elvis Costello
All Along the Watchtower- Bob Dylan

As well as others.

For the whole list, here’s a great site I found that has a bunch of info on the songs, as well as where they can be found within the graphic novel.