Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Mornings segment! Every weekday morning, Geek Alabama talks about and features one crowdsourcing project from crowdsourcing sites such as, Indiegogo, and others. The hope with Crowdsourcing Mornings is to feature and help a project be successful and reach its fundraising goal. Please enjoy today’s featured project!
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Hi, I’m Shelly Bond and I’ve been reading, editing, and making comics since 1987. So I’ve learned a thing or two. I’ve edited over 25,000 comic book pages for behemoths like DC/Vertigo from 1992-2016, working with legends like Grant Morrison on The Invisibles, Michael Allred on iZombie, and David Lapham on Young Liars. I created and curated Black Crown for IDW, which celebrated the music & comics connection. Most recently, I finished my magnum opus, a graphic memoir editing trilogy that was published through offregister.press — a comics & design lab I run with my husband, artist Philip Bond, for our personal work. I also teach Comics Editing at Portland State University.
I offer you the answers to the top 100 Questions that have been hurled at me over three decades by curious convention-goers, pro colleagues who want to add writing to their repertoire, or creatives from other industries who scream at me, while holding a blowtorch, to reveal the “magick formula” to making comics.
I’ve always wanted to compile these oft-asked queries into one handy, 6×9, 128-page softcover volume. The answers, not to mention the questions, might surprise you.
The book breaks down into 5 chapters with approximately 20 questions for each category:
- Idea/Story
- Art
- Ballooning/Lettering/Coloring
- Production/Printing
- Industry/Professionalism
Questions include:
- How do I break in to comics?
- What if my idea sounds like something that’s been done before or worse–done to death?
- How do I find the best artist, letterer, colorist, or printer for my comic without robbing a bank?
- What’s a dummy book, and why will it make or break my final work?
- How can I distribute my comic in the aftermath of the Diamond Distribution Debacle?
- Can I buy you a donut and pick your brain? I’m working on my first script called [title redacted] about [high concept redacted here, not in the direct message].
As of January 26th, this project has raised $12,000 of their $5,000 goal. This project has 27 days left to raise as much as it can. For a pledge of $10, you will get one digital book. For a pledge of $15, you will get one book. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sxbond/100-faq-on-making-comics?
