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Tweak says, "I'm gonna slap you in a minute"

jlroberson (jlroberson) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-07-08 18:26:00

Current location:	Seattle
Current mood:	bouncy
Current music:	the news
Entry tags:	char: black cat/felicia hardy, char: bullseye/hawkeye, creator: john linton roberson, in-joke: shameless plug

In Which I Tried To Sell Out

Some may recall I posted some of my work at SD 1.0. Here is more, but this time, stuff that will never be published. And me drawing Marvel characters.
So recently, I finally got up the nerve, after building up a small indie rep as an illustrator and cartoonist, to try to attempt a Marvel sample. As what I draw best, it seems, is attractive women, a friend suggested I use the Black Cat.
So in thanks, she ended up the face model for same.(she also suggested Bullseye, because she wanted to see him kicked in the face)
So: What was going to happen here was she was going to kick Bullseye about the room a bit, and Bullseye was going to be in humiliating pain. Then Norman Osborn was going to come in at the end--I still hadn't worked out why, I just wanted to use him.
But alas, once I had finished this page, Marvel stopped taking submissions right then.
So as it will go to no other purpose, I thought y'all might get a small kick from it, though there are a few errors I was going to fix. Here then is the page of the abortion. Hope you like.

If anyone's interested, more of my stuff can be seen here.

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	jlbarnett 2009-07-09 02:24 am UTC (link)
	An unprecented number of submissions. I wonder how many were basically fix fics? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-07-09 02:51 am UTC (link)
	Marvel stopped accepting submissions because they got too many submissions? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlbarnett 2009-07-09 02:56 am UTC (link)
	sure, it makes sense. If they're cheap When they can have one or two people go through them in a timely fashion and oass them onto someone who matters it doesn't cost much. If they have to start hiring more people then it costs them. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jlroberson 2009-07-09 03:09 am UTC (link)
	Basically. So they're probably going to that portfolio-at-conventions model I loathe. Partly because I do not go to conventions, and I think it's a bit degrading. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-07-09 03:17 am UTC (link)
	Huh. What is that process like? Do they review portfolios in front of you, or do you just submit them? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-07-09 03:20 am UTC (link)
	You stand in line and a guy spends about a minute looking at it. Which, if I were twenty, and unpublished entirely, I probably wouldn't mind. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	parsimonia 2009-07-09 03:21 am UTC (link)
	Ah, I see what you mean. I can imagine that would be frustrating. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlroberson 2009-07-09 03:25 am UTC (link)
	To me that's as horrifying a situation as a job fair. Same thing, really, and just as high a probability it'll be worthwhile. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	faile_neume 2009-07-09 06:44 am UTC (link)
	I don't know if this helps how you feel about the situation but going to conventions with a portfolio was how Nicola Scott got her job at DC. So it can work out in the end. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	icon_uk 2009-07-09 12:00 pm UTC (link)
	Why do you consider it degrading to have your work assessed by a professional, it's what you'll have to deal with if you do become a successful comics artist. From what I gather of such things they are usually very polite and professional and have no interest in humiliating those who submit their work for evaluation. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	greenmask 2009-07-09 01:39 pm UTC (link)
	It's public, you're there, they're there, a con is somewhere you go to have fun, you're one of many hopefuls.. I'd hate it too, just the social level it's on is a very odd one. It's an atmosphere thing for me I think. I would resent the entire process like heck, even if they leapt up and shouted BY GUM, MADAM, YOU'RE HIRED! (Reply to this) (Parent)

jlroberson
2009-07-09 09:35 pm UTC (link)

It's the cattle call aspect of it that I don't like. Also that you can only find work there when a convention is in town. I suppose the fact that I'm already a professional, just not at that level, makes it itch a bit more than it otherwise would; I just don't care for that kind of anonymous in-person thing. If I have to be evaluated that way I'd rather it was by submission in an office, and not affected by factors like, this person at the table wants to go to the bathroom or whatever.

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