The Wonderful World of Pitching
It's been a while since I updated this site, but I wanted to keep everyone who has been following my aspirations this far in the loop.
What do I have planned for 2013?
Each New Year's resolution that I've made has been related to my career in some way. This past year it was working for a publisher. I worked for Visionary Comics for just over seven months and it was a wonderful experience.
This year's resolution is to have an original title published. How I'm planning to do this is by working with artists that I trust and respect on multiple pitches this year and getting them out to as many eyes as possible.
Right now Kendall Goode and I are working on a project that we're both very excited about. I don't want to spoil the story just yet, but the premise is wrapped around our love for Super Sentai (Power Rangers/Kamen Rider) from Japan. It'll be a celebration of the genre as well as playing on it a little. It's a lot like
Invincible and how it played off of
Superman.
Andy Budnick and I are going to be working on a space mystery that I've come up with after reading
Planetary by Warren Ellis and having my mind blown. It's similar in tone, but I've had an idea for a space exploration story for a while that would fit the mood I've been put in by Ellis' work.
Brandon Williams and I are doing a manga-inspired story that, like the Super Sentai project, will both celebrate and poke fun at the genre. Anime and manga heroes tend to have a very similar arc, and I want to move that story out of its comfort zone and give that kind of character much more cerebral problems than tournament manga tends to do.
So that's the basic plan! As the projects come to light I'll be sharing them with everyone. I've also got a screenplay I'm writing, a novel I'm working on, and writing for Sequential Review and Cosmic Book News. Needless to say, I've got a lot on my plate.
Good thing I'm hungry.
