Breaking-Comics

I am a professional and published writer/penciler/inker/letterer/colorist/editor and in 2014, also a publisher. I am also a businessman and seriously want to take a huge leap in changing the face of comics and show there are so many more areas to this industry than just the top two companies of Marvel and DC...not that they aren't great, just that there are more options.

Besides, not everyone can draw Spiderman, Batman, Supes or the rest...there are only so many titles to go around in those companies.

There is also a very limited space to the new characters and stories that can be accepted within those universes and realms.

This group comes in at that point...

The mission of this group is simple and covers a few solid areas of the industry:

1. Reviewing artists finished page work and showing them how to correct immediate issues and moving forward to a professional quality production level.

2. Collaborating with writers, pencilers, inkers, colorists, letterers, editors, live models, painters and whoever else joins in the mix, for working in combined efforts to trade skills and time to build each other's projects to quality and completion for publication.

These areas build skills, networks fellow creators into a helpful and community mentality for bettering and improving the industry, rather than competing to destroy each other from getting other work. It also allows talent to set aside limitations and work together to create high quality projects that will make everyone profits and still protect the creator-owned rights of the respective creator, as they will be working together for each other's success and sharing the wealth across the board.

This also gives exposure and production credits to those that work, which gives them a mark to show bigger publishers that the dedication of following through is there, for the passion of the craft and that they can be counted on and trusted to do the job, especially when paid for it.

People constantly post about ' getting paid ' and never share their stories of how they got where they are, out of fear of someone taking that from them.

This group is to set the record straight that you get paid for the back-end at the day job you work everyday, by getting your paycheck at the end of the week. Same with big publishers, more so, any publisher for that matter...unless you have done the work to prove you have the skill and you get contracted to guarantee your salary or page rate, you aren't getting more than half upfront.

If you haven't been published in a project yet, then you need to be so that you can show you have what it takes to complete a book. If you want to get noticed, then you have to do the work first and prove you have the chops.

That's when the money comes.

If you need to get to the point of creating a project and get your art up to the point of being ready to appear in a book, then this group will surely help.

If you are working on your own project and need to get help getting it off the ground, this group can help.

If you need to simply improve your craft and better yourself, ( which we ALL always need to be doing ), then this group will help there as well.

If you want a place that allows you to get associated with the people that are on various levels in the industry and want to network as well as produce solid work, with feedback you can use and support unlike any place else...this group is for you.

Finally, to all of the guys that have crossed into the mainstream and want to give back and reach out to better the industry by giving insight, feedback and support of the growing comics arena with getting to know the new guys that are going to be making waves soon...this is also a group that welcomes you and appreciates you stepping in with knowledge, advice and experience.

The old comic bullpens used to be full of guys that would help each other in a pinch and save a guy if he got stuck inking or give a guy an idea for a panel or a technique if he was doing something wrong/needed help. The modern artists don't do that anymore...not on that level. They work in clicks of people that are in their specific local.

They don't want to let anyone else in.

This group is open to anyone and everyone, from beginner to expert.

I am a professional and published writer/penciler/inker/letterer/colorist/editor and in 2014, also a publisher. I am also a businessman and seriously want to take a huge leap in changing the face of comics and show there are so many more areas to this industry than just the top two companies of Marvel and DC...not that they aren't great, just that there are more options.

Besides, not everyone can draw Spiderman, Batman, Supes or the rest...there are only so many titles to go around in those companies.

There is also a very limited space to the new characters and stories that can be accepted within those universes and realms.

This group comes in at that point...

The mission of this group is simple and covers a few solid areas of the industry:

1. Reviewing artists finished page work and showing them how to correct immediate issues and moving forward to a professional quality production level.

2. Collaborating with writers, pencilers, inkers, colorists, letterers, editors, live models, painters and whoever else joins in the mix, for working in combined efforts to trade skills and time to build each other's projects to quality and completion for publication.

These areas build skills, networks fellow creators into a helpful and community mentality for bettering and improving the industry, rather than competing to destroy each other from getting other work. It also allows talent to set aside limitations and work together to create high quality projects that will make everyone profits and still protect the creator-owned rights of the respective creator, as they will be working together for each other's success and sharing the wealth across the board.

This also gives exposure and production credits to those that work, which gives them a mark to show bigger publishers that the dedication of following through is there, for the passion of the craft and that they can be counted on and trusted to do the job, especially when paid for it.

People constantly post about ' getting paid ' and never share their stories of how they got where they are, out of fear of someone taking that from them.

This group is to set the record straight that you get paid for the back-end at the day job you work everyday, by getting your paycheck at the end of the week. Same with big publishers, more so, any publisher for that matter...unless you have done the work to prove you have the skill and you get contracted to guarantee your salary or page rate, you aren't getting more than half upfront.

If you haven't been published in a project yet, then you need to be so that you can show you have what it takes to complete a book. If you want to get noticed, then you have to do the work first and prove you have the chops.

That's when the money comes.

If you need to get to the point of creating a project and get your art up to the point of being ready to appear in a book, then this group will surely help.

If you are working on your own project and need to get help getting it off the ground, this group can help.

If you need to simply improve your craft and better yourself, ( which we ALL always need to be doing ), then this group will help there as well.

If you want a place that allows you to get associated with the people that are on various levels in the industry and want to network as well as produce solid work, with feedback you can use and support unlike any place else...this group is for you.

Finally, to all of the guys that have crossed into the mainstream and want to give back and reach out to better the industry by giving insight, feedback and support of the growing comics arena with getting to know the new guys that are going to be making waves soon...this is also a group that welcomes you and appreciates you stepping in with knowledge, advice and experience.

The old comic bullpens used to be full of guys that would help each other in a pinch and save a guy if he got stuck inking or give a guy an idea for a panel or a technique if he was doing something wrong/needed help. The modern artists don't do that anymore...not on that level. They work in clicks of people that are in their specific local.

They don't want to let anyone else in.

This group is open to anyone and everyone, from beginner to expert.