Essential and Foundation Questions

What is the process for submitting a comic for publication?

1.) What kind of comic?
2.) Where will it be published?
3.) How will the comic be made?
4.) What materials are necessary to make a comic?
5.) What skills are needed to make a comic?
6.) What publishers will review comics by amateurs?
7.) How will the publishers receive the comic.

Comic Publishing Facts

Did you know...?

1. Self publishing is a widely used process used by amateur comic artists around the world.

2. Comic artists know how many comics they've sold before the comics are actually printed.

3. Most comic artists average at a single complete page of artwork a day.

4. The first comic book appeared in America in 1934.

5. Many publishing companies will consider submissions done by amateurs.

6. Some call today the Modern Age of comics while others argue that it is the continuing Bronze Age.

7. The Comics Code Authority established in 1954 greatly limited the content that could go in a comic.

8. Some of the most productive comic artists could average at 10 pages a day.

9. In the 1970s an underground form of publishing comics rose and circumvented the Comics Code.

10. Graphic novel is a term given to a bound comic book or a bound comic anthology.