Thanks, PJ. Very basic, only the second time I’ve ever coloured anything but it was great fun to do.

Thanks for the fast & detailed reply :)

Brian

Not sure about Matt Smith (the human representative of Tharg) but I know lots of the editorial/production staff DO read futurequake and other titles. I also know that the guys behind zarjaz send copies onto 2000AD.

Not sure if ‘headhunting’ has ever happened or needed to – anyone with some obvious talent is usually someone who is already reaching out to try and get work with 2000AD. It’s a very rare individual that is both an amazing writer and so complacent as to not bother submitting work to 2000AD (at least, not when their ambition is to write for 2000AD)

“Should you post these comics to the submissions address? Hand them to editors and editors colleagues at cons? Include them with Future Shock submissions? All of the above?”

All of the above. By hook or by crook, send them in.

“If you’re getting published in an anthology how do you push YOUR particular strip?”

By making it the best one in there.

“And also how to have them remember that it was the writer that gave it to them, not the artist? (no offence meant to the artists of course, we’re all in this together and pushing eachothers work is obviously a good thing)”

Make sure the cover letter says so – I would say that it would be unusual if one single strip in one single small press thing is enough, usually you want a publisher to realise that you’re building your career, and that’s helped by seeing submissions along with self-published or work published by other publishers.

Once you’ve built up a mass of credits you start to include them in the body of your intro letter.

Dear Matt (or Dear Mr Smith – if you prefer)

Please find include a submission for 2000AD Future Shock entitled “AWESOME SHOCK!” along with a copy of my recent work for issue #2 of Zarjaz (I wrote the strip “Blurg”)

I would love to work for the galaxy’s greatest and have steadily built a reputation in the small press as someone who can write to a deadline while producing good quality work. My work has featured in Zarjaz #1, FutureQuake, MangaQuake, Blah, blah and blah.

Thank you for your time, and I look forward to your response.

Best

A Writer.

Hope that’s of some use!

I have a few(!) questions from a writers POV.

Any idea if Tharg, et al, reads FutureQuake or similar titles?
Has anyone to your knowledge ever been headhunted out of the small press to 2000AD or, if not, do you know how they get in by showing their small press work directly to editors?

>> For a writer [...] get your head down and start publishing your own work.

Once you have done that and got a few things out in the small press (and of course are continuing to do so) how would you suggest getting that work into the hands of an editor with an eye to getting future paid work?

Should you post these comics to the submissions address? Hand them to editors and editors colleagues at cons? Include them with Future Shock submissions? All of the above?

If you’re getting published in an anthology how do you push YOUR particular strip?
And also how to have them remember that it was the writer that gave it to them, not the artist? (no offence meant to the artists of course, we’re all in this together and pushing eachothers work is obviously a good thing)
Maybe give printouts of your strip with a note as to who you are and where it was originally published?

Sorry for the barrage of writing related questions :) maybe not your area of expertise but your opinion is much appreciated.

Brian

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Thanks,
Mark