Post by Steve Requin on Jun 12, 2005 18:35:11 GMT -5
At first, The Eight was supposed to have 7 chapters. Oh, I knew it would be more fun to make it an 8-parts, but with the story I had in mind, that would have been just fillings. Things have changed.
As early as January 2001, I knew where I was going with that story. Unfortunately, the longest comic I've ever done so far was 20-something pages long, and I am very slow when it comes to drawing, because I've always had one hell of a time to get the human body's proportions right. I have to draw and erase many times before I get what I'm looking for, hence such a huge project was too much for me to handle on my own. I began searching for artists who might want to pencil the art, while I would ink. Unfortunately, the few I proposed the project to shyed away for many reasons: Too big a project, no contract with a real editor, no garantee of any money at the end, one said he wasn't into "horror" comics, and another wanted total control over the way I would ink HIS pages HIS way. That was going nowhere.
Having nothing to lose, I took a shot at the big shots: I sent a submission of the The Eight project to DC/Vertigo, carefully following the procedures described on their webpage. Never receives news for it.
From time to time, I would sketch some pages to make a plan (see last post), in case someone someday shows interest in the project. More than once, I planned to try to do it all myself, but so far, none of the art style I've been able to master were never much popular. That project was so long, I wanted to make sure I'd have an art style people would like.
In early 2003, I decided I'd try my hand at a more manga oriented kind of style, and began a webcomic called Artiztech College. I let go of the The Eight project at that time.
June 2004: I meet Mazoku-Chan. I discovered her around 1998 when she was doing a comic strip named Génie. Back then, I was publishing a fanzine called MensuHell, and really wanted to publish her. Unfortunately, I was unable to reach her at all. At the same time, she knew about MensuHell, but thought she wasn't good enough to get published by the famous Steve Requin, editor of MensuHell, writer for Safarir, actor in the Cold Blonded Murders movie... Now there's the kind of irony I hate: When I was unknown, people didn't want to work with me because I was a nobody. Once I get popular, people don't dare to try to work with me because THEY'RE nobodies. Bleh !
In any case, I was finaly able to track her down on the internet in Spring 2004. I found her Deviant Art page, and I was very much surprised to see her art style has taken a manga style, one that was way much better than mine for Artiztech College. We wrote to each other, and met for the first time in June 2004. It was around August of the same year, as I saw how good and fast she was with pencilling, that I thought I'd dig my old The Eight project back. At first, she wasn't sure about this, but the more I talked and described the story, and the more she seemed interested.
Yo, Mazoku !!! How about adding YOUR side of the story about how we began, eh !?
As early as January 2001, I knew where I was going with that story. Unfortunately, the longest comic I've ever done so far was 20-something pages long, and I am very slow when it comes to drawing, because I've always had one hell of a time to get the human body's proportions right. I have to draw and erase many times before I get what I'm looking for, hence such a huge project was too much for me to handle on my own. I began searching for artists who might want to pencil the art, while I would ink. Unfortunately, the few I proposed the project to shyed away for many reasons: Too big a project, no contract with a real editor, no garantee of any money at the end, one said he wasn't into "horror" comics, and another wanted total control over the way I would ink HIS pages HIS way. That was going nowhere.
Having nothing to lose, I took a shot at the big shots: I sent a submission of the The Eight project to DC/Vertigo, carefully following the procedures described on their webpage. Never receives news for it.
From time to time, I would sketch some pages to make a plan (see last post), in case someone someday shows interest in the project. More than once, I planned to try to do it all myself, but so far, none of the art style I've been able to master were never much popular. That project was so long, I wanted to make sure I'd have an art style people would like.
In early 2003, I decided I'd try my hand at a more manga oriented kind of style, and began a webcomic called Artiztech College. I let go of the The Eight project at that time.
June 2004: I meet Mazoku-Chan. I discovered her around 1998 when she was doing a comic strip named Génie. Back then, I was publishing a fanzine called MensuHell, and really wanted to publish her. Unfortunately, I was unable to reach her at all. At the same time, she knew about MensuHell, but thought she wasn't good enough to get published by the famous Steve Requin, editor of MensuHell, writer for Safarir, actor in the Cold Blonded Murders movie... Now there's the kind of irony I hate: When I was unknown, people didn't want to work with me because I was a nobody. Once I get popular, people don't dare to try to work with me because THEY'RE nobodies. Bleh !
In any case, I was finaly able to track her down on the internet in Spring 2004. I found her Deviant Art page, and I was very much surprised to see her art style has taken a manga style, one that was way much better than mine for Artiztech College. We wrote to each other, and met for the first time in June 2004. It was around August of the same year, as I saw how good and fast she was with pencilling, that I thought I'd dig my old The Eight project back. At first, she wasn't sure about this, but the more I talked and described the story, and the more she seemed interested.
Yo, Mazoku !!! How about adding YOUR side of the story about how we began, eh !?
