Big new project

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In 2003 I had an idea for a comic while on vacation. Not much at the time, I had a main character, a setting and a couple of little ideas on things that would happen.  As the years past I kept plugging away with my main comic (cascadefailure.comicgenesis.co…) while I toyed with the idea a little at a time. and I mean little!  By the start of this year  I had maybe 7 or 8 pages of text written) and things weren't progressing much at all. Had three main characters an overarching concept, a map planning out the full rough story but again it wasn't going anywhere really.  

Part of the problem was that I would not allow myself to start the comic if I didn't think I could pull it off. recently I started to think I am getting close to the point where I can give it a try.   

While on holiday again this year I had an epiphany and everything came together.  The concept and style have changed somewhat but the content has went through the roof and the idea is now very solid. Went from 3 characters to about 8 solid ones with many many storylines all planned out. I now have a little momentum and will keep working on polishing the story and fleshing things out.

and don't get me wrong, This isnt something that is going to pop up soon.  becuase I still have many problems / things to resolve.  First of all,  how do I want to make money out of this (lets be honest here, free things are nice but part of the reason I have held onto this idea so long is that I think it could be successfull,  so I dont want to give it all away for nothing!)  Do I put it online and get a readership and attempt to make money from merchandise and book sales (later)  or do I flat out ignore the internet and try to sell the story to a manga publisher?   

Important questions but nothing I have to solve right now.  Instead I will keep whittling away at the story.

But I suppose this is the first annoucement that I am working on a new, completely different comic in addition to ye-olde one.
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RobChainL's avatar
Oh my god.. This whole journal is like my head right now, I too have a story that I've been planing for ages, and I have problems sitting down and starting it too, coz I also want it to be successful and I really think it could be. If your interested u can find alot of stuff in my gallery which contains the 'untitled story' in it's description, bit literature and art.

I still have the same character in my head that I created when I was like 9-10 or something, I've made a ton of other stories and in the end i was like "fuck it.." and I gathered all of my favorite characters from my different stories and clashed them into my 'Untitled story'.. Now that I think of it, the evolution of my story is quite huge =)

Anyways, your art rules, I'm about to start reading your comic and good luck to you sir.;)