Pitching your idea to other people

[Travis Surber]

Your whole idea should fit within one or two sentences.That's when you know it's good.
Superman:Last survivor of a doomed world comes to earth and fights crime.
Lord of the Rings:Frodo must save Middle Earth by destroying the one ring in the fires that forged it.
Whipjacks:Modern Urban Fantasy about a team of mercenary supers(my idea i never found an artist for.)

[operationremie]

i wish i was here for gunbaby.

as for pitching, i actually told a few people the general idea and gave them the overall picture of where i was going with it. i have everything i want to do in my mind but i think starting it out is the real tough part.

for mine, it starts out in the past for like the first 5 pages. then it goes right to the present. it's like a storyline-driven-centric comic that has the occasional comedy thrown in. part of me really doesn't want each strip to always end in comedy. i feel that it should be a storyline that continues to go. (i don't know what you guys think about that though!)

the whole idea and the process is going to be tough. i think once i get my first 5 scripts/pages drawn (really outlined) i'll post them on here for you guys first.

[Rob]

The only reason we aren't doing anything with Gunbaby right now is because no one is submitting anything for Gunbaby right now.

I like the idea and backstory so much I might just force beg the artists I'm working with to do something Gunbaby related in the future. But we're still open for Gunbaby submissions. Make no mistake. 

[operationremie]

i might have to somehow incorporate gunbaby into my comic. maybe a billboard for his future movie?

[Gar]

i might have to somehow incorporate gunbaby into my comic. maybe a billboard for his future movie?

That's actually a pretty cool idea, I might do that myself.

[operationremie]

i might have to somehow incorporate gunbaby into my comic. maybe a billboard for his future movie?

That's actually a pretty cool idea, I might do that myself.

I always enjoy little things like that in comics.

[Funderbunk]

Injokes and cameos are fantastic. I always get a laugh at random pokémon appearing in Sister Claire, for example.

[Gar]

Current scene in NtK (strip #741) is taking place on a rooftop, and I put a 'Gunbaby:The Movie - coming soon' billboard on the roof of an adjacent building in the background

Anyone else done this yet?

[Rob]

Awesome idea and implementation. 

[Gar]

Actually we should try and make this thing go viral - get a Gunbaby movie poster in the background of a bunch of comics, see if we can get a couple of the big-name guys to agree to do it.

Basically I think it would be fucking hilarious if we managed to get Kid Galactus a movie deal through the power of incedental detail memetics.

[operationremie]

so once i finish drawing the comic for neko the kitty, i'm going back to drawing mine. i actually have 11 scripts done. it's more of a crime dramedy. it stars one of my favorite characters who is a complete moron and says the stupidest things. he has to try to solve the reasons why he got kicked off the force as a detective. there are going to be some big story arcs i think and it's actually been fun to write.

[Gar]

"Why did I get fired"? is a good mystery for a comedy detective to try and solve

[operationremie]

"Why did I get fired"? is a good mystery for a comedy detective to try and solve

yea...but i'm sure with the characters i'm going to make and introduce, it'll be fun. i'm enjoying it so far.

[Gar]

I think one of us is reading the other wrong (I'm getting a bit of a defensive vibe from the "yea...but")

I was saying it's a strong idea for the first case. Plenty of comedy potential, but also grounded in something a lot of people these days can empathise with - losing your job. Plus it's a good reason to have the character investigating his own past, which really opens up a lot of Character and World development potential early on.

[operationremie]

I think one of us is reading the other wrong (I'm getting a bit of a defensive vibe from the "yea...but")

I was saying it's a strong idea for the first case. Plenty of comedy potential, but also grounded in something a lot of people these days can empathise with - losing your job. Plus it's a good reason to have the character investigating his own past, which really opens up a lot of Character and World development potential early on.

haha no defense at all. i tend to type ..but a lot when i write.

that's what i was going for. once i finish your guest comic (almost done!) i'm going to go back to mine. it seems that i have a story planned. hope that it actually works.