I can’t tell you how many new hopeful comics
writers I meet who have never finished anything
in their lives because their intended first project
is a hundred-episode epic that creates a whole
new universe or three. And I tell them all the
same thing: you’re screwed. No-one will want it.
Not until you’ve written something short, capable
of being produced on a budget, and finished.
Your epic may be worldchanging, but no-one will
ever know because no publisher will gamble that
kind of money on an unknown. And that’s before
you get to the vagaries of the attention economy.
writers I meet who have never finished anything
in their lives because their intended first project
is a hundred-episode epic that creates a whole
new universe or three. And I tell them all the
same thing: you’re screwed. No-one will want it.
Not until you’ve written something short, capable
of being produced on a budget, and finished.
Your epic may be worldchanging, but no-one will
ever know because no publisher will gamble that
kind of money on an unknown. And that’s before
you get to the vagaries of the attention economy.
— Warren Ellis 1 month ago










