Indy Comics Writer

As someone trying to break into the comics industry, it’s all too easy to focus entirely on writing and pitching comic scripts.

Now, I can’t do this entirely. I have to maintain my non-fiction freelance writing career to pay the bills. So that takes up far more of my time than does pursuing my goal of crafting a career in writing comics. But when I do have that free time to work work on fiction, I make sure to focus not solely on comics scripting. I also like to write prose fiction, short stores mainly.

I was fortunate to place one of these short stories recently with the folks behind IF-X, an anthology series that features a mix of comics and prose stories. You can see what I’m talking about here on the publication’s Web site.

The editor, Michael Marcus, had some extremely kind words for my story, a comedic zombie tale. It was much appreciated. My goal in the future is to find an artist to illustrate some of my shorter comic scripts, which I’ll then send to IF-X for possible publication. Having a short story approved by the magazine, of course, doesn’t guarantee that the editors will accept anything else. The quality still has to be there. But it does help that the editors are now familiar with writing style.

So don’t forget to focus on other types of fiction writing, too. Comics are great fun to write. They allow for some amazing creativity. But they’re just one form of fiction writing. Don’t pigeonhole yourself. You never know from where your next opportunity will come.

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