Elfwood and comics
So, slaydo posts to the elfwood LJ community looking for an artist for a comic project:

Any artist who wants to help me create our own creator owned comic book to publish and sale on amazon for 50% share of whatever profit we might make, hit me back asap. I have the story ideas and the plot, but not the artist skills that it will take to make a kick ass comic. But together with an artist willing to put some time into the matter I have some originial ideas, characters storylines that might just make us famous. I'm looking for someone who can do a kirby or ladronn like style or even like the guys that did ghost writer, road to damnation, but I'll work with whoever seriously wants to do this.

Reactions are mixed between 'it's a scam' and 'you can't get an artist to work for free on a project that is likely to tank with no real information'. A few people offer tips (ranging from 'save your pennies and commission an artist' to 'try publishing for free as a webcomic first to get a fanbase' or 'draw it yourself').

Undanted, Slaydo posts again.


I've seen a few people say this is a fake offer. But realistically, like others have said, I'm not offering much. Just a publishing shot on amazon.com with a 50/50 split on the profits, which wouldn't be the easy fan base to establish as others have noticed. Not easy, but possible. And while the webcomic ideas are good indeed, people won't have to pay for any thing, even if they can't download it a good screen cap prog will do the job. As far as getting a job with a major pub with no real considerable creds, that's another long shot. I don't see a spot at DC or Marvel coming in the next few years....took Brian Michael bendis years to get noticed and become the goldenboy he is now. This was just a call out to any young artist still going to college that wanted to try their hand at something without necessarily getting paid. So this is a legit offer, and I think inillegitimate offer would be making a lot more promises than I am as cash goes. And for the cynics out there, if you don't have constructive output or criticism, why waste your time responding at all?

This post continues to draw attention from the comm-goers, so Slaydo makes two more posts, both with the title "Creatore Owned Comic Book Haters" (Note: The second post says everything the first post did, plus summarizes his great idea). Pretty much everyone who pointed out the flaws in his (?) plans are bitter and jaded and lost the fire.

I should get screencaps, since the mods will be on this like butter on toast.