AdamandComfort
Name: Adam Withers Comfort Love
Bio: We are a husband and wife creative duo who both write, draw, and color our comic, The Uniques (www.uniquescomic.com), in total collaboration. We’ll say it again: we both write it, we both draw it, and we both color it. Together. Every panel, every page.We spend most of our time working in our hobbit hole of an apartment working on keeping the book at on a bi-monthly schedule. Very time consuming and it's our main source of income so we hang on by our fingernails financially. To help the time go by we listen to a lot of radio, pod-casts, and television on DVD. We take walks at not to go stir crazy and occasionally get out of the house to hang out with friends or do some teaching. All and all, it's not too bad of a life.
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As independent comic creators, we have seen the influence that Hollywood has had on the perception of comics from the outside world - but also the effect that it's had on the comic industry itself.
We've been trying to find a publisher for our indy superhero series, The Uniques, and it's been disappointing to us just how much the prospect of the movie industry has begun to overshadow comics even in the minds of comic creators and especially editors. Comics have always been merchandising opportunities for the companies who publish them, but since comic movies have become hot commodities, that's all some creators and publishers seem to care about.
When talking with a number of smaller independent publishers, the common thread has always been that they see comics as little more than storyboards for movie and TV pitches. They aren't interested in comics that are intended to just be comics, but salivate over 3-4 issue miniseries that they can immediately turn around into Hollywood projects. Keep them short, splashy, less than 25 words to a page, and keep your premise action-movie simple.
We can obviously only speak from our own experience, but it seems that comics as an industry are just trying to make the next Watchmen movie-- thereby making the next Watchmen comic an impossibility. New creators are encouraged to dumb down their ideas to fit the widescreen storyboard format (and a PG-13 rating, please, to get that wider audience), and if you want to write for the big guys you'd better have a TV or film credit to your name or they won't even listen to you. It's been incredibly disappointing to feel like even comics themselves would rather be at the movies.