The first talk of the day was a secret and left off the time table Martin Steenton of blank slate books was giving his views via Skype call.
Martin stumbled across his position after he started writing a serious comics review blog
'avoid the future'
He basically gave advice on what the industry is like today. How aiming your work towards certain and relevant publishers. It's no good have a certain style of work and pitching it to a publisher that does something completely different. He also exampled how we would go about pitching towards publishers.
What they would like to see
- Professionalism
- a clear path of what you want to do
- near finished artwork (doesn't have to be the whole book.)
- Don't waffle on either.
