For virtually every comic book creator working nowadays,self-publishing stories is the necessary first step for a career in comics, whether it's through webcomics or creating and printing your own series or graphic novel to sell at conventions or local stores. Unfortunately, and it also tends to not be a very financially rewarding part of the process,and it's full of opportunities to effect mistakes that can hinder - or even stop - someone with a mighty account to explain from getting to their full potential. nowadays, though, and that process just became a whole lot easier for at least one young creator.
As the final announcement of nowadays's Image Expo,creators from both Image and Iron Circus announced the formation of Creators For Creators, a new nonprofit organization that will award a $30, or 00 grant to one cartoonist or writer-artist team to "support the creation of a new and original work of a length between sixty-four and one hundred pages over the course of a single year." And believe it or not,the money's only half of what the grant will involve.
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Source: comicsalliance.com