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Published: 2017-11-11 22:26:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 1855; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 0
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A sketch of a character from a story I'm working on. ( I'm trying to get in the habit of sketching more. ) If he were a D&D character, he'd be a human rogue assassin. He's part of a secret order who wear stylized animal masks, his being a tiger.Related content
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Hmmm. Is the campaign set twenty or so years after the canon story (on a spin-off basis)?
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No, the campaign is essentially an alternate universe timeline. Why do you ask?
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Because Xatia seems her age in the campaign as she is in canon, but Azahd (in my mind) is much older...?
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Xatia is about 25 and Azahd (who hasn't shown up in the campaign) is about 30. This sketch may not convey his age very well, if that's what you're going by.
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I might be misremembering, but I swear Azahd was at least mentioned by NPCs a few times here and there. Interesting that Azahd is older, because I always thought that Xatia was the slightly older one.
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Azahd's been mentioned - by Xatia in particular - but has not actually shown up in the campaign. Like her brother and sister paragons, Xatia has endured a grueling life of warfare, which has aged her tremendously, so she seems much older than her young years. Notwithstanding Azahd's own hardships, Xatia may come across as the older one. So, your perception is correct, which I guess means my RP portrayal of her came through. Hopefully I can accomplish the same in the comic book.
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You did a great job RP'ing Xatia, I really love her as a character. Can't wait to read the books. How's progress on that?
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Extraordinarily slow. 
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Extraordinarily slow as well. But I had a moment of revelation on some interesting plot ideas, so I'm likely to do a burst of writing to get that down on paper in the next two weeks or so.
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Sounds good. Best of luck with it. I have the ideas, but lack focus. Perhaps if we finish at the same time, we can tag team the promotion circuit.
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That sounds like an awesome idea. Are you leaning towards traditionally publishing it or going independent?
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Almost certainly going independent. I'm hoping to have the first issue done for next year's comic arts festivals (which is highly ambitious, I know). How about you?
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I keep swaying back and forth between which is better for me. I'm still leaning toward traditional because 1) I'm a pretentious bastard and I like the prestige of being traditionally published; 2) going indie means the author has to do all the publicity and marketing, and I'm 100% certain I won't have enough time for that if I'm working full-time.
But at the same time, landing a contract with a publisher is hard, harder if the goal is to land a contract with a big(ish) publisher. It may be a harder and more arduous process than just going all out and independent, and at the end of the day the author will never been in control and won't see much royalty returns. So I don't know. It's a really hard choice.
How do you expect to finance production and marketing? I know a few success stories of crowdfunding, and I'm backing on Kickstarters a comic called Adamsville that's releasing its third and final volume this Christmas, but the crowd funding route is a huge hit or miss too.
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There's no harm in trying to go traditional. Worse-case scenario, no one picks you up and you go independent anyway. Plus, I understand the desire for the creative validation that traditional publishing would provide. You're right in that it's highly competitive and increasingly difficult to get published traditionally.
My general plan is to finance the first issue myself and crowdfund further issues (assuming the first issue generates any real appeal). I'm not doing this for money, just for the satisfaction of having put an illustrated story out there for public consumption. There's no money in comics except in the extremely rare case that your story gets optioned for a TV series or movie, like with the The Walking Dead, Scott Pilgrim, Kingsman, etc.
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Well you've got my support behind you on the project. I'm pretty excited to see the full story. I've heard from other comic makers that it's really hard to make a buck doing comics, which is really sad because there's so much good stuff out there.
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Thanks, Fan. Likewise.
It's hard to support oneself doing anything artistic, unfortunately. Unless you're Stephen King or J. K. Rowling, you're holding down a "real" job at the same time to pay the bills. Such is life.
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