I've been thinking a lot about the past 16 years that I've been in and around the comic book industry, and the Christian Comic Book niche industry in particular. I've written for such companies as Kingdom Comics, Quest Comics, and done drawing work for both of them as well. I've also worked for such secular companies as Main Enterprises, and done an outright ministry/tract comic for Street Church in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Yet throughout the past 16 years I've seen many things come and go. Many projects start and fail to finish. Many cool comics fail due to whatever reason.
Including my own.
That's more the fault of myself than anything and anyone else. I didn't have the artistic chops to finish until a couple years ago. Now I'm over halfway finished with my first all creator owned issue for a mini-series that I'm working on called Legacy.
But this has opened my thoughts once again to exactly how to bring my personal faith into line with working on a comic book property that may sell. If you put too much blatant Christianity in it, the only people that will read it are Christians. Too little and the Christians won't touch it with a ten foot pole. So who is my audience? How do I reach them?
A couple questions I'm working on.......will post more later.
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