Closed) collaboration

@NanettesClouds Nanette
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 20:31:26 +0000

@NanettesClouds wrote:

So - I'm not sure how familliar you are with the forums but this is the way that pretty much every colab thread tends to go here.

Here are a handful of threads that might help you and your friend with finding a collaborative partner:

The Red Herring of the Forums: “User Entitlement” vs “The Art/Writing Debate” Misc

Hi everyone – most of you have seen me around the forums. Now, the topic of collaborations has come up again (when have they never not), and I’m mostly in reference to these particular threads: I have already talked about these very topics in earlier threads last year, and my feelings about this topic still stands. This “artist vs writer” debate? It’s an important debate. We all need to understand each other’s professions better in the long run and appreciate them. But, when it com…

What we're worth: A suggestion for responding to collaboration threads Collaboration

Hi Y’all in the time that I’ve been a part of the Tapas community I’ve seen a lot of unpaid collaboration posts. Y’know the type. There have been a lot of great recent threads about how to handle these posts, and how to make better collaboration offers. Though I have another suggestion on how we could further improve our tactics for responding to these threads. First though - let’s talk about fair freelance rates. This twitter thread that I was reading earlier was filled with great advi…

Collaboration: what to look out for Collaboration

in light of recent discussions, i thought itd be useful to compose a list of good signs and warning signs for collaboration for all to use, in hopes of protecting new artists from bad decisions and guiding new creators in how to set up a healthy collaboration. EDIT: this is a loose guideline, and should not be used as a check list. every collaborative relationship is unique and discretion is advised. here's what ive got for good signs (these arent all necessary, but are all pros): - you know…

Advice for collaboration, from a collaborator Collaboration

Hi everyone! I've been reading a lot of the discussion threads lately on collaboration and was inspired by a particular post to write this. It started as just a reply, but it got to the point where I think it deserves its own thread. I don't remember where I saw it, but someone implied that a writer paying an artist doesn't make them a team? Or that it's somehow different when payment is involved? (as in, you're strictly paying for a service and it's cut and dry you're still the owner/creator/…

How to actually collaborate with an artist/writer Questions

So I see a lot of (unpaid) offers/requests to find a collaborator, and most of the time it seems like they go unfilled. For those of you who are in a collaborative relationship with someone, how did it start? Also while we're at it what advice do you have for working with your collaborative partner? Anyone working with more than one other person, how do you do that? I've got two budding collaborative projects right now. One with a friend who I've known for years, we've always tossed ideas…

If you dig through these threads you'll probably find other helpful threads with more advice that I didn't link. - As a community we have talked about this subject A LOT.

marvelescent:

he is in the military and is also putting our his comic every 2 weeks. This was just an offer outward to see of anyone is interested.

Thats quite a workload, I think it might help you to consider that, while most of us aren't in the military we already have a lot of stuff going on in addition to our comics, and it's a really hard bargain to convince us to spend our limited creative energy working with/for someone else who we don't know. As an artist yourself, if you had seen this thread would you have wanted to work on this project if you didn't know the person?

There has been a lot of discussion here on the forums lately about colab posts, and most of us are just kinda peeved about them.

My advice - either encourage your friend to start drawing on their own, find an artist you already know and speak to them directly, or work with them yourself. Collaborations are genuinely fulfilling when you're working with a close friend, it's a rare opportunity and can potentially strengthen your relationship with them, and if its something you're able to do at all I would think really hard about passing it up.

I'm not trying to be harsh here, I genuinely believe that those are your best options rather than hoping to find some rando here on the forums, especially because it seems like your friend has a specific creative vision in mind.

We're not trying to be disrespectful, though I am sorry you feel that way.

we don't think that your friends project won't work out, @punkarsenic and I both genuinely love poetry comics and have made them before, its one of my favorite sub-genre's of indie comics, and because of their relationship to zines you can get away with some pretty scrappy artwork, especially if you are both the artist and the writer of the poetry zine.

All of that said - when it comes to making money from comics, it just, doesn't really happen most of the time. This is coming from someone who HAS SOLD THEIR COMICS and HAS made money from comics in other ways. It's not easy, and it takes a long time to get to that point. I am hardly a full time artist nor do I really plan to be. I fully expect that making comics will always exist somewhere in between a hobby and a side gig for me, and I'm okay with that because I love the medium and I love making things.

my own things.

But, if you wan't to find a different artist to work with you you're going to have to take a different approach.