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Nov 2019

We've all had that moment. Someone you just met finds out "Oh you do a comic..." and then the dreaded question: "...WHAT'S IT ABOUT?"

and we're like


"Uh.... I don't know"

Or even worse, we launch into some overly detailed nitty gritty explanation that's about 10 minutes longer than anyone cares to listen to.

So. What's your "elevator pitch." If you found yourself on an elevator who could help you sell your comic, but you only have 2 or 3 sentences to sum it up, what would you say?

Do you have a good one? Lets hear it!
Do you have no idea? Give it a shot and lets workshop it!

Here's mine, which still needs work but I'm fairly happy with it. Love to hear what you think.

"The Blank Scroll follows two young adventurers in a whimsical epic fantasy world. Amelia a student of arcane lore, and Hegel a fighter with a mysterious past. Together they hunt down Dark Artifacts for the Academy of Dindial Studies "

Include a link to your work so we can check it out and see if the pitch matches the content.

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The Black Belt Society is a lighthearted action-adventure comic about three teenagers tasked with finding a goddess but before they can to that, they need to go through a few trials.

This is such good idea. Just in any one come across a potential reader in person, it's always good to have a blurb like this in the back of your mind.

That's really good. I feel like I know exactly what I'm going to get when I click on your comic, and from the few pages I looked at I think you nailed it.

I just tell people it's a fantasy and they're typically satisfied with that answer. If they ask for more, I tell them it's about a girl that can use magic, and that I can tell them the title/give them the link, and by then, they realize I don't want to give a long explination and either ask for the link/etc, or say 'cool' and get on with their lives lol

Here are some alternative for your description of Black Scroll.
"Two young adventurers that tries to survive in a unpredictable funny epic fantasy world.
They are a student of arcane lore, and a fighter with a mysterious past. Together they hunt down Dark Artifacts for the Academy of Dindial Studies."

Here are some of the ways that had tried to describe my Blue Life, but I cant figure out what it is?

"A mildly episodic and simplistic comic about a blue, anthropomorphic geometric mass. It's nice to read for those who are into simple comics they can binge just for the hell of it. A refreshing step away from office or work life for a second."

"So what is this? This is a very simple minimalist and ”easy-made” stick/box figure comic about joy, happiness and being Blue."

"I like to think that Blue Life is an open universe where everything is or isn’t a coincidence or parallel to reality depending on the reader."

"A fun fourth wall breaking and mending comic that has fun with itself and newer take itself too serious except when it does"

"Blue Life is a unique and cute webcomic that is hard to explain but always feels familiar."

The thing about elevator pitches is going to the bare, BARE minimum. Don't even bother with character names, just your gimmick and genre.

Here's the one for Splitting Image: A story about atonement in a magic kingdom, where an ex-villain tries to prove his potential for good. But not is all what it seems, and there are people who don't want him to change.

It's not the actual pitch I have written down (or exactly the one on the page) but it's the ideas that you need to keep on your head to present the comic as fast as you can, even if you forget how it goes and change the sentence around a dozen times. Speed and brevity is key, it's what it takes to get interest and talking about the whole story can come later.

I'm working in one right now, hope to have it finished/publish it in tapas by next year,
funnily enough first thing I did was an elevator pitch
" two small weak monsters leave their safe home to kill a behemoth"

still, don't have it done(in thumbnail phase) but I am almost ready to start sketching/inking the thing XP

At the convention I went to over the summer, I mainly pitched that the comic is a psychological thriller with cyberpunk elements about a questionable video game experiment being broadcast to the main character and that strange things are beginning to happen to all his electronic devices~ It seemed really successful, I sold out of issue one by the second day!

"An experimental video game broadcast received via chip implant is shut off, chip removed but a couple years later, college freshman Jason is picking back up on weird frequencies. His old high school friend is now in I.T. on campus. Missed connections?"

I think you could shorten it to
"Two young fantasy world adventurers, Amelia and Hegel, hunt down dark artifacts for the academy they attend"

My synopsis is already pretty short. When people ask I say
"Love Me, Deity is about a group of college students who realize they are reincarnated gods and start learn about their past."

"Three bois working out their emotional baggage in Magical Asia."

Yup, I'm legit happy with that description. :slight_smile:

"High School student get's magical powers, and fights along side with a talking beaver with a Brooklyn accent."

People love talking animals.

I suppose I've practiced with Demon House the most: College girl rents place haunted by demons.

Heavy Horns is not as practiced since its selling points are just basically: A romance between two men, one has horns.

I have been working on blurbs for Secunda though since I plan on participating in the upcoming PitMad on twitter. Here's one of them: A young woman becomes the host to a monstrous skull and now must adapt to her strange new partner. Their new bond is challenged by the return of her old suitor and a dangerous hunter that catches her eye while in pursuit of the skull.

These are the true stories of some of America's least known World War II veterans, the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

We will make you feel things with only robots. BECAUSE ALL HUMANS ARE DEAD!!

"A drama, comedy, slice of life about a boy marked to die and his mythological caretakers."

ooo - this is a fun idea.

the elevator pitch for my 'comic' (that's sort of not a comic but not not a comic either lmao) would be -

'illumiverses' is an illustrated (& now often animated!) anthology of poetry.

The elevator pitch I use for mine is:

Follow Empress Wu Zetian's treacherous journey from the hands of enemy Tufan soldiers back to the Forbidden City where she battles foes from within her own kingdom.