Your Elevator pitch

[momojiji]

"Mt Draco is a romcom about a dragon who hires a vagabond to be his maid"

Mt Draco | Tapas

[Iris-Grimoire]

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.

Splitting Image | Tapas

[IdiotWithPencil]

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

[phen]

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?"

There's No Such Thing as Jason - I.T. | Tapas

[ButterflyEmpress]

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."

Love Me, Deity | Tapas

[keii4ii]

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

Yup, I'm legit happy with that description.

Heart of Keol | Tapas

[KoreanTacos]

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

People love talking animals.

Ivolice and the Emissaries | Tapas

[joannekwan]

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.

[TheBlankScroll]

That's a good point about the names. I should remove them and make mine more pithy. @jensrichard77's take was actually really good.

[vfinnigan]

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

The Real Women of the US Military: The WASP | Tapas

[Rodimus13]

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

Hue Are You? | Tapas

[Kura]

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

No Future | Tapas

[hartpounds]

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.

illumiverses | Tapas

[ivanskilling]

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.

Shackles | Tapas

[racheldenucci]

Four young men with similar secrets move into an apartment with each other having never met before (to their knowledge). They quickly become close and there is even romantic connections being formed. Magical forces become involved in their lives, though the main focus is still on their relationships with each other.

RomaMates | Tapas

[kitschensyngk]

"A slightly twisted take on coming-of-age stories and the cliches therein."

Nachos Con Carne | Tapas

[Anithia]

I'll post ite here because i really need help with that topic.

"In a world where an manipulative organization rulez everything, a runaway princess, and her half alien sister, team up with a boy who is searchimg for a mysterious object to save his brother from a curse"

The echo's flower | Tapas

[unknown_user]

I'll not even try.
Elevator pitches are not for me.

[ben]

I feel like there’s some confusion in this thread between elevator pitches and log lines!!!

The best example I could find for the distinction between the two is this:

Elevator pitch:
“ Granny is a horror movie. It’s about a serial killer who kills teenagers who violate the rules of etiquette.”

Logline:
“ Saddened by her mother’s death, a lonely teen must confront a woman claiming to be her grandmother, whose strict rules lead to a psychotic murder spree.”

I hope this helps

[OttoGruenwald]

All-Star Squadron falls into an episode of The Outer Limits.

Superman, but he's like the main characters of the Outer Limits episodes Soldier and Behold, Eck!

A combination of Bizarro and Specter falls into pre-crisis Earth-2.

A confused white blood cell from a living universe causes trouble in an alternate WW2. He's opposed by a burned-out Dr. Strange who wants to destroy him and a golden-hearted man made of light that wants to understand him.

The Power of Stardust | Tapas