Noir Comic Book/seeking feedback

[HardluckStories]

I'm seeking feedback on a noir comic book that I'm going to be publishing on my web-zine in a couple of days. The audience for this are noir/hardboiled crime fiction readers. Any comments on the artwork/writing would be appreciated. Also whether you think an anthology of these would work in book form.

thanks,
Dave Zeltserman

http://www.hardluckstories.com/spring2005/NothingButJerks.htm

[Jaye]

Looks great, I'm a sucker for black and white art though.

Just a formatting thing... if you could somehow let people know how many pages to expect, like 2 of 10, or however makes sense to you, it would be nice.

Great site, I'll check it again.

-13

[HardluckStories]

13th:

Thanks and good advice - front page for my web-zine will have the page count. Webzine is mostly hardboiled/noir fiction, this is the first comic book I'm publishing.

I'm trying to put together a graphic anthology of dark crime fiction short stories written by some of the top crime fiction writer adapted to comic book form. Any suggestions of whether you think this style of art would work in a US graphic novel? Of course, all this could be academic soon based on what the publishers tell my agent ...

Dave Zeltserman

[Jaye]

13th:

I'm trying to put together a graphic anthology of dark crime fiction short stories written by some of the top crime fiction writer adapted to comic book form. Any suggestions of whether you think this style of art would work in a US graphic novel?


Heck yeah!
Check out some publisher guidelines, too:

Drawn and Quarterly (http://darkhorse.com/company/submissions.php)

Slave Labor (http://www.slavelabor.com/guidelines.html)

Antartic Press (http://www.antarctic-press.com/html/submissions.htm)

Penny Farthing Press (http://www.pfpress.com/home.submissions.htm)

Alternative Comics (http://www.indyworld.com/about/index.html)

Fantagraphics (http://fantagraphics.com/submissions.html)

Top Shelf (http://www.topshelfcomix.com/contact.php?section=submissions)

Best of luck!

-13th