Creating your comic portfolio
Ironically, a comic portfolio is the easiest to create. You export all your pages, and that's your portfolio. OK—we can move on to the next heading. Don't worry—I'm joking (more or less).
A comic artist needs to show that they can work well and can maintain consistent work for a long period of time.
There are two kinds of comic artist, as follows:
- A freelance comic artist, whereby they're paid when they submit an entire volume. These artists don't have contracts binding them to a single company.
- A contract comic artist, whereby they go to a company and are hired by them.
Those two types have different approaches and modus operandi. In the first case, you submit your work to a publishing house. The publishing house will have their own submission rules, so be sure to check them. For the contract type, you would send a bunch of pages (around 10-20) and wait to be contacted. Now, remember that if you...
