Ever think of maybe getting a small 3 to 4 people together to do your comic book? Maybe put an ad out in the local paper to find a local comic book or wanna be comic book artist, and or inker or the other part you mentioned. You have managed people in the past. Present it on spec no pay other than a percentage of sales. When the six pages or so are ready to go, see if you can get a 1/4 scale version of the first two pages placed in the local Sunday paper, with an ad where people can go see and buy and get signed copies from the comic book team at the local book store, even if you have to wear a mask. People are getting bored and concerned like you and the young artist type people are always looking for the break to get noticed.
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Hey, @bashadow.
I like the idea. I've thought about seeing who I could get based on how sales went. It would be good for them to be local, too, since the few times I've tried getting art via the Internet wasn't the easiest of collaborations even if I liked the results.
What I have in mind is a series. I haven't quite decided how to do it—monthly installments for seven years or maybe seven annual graphic novels. I haven't plotted things out that far, so I'd need to know what I have first.
I started roughing that all out, but got interested in STEEM. Haven't quite tried to go back to it since. :)
If you have a comic book store in your town then there are young adults that might be seriously interested. back in the early days of internet social, 1987-93 time frame, I met a couple of people on line that were doing or trying to do graphic novels from Oregon, but they had no clue how to get started.
You have that get started knowledge from your newspaper works and you kindle works, so finding a few kids, (people in their early 20's or so, or heck even other older people), together to build a comic book team. I don't think Stan Lee had a big group of people to get started.
It would not even be that time consuming for you, or them, a few hours a couple nights a week for the team to meet and discuss the progress and ideas you have laid out.