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Into The Black is on indefinite hiatus as I completely rework it. It's going to be starting over from scratch, and upon the relaunch I'm going to try doing it more like a traditional comic book than a web comic (so each page is a page, rather than a self-contained strip with a beginning, middle, and end.) I'm also looking for new artists. Yep, that's artists plural.
In the same vein of doing it more like a traditional comic, I'm not necessarily looking for an artist who can make a lifetime commitment to the comic. Instead, I'm considering looking for artists who would be interested in doing a run on the strip, probably in batches of at least 30 at a time (they can go for as long as they want, but I figure 30 is a good minimum to go with.) I want to do the comic in color, but it's not necessary for the artist to also do the coloring. I'm looking for artists interested in doing both the artwork and the color, just the artwork, and just coloring. I figure if I can split the work load, it'll make it easier on everyone involved. I'm hoping that by doing it this way, artists who are interested but otherwise wouldn't have the time to commit to a permanent position might be able to do it.
Ideally, I'd like to have an update schedule of either 2 or 3 per week, for purposes of pacing. I'm afraid that any less than that would make it take forever to get anywhere in the story, because I've got a lot of story to tell. However I don't want to expect anyone to do that much work in a week, because I know people have lives/jobs/school. This is where having multiple artists doing runs on the comic comes in. I'd like to be able to give the artists the script for their run a couple of months before their run would come up, so they'd have time to work on it and have enough of a backlog where they wouldn't be rushing to get it done in time.
I don't have any specific launch date in mind yet, because first I want to have a lot of script written and a few artists lined up. If you're interested in being an artist or have any questions, either email me at the address below or drop by the web forum. Once this gets underway, I'm hoping it'll stay on track and turn into something extremely cool. Thanks!
~Brian
brian(at)intotheblack(dot)com