In my last post, Make Comics and Enjoy Making Them, as well as other posts I noted how artists got experience by drawing in the Small Press to build up a portfolio and go on to try to get work in comics. It was the standard way of doing things from the 1970s up to the 2000s but then.....
I do wonder whether people working in the Small Press now simply do it for fun or to create their own little universe of characters? Having seen editors reviewing portfolios at conventions since the 1980s one thing I learnt (from the very first con) was that they are not there to say how good you are and "would you like a job?" Its "You need to buy our books and see what we are publishing and our style" (there is no house style they just want to sell comics, get drunk and have a free weekend paid for by the company.
I would like to hear from Small Pressers -let me know why you are publishing and what your ultimate aims are -if you have one!
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