{"id":1037,"date":"2009-03-19T19:34:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicscareer.com\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2020-07-22T19:52:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T00:52:04","slug":"joe-quesadas-portfolio-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicscareer.com\/?p=1037","title":{"rendered":"Joe Quesada&#8217;s Portfolio Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada was tweeting tips for new comics artists who are building a portfolio to show editors. We&#8217;ve captured these tweets for your reading convenience. You can follow Quesada&#8217;s messages yourself at: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeQuesada\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeQuesada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Okay, how about some portfolio building advice? Grab you notepads and pencils, kiddies.<\/li>\n<li>Okay, first, you&#8217;ve heard it before. Don&#8217;t letter your samples, no SFX either<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t ink your work, unless they are ink samples over someone else&#8217;s pencils. don&#8217;t color your own work unless you&#8217;re a painter.<\/li>\n<li>Keep it simple, an editor does not need to see a 30 page portfolio. We can tell by the second page whether someone has the stuff.<\/li>\n<li>I see people spinning their wheels doing these gigantic portfolios and I end up feeling bad because whether they&#8217;re good or not, they wasted a lot of time.<\/li>\n<li>A perfect pencilling portfolio can be built in 12 pages<\/li>\n<li>3 stories, consisting of no more than 3 pages each. 3 Cover samples that relate to your story.<\/li>\n<li>Each story a silent vignette, with a beginning, middle and end. No words, but the viewer should be able to tell exactly what&#8217;s going on.<\/li>\n<li>Pick a single character vignette, a team vignette and then one with two people doing ordinary things. A quite moment.<\/li>\n<li>Artist have it easier than writers folks, there&#8217;s no way to sugar coat it.<\/li>\n<li>However, writers have the ability to make more money than artist if they&#8217;re prolific.<\/li>\n<li>Okay, so, out of your single hero and team vignettes, make sure one is DC centric and the other Marvel. The quite vignette can be Vertigo<\/li>\n<li>Your vignette doesn&#8217;t have to be a brilliant story, keep it simple, just make sure it&#8217;s clear.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s an example of 3 pages and a cover that got me my first gig at DC<\/li>\n<li>Page 1 Small panel of Supes flying, pull back it&#8217;s a TV screen, pull back its Luthor watching Supes on Multiple screens, he pushes a lever.<\/li>\n<li>Page 2 Supes flies, rescues a cat from a tree hands it to a little girl. Something off panel gets his attention. he flies off.<\/li>\n<li>Page 3 Supes encounters a giant robot, knocks it out with one punch, stands heroically on robots chest. Pull back, he&#8217;s on the TV screen<\/li>\n<li>Pull back and Luthor smashes his fist on his desk as he watches what just happened.<\/li>\n<li>Cover- Superman in struggles as he&#8217;s in the hand of the giant robot.<\/li>\n<li>Simple, brainless story, but the point got across.<\/li>\n<li>I was going to give some writers submission advice, but we&#8217;re not accepting writer submission at the moment.<\/li>\n<li>Marvel was accepting cold writer submissions until recently, it became too overwhelming to keep up with. Hopefully we will again.<\/li>\n<li>Since so many of you are asking, I will Tweet about writer&#8217;s submissions next week as well as suggestions for cover artists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This evening, Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada was tweeting tips for new comics artists who are building a portfolio to show editors. We&#8217;ve captured these tweets for your reading convenience. You can follow Quesada&#8217;s messages yourself at: http:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeQuesada. Okay, how about some portfolio building advice? Grab you notepads and pencils, kiddies. Okay, first, you&#8217;ve heard &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.comicscareer.com\/?p=1037\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joe Quesada&#8217;s Portfolio Tips<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,15],"tags":[806,325,61,326,802],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicscareer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicscareer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicscareer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicscareer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicscareer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicscareer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3429,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicscareer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions\/3429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicscareer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicscareer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicscareer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}