How can I take to put a drawing in the Los Angeles Times? I want to put a cartoon in funny pages, how do I do that?
Contact them on their site and request information from the relevant department. That depends on whether you are looking to make a cartoon, a cartoon, or just something for an article.
If you're looking to present a course "funny pages" of comics, and you are not unionized, and you can first work on building a reputation as a widely read cartoonist who will bring readership of the paper.
To do this, draw a comic strip that is G-rated enough to fit in the other newspaper comic strips. It need not be artistically impressive as it appeals to a wide audience - and _Cathy_ _Dilbert_ are two successful despite the very simple art.
Draw about a thousand bands in newspaper format of the environment. put them on the Internet as a webcomic, a strip every 24 hours (you can have this automated process). Link your site with lists of known webcomics. Put up forums or blog where people can discuss with you and the other around the band. Draw things for people, especially in your style of comics, or to make cameos in comics. Climb comic conventions and the fans applauded. Get to know other artists webcomic. Take committees.
After the band of five hundred, if there is enough interest, create an account with any online stores that turns comic strips into products such as mousepads, hats, screensavers and so on. At this point, also begin to address small publications - magazines, newspapers, college, fan-zines and sites produced both on and offline, industry and internal company publications that relate to parameters or characters or themes of your band, etc. Some of them may be interested in the performance of your band. Free, in general, but you can mitigate this problem by adding your site to the images you submit. There are many such micropublications - find and approach a few hundreds, and continue to do, week after week. 99% refuse you, but you only need the first one to begin to carry you and you can return to the other in three months and say "X Publication my door, would you like that?" Some cave to peer pressure perceived, others do not carry, but most places you want more you're likely to get the next magazine, and another the next. You can find some of these publications made in the main libraries, and others on the Internet, but some are purely internal to large companies - write to them asking them if they have, or visit one of their staffs business and look at the table of the waiting room coffee.
Despite five hundred replacement strips in your neck, try to get eight new tracks per week or more if you can manage. You'll need it later. Do not worry, at this stage, you'll be much faster than you were originally.
After the band mounted on a mill site, and if people asked us to your band as a book, look into having the first five hundred strips published in paper format. Several other artists have already made this webcomic, so there is plenty of information on how to do it. Make books available from your online store and conventions drawn to your booth in Artists Alley.
At this point, begin to address high volume specialists and general magazines, the ones you find on your newsstand. You can crack this market by using your credit micropublication band to enter the trade rags industry-specific, and then in general magazines.
Once the race's original books is up, check and see if you can justify the print edition of the second series of 500 bands. If you can not wait six months and recheck your request.
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Posted on May 21, 2010.
