Dear Up and Coming Comic Writer,
Stop comparing your struggles to everyone else's "highlight reel." Even the biggest names in the industry have faced rejection, creative blocks, and projects that bombed. Failure is the price of admission for a creative life.
Dear Up and Coming Comic Writer,
Writing is a muscle. If it doesn't hurt a little, you aren't growing. A rejected pitch will make you mentally stronger for the next one. Keep swinging, keep missing, and eventually, you’ll start hitting.
Thanks @jamesfergcomics.com!
I'm so excited for everyone to read Daddy's Vengeful Little Girl.
The script is from 2022.
The lesson here is you never give up on a script.
Dear Up and Coming Comic Writer,
If you want to transform from "writer" to writer, you need to stop thinking about the story and actually finish your script. No one is going to create an opportunity for you, you need to create your own.
Good morning! What steps are you taking to turn your goals into accomplishments?
It’s 2026, let's chat about leveling up.
Looking back at 2025, I would describe it as mid.
Word for 2026: redemption.
Here are my goals:
1. Get to 195 pounds
2. Hit 300 subs on Substack
3. Kickstart Dead Laughter
What are your goals?
Remember not to compare your path to others accomplishments!
Find your comic family: Search for other new creators looking to break in. Usually, these creators are interacting with the Pros and asking process questions.
Learn together: Use each other to motivate yourselves to finish your scripts and don’t be forget to share your ideas.
New to writing comics? In order to survive creating comics, I recommend you build your comic family.
Do you want to learn how to build your comic family?
Start small: Write shorts. Start with an 1 page story.
Hey! Anyone looking for a new comic short to read?
What’s your theme for 2026?
I think my theme is redemption.
Ends 10/22 at 9am ET
Let’s get this thing over the line!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/wil...
remember that time when @jamesfergcomics.com and @mattmanbegins.bsky.social and @theilluminerdi.bsky.social and i wrote a comic where a certain president got mad at talk show hosts making fun of him and passed a stupid law banning pizza?
i didn’t realize we were writing history
art by dan buksa
but thank you to everyone involved. for @jamesfergcomics.com for being the captain and to @mattmanbegins.bsky.social for bringing heart and for @theilluminerdi.bsky.social for being the frontman.
to @scottewen.bsky.social for lettering and @pacillustration.bsky.social for designing everything
and all I wanted to do was to come home to NY and have pizza. Hope you’ll join myself, Dan Buksa, @pacillustration.bsky.social, @jamesfergcomics.com, @theothermarioc.com, and @theilluminerdi.bsky.social at 4th World Comics for it!
Slice(s) of Life James Ferguson, Matt Summo, Mario Candelaria, Pete Collins, Dan Buksa
Was so happy to get Slice(s) of Life in the mail this week! Love the concept behind this one
Huge shoutout to the creative guys behind this awesome comic @jamesfergcomics.com @theothermarioc.com @mattmanbegins.bsky.social @theilluminerdi.bsky.social @pacillustration.bsky.social
I have a variant cover on the new issue of Holiday Spirits homaging "Thor Ages of Thunder" cover by Marko Djurdjevic ( @sixmorevodkastudio.bsky.social )
NOW on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ora...
Thanks to @jayboy495.bsky.social @travisgibb.bsky.social and @theilluminerdi.bsky.social
For a long time, I dreamed of having my local comic book shop advertise my name for their Free Comic Book Day event.
Guess what I unlocked?
Me staring at a carousel’s puffin seat.
I asked this penguin how it feels to be tariffed and they said “what’s a tariff? Also I’m a puffin.”
They also didn’t know what a comic was, but Rise of the Flightless is still accepting submissions!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
💙📚👀
#writingcommunity #comics
I want to thank @travisgibb.bsky.social for giving me and Dan the opportunity to create Agent Peppermint Fudgesparkle and tell his stories.
We have 4 stories in HOLIDAY SPIRITS: CHRISTMAS IN JULY Vol 4. Now on Kickstarter!
When a team of great creators collaborate on an original idea, you get tremendous results.
10/10 concept, design, execution.
Just look at that death of Superman bag design. 💋💯
Great work @jamesfergcomics.com @theothermarioc.com @theilluminerdi.bsky.social @pacillustration.bsky.social & team!
Thank you so much!!!!
I’m excited to share that my Agent Peppermint Fudgesparkle stories with Dan Buska are now on Kickstarter! Also, our character is getting his own cover by Ignacio DiMeglio.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/ora...
Don't be a “writer” and invest in yourself.
Your time is valuable.
Your talent deserves nurturing.
Your dreams are worth fighting for.
Writers invest time in creating a writing family
“Writers” think about their stories and never actually finish a script.
Writers want to tell bold stories.
“Writers” chase distractions.
The cover for Slice(s) of Life, a comic book anthology set in a world where pizza has been outlawed. It features a chef, like the one on a pizza box and a pizza delivery boy in the vein of X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Slice(s) of Life has officially gone to print! This comic is a labor of love and it's taken a long time to get to this point, but I am so happy with what we've put together with friends. @theothermarioc.com, @mattmanbegins.bsky.social, @theilluminerdi.bsky.social and I are pumped! In Pizza We Trust
Dear Up and Coming Comic Writer,
Today is a good day to write! If you're having issues with starting, I recommend using a puke draft:
One page, one sentence.
Then do one page, one sentence per panel.
You will find a piece of gold in your pile of garbage.
You got this!
TIL Max Kellerman hosted Around the Horn...
