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Hello.

As there are a few people around these parts with their own websites, I wonder if you would be able to help me out with a question (also, if any involved parties are reading this.....).

I'm currently trying to teach myself the basics of setting up a website.  The idea is to use it as a gallery of what I have produced in the last year or so (...which is less than I would hope, but time is not plentiful this year....).

My concerns are this - a lot of what I have produced features 2000AD characters.  If I put these pieces on my website am I treading on any toes, breaking any copyright laws etc?

To those of you who scripted some of the strips I produced - I shall be writing to you individually to ask for your permission to feature your work.

Thanks.

Ha ha - I thought about submitting it to the board as a wallpaper - but I think the image is too tall to crop into the approprate shape.  I think yo uwould either lose half of Dredd - or the legion of the damned!

I suppose I could always use part of the image in some way - any ideas?

Thanks Dark Jimbo - here is (I think) a bigger version as that seemed to come out a bit small ( still getting to grips with photobucket).http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a339/SiLogan/TheCursedEarthlowres.jpg">

In fact....here it is without a link ( I hope ).http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a339/SiLogan/TheCursedEarth.jpg">

Hi.

Seeing as I showed the monochrome version of this here last year - thought I would show you the colour version (....after meeting my deadlines I decided to have a play with Photoshop and my underused graphics tablet....).

I made a few alterations to the picture in accordance with some of the comments I got from your good selves last time around.

So in short, Dredd's right hand has been amended (a bit), Spikes arms have been corrected ( and I calmed down a bit of his over the top musculature) - I also made changes to Dredd's helmet and face - and added the title!

The main criticism last time around (which I completely agree with) was that Dredd looked a bit rigid.  Unfortunately I haven't been able to address this as I would pretty much have to start from scratch.

So he's still a bit rigid.

Thanks for looking!

Simon.

Link: http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a339/SiLogan/TheCursedEarth.jpg" target="_blank">The Cursed Earth

Woah.

I didn't think it would get that much interest (especially after the problems with the auction last time) and would have been happy with a sale price of ?20+!

Now, I follow this note up with a photograph of my child with the page covered in lots of coloured paint!!

The good news is I just found EVERYTHING I have ever drawn - anyone got any money???

I'm not going to let this go to my head though as I suspect it was the actual script and subject matter that has made this so popular.

Yours very pleased anyway
Simon.

................I think I'll hold off on that one - at least until I've read the Yearbook!

Bookshops, bookshops....hmmm, they do ring a bell.

I joined the 21st Century instead and helped put my local bookshop out of business - ordered it on Amazon last night!

Thanks to everyone for their replies.

A massive help (also a big thanks to those who e-mailed me, I shall be responding to you individually as soon as I have got the baby under control this evening!).

I shall definately look into the the writer and artist yearbook (...I'm assuming this is relatively easy to get hold of??).

The small press stuff will keep coming...with something I'm almost happy with (you can only re-draw things so many times before you have to call it a day I guess....) appearing in the next Futurequake.

Matt, thanks for your comments - when I am a bit more clued up I may just take you up on your offer and e-mail you with some more directed questions (you may live to regret your offer of help!!).

Thanks all - lots to think about.

Simon.

Hello everyone.

I am in need of some advice from anyone who has ever strived to get published (successfully or not). And anyone else with an opinion for that matter!

I have just had my 10 year anniversary of being stuck in the same office building, and after yet another long (Groundhog) day at my desk my mind wandered to getting a job doing what I enjoy (ok, I can appreciate that maybe you don't enjoy it quite so much when it's a job, but it has to beat office life in the job-satisfaction stakes).

So, apart from my ongoing assault on the poor 'art submission' people at 2000ad,  does anyone out there have any advice on the best people to submit
artwork work to?  Publishers, magazines etc etc?
I'm looking at any illustrative work as well as comic strip work in general.

When my daughter is old enough to understand, I would love to be able to set her a far better example on following your dreams than I have managed up to this point.

So don't do it for me, do it for the kids.

Any help, as always, is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Simon.

Yeah, was/is definately a great prize.  
How often does the opportunty for an amateur to draw a Wagner Dredd story and get it printed in a 2000AD magazine come along?

Stu,

I'd like to keep my designs to myself at the moment until something more 'formal' is announced.

Just wanted to help out with some of the confusion that others were having by indicating that it may well be the case that the winners have already been informed.

Wouldn't want to have people waiting on info for a long time if they didn't have to(and its been suspiciously quiet on this thread!!).

Hope you can appreciate my position.

Regards,
Simon.

You certainly can.

And I would stress that this is only my opinion....but it is based on the fact that I received a letter confirming that I was one of the runners up in the over-18 category and received my runner-up prize (..of a load of stationery stuff - thanks Tharg/Stabilo!!).

This was about two/three weeks ago.

I would therefore imagine that all the other runners up received stuff around the same time (an assumption).

To inform me that I was a runner up implies (...well, pretty much states) that the winner had therefore been decided (my next assumption).

I would therefore suspect that the winner was informed at this point as well (...and this is the only really big assumption, it may well be that they have not told the winner yet).

But what would be the point of not telling the winner??? In the end, they would need to know ASAP, so my best guess would be that they have already been told a while ago.

I'm not sure what the communication is going to be on this one - but I can say that I found out that I wasn't the winner (in my age group) almost two weeks ago - so I'm guessing that the winners and runners-up all know by now.

That's my guess anyway.  
I would have thought that they would be giving the two winners as much time as possible to get the actual strips done, so wouldn't be wanting to drag their heels too long after the closing date to let them know.

I have seen this script!

And I would like to say that it looks very good to me James!
And I have always been a fan of outfits without practicality.

Simon.