The Comics YOU Want To Create Do Not Fit In? Like Hell it doesn't!

Let's get this out of the way: you -YOU- do not want to do super hero, action, horror, sci fi or detective/cop comics and so you feel frustrated.

Why?

With Small Press you can do what you like. Poetry. Haiku. Prose stories -even illustrated prose. There is humour.  There is slice-of-life. You can even have a fantasy feel to the slice-of-life.

The thing is taking into consideration a couple of things.  Are you doing the book for fun? If so, why not.  Is the subject matter something that might interest people enough for them to buy the book? Really, no one is interested in a 24 pager in which you moan that you have to work for a living or ran out of money getting stoned or pished and you've no money for food while at Uni and have to wait until mum and dad send more money.  Seen so many of those.

"My Depression" has its pros and cons especially if its aimed at other people who suffer from depression and want to try to help them or offer advice.

Take a look at publications such as Browner Knowle  
https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2018/12/browner-knowle-10-fnal-issue.html



Or even Dave The Cosmic Oddity and its subject matter.
https://hoopercomicart.blogspot.com/2018/08/dave-cosmic-oddity-return-of-cosmic.html


The thing is that you are not bound to a specific genre -Myra Hancock used to produce zines from Lino cut-outs back in the 1980s. There are so many tools -excluding the computer- out there that you can use and all it takes to produce a unique "You" book is your imagination.

Do not ever think that everything has to be super hero or horror -if you check out the Black Tower Face Book page you will see that we are not limited to one or two genres.  Ignore the people who tell you how big a name they are in comics and that "Your work doesn't really fit into comics" because those people tend to have personal agendas and a narrow view of comics.

Be happy to call yourself a Small Presser -hundreds are doing the home made comic thing and there is no reason why YOU should not.

Try to talk to Small Pressers at events.

Go to Small Press events.

Go to those events and remember what you set out to ask but also remember to have fun and not be too serious!