Alex's New Graphic Periodical: Translators Needed, and other Comicky Excitement
As some of you know, in October I will be launching my first new comic book series in some time, VALENTINE. It's action, with a side helping of action. It's coming out first EXCLUSIVELY on iPhone and Kindle, and in fact has been written and drawn specifically for those platforms (Fret not, there won't be any lame "motion comics", or speaking unless spoken to.) Once my co-conspirator and generally fabulous artist Christine Larsen and I have finished the entire story, we will also put it out as a full-colour graphic novel in good old paper book form... presuming of course we can find a publisher willing to take publishing rights only.
Where you come in is this. I need translators. Electronic distribution gives us a wonderful opportunity to have, at no additional fixed cost, a book launch in several languages at once, day and date. This is really important to me because, well, I have awesome friends in lots of different countries.
I am looking for people natively fluent (or near as dammit) in languages other than English to commit to translating around 60 panels of comic a month. You don't even have to letter it, if you don't want to/don't know how... you just have to send me a Word document I can copy-paste from.
In return for doing the translation and promoting the book in that language (via comic sites, blogs, whatever), we will give you 50% of the comic's net earnings in that edition. In other words: You live in Brazil. You translate VALENTINE into Portugues. You get 50% of the net sales of the Portuguese-edition episodes, so if you write to a few blogs or comics news sites about the book, you stand to earn more.
So yes, come ye, oh speakers of Hebrew, of Japanese, of Hindi, of French and of Russian... and any and every other language. Let's take this series global.
I have several more graphic novel projects on the way; various old friends of mine and I have basically decided, fuck it, we're going to work on really cool stories, really slowly, and see how far we can get without publishers. Igor Kordey and I are planning to continue SMOKE (yes, finally); Alem Curin and I (our ESCAPIST story may someday see the light of day) are planning to collaborate on something called FAUSTINE that will be pretty damn disturbing and psychedelic; and my old Humanoids collaborators Ed Ocana (MESSIAH COMPLEX) and Luigi di Giammarino (ADAM) are also planning stuff.
Speaking of my French series MESSIAH COMPLEX and ADAM, I bought the rights back to those books and soon electronic editions will be available in French and English for iPhone at a bargain 99 cents per issue. Translators: if you're interested in doing translations for those books as well, or indeed SMOKE which is already available at Comixology, the same 50% deal applies.
I'll post some art soon. It's all getting pretty exciting round here.