EXP: FMP moving forward

The last few weeks after my tutorial with Patrick have been really slow, I storyboarded a fair bit of my idea but as I was storyboarding more and more I realised that this was feeling like a novel than it was a short comic. Then with all of the embroidering that was going on, I stopped working on it and have only started to think about it again.

I spoke to Ben because he was walking around and shared with him this problem, I'm worried that this is going somewhere unattainable. Ben was actually a massive help, He looked at my work and said that instead of creating these proposals, Why didn't I work towards making a small indie comic and then from that a proposed anthology for the end of year show. This actually made a lot of sense to me, none of my work is remotely marvel or dc looking so proposing a comic to somewhere like OK comics or Travelling Man actually wasn't too bad of an idea. Ben also told me about the Observer Short Graphic Novel Prize, it wont open for entries until this coming october, BUT with months and months of making infront of me, I could potentially turn my "nightmares" comic into a regular thing and enter it

https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2016/nov/06/colin-turnbull-a-tall-story

(this is the winner for last year).
Also thoughtbubble run a competition to a have a place in their anthology, placing a page or creating a mini page from my comic/zine would be a good idea to enter here as well! There are prizes but to be honest I just want the publicity at this point, Thoughtbubble anthology is such a good way to get people to see your work. I have until the end of July to make work for this so it's very do-able.

I also know that we're going down to D&AD london and I really would like my comic zine to be the creme de la creme of my portfolio. It would be good to have some printed off on GOOD stock, and bound to a really good standard so I could leave some with clients that I'm really interested in working for.