Dear Someone

Fey was an entry in Shadowline comics’ ”Create a superheroine” contest. The winning entry would be published as a three-issue miniseries by Shadowline. Fey was rejected without comment, but as Shadowline apparently had several thousand entries I don’t feel at all discouraged by this. I don’t intend to try to get it published anywhere else, though. The comic market is notoriously difficult to break into for solo writers (which is why Shadowline’s competition was flooded by entries) and I am not committed enough to employ an artist to illustrate my pitch.

I later entered the proposal in a “just for fun” competition and got some good feedback on it. The main criticism was that although it was competently written it had nothing, apart from the setting, to make it stand out from the hunderds of other comics on the shelves.

Which is true. But I personally still like the character and the setting. I just accept that I’ll never do anything with it.

So I’ve uploaded the pitch and five pages of script (all that exist, outside my head) onto my web site. In case anybody is interested.

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