First and foremost: WE ARE NOT A PUBLISHER. 

We can provide the necessary resources to get you started on producing your own comic book or graphic novel, and we can guarantee that you’ll be getting quality work, but it’s ultimately your responsibility to determine the fate of your fruits of labour.  After your work is completed, feel free to submit it to publishers across the globe and see what happens.  If nothing works, perhaps independant publishing is the best first step for you.  We can’t gurantee what kind of success you’ll find out in the world, but we can guarantee something important to any writer or artist; it will get done. 

HOW WE ARE DIFFERENT:

With publishers you are paid like any other normal writer or artist and your work is mass produced and distributed.  With us it’s a bit backwards.  Since we’re mostly a bunch of starving artists, and a community as opposed to a big corporation, You are paying us to be your creative team.  At first, this may not seem all that beneficial, but we are a much more reliable option for first or small-timers. 

When you submit to major publishers, you are in competition with thousands of other aspiring comic creators across the continent.  With us, there is no competition.  We will produce whatever project is in your head.  You, as the creator, also get to keep the rights to your work.  Just because we made a book for you doesn’t mean you have to call us the morning after, or that we own your soul.  Take what we made you and do what you want with it.  Simple as that.  Submit it to a major publisher, keep it all to yourself, give it as a birthday gift, or publish it independantly.  You have the power here.  We are simply your pawns, and you know you love it that way. 

WHY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE US:

We’re cheap.  Plain and simple.  We’re also disillusioned hippy-types who think that good art is its own reward, so whatever type of creator you are, it’s painfully easy to take advantage of us.  If you want it put into figures, let’s say that an artist for any graphic novel is typically expected to be compensated $100 per page.  We’re not that classy.  we’ll typically do a small graphic novel for $20-30 per page, with bigger projects reaching up to $40-65.  The expected price of compensation varies, mostly depending on what you’re willing to offer us and how stretched for time we are.  Each project is different, so we always do a case-by-case analysis to determine what’s fair for all parties involved. 

WRITERS SEEKING ARTIST:

fill out a brief request in the contact form, and the e-mail correspondence will begin shortly thereafter.  During this exchange, we’ll expect to receive a description of your story and something of a cover letter outlining your overall goals and objectives with the story. 

ARTIST SEEKING WRITER:

We do this too, but it’s not quite as common.  The compensation is also done as a flat rate as opposed to per page.  Follow the instructions outlined above, use the contact form and through e-mail correspondence we’ll take a look at your art and see what inspires us. 

WRITERS/ARTISTS SEEKING “EMPLOYMENT:”

This is our one area where we do not universally accept everyone.  If you are interested in getting in on this freelance action, we can’t just induct anyone who slings the pen ink around.  SkullKrab must feature a quality staff in order to promise quality work, and therefore we must SEE your work and judge it to be fangasmic before you can be accepted on our roster, and even then you could be placed on the inactive list for a long time until enough projects materialize to where we would need you.  Oh, you also have to be reliable.  We’re not saying you have to be super organized with 12 trapper keepers or anything, but…just… common sense, people.  Come on now.