If you’ve ever submitted a comic strip to the newspaper syndicates, you know it can be a process of both exciting growth and emotional strain. It’s a fact that the rejection letters do come. And sometimes it feels like this:
Get up, dust yourself off and keep going! Keep drawing. Keep improving. Keep trying. It doesn’t always have to be this way.
Read past ‘Zingerding Ink’ strips.
Sometimes the syndicate rejections are just so impersonal.
I always wished they would give a little more feedback when I was submitting comic strips. I know it’s not easy for them when they have hundreds of rejection letters to send out at any moment. Still, a photocopied letter isn’t a welcome answer to the serious cartoonist.
Read earlier Zingerding Ink strips comic strips.
Marilla and Hank continue their pitch to the syndicate. This is a challenging process — you never know exactly what the editor is looking for…
If you haven’t read the previous two strips, check out the first and second strips.
Here is the second Zingerding Ink, our comic strip about comic strips. See what happens when Marilla and Hank pitch their comic strip to the newspaper syndicate. If you haven’t read the first strip, take a look here.
We love comic strips so much here at Zingerding that we’re publishing our own. Zingerding Ink is a comic strip about comic strips starring Marilla P. Alligator and Hank DeBird, two professional cartoon characters looking to get their strip established in the world. It takes place in a self-aware environment, meaning the characters know they are in a comic strip.
The strip is a collaboration of Zingerding’s three founders and is drawn by one of them, Steve Lowtwait, a former Nickelodeon cartoonist. Created specifically for the web, Zingerding Ink is 100% digitally drawn which allows for techniques not capable in newspapers.
Follow Marilla and Hank as they pitch themselves to the newspaper syndicates, taking a path familiar to many cartoonists. This is only the beginning so check back for what happens next week.
Enjoy!
