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Hey there!

My friend Realexis and I have been writing a comedy/drama comic called "Voodooville" for about a year now. We've finished our first solid draft of the first book of what we hope becomes a series, and we're starting work on the second book right away.

Preview of the first 8 pages (Out of a total of 40 pages):docs.google.com/document/d/1Cw… We also screwed around with storyboarding using Bitstrips- please, don't put stock into any visuals we've used here:imgur.com/a/bgu45

Our story is about a voodoo doll that, through the spell of a voodoo shaman, becomes possessed by the soul of a dead man. This person has essentially been reincarnated, born anew, into a New Orleans that is experiencing a sudden, mysterious introduction of very real magic, such as voodoo, that til now has been believed to all be superstition and fiction. As the story progresses, it is revealed that magic in all its fictitious forms is becoming reality all over the world, and nobody knows why. The voodoo doll sets out with the friends he meets along the way to figure out what the hell is going on, and who the hell he used to be before he died.

We've put so much work into our crazy plot and world, it's pretty difficult to concisely sum up the story- so please, ask questions if you're confused or intrigued about anything.

Our issue is neither of us can draw. We're not able to pay for the art, and we understand asking someone to draw 40 pages, each of which requires pretty complex art for free is a lot.

So, we want to set up a casual partnership with any competent artist who enjoys our story, and is looking to develop their art skills in an interesting way. All we ask from you is for the art to make sense with the story we've written- outside of that, you'll have complete creative liberty. We encourage you to come up with imaginative, even surreal art- the story demands it. The art can be comprised of basic sketches, or something more finished- as long as your art is cool, unique, and recognizable as a comic that we can release, we ain't complaining.

Once we find the artist we want and they draw the forty pages, we plan on releasing weekly as a webcomic. If we find we can continue past that, and you are still committed and right for the job, you can continue to work with us, and split any kind of profit with us. If you don't wish to continue, and we go on to find a new artist, you will always be credited in future issues as our first artist. Obviously, any profit from the pages you've produced will be split fairly with you.

We're having a lot of fun with this story, and have a lot of epic ideas for the direction we want to take it in. We really hope our dedication to Voodooville is clear- I've seen plenty of partnerships between comic artists and writers where the artist is clearly doing all the heavy lifting. We don't want that. We just want to make something awesome.