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So you’ve sent your materials to a publisher or agent, you’ve waited politely for the prescribed amount of time, and finally a letter from them shows up in your mailbox.

Chances are you’ve been rejected.

So now what?

So, you’ve sent your materials to a publisher or agent, you’ve waited politely for the prescribed amount of time, and finally a letter from them shows up in your mailbox.

Chances are you’ve been rejected.

You will feel many emotions, but I’m too heartless a bastard to discuss them now. Seriously, I could care less — this is a business not a birthday party. So when you’ve calmed down, there are two things you need to do:

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As the new year brushes away the crumbs left from devouring the old one, I find myself thinking of vanished webcomics: those that’ve come to the end of their storylines, those that’ve just stopped, and those that’ve disappeared altogether.

As the new year brushes away the crumbs left from devouring the old one, I find myself thinking of vanished webcomics: those that’ve come to the end of their storylines, those that’ve just stopped, and those that’ve disappeared altogether.

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So, now that you have: a completed novel, a killer query letter and a short but riveting synopsis, who do you send these things to first: a publisher or an agent?

If you’re like me, you ask people who have more experience in these kinds of things. And that’s what I did: I contacted several published mystery writers on what they’d do if they could do it all over again.

If you think there’s a consensus out there, you might be surprised.

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In the first installment of a series of articles examing the definition of "comic", Patric Lewandowski looked at existing efforts to define the nature of comics and proposed that another approach is needed. In the second installment Lewandowski set out the four criteria that he proposed to use in his examination of a new definition for comics.

In this article, Lewandowski focuses in on the first of his four criteria: the intent of the creator. What does this criteria mean? How is it defined? Why do we need it?

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Michael Rouse-Deane blogs regularly at Webcomics In Print and has organized several charity efforts involving webcomic creators. Last year he covered his top ten webcomics-to-books of 2006.

This year he presents 5 webcomics-to-books from 2007 that you ought to take a look at. Sort of a gift guide to deadtrees, even if you just get it for yourself!

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