ComicJobz.com, new comics job listing site thingy

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:28 pm

http://www.comicjobz.com

No idea if this is actually gonna go anywhere, but it looks pretty interesting, and maybe someone here'll be able to get a neat hook-up out of it.

Jackhass · Post by **Jackhass** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 2:04 am

Cool, thanks for the heads up...

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 2:31 am

Hmm, are they professional, payed jobs or are they just trying to pair up writers and artists? I didn't manage to find FAQers.

LibertyCabbage · Post by **LibertyCabbage** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 3:34 am

Seems to be both. Of course, the paying jobs would be much more competitive. And, being so early, the site could end up as a great success or a total flop, but it seems to have a unique premise so it might have a shot.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 3:14 pm

You might end up drawing a Real-life ripoff comic by some kid who decided to spend pocket money on paying an artist.

Wouldn't that be interesting?
And then you'd ask yourself whether it was all worth it.
This is not my beautiful house!
This is not my beautiful wife!

Doll · Post by **Doll** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:18 pm

Yes it is.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 5:14 pm

No it's not, I'm still paying monthly installments for them.

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 5:54 pm

You're still paying off the wife?
So just where do Serbians get mail order brides from, anyway?

Snackbot · Post by **Snackbot** » Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:29 pm

mcDuffies wrote:You might end up drawing a Real-life ripoff comic by some kid who decided to spend pocket money on paying an artist. Wouldn't that be interesting?
And then you'd ask yourself whether it was all worth it.
This is not my beautiful house!
This is not my beautiful wife!

Letting the days go by! Let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by! Water flowing underground...

Talking Heads aside, it looks like a great possibility to a senior in college like me who's soon about to be without food, money, or a roof over my head, so I figured I might as well give it a shot.

I was also just about to start a topic about how one makes money in this field. I mean, I do it 'cause I love it, but I'd love to make a little money doing what I love.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:23 am

TRI wrote:You're still paying off the wife?
So just where do Serbians get mail order brides from, anyway?

We're still west from Ucraine.

Anyways, I thought it'd be interesting to, I dunno, offer myself for a job no longer than 50 pages or something, to see how it'd go. Seems challenging, and it would probably be very rewarding so earn some paper money that way. Yet I'm still reclutant, wondering what I'd get myself into.

RKDS · Post by **RKDS** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:23 pm

It's a great idea but it's neither new nor one I have much faith in.

Putting money on the table would solve the major issue of volunteer collaborations by shifting the problem to another area. Now you have a disconnect between artists and patrons, neither of whom are willing to be realistic about compensation. You can't buy theatrical animation for $5 a second any more than you can sell one pencilled page for two weeks salary upfront. Yes, those are both real quotes.

It's the same thing if you go to a site like rentacoder, though, with all the "build me a search engine better than Google right away and for $20" and "homepages for sale, only $10K!" ads.

I suppose I don't exactly see it on the same level as anyone completely on one side or the other. While I really do want to pay a fair rate for someone else's time and effort, art just isn't difficult enough for me to be entirely at their mercy either. Sucks if you don't have that third option, no matter how rarely it may be chosen.

Best of luck to anybody who tries it though.

Kris X · Post by **Kris X** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 12:48 pm

5 jobs and 92 people?

Yeeeeah. This seems like a problem. I dunno, it might just end up more of a place with a lot of applicants and not much demand for them. As unfortunate as it is... There aren't nearly as many people looking for comic workers as there are looking for jobs for it... It is a small window, after all. Or so I've learned.

Snackbot · Post by **Snackbot** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:30 pm

I see it as a kind of internet want-ad page. Sure there are more artists signed up than those willing to hire artists, but how many of those artists are GOOD artists? There are always more applicants than there are jobs. This is just one slice of the job market.

Maybe the site will fall flat on it's face within a month. At least if it doesn't, my name will be in there.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:12 pm

It's totally oposite from what we have in our ad thread.

ShardZ · Post by **ShardZ** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 5:31 am

There may be only five jobs listed now, but there had been at least one more.

It would take constant monitoring to confirm, but a high job-turnover would be a good thing for this sort of site.

It's been operating less than a month, according to the "sample job posting," so who knows? That Comicspace site certainly ballooned as word got out, and this seems to have more potential and/or functionality... *Shrug*

Dotty · Post by **Dotty** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:15 am

There's seven jobs now, and at least 1 more artist, because for reasons unknown, I've signed up.

McDuffies · Post by **McDuffies** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:32 pm

sellout

SergeXIII · Post by **SergeXIII** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:39 pm

Why the hell not? I'm in.

Hallonpress · Post by **Hallonpress** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:32 pm

This looks really interesting... I signed up.