Approaching Artists

There are a few forums that I check out when I'm looking to see if anyone wants to hire a comic artist:

http://www.digitalwebbing.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=101
http://www.webcomics.com/personals/

If you can't offer payment, you'll get fewer responses, but they'll go up if you can prove that there's something in it for the artist as well. If you already have a publisher (or agent?) interested, or if you offer a pay bonus upon completion of the pages (otherwise you may get someone who flakes out), etc.

Good luck!

Elae pretty much nailed it in her answer, but I will add that pencil jack is a decent site for finding artists as well. I believe the bulletin board is the spot where people advertise for artists.

http://penciljack.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=87

http://penciljack.com/forum/

Good luck - and stop back and let us know what happens with your project.

Thanks so much for the links,Elae and Myrmidon!

I have a manga and graphic novels that I work on and have been looking for an artist forever!

This helps so much!

It's very hard to find an artist when you have no budget. I have been working to get a submission done for Zuda for a while now. But with no money to pay upfront and only the promise of splitting the cash if the comic is selected... it is very hard.

The other thing you can do is just approach them for a treatment to start with: 10 to 12 pages or so of the comic and some character designs. Say it's non-paying right now, but if the comic gets picked up they'll get a fair page-count for work completed plus the rest of the book. That's a lot less of a non-paying commitment for an artist to tackle than the whole project and might interest more people. It's still 'free work,' but most publishers don't want the whole thing completed before they say yes or no, they want a completed script and some sample pages. Heck, just asking for 10 or 12 pages might be something that you can afford to pay for up front.