Comics Publishing Power Panel with Patrick Lugo, Janna Morishima, Amin Amat & Grant Lankard

Tyler hosts a dynamic discussion on comics crowdfunding with a panel that includes prolific illustrators, an experienced writer and a literary agent! This one is loaded with knowledge bombs from Patrick Lugo & Janna Morishima of Kids Comics Unite and the “Let’s Go! Comics Anthology for Kids”, “The Road to Oz” creator Amin Amat, and writer Grant Lankard (League of Cryptids).

Highlights of This Session Include:

How a career pivot and the Covid pandemic lead Janna to create the largest community of creators of kids comics.
How to decide how much story to launch on Kickstarter when working on a serialized project?
How NOT to get a literary agent to represent you?
Plus: The Comic Book Crowdfunding Planner has less than a week left on Kickstarter! Did you get yours? ComixLaunch.com/planner

Today’s Session is Brought to You By…

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Today’s Featured Guests:

Janna Morishima is a literary agent specializing in graphic novels and visual storytelling. She currently represents a diverse range of comics creators, including Misako Rocks, Shauna Grant, Andi Watson, and Rivkah LaFille. Janna started her career at Scholastic, where she co-founded the Graphix imprint. Later, she was the director of the Kids Group for Diamond Book Distributors, and launched and ran the NYC Department of Education’s “NYC Reads 365” literacy initiative. She is the founder of Kids Comics Unite, an online community for kids and YA graphic novel professionals. Find out more at http://jannaco.co and https://www.kidscomicsunite.com/.

Patrick Lugo’s comics first saw print while still a student. After a stint as art director for Kung Fu magazine, he returned to comics in 2022 with the MMC Grant winning graphic novel A Tiger’s Tale volume 1; volume 2 saw publication in 2024, both funded on Kickstarter. In 2025 his comics will see print in three projects, two anthologies and the graphic novel/double album titled BOX OF TAPE: A Rock Opera – regular updates can be found on PLUGOarts.com

Amin Amat is a comic book illustrator and web developer. Known for his pencil and ink work on books such as CodeWord: Geronimo, Kolchak The Night Stalker, Buckaroo Banzai Origins, Irresistible, Grimm Universe #3, Iron Sky, and Bayeux. He had provided illustrations for many notable publishers such as IDW, Moonstone Books, Tapestry Comics, Xbox 360, Disney, and Zenescope Entertainment, amongst many others. A proud Boricua who’s now a Florida transplant!

Grant Lankard is the creator of Beowulf, Memoirs of the Morbid, and League of Cryptids.

More About Our Sponsor:

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