Last year, Dapper Dan Schoening (the artist behind the Ghostbusters: The Video Game styling on the Wii), and James Eatock (from Cereal:Geek and seen on the Real Ghostbusters DVD Set) decided to work together on a pitch for a Ghostbusters Comic and send it over to IDW Publications to see if they were interested. The guys put together a 16 page document showing potential layouts and character designs as well as laying out the first 10 comics (much more than the average one shot or 4 comic series we normally get). They sent it over to IDW, and eventually they responded letting the guys know they weren’t interested in their comic.
While the comic may never get picked up by IDW or a Sony approved publisher, we have the Comic Book pitch available here for you guys to check out! Wouldn’t this be a great idea for a comic? Would you buy it? I know I would… hello IDW…
If you like this styling and work be sure to see Dapper Dan’s Deviant Art, and James Eatock’s Cereal:Geek magazine.
I always wondered why Dan wasn’t drawing that comic having posted all that GREAT artwork!
My two cents on this: I’ve been working in comics for 12 years now and I’ve seen all kinds of things. These sub-companies buy the franchises to produce these comics fast and low cost. I was precisely talking to a friend of mine about the look of the Ghostbusters comics. I don’t know why they decided to go so “indie-looking”, when Ghostbusters is a worldwide well known franchise and deserves a more meticulous treatment.
I’ve worked with companies who prefer to hire new kids who work for a few bucks than go with professionals and pay them what they are worth. They try to avoid hiring pros because they can catch a quick fanbase which means they have to pay him more to keep him around.
Comic Book world is based on fantasy but not too distant from reality issues.
I think im gonna need a year supplies of clean pairs of shorts!!! How the hell can nobody want to pick this up Sony and IDW need to have their noses cut off! This shit is epic as hell!
I would totally buy it and here’s why others would too.
No one buys mini-series anymore.
Sure, a few do, but I WORK in a comic store so I can tell you, people will either wait for the TPB or just pass. We have lots of mini-series stuff laying around.
People need stability. They need to know the story will go somewhere and want to be along for a ride.
An ongoing series is JUST what GB would need.
And the art? It reminds me of when Batman the Animated Series came out. A great different look, just enough to make it stand out.
I would love to buy this I love Dan’s art style and so far the stories and concepts sound great and even the humor is there. This would be awesome as a comic, even better as a new series or even a web series animated or comic style, but this has got to be the best Ghostbusters comic idea out there.
Very Cool. The plot sounds interesting, I like how they propose working in old characters in new ways. The focus on it being “just another job”, almost like Ghost-janitors, sounds closer to what I had heard was the original GB idea, so that would be neat. Although I always imagine them as more “superhero-esque”, it would be a cool angle they have going.
