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 Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:57 pm
I got a rejection letter from Dark Horse comics today. They "decided to pass" on a proposal I gave to them at comic-con last year as part of their "New Recuits" program.
Call me crazy but this letter is so damn cool I want to frame it and hang it on my wall. I've been rejected by an established company! I'm almost a professional now! Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:24 pm
I know the feeling. I just know the guys from Udon won't accept me working with them if and when they get the rights to do a KOF comic. crying Wanna sit in the corner and be rejected together?
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:26 pm
Ever-Infamous Kojiro-san Wanna sit in the corner and be rejected together? I think you may have misunderstood, I'm not being sarcastic. I'm genuinely happy about this. It's my first rejection letter, it's like a rite of passage.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:32 pm
o.O Well...okay. Your call. I wouldn't see it as something to celebrate but...ah well. Go off and hold a rejection party or something then. And take a picture of the letter or scan it in or something so the rest of AYGGS (myself excluded) can bask in your rejectedness.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:08 pm
Congradts on the rejection?
Man I feel like someone removed a happy helmet here sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:28 pm
Ever-Infamous Kojiro-san o.O Well...okay. Your call. I wouldn't see it as something to celebrate but...ah well. Go off and hold a rejection party or something then. And take a picture of the letter or scan it in or something so the rest of AYGGS (myself excluded) can bask in your rejectedness. Yessss, I wnat to see it too... Oh man, how I wish to have my dreams crushed like that... sad
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:57 pm
None of you get it...
This is NOT the end of the world, for crying out loud. And I'M the one who got the letter so I fail to see why everyone else is being so awkwardly emo about it.
I'm going to get TONS of rejection letters in my life. Everyone gets rejection letters, these things just happen. This one however, is the first, and therefore is special. It's a momento of my first attempt at submitting to publishers. Who the ******** cares if I got rejected? I'm going to be at con again this year with a brand new submission, and I'll be armed with a whole new years worth of knowledge.
And I'll probably get rejected again. BUT THAT'S LIFE.
Sooner or later I'll submit something that gets accepted, but if I get all "oh god no, my dreams have been shattered" ever time I don't, well s**t I'm not going to get pretty far am I?
Sheesh, you guys need to learn how to look at things positively. I for one found a lot of humor and excitement in this, and I'm sorry you guys can't see that.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:10 pm
I like your attitude.
You have a very healthy view on this situation. In fact, when you do get your first job, you'll be able to look at that rejection letter and laugh even louder at the person who passed on your skill set.
Good luck!
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:12 pm
Floyd I like your attitude. You have a very healthy view on this situation. In fact, when you do get your first job, you'll be able to look at that rejection letter and laugh even louder at the person who passed on your skill set. Good luck! Ah I wouldn't say that. I like the guys at Dark Horse. They're good people. I'll be giving my new project to them at con this year again.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:30 pm
Letters of rejection are certainly something to be proud of. It shows that your work was good enough that it got their attention. Most of the time you don't hear anything at all from publishers.
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Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:31 pm
Actually I cheated a bit on that one. I took part in Dark Horse's "New Recruit" contest. If you had a specific form included with your proposal you were garunteed that the editor would read your submission.
Now, Radio Comix, they never got back to me. But they're pretty much killing their book format comics line anyways so...
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 12:36 am
Certainly a rejection letter is better than one of those mechanised response letters going something like "WE RLY LIEKD UR ENTRY BUT WE DON'T NEED U LOL". Without the netspeak at any rate.
Still, do show us a scan or photo of it so we can at least see it and be proud of you. Oh, and good luck for your future projects - MAY A WINNAR BE YOU.
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 5:57 am
NeoBlue Sheesh, you guys need to learn how to look at things positively. I for one found a lot of humor and excitement in this, and I'm sorry you guys can't see that. I was trying to cheer you on once I found out you were seeing it positively, for the record. "Whatever doesn't kill you," eh?
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:39 am
NeoBlue None of you get it... This is NOT the end of the world, for crying out loud. And I'M the one who got the letter so I fail to see why everyone else is being so awkwardly emo about it. I'm going to get TONS of rejection letters in my life. Everyone gets rejection letters, these things just happen. This one however, is the first, and therefore is special. It's a momento of my first attempt at submitting to publishers. Who the ******** cares if I got rejected? I'm going to be at con again this year with a brand new submission, and I'll be armed with a whole new years worth of knowledge. And I'll probably get rejected again. BUT THAT'S LIFE. Sooner or later I'll submit something that gets accepted, but if I get all "oh god no, my dreams have been shattered" ever time I don't, well s**t I'm not going to get pretty far am I? Sheesh, you guys need to learn how to look at things positively. I for one found a lot of humor and excitement in this, and I'm sorry you guys can't see that. Hey, I totally agree with you... You're one step close rto achieving your dreams, which is something quite enviable. Hence, the sad face: I am happy for you, sad for me.
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:05 pm
Actually I am happy you have gotten the first rejection letter. All I was worried about was that my congradts would come off snarky. Plus it felt somewhat akward like with the whole "Happy Helmet" episode of Ren and Stimpy.
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