Valiant comic book ideas

[1ForChrist]

Maybe this could be moved to the correct discussion, but does Valiant accept ideas on new characters or stories for their comic book universe? I was thinking of a story arc/characters to suggest. I don't have any comic book experience in the creative direction, but was always curious if any comic book companies has ever took interest in this?

[Shadowman99]

Maybe this could be moved to the correct discussion, but does Valiant accept ideas on new characters or stories for their comic book universe? I was thinking of a story arc/characters to suggest. I don't have any comic book experience in the creative direction, but was always curious if any comic book companies has ever took interest in this?

Contact VEI Directly if you want to pitch ideas to them. If I recall rightly there's a page on Valiantuniverse.com where there's a link specifically for contacting them with that kind of conversation, so one assumes they're at least open to some degree on submission of pitches.

I've never contacted a company with creative pitches, but you say that you don't have any comic book "experience in the creative direction" - I'm guessing you must have some kind of creative experience of one sort or another and a portfolio/samples you can submit? I doubt anyone gets far in the creative business without at least those under their belt, so if not I'd advise putting together a portfolio of some kind before you contact any company in official capacity with creative ideas.

I'm not pretending to know a lot about this kind of stuff, but that's my best guess on the topic based on what I've heard pro creatives discussing at cons and elsewhere.

If it's just character ideas you have then I'd suggest trying to provide them with some kind of brief backstory and context within the VU so that it at least shows that you've put a bit of thought into how this character is useful to the VU beyond just wearing a cool costume/having cool powers.

[greg]

Generally speaking, publishers are both...
1) always looking for new talent
2) always protecting themselves

As a result, you can imagine that Marvel and DC get tons of emails and contacts with ideas. Then, even if they never read them... someone can say "they stole my idea!" when something similar eventually gets printed. Like the big two, Valiant may have a formal submissions process, so I would ask about that first... don't start with the idea.

[Zhuge1]

Another idea is to find a way to introduce the character using another Valiant character that's covered by the Amazon Kindle Worlds platform (many Valiant characters exist as some of the first "worlds" writers could self-publish fan fiction through). Note that if you do write a story and publish it through Amazon's Kindle Worlds platform, VEI would then "own" any characters you create, so consider whether you'd be in favor of that or not. And, there's certainly no expectation that they may ever use those characters in the comics line.