10 Unproduced Comic Pitches You Need To See

Creating a comic is a complex process. Many writers state a preference for writing funnybooks over all other media: compared to, say, the struggling auteurs trying to maintain their vision in the light of the studio system and dozens (if not hundreds) of cast and crew members who work on a film production. Comic books, meanwhile, have a lot less people working on the, but they're no less susceptible to the vagaries of fluctuating budgets, meddling head honchos and the changing marketplaces. Just as there are umpteen amazing unproduced movie scripts and projects out there, so too are plenty of unrealised comic pitches. There are word documents which have been confined to a writer's desktop, books which have been pencilled and never gotten past that point, revamps that were killed off before characters could even be resurrected. Through the annals of comics history there are lost masterpieces, close calls and forgotten works whose bones have been picked clean to build other iconic storylines - everyone from the fly-by-nights to some of the most legendary creators of the form have their careers littered with such skeletons. At least, the ones the public know about. From Superman to Wonder Woman, Frank Miller to that guy who keeps claiming he's retired and insists on being referred to as The Original Writer, these are ten unproduced comic book pitches you need to see.