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Superstar Writer Cullen Bunn Reveals Foolproof Plan To Break Into Comics

Published Wed, 18 Jan 2017 07:30:55 -0600

Last updated Wed, 18 Jan 2017 07:56:13 -0600

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Yesterday marked the record-breaking 5,674th time in the past two years that everyone on comics Twitter posted threads on how to break into comics. Bleeding Cool's Joe Glass, who has, himself, broken into comics, documented some of the tweets yesterday. But the "how to break into comics" twitter train has continued rolling into this morning, with Cullen Bunn, superstar writer of comics such as The Sixth Gun, Uncanny X-Men, Deadpool and the Mercs for Money, Harrow County, Monsters Unleashed, Micronauts, and Conan the Slayer (along with about a hundred others) chiming in with his own foolproof plan that can work for you, yes you, for the low, low price of only $10.

See for yourself:

"Don't say 'break into comics' because that sounds like you're doing something wrong." — Silly advice about giving advice. Break in, baby!

— Cullen Bunn 🎃 (@cullenbunn) January 18, 2017

I missed all the breaking into comics stuff yesterday but there were lots of great thoughts and ideas. Someone should collect all that.

— Cullen Bunn 🎃 (@cullenbunn) January 18, 2017

Ahem. Though, everyone could just wait two weeks until comics twitter starts tweeting about it all over again, too.

I will say this – If you aren't doing the work, you're not going to break into comics.

— Cullen Bunn 🎃 (@cullenbunn) January 18, 2017

And I know finding time to write/draw/color/ink/etc. is tough. But you will always find SOME time for the things that are important to you.

— Cullen Bunn 🎃 (@cullenbunn) January 18, 2017

Make the time, do the work, improve, network, be ready when opportunities arise, don't be a jackass. That's a solid "breaking in" plan.

— Cullen Bunn 🎃 (@cullenbunn) January 18, 2017

Breaking into comics can be really disheartening. But that's what weeds out the people who don;t REALLY want to do it.

— Cullen Bunn 🎃 (@cullenbunn) January 18, 2017

If your REALLY WANT to make comics, there's nothing that will stop you.

— Cullen Bunn 🎃 (@cullenbunn) January 18, 2017

I once met an editor at a con to ask about work. He waved over another creator, told me "be more like this guy," and walked off. #devastated

— Cullen Bunn 🎃 (@cullenbunn) January 18, 2017

Fun fact we just made up: that other creator was "The Great One" Brian Bendis, and this is why Bunn shaves his head.

That might be the closest I've ever really been to giving up on comics, but I dusted myself off and kept trying.

— Cullen Bunn 🎃 (@cullenbunn) January 18, 2017

There will be moments (even after you've broken in) that you feel like you're better off giving up. I've been going thru that for weeks now.

— Cullen Bunn 🎃 (@cullenbunn) January 18, 2017

But remember this: 1 month before I became a full-time writer, I told @brihurtt that I would NEVER be able to be a full-time writer.

— Cullen Bunn 🎃 (@cullenbunn) January 18, 2017

Just a couple of months before I was offered UNCANNY X-MEN, I told a fan I would NEVER be offered UNCANNY X-MEN.

— Cullen Bunn 🎃 (@cullenbunn) January 18, 2017

That sounds like an UNCANNY ability. But how can you make this work for you?

I'll say that for $10 per person. Please help me promote this new service.

— Cullen Bunn 🎃 (@cullenbunn) January 18, 2017

We're happy to oblige! If you want to break into comics, just paypal superstar writer Cullen Bunn $10 and he will say you will never break into comics, using his awesome jinx powers to ensure that you will in fact immediately break into comics, without doing any hard work to make it happen!

We're getting the right message out of this, right?

Of course! Cullen Bunn is a man who knows what he's talking about. He writes something like fifteen current ongoing titles, after all. He's a smart, smart man.