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When Marvel And DC Turned Down Gerry Alanguinan

Published Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:30:46 -0600

Looks like Mark Millar isn't the only one going to the Philippines. Marvel's Talent Director and international gourmand CB Cebulski is too, and the local comic book creators are getting ready to show him their portfolios through the National Book Store.

Deadline is tomorrow to get them in folks.

And as part of a motivational drive, Eisner nominee Gerry Alanguinan has been posting… well… his rejection letters from Marvel and DC. One from the late Neal Pozner from DC and one from Eliot Brown. He writes;

I had read about the late Neal Pozner from various letter columns, and how he was much admired as an editor. I had heard he was very helpful towards aspiring artists in improving their work. And to receive a letter from him was just fantastic. In fact, before he sent this rejection letter, he had sent me another letter saying he had wanted to see more and sent me a Green Lantern script to work on. It was my understanding that if I did a good job on it, it may well have been my first published work.

Unfortunately, as I was doing the submission, my girlfriend broke up with me. I had been trying to break into comics partly because I wanted to follow her to the US, and have a good job when I got there. With her gone, my will to do comics went with her. Needless to say, I bombed that submission. And that is the letter I got in response. I stopped drawing for an entire year.

It's okay, he came back…