How much does a dream cost?

I'm still suffering from creative fatigue, but I might just jump right into my next project called THE COURTSHIP OF ABIGAIL FELLOWS, which is the direct sequel to my ABIGAIL & ROX story. It's an ambitious project, a far lengthier tale than its predecessor, so I might just draft up the manuscript in the same fashion with a skeleton-script and plug in scenes as they pop up. The first story took a few weeks to write, so I could very well finish up the sequel around May-- the summer for sure. I'm aiming for a three-part story-- probably consisting of 96-pages in total (the first story was 22-pages).

Doing the math in my head, 96-pages will have around 500 panels in total. Once I convert the skeleton-script into a full-script, the manuscript, itself, will be around 200-pages. And if I want to greenlight the comic's production, I'll have to hire an artist with a modest page-rate and the desire to stay aboard for all three-issues. Let me see... at $50 per-page, that'll cost me $4800 for the artwork. If the artist can't ink or colour his own work, then I will have to hire two other people for the gig as well. Lets say the inker asks for $30 per-page and the colours asks for $40; combined that will cost me an additional $6720. So far, that's a grand total of (drum roll please) $11,520. I'm not even including the price of a letterer, a copy editor, and advertisements promoting the book, which I will also need. Sadly, that sum is slightly under what I make a year. For that price, I can either vacation in Europe, find an apartment, or buy 96-pages of completed art.

Besides the rant, I did receive a couple of coloured pages from Adrian this week for the original Abigail & Rox. Check them out.