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PITCHFEST 2025 has begun, and there’s still time to get your ticket!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I participated in Kids Comics Unite’s first Pitchfest in 2022 the competition was formidable, yet the most supportive. I learned a ton about the publishing industry, the (then and) current place for my work in that industry and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My 2022 submission: Wild Bird
currently back in the drawing board. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For now, I want to explain why\/how this event could be valuable for a creator’s career. There was once a time when a cartoonist could approach a publisher directly. Those encounters quickly became the responsibility of editors and their assistants. More recently it’s become the work of literary agents to act as a bridge between editors and creators and take part in the development process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The results have been various, but there are two phenomena that are common \u2013
1.<\/strong> Agents are over-committed and often back-logged.
2.<\/strong> Open Submissions are frequently closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Events like PITCHFEST serve to offset those factors by making in-depth development available, providing aggregation of high quality pitches for agents and provide direct access to those agents for creators who would otherwise miss-out on these resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a look at the gallery of past submissions<\/a>. Those winners & runner-ups have been acquired, self-published or their creators have been hired for other work. I’d be submitting myself, if my work wasn’t already being committed elsewhere. But if you’re preparing to pitch a project, this event could be well worth exploring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Learn more here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KCU Pitchfest is a gallery showcase of unpublished graphic novel projects that are reviewed by a panel of top agents and editors! Plus the opportunity to sign up for a 15-minute, one-on-one pitch review with an agent or editor from the jury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[4,361,67,71,253,140,462,128],"class_list":["post-9793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-blogging","tag-coaching","tag-comics","tag-gallery","tag-kids-comics-unite","tag-making-comics","tag-pitching","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/9EE4B777-A7E1-4095-ABE6-957D0C1E86F9-scaled.jpeg.webp?fit=2560%2C1440&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3egHU-2xX","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9923,"url":"https:\/\/plugoarts.com\/blog\/lets-go-a-kids-comics-studio-anthology-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":9793,"position":0},"title":"Let’s Go! 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