Freelance Comic       

Freelance is an informal group of freelance professional illustrators, artists and designers based in the Ipswich area, in the East of England (see our website for more details). We meet once a month and offer help & support to each other. In March 2006 one of our members suggested that we collaborate and produce a comic. Since then we have kicked the idea around and eventually settled on a format: one of our members, writer Erica Wildwood, would produce a narrative, while the other participants (17 others in fact) would all take a line and illustrate it in whatever way they chose.

Well, the narrative has been written, each artist/designer has their line, and has been working on initial ideas and sketches; so the project has really started. We met in September to review the initial work: some participants had quite well developed ideas, others hadn't started but had a few initial thoughts. We also decided we should start a blog to record progress, encourage collaboration within the group and potentially invite comments. We may publish the finished comic in 2007, but we're not working to a strict deadline!