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[ctc]

So;

Let's say you're a cartoonist and you spent a long time working on a book that nobody ever saw. And then years later you decide to redo it.... Is this a reboot? (Considering nobody saw it.) Is this reprehensible? A good idea? A bad one?

Don C.

[saildog]

If a tree falls in the woods...............

[Bionic Joe]

You never know till you try, Stan Lee pitched SPIDER MAN a few times before it saw print

[raider5gt]

Give it a go,nothing ventured nothing gained

[Earth 2 Chris]

Look at Superman. Siegel and Shuster did their "Reign of the Superman" in their self-published Sci-Fi zine, and then reworked the concept with the evil Superman as a hero and tried to pitch it to comic strip syndicates. Reportedly, Joe Shuster got angry over their failure to sell the strip, and destroyed his original art pages. Yet another version of Superman was created and shopped around, and Vin Sullivan at DC/National finally bit, and they repasted the first strip into Action #1. So you'd be in good company if you "rebooted".

Chris

[johnnystorm]

i'd say it's only a reboot if it's been published and is changing the standard that is known to most people. An artist changing ideas mid-stream or scrapping it and starting over is just part of the creative process. As shown in the previous posts, I'm sure every creator has had a change of heart or started something that tok on a direction of it's own. Sometimes a concept seems great until you see it through and find out it didn't live up to it's potential, so you try again.

[Cosmicman]

I write my own comics/stories. I have had one published in my life. I have redone and reformatted my characters every decade. I do have them finally copyrighted. So I guess, if I were to redo them. I guess that would a be a reboot in some weird and twisted way.

[kingdom warrior]

Artist are always refining their work. It's a matter of letting it go and letting it be what it is that makes it finished. Look at the film makers who go back and make director cuts of their movies.

As a fellow artist. In the past I've gone back and redrawn Illustrations that were good ideas but because of lack of skill during that time I wasn't satisfied with the results.

I don't think it's rebooting. I think it's refining..........