Breaking into Comics in 2025 with Shawn Crystal

3 Point Perspective: The Illustration Podcast

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Can you make it as a comic artist in 2025? Is this a dying market? Shawn Crystal gives his take on the modern comic industry and shares his advice to anyone hoping to see their work in print. Join the conversation!

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome to Three Point Perspective, the podcast about illustration, how to do it,
0:09.3	how to make a living at it, how to make an impact in the world with your art. I'm Jake Parker.
0:13.0	I'm not Lee White, but I am Will Terry, and all three of us are professional illustrators.
0:17.8	We've all worked for all the major publishers in the business. Together,
0:25.4	we published somewhere around 75 children's books, and we've all time illustration at university art schools. Yep, each week we will bring, well, we talk about illustration stuff. That's,
0:32.6	that's what we do. In this particular week, we do, we're doing an interview with Sean Crystal, who's a comic
0:39.4	artist, veteran comic artist, and he's also my co-teacher for the upcoming graphic novel
0:45.2	pro course that we're running in May.
0:49.4	So we wanted to bring him on here, talk to him about the industry of comics, where it's at, where it's going,
0:55.4	how to break into it, where it's been. And we just had a great conversation with them.
1:00.7	And I don't want to waste anybody's time, but really quick, just to give you context of who
1:06.1	Sean is, he's worked for Marvel. He's worked for DC. He currently does illustrations for Marvel
1:11.7	Snap, which is a huge Marvel trading card game that's only done online, uh, or just digital,
1:19.6	I guess. Um, he also runs ink pulp, uh, dot TV, which is a podcast. There's comics courses that you can take on there. Um, and, uh, TV, which is a podcast. There's comics courses that you can take on there.
1:30.9	Um, and,
1:31.3	uh,
1:32.1	and so that's kind of like his central hub for everything that he's doing,
1:35.6	epepulp.tv.
1:36.6	So you can check them out on Instagram.
1:38.9	You can check them out on YouTube.
1:40.3	I've been on his podcast a couple times as well.
1:43.3	Um,
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