Illo-a-thon?

[kerravonsen]

I just had an idea! I was thinking about tardis_bigbang, and how nifty it is that they get artists to participate as well as writers. And how it was a pity that I would never likely write a BigBang story, and thus not get illustrations for it. And it occurred to me... would it be possible to organize a ficathon-like thing, but for artists to illustrate pre-existing stories? Would it work? Would anyone want to participate? How could it be organized?

Some thoughts:
It could be like Remix; where there was a list of qualifying fandoms, and the writers would have to have at least N stories from said fandoms, so that their work could be matched up with artists more easily. Then the artist would have the choice of any of that writer's work to illustrate.

Unlike Remix, I would want to enable people to distinguish between gen/het/slash as well; I don't want to force anyone to have a repeat of the experience I had with Remix, where I was matched with an author who wrote nothing but slash, and I can't stand slash.

I think it would be too complicated to make it fine-grained on the level of characters; for a single-fandom thing like tardis_bigbang that is fair enough, but I would want this to be a multi-fandom thing.

One of the difficulties I can see in this, though, is that it is much more difficult to find artists than writers, at least, from my experience in fanzine editing that was the case. And I don't know where to go to recruit fan artists on LJ anyway.

So, what do you think? Got any brilliant ideas to make it work?

Comments

Illo-a-thon

[cesy]

Illo-a-thon sounds like a great idea if you can find enough artists. Could you just start a comm for it, get as many people as possible, and then make it clear that you'll match people up as closely as possible, but can't guarantee that every story will get illustrated? Then writers can give detailed headers for their work, and artists can specify what they're willing to illustrate as narrowly or broadly as they like.

[infiniteviking]

I'd love to participate in something like that!

A post linked on trek_news and who_daily will attract some attention. Isn't there a Doctor Who fan art community as well? Maybe someone there knows comms that will reach wider audiences.

[robling-t.livejournal.com]

I would love to see something like that, considering how much of my fic is far enough out on the fringe that my poor paired-off victims have never even met in canon and it's kind of hard to visualise sometimes... :)