Comic book writing is something I'm really interested in. I didn't know that comic companies optioned novels before they're released. Why are you not showing the book to the agent?
Comic book writing is odd in that you pay the companies that make them and then you get all the money. If'n you want a comic or graphic novel, you front the illustration and publishing costs. The estimates we had for turning this script into a book were between $15k and $50k. I was at William Morris when Endeavor took over and my agent got the sack. He passed me along to another guy at WMEE, but that guy, too got the sack eventually. My original guy - a friend - is now at CAA, but he's die-hard into video games and not so much on the comic side. Besides which, the comic-to-movie route was a short-lived gambit; it doesn't work any more. I have a graphic novel in the works with Youngluck but it's tough when one of you is fresh out of prison and trying to make ends meet.
Huh. I did not know that. I'm not surprised that the comic-to-movie thing doesn't work well these days, though I am hopeful that the TV adaptation of Bendis and Oeming's Powers will be good. It's such a good series. Anyway, hope your projects work out, they sound pretty interesting.