Tea Fougner

Comic & Prose Editing

I love to make good creative projects even better. I’ll listen to you, understand your goals, and give you the feedback you need to reach them. My specialties are in story and developmental editing for humor, action-adventure, and romance. I’ll make your jokes, your heroes, and your heartbreaks all hit a little bit harder. Contact me for rates and more info.

Tea is my go-to editor when I have a joke, but it’s just not there yet. Tea has that rare ability to look under the hood of a cartoon and tinker. I depend on her thoughtful and funny suggestions. It always gets me unstuck!

-Reuben Award-winning cartoonist and creator of “Rhymes With Orange,” Hilary Price

Some things I can do for you:

  • Develop your characters, setting, and/or story
  • Develop your jokes until they land just right
  • Work with you on your narrative voice or your characters’ voices in your dialogue
  • Give you thorough notes on your comic script or thumbnails on a one-time or ongoing basis
  • Give you thorough notes on your prose manuscript.
  • Do a targeted authenticity read (read more about this here)
  • Act as a Managing Editor to help you get your project done on schedule
  • Organize your anthology project and manage multiple contributors
  • Review your comic, prose, or entertainment pitch and get it presentation-ready
  • Work with licensors or licensees to keep licensed books and other media on brand

Tea has an amazing eye for what a story needs in order to connect with its audience. She knows effective writing isn’t just content in a void, it’s a conversation with a reader. Whether dimensionalizing characters or shoring up structure, Tea makes sure you have that human element that gives a project a pulse. 

-Eisner- and Ringo- nominated writer and artist Dan Schkade

Selected story reboots I’ve developed:
Mark Trail by Jules Rivera Read More in the New York Times
Popeye by Randy Milholland Read More in the Washington Post
Flash Gordon by Dan Schkade Read More in the Washington Post

Selected anthology projects I’ve worked on:
Popeye’s Cartoon Club Read More in Business Insider
Raw Fanthology Read More in The Daily Dot

Selected licensed books I’ve worked on:
Legacy of Mandrake the Magician
Flash Gordon: The Girl From Infinity

Tea Fougner is a meticulous, thoughtful collaborator. She’s excellent at communication in all capacities, and as my co-editor for RAW, she managed both outward-facing content— such as marketing copy and other consumer messaging— and inward-facing organization— such as coordinating with a large group of contributors on scheduling and submissions— with ease. Her ability to seamlessly juggle the many different types of promotional and business writing required for the promotion & management of RAW was invaluable, and I attribute the project’s success to having had her on the team.

-A. Fleck, Bad Influence Press

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