This was on Digital Webbing, but no real details or links...
Open call for Anthology
This is an open call for writers, artists, letterers, and editors. I am putting together a Horror Anthology (tentatively targeted for October next year), and am in search for talent to fill the pages. Those involved in this project will have a strong say in the shape this anthology takes (for instance, whether it will be a monthly or quarterly).
For my part, I am developing a supernatural soap opera (akin to TV's "Dark Shadows") and am experimenting with non-traditional comic book storytelling methods.
So, I know many of us were rightfully skeptical of their Stingray script contest, but it looks like Darby Pop is now taking proper submissions: http://www.darbypop.com/submissions/
I don't know what kind of rights arrangement they'll offer, but it might be worth a look if you, like me, have failed Image pitches collecting virtual dust on a virtual shelf...
I am starting my own imprint -- Sticky Graphic Novels -- with Bruno Gmünder Verlag, a German gay art book publisher who is the English publisher for most of Tagame's manga. I will need to put out at least two hardcovers of smart, wholesome gay comic smut a year to be marketed as gay culture instead of erotica. I have enough material going for the next two years but I need to get projects started now so I have more books to publish down the line.
I currently have two 80-page homoerotic graphic novel projects without an illustrator and they both require two very important skill sets (besides the skill sets involved in doing full-color sequential art):
-- Both require an interest in depicting man-on-man gay sex as well as casual homoeroticism (so, you could be into teh gay either as a gay or bisexual man or a woman who likes to draw gay men -- gender of the artist is not an issue). If I have to explain to you how gay sex works, this project is not for you.
-- Both requires being able to draw manly men and/or bears (no twinkies or twunks or bishonen or yaoi art) with expressive body language and facial expressions
-- One requires doing 60s flavored super-spy comic art
I've published 5 hardcovers (6th on the way!) of gay comics smut with Bruno Gmünder Verlag and 21 digital gay erotic comics thought Selz so this is not an unserious opportunity. My latest hardcover, GREEK LOVE, sold out of its first printing in six months and is getting its second printing, now. Deadlines are flexible (see: you will have a year, more or less, to produce the 80-page books) but I prefer to get four pages a month. The project would be creator-owned rather than work for hire, so if this is more of a personal investment/labor of love thing for you, fabulous! But you DO get paid. And I work my ass off to promote and sell the books in both hardcover and digital format.
Please e-mail me at dalelazarov@gmail.com with a link to your sequential and/or homoerotic artwork if interested.
Man , that MCR book makes me crazy. Like the Queen anthology, too. Doing an anthology about someone's music without their permission but while still using their name to appeal to fans is just scummy.
Look at comic book tattoo. You guys worked with the artist to make the book, get the rights, promote it properly, etc. these projects use the original artists' name (and in the queen case, logo and likenesses) without first getting permission . And fans may not realize it's an unauthorized project.
Good points, but CBT also had the support of a major publisher and the fact that Rantz was friends with Tori from waybackwhen. A lot of unauthorized anthologies/zines are just that: they're zines, they're fanworks, sometimes for profit, sometimes not. Sure, they trade on the popularity of something they don't own in order to find an audience and make money, but so does someone in artist's alley selling Batman sketches or Adventure Time prints (heck, so does anyone doing WFH, to my thinking). I only ever see a problem with that if they're claiming they created Batman or AT or whatever.
That's not to say I believe it's always a strictly mercenary situation, though. I think you can self-generate unauthorized work because you genuinely love something and also because you think you can make a buck off your hard work expressing that love. Or just for the hell of it, that's valid too.
I agree that using the Queen logo is dodgy, but look at the MCR guidelines: they're explicitly avoiding using anything directly from Way and co's work, and just going for an interpretive vibe. That's just a zine with panels, more power to them.
(I think page-rate-pending-Kickstarter-success is a bad call, mind, but other than that, they seem to be trying to do things as aboveboard as possible.)
So, short version: I agree there's scummy ways to do these things, but I don't think it's inherently scummy to do them.
I need a colourist for an 8 page superhero short. We're looking for an animation-ey style, not something super highly rendered.
This is a paying gig. The artist and I are hoping to develop this into a miniseries so ideally I'd like someone who is down for more work if it comes along.
The pitch deadline's only a few days away, but I just stumbled across this:
Oath is a black and white superhero comic and prose anthology made by queer creators, as a reaction and response to the portrayal (and lack of portrayal) of diversity in superhero genre.
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If interested in collaborating, please contact me at adamwa771@gmail.com.
For my part, I am developing a supernatural soap opera (akin to TV's "Dark Shadows") and am experimenting with non-traditional comic book storytelling methods.
https://grapplepublishing.submittable.com/submit
Cliché warning: I have a story for each of those dates.
I am starting my own imprint -- Sticky Graphic Novels -- with Bruno Gmünder Verlag, a German gay art book publisher who is the English publisher for most of Tagame's manga. I will need to put out at least two hardcovers of smart, wholesome gay comic smut a year to be marketed as gay culture instead of erotica. I have enough material going for the next two years but I need to get projects started now so I have more books to publish down the line.
I currently have two 80-page homoerotic graphic novel projects without an illustrator and they both require two very important skill sets (besides the skill sets involved in doing full-color sequential art):
Please e-mail me at dalelazarov@gmail.com with a link to your sequential and/or homoerotic artwork if interested.
Cheers,
Dale Lazarov
http://www.webtoons.com/contest
That's not to say I believe it's always a strictly mercenary situation, though. I think you can self-generate unauthorized work because you genuinely love something and also because you think you can make a buck off your hard work expressing that love. Or just for the hell of it, that's valid too.
I agree that using the Queen logo is dodgy, but look at the MCR guidelines: they're explicitly avoiding using anything directly from Way and co's work, and just going for an interpretive vibe. That's just a zine with panels, more power to them.
(I think page-rate-pending-Kickstarter-success is a bad call, mind, but other than that, they seem to be trying to do things as aboveboard as possible.)
So, short version: I agree there's scummy ways to do these things, but I don't think it's inherently scummy to do them.
http://soltian.tumblr.com/post/112423449536/vertoscope-is-an-all-new-original-comics-anthology
Oath is a black and white superhero comic and prose anthology made by queer creators, as a reaction and response to the portrayal (and lack of portrayal) of diversity in superhero genre.
http://oathanthology.com/about