We can now use the Comic Genesis name and logo!
We need submissions in the following categories:
- Front Cover art including title text and ComicGen CG logo
- Back Cover art
- Introduction text and/or multiple submissions, ads, etc for the intro page.
- 27 pages of content
The inside back cover will include copyright information.
The Rules
(circa Volume 1. I haven't updated anything in here, but it's got a lot of good info still.)
Volume 1
Volume 2
Rules for Submission of Content:
- PG-PG13 only. No nudity, graphic violence, excessive cursing. Suggest all you like.
- No copyrighted content except your own. Sprite comics will not be allowed to submit unless they can prove they made their own sprites. No Evil Bert pics. That kind of thing.
- Please include a content rating, especially if your comic contains mature content. (That might attract readers, who knows?)
- Include your own copyright notice on your page. There will be a copyright page, but only to show the license of the book itself. The individual works are still yours.
- Include your comic's title and/or URL if you want people to be able to find you.
- Pages may be voted out by a simple majority of the other authors submitting. It's a group effort. You want to make the group look good, not just yourself.
- You need to have a comic with at least some kind of archive to submit. The comic does not need to be on Keenspace since we aren't allowed to plug Keenspace. At least 20 comics online will make a good base but we can take it on a case-by-case basis (such as, you have more comics in your buffer than you have online).
- Those who appeared in the previous sampler are allowed to make submissions but people who were not in the previous sampler get dibs on the pages. If we have too many submissions, new people people get in. Old people get to wait for volume 4.
- Brief story comics are preferrable to single page ads. Try to limit the storylines to 2-3 pages, though. Take up too much space and you risk getting dropped because too many people submitted pages. There are no requirements for subject matter, only content requirments.
- Page Size: 3000 x 4500 pixels. Draw right up to the edge of this area.
- Colors:Grayscale or 2-color Black & White only.
- Font-size: easily readable if printed on half a letter-sized page or half an A4 page. (In GIMP I use 70-pt Anime Ace or Digital Strip.)
- File Formats: PNG, GIF or TIFF is preferred (no loss of data due to compression). JPG will work if you have a lot of grayscale, but it's not recommended.
- Page Size: 1650 x 2550 pixels. Draw right up to the edge of this area.
- Colors: 24-bit RGB or CYMK is preferred
- Font-size: Big and bold!
- File Formats: PNG, GIF or TIFF is preferred (no loss of data due to compression). JPG will work, but it's not recommended.
If the rules or requirements should change at any time during this thread's life, I'll change this post.
