Hey everybody, I've decided to attempt what is probably a pretty foolish endeavor: to try and self-publish a comics anthology. Naturally, I need some contributors and so I turn my lonely eyes to you. If you think you might like to have some of your work published by a lazy sod such as I for ABSOLUTELY NO MONEY, repeat ABSOLUTELY NO MONEY, then please read on. If, like most people, you are throughly disgusted by the idea, please feel free to hurl a wad of spittle onto the computer screen and continue on your cantankerous way.

So, the details:

THEME: The anthology will be called "FUGLY ANIMALS" as a playful tribute/mockery of the children's comics of the Fifties (FUNNY ANIMALS) and will feature all animal based comics. I'm primarily interested in humorous comics but I certainly won't turn away submissions that are adventure, fantasy or fact based or anything else based for that matter. They just have to be about animals, the characters should be animals. If a few humans show up in supporting roles that's OK but the primary players should be bestial.

PAGES: I'm intending for the book to be between 24-28 pages long and I'm limiting submissions to a 4 page maximum per story. You may feel free to submit as many stories, gags or strips as you like as long as no individual submission is longer than 4 pages in length.

I'm not setting a particular size requirement or restriction but please be aware that the final book will probably be standard comic book size (about 6.5 inches wide by 10 inches tall) so if your submission can be easily manipulated to fit such a page, then all the better.

SCANS: Submissions should be made through emailing me the pages in TIFF format at at least 300 dpi resolution and in grayscale. Sorry, no color on the interior pages.

The cover, however, will be in color and I will accept submissions in the same format and resolution for the cover and back cover illustrations if you feel you must work with a rainbow of fruit flavor.

WHAT DO YOU GET?: Well as I've already said, there is no money to be made here by submitting comics to my anthology. At best you'll just get to see your work in print and have something to show your stoner friends who, I promise, will not care a bit. Even so, my heart is not so cold as to not offer contributors some small payment for their time behind the pencil. And so, every person who makes the book will receive 3 (count 'em 3) free copies of the anthology upon its debut. Also if you want to buy more copies later on, I'll give you a discount.

DEADLINE: The deadline for submissions is Sunday, February 28, 2010. I'll be happy to receive anything you want to send me before that date but, really and truly, nothing after it. I'm hoping to get the book assembled and printed by the end of April 2010.

So that's it folks, FUGLY ANIMALS, comics about animals, TIFF files, 300 dpi, grayscale, no more than 4 pages, by the end of February. Got it? Send your stuff to me at; jevacat23@gmail.com and let's rock this sucker!

Thanks in advance, pals!