To those EXPO Comic Rejecters past and present:
By now most of you have learned who has been selected for EXPO Comic 2001, if
you
made the list, that is great! If you did not and would have liked to, or if
you
feel that your submissions should have been included, you have several
options.
The two extreme options are, 1) you can stomp your feet and complain, or 2)
you
can have it published in some other manner.
Do you still desire to publish your concept and want it to be a part of a
collection of illustrated stories to benefit CBLDF, and to show what you can
do
in this comic book format? You can either do it by yourself or we can put
something together ourselves. Since we “rejecters” do not have money/backer
to
pay for the printing, this limits our options to paying for printing
ourselves.
Hey, if someone would want to donate the money for printing, please speak up.
PROPOSAL: We are familiar with projects like Gumbo or Digital Webbing
Presents,
in which each creator or creative team pays X amount per their contributions
(page count) divided by the printing cost. The same concept can be applied
for
the EXPO “rejecters” book. The submission you sent in, to be included in the
EXPO
comic, can be showcased in our own “rejecters” book. Much like the EXPO
comic,
proceeds from the sale of the EXPO “rejecters” book will be donated to CBLDF.
Too all EXPO Comic Rejecters past and present do you what to be part of this?
It's either Yes or No?
If it’s Yes, please acknowledge by e-mail: noppie NO ATTACHMENTS
PLEASE!
(If, by chance there is someone else out there who wants to do put this
project
together? I yield to you. I have a thousand and one things that need to be
done
before attending SPX. If not, do not complain.)
DEADLINE: The deadline for acknowledgment/submission is the 20th of July 2001.
The artwork should already be completed.
Is there a mathematical person who wants to handle the calculation aspect of
this
project?
If at all possible, I would like each contributor to receive X amount books.
If
the books are sold at the cover price this should reimburse the contributors
for
printing costs, and it should still allow the CBLDF to benefit. Since we do
not
know how many creators/contributors will want to take part in this, or how
many
copies we should print, the cost per contributor is unknown at this time.
CONTRIBUTIONS: Are there individuals who desire to donate money to have it
printed?
Does anyone want to handle the money end of this project? To receive the
checks
and pay the printer. Speak up.
Does anyone want to do the cover or back cover? How do we want to decide
this?
Title? Anyone have a good ideal besides Disgruntle/Rejecters?
Contact information and bio’s. If it’s just simple contact information,
send it
as text in an e-mail, and/or with the artwork on diskette
ARTWORK & LAYOUT: How do you want the illustrated stories placed in what
order?
Because of certain limitation of the printed comic book format, not all
stories
can be placed in any specific order. (i.e. a double page spread in one
illustrated story might be limited in its options.) Because of time
limitation,
I suggest an alphabetical order by title of each submission.
All artwork should be scanned and on media. One or two exceptions is not
problem. But please be considerate of the time and effort involved in putting
this project together.
If you decide that you want to take part in this madness, mail digital
formats on
either a zipdisk (100mb, Macintosh or IBM formatted), lots of floppies
(3.5”), or
a CD; with images preferable in TIFF format, or anything in Photoshop, to:
A n g r y D o g P r e s s
Disgruntle/ Rejecter
Attn: Steven M. Noppenberger
74 Carroll View Avenue
Westminster, Maryland
21157 5602
Did I mention NO ATTACHMENTS! NO ATTACHMENTS! NO ATTACHMENTS! Everyone
understands NO ATTACHMENTS!
Russ McIntosh and Steven Noppenberger
A n g r y D o g P r e s s
