Bristol-based writer looking for comic artist

Bristol-based writer Daniel Humphry has been in touch and is looking for comics artists to illustrate some of his scripts. Here’s what Dan is after:

“I’ve a series of about 6-10 scripts for one page comic stories, to be submitted to major publishers for consideration in both anthologies and magazines. I’d be happy to work with more than one artist and I see this as a real opportunity to start collaborations with talented folk that could carry on to much larger projects down the line.

The stories themselves are darkly humorous, generally told over 5-8 panels, with a simple ‘slice-of-life’ construct and a twist at the end. One publisher likened them to the sketches in Chris Morris’ Jam series. Which made me blush. The type of art I’m looking for would have to reflect that, but nothing too obscure or overly fine-art, but simple black and white illustrations along the lines of a Clowes or Tomine. This is more to do with what is easy to pitch rather than personal taste.

I wouldn’t look to interfere with the artists too much after agreeing a style/layout either as I’m very much aware that the visuals are their expertise and not mine.
Finally, I’m only looking for serious parties as I have early interest from publishers and don’t want to be showing them lay outs one day and have the artist drop out the next. All experience levels are welcome though! With regards to remuneration, I’ll happily sign to a pre-agreed percentage split of any profits made from sold submissions.”

He’s looking to get started straight away, so if you’re interested, get in touch! He can be reached at: danhumphry at gmail dot com

Call for submissions: Bear Pit 4

We’re looking for comics, illustration and other forms of sequential art for the third issue of our anthology zine, BEARPIT. Details as follows:

Theme: “Other”

Deadline: Thursday 7th June

Format: The zine  is in black and white. It will be reproduced on a laser (or risograph) printer, so don’t get too carried away with the greys if you can help it.  Max pages per submission, 6; minimum, 1. Only one submission per contributor will be included.

Paper size: The zine will be printed at A5 (148 x 210mm). Your artwork should fit to these dimensions.

Contents: All contributions that take the theme of Other. Whilst this is fairly broad in some senses, through the conversations we had we wanted to suggest ‘other’ in the sense of terms such as ‘mirror’, ‘reflection’, ‘counterpart’ and ‘multiplicity’.  Although we do emphasise the comic/sequential-art nature of Bear Pit Zines, any comibination of words and pictures will be considered. Finally, we are open to submissions from any and all, but we do ask that the contributor and/or their work retain some kind of connection to the city of Bristol. 

Please send your submissions as .tiff, .bmp or .psd at no less than 300 dpi to bearpitzines@gmail.com.

Bristol Comic and Zine Fair (the aftermath)

We held the inaugural Bristol Comic and Zine Fair at Start the Bus last month, and we just wanted to let you know it was a great success! We had very positive feedback from stallholders, makers, helpers, distributors, and punters (see reports from Smoo Comics, Bianca Soucek, and Terry Hooper). With anything like this there is room for improvement, and we’ll be streamlining our operations for the next event.

Our thanks go to the Start the Bus for their help and hosting, to Claire Carter for staffing the communal table and to everyone who helped spread the word or who came down and checked out what was going on.

If you’d like to find out information on the next fair, do get in touch.

BEARPIT ZINE #3 - Call For Submissions

We’re looking for comics, illustration and other forms of sequential art for the third issue of our anthology zine, BEARPIT. Details as follows:

Theme: “Occupation”

Deadline: Thursday 15th December

Format: The zine  is in black and white. It will be reproduced on a laser (or risograph) printer, so don’t get too carried away with the greys if you can help it.  Max pages per submission, 6; minimum, 1. Only one submission per contributor will be included.

Paper size: The zine will be printed at A5 (148 x 210mm). Your artwork should fit to these dimensions.

Contents: All contributions that take the theme of Occupation, however the term can be understood, as their starting point are warmly welcomed. Although we do emphasise the comic/sequential-art nature of Bear Pit Zines, any comibination of words and pictures will be considered. Finally, we are open to submissions from any and all, but we do ask that the contributor and/or their work retain some kind of connection to the city of Bristol. 

Please send your submissions as .tiff, .bmp or .psd at no less than 300 dpi to bearpitzines@gmail.com.

Thanks to all who came to the meeting last week for their input into shaping the theme of this upcoming issue; it’s going to be a good one!

Happy drawing and/or writing!

Bear Pit Zines

Bristol Comic and Zine Fair 2011 - Booked Up

We’re happy to announce that all of the table spaces for our forthcoming comic and zine fair are now booked up.  Sorry to anyone who’s missed out.

Even if you’ve not got a table, you can still bring a couple of things along to sell on the communal table.  There is no need to book space on the communal table, and nor do we take any commission; though we are happy for you to volunteer even half an hour of your time to supervise it.

Look forward to seeing you all at the event - Sunday 25th of September 2011, 12-6PM - it is gonna rock!

Bear Pit Zine #2 Update !

Just a quick post to update everybody on the progress of bear pit zine #2.

It’s finished more or less we have a couple of tweaks to sort out but otherwise it’s done and clocking in at an impressive 24 pages with some excellent contributions !!

Thanks to everyone who took the time to contribute and if you want to contribute to the next one drop us a line and help make #3 more awesome !

It will be taken to the printers next week and i’ll let you all know when it’s finished so we can get together and distribute copies to those who want them and generally have a drink or something.

Bye for now !!

Esme & Deemo 

Issue #2 - Call for submissions

Issue #2 of Bear Pit is now on the horizon, and its time to open the call for submissions!  Its roughly the same deal as last time - a classic A5 saddle-stitched booklet chock full of sequential artwork from Bristol-based artists.  Looking forward to another corker!

THEME: (Im)Possible Futures

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Sat 18th June

GUIDELINES:

- Minimum length is 1 page, no max (within reason).

- B&W / Greyscale / Dot-tone (i.e. not colour)

- Please use Bristol as the context of your submission’s content - this can be more or less explicit, tis your call of course.

Please email your submissions to Esme and Ian (their details are on the contacts page).