Marmalade is a small print run zine, available for free at several locations in Prince Edward County, but it also may be viewed digitally online. It is supported by donation, and all donation money received goes directly toward printing costs.
Contributions to the zine are not paid. Marmalade exists in order to...
a) showcase its contributors' cartooning work to the local area and beyond
b) challenge contributors to create comics pieces for deadlines
c) find opportunities for collaboration or experimentation
d) enhance the County's already significant rep as a way cool hotbed for cartooning and art in general
e) just plain rock
10 Submissions Guidelines for Contributors
1) It is a black and white zine - with no colour or tones - so submitted artwork should be black and white as well. There are different ways to achieve the illusion of grey tones, but the actual printed pages are simply black ink on white paper. (Isn't it refreshing, though, for once, to have no grey areas in life?).
2) Pages will be printed at 8.5x7" - so artwork can be created at any size ratio that conforms to those final print dimensions. (But it's okay if it's not exact - we'll just fit the artwork, whatever its shape, into the page the best we can.) Double-page spreads are acceptable - but please remember not to include important visual information in the middle of the spread - that is where the pages have been folded. Also, please be aware there is a thin white border around the outside of the zine - artwork does not extend right to the edge (no full bleed). Artwork that is to be submitted digitally should be sent in a digital format (it doesn't really matter what kind of file, as long as Photoshop can read it) at 300 dpi.
3) The number of comics pages that may be submitted per issue is 1 to 8. And the art on those pages should be sequential in nature. That is to say: the zine's focus is comics and cartooning, as opposed to a collection of stand-alone images or single panel 'gags'. There is no 'number of panels per page' requirement, however - a single image constituting an entire page may even work as a single panel in a story. It's up to the contributors to decide the density of panels that works best for their comics.
4) Contributors must have the legal right to use all characters and content that appears in their work. Satire and parody are okay, but, please, no straight-up 'Further Adventures of the Ninja Turtles,' for example. We won't be able to print it.
5) All tones and styles of cartooning are welcome and encouraged. However, since it is a free zine, available to all, please consider that young children will have access to it. The anthology is primarily aimed at adults who have an interest in comics, books and art in general, but children should be able to view it and enjoy it too. You know - all ages! We probably will not be able to print content that is solely intended for mature readers. We try to be as inclusive and permissive as possible, and we certainly won't change anyone's work to suit the zine, but we reserve the right not to print contributions, for any reason.
6) Don't worry whether or not your work is 'good enough' to be included in the anthology. Pages aren't judged that way. The main requirements for contributions is that the contributors themselves are pleased with the work that they submit.
7) All submissions are due on the second Wednesday of each month. Digital submissions (and any further questions) may be sent to [email protected]. Pages may also be submitted in person on 'Production Day' each month (usually at a cafe in Picton in the afternoon) or at a drop off point throughout the month. Please see announcements in the Facebook group for those locations.
8) When submitting comics, contributors are encouraged to include an email address and/or a url where readers will be able to view more of a particular contributor's work online, to be printed in the anthology. There is a dedicated 'Contributors' page for conveying that information, so it's not necessary to incorporate the email address or url into the design of the submitted pages, though contributors may do so if they wish. But it is the responsibility of contributors to be sure that all collaborators have been given due credit for their work somewhere within the pages that they have submitted. (Captions that say things like "Written by:.., Penciled by:..." etc.)
9) The anthology will be available in print form on the third Wednesday of each month. Each issue and all contributed pages are printed in physical form in one limited print run, and one incarnation of a digital zine, which may be available to view online for an indefinite period of time. In the event of a second printing or another, renewed version of a digital zine, we will contact contributors for permission to include their work in those editions. Excerpts (for example, single panels) from submitted pages may be used for promotional purposes.
10) All content submitted to Marmalade remains the creative property of the individual contributors who produced it. Contributors are free to do as they please with the content that they create. We simply ask that submissions to the zine be new-ish work, created approximately within the past year, and that contributors have all legal rights to submit that work to the anthology, and also the consent of all individuals who may have collaborated to create the work. (That is to say: the person who wrote it, the person who inked it, etc. all must be in agreement that they do want to submit that work to this project).
Thank you!
Go Team Marmalade!
[email protected]
Contributions to the zine are not paid. Marmalade exists in order to...
a) showcase its contributors' cartooning work to the local area and beyond
b) challenge contributors to create comics pieces for deadlines
c) find opportunities for collaboration or experimentation
d) enhance the County's already significant rep as a way cool hotbed for cartooning and art in general
e) just plain rock
10 Submissions Guidelines for Contributors
1) It is a black and white zine - with no colour or tones - so submitted artwork should be black and white as well. There are different ways to achieve the illusion of grey tones, but the actual printed pages are simply black ink on white paper. (Isn't it refreshing, though, for once, to have no grey areas in life?).
2) Pages will be printed at 8.5x7" - so artwork can be created at any size ratio that conforms to those final print dimensions. (But it's okay if it's not exact - we'll just fit the artwork, whatever its shape, into the page the best we can.) Double-page spreads are acceptable - but please remember not to include important visual information in the middle of the spread - that is where the pages have been folded. Also, please be aware there is a thin white border around the outside of the zine - artwork does not extend right to the edge (no full bleed). Artwork that is to be submitted digitally should be sent in a digital format (it doesn't really matter what kind of file, as long as Photoshop can read it) at 300 dpi.
3) The number of comics pages that may be submitted per issue is 1 to 8. And the art on those pages should be sequential in nature. That is to say: the zine's focus is comics and cartooning, as opposed to a collection of stand-alone images or single panel 'gags'. There is no 'number of panels per page' requirement, however - a single image constituting an entire page may even work as a single panel in a story. It's up to the contributors to decide the density of panels that works best for their comics.
4) Contributors must have the legal right to use all characters and content that appears in their work. Satire and parody are okay, but, please, no straight-up 'Further Adventures of the Ninja Turtles,' for example. We won't be able to print it.
5) All tones and styles of cartooning are welcome and encouraged. However, since it is a free zine, available to all, please consider that young children will have access to it. The anthology is primarily aimed at adults who have an interest in comics, books and art in general, but children should be able to view it and enjoy it too. You know - all ages! We probably will not be able to print content that is solely intended for mature readers. We try to be as inclusive and permissive as possible, and we certainly won't change anyone's work to suit the zine, but we reserve the right not to print contributions, for any reason.
6) Don't worry whether or not your work is 'good enough' to be included in the anthology. Pages aren't judged that way. The main requirements for contributions is that the contributors themselves are pleased with the work that they submit.
7) All submissions are due on the second Wednesday of each month. Digital submissions (and any further questions) may be sent to [email protected]. Pages may also be submitted in person on 'Production Day' each month (usually at a cafe in Picton in the afternoon) or at a drop off point throughout the month. Please see announcements in the Facebook group for those locations.
8) When submitting comics, contributors are encouraged to include an email address and/or a url where readers will be able to view more of a particular contributor's work online, to be printed in the anthology. There is a dedicated 'Contributors' page for conveying that information, so it's not necessary to incorporate the email address or url into the design of the submitted pages, though contributors may do so if they wish. But it is the responsibility of contributors to be sure that all collaborators have been given due credit for their work somewhere within the pages that they have submitted. (Captions that say things like "Written by:.., Penciled by:..." etc.)
9) The anthology will be available in print form on the third Wednesday of each month. Each issue and all contributed pages are printed in physical form in one limited print run, and one incarnation of a digital zine, which may be available to view online for an indefinite period of time. In the event of a second printing or another, renewed version of a digital zine, we will contact contributors for permission to include their work in those editions. Excerpts (for example, single panels) from submitted pages may be used for promotional purposes.
10) All content submitted to Marmalade remains the creative property of the individual contributors who produced it. Contributors are free to do as they please with the content that they create. We simply ask that submissions to the zine be new-ish work, created approximately within the past year, and that contributors have all legal rights to submit that work to the anthology, and also the consent of all individuals who may have collaborated to create the work. (That is to say: the person who wrote it, the person who inked it, etc. all must be in agreement that they do want to submit that work to this project).
Thank you!
Go Team Marmalade!
[email protected]