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
DRAG BANDITS GIVEAWAY!
To celebrate the release of Drag Bandits by Colleen Frakes and Betsey Swardlick, Retrofit comics is giving away a MASSIVE SMORGASBORD OF COMICS!!
What you get:
- FREE FOR EVERYONE: 5 page preview of Drag Bandits!
- Colleen Frakes’ Xeric book Tragic Relief
- Box Brown’s Xeric book Love is a Peculiar Type of Thing
- Original ROM drawing by Josh Bayer
- Suspect Device #1(the alt. comic Nancy tribute)
- Everything Dies #3 by Box Brown
- Secret Prison 5
- James Kochalka’s FUNGUS!
RULES:
- You must follow Retrofitcomics on tumblr
- You must reblog this blog post (not just heart it)
- This FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7 I will pick a winner using a randomizer!
I ripped off this idea wholesale from Lisa Hanawalt
“MIDWEST” - Photographs by Tom Cops
Exhibition at the Here Gallery, Bristol, with BOOK!!!! Coming at the end of October….
Not only is he awesome and speaking with such concision about comics (his definition of which I would definitely adhere to), but he also displays a sartorial elegance that I will be aping hereon in (his comments about ‘style’ being a trope of capitalism notwithstanding).
©2011 Graham Johnson
In time for a rainy weekend, the only thing I can do with Graham’s statement regarding Pimms, is agree. Wholeheartedly.
I… um… No comment.
My friend, Bearpit contributor (and editor of the second issue) and sufferer of the inane customer, Deemo, has a new tumblr. Check it!
Hey guys! So I’m working on this list of links to comic artist’s tumblrs. I put the one’s that I’ve already posted and have recently seen. I need a ton more though. You can see the list here and please submit yours so I can add to the list so people know how and where to find comics on tumblr! Thank you!
I noticed the following in my tumblr feed this morning, and I must say I agree with the sentiment. I do notice a high volume of tumblr posts, nearly always image re-posts from other people’s blogs, that lack any form of attribution whatsoever. I think it is in part to do with the reblogging process, as the post below notes: it is easier and faster to click in appreciation than to pause to check for attributes. Another thing that tends to happen is that when artists’ details are placed in tags (as opposed to in the original post), the reblogging machinery seems to remove said tags (certainly the tags that the original poster attached to this have been erased here). I’m pretty certain that there is no malicious intent here: things get lost between iterations, as people enthusiastically pass around their latest discovery. The problem arises not from those engaged in this activity, but in what happens to a piece of work after it leaves its attributed moorings: the unscrupulous (or unwitting) image hunter could very easily find a piece of work by somebody else and give it a whole new lease of life somewhere else (for profit or otherwise) unbeknownst to its original creator.
via studiojfish:
What’s so hard about crediting an artist for their work? Why do I keep seeing so many pieces of art without some kind of MEMO underneath, some kind of consideration for the creator of your 3 second moment of “Whoa, that’s cool”.
CREDIT THE ARTIST. That 15 seconds of effort on your part is kind of like a “thank you” towards the artist for creating that piece. Does that make sense?
Please pass around if you are as aggravated about this “phenomena” as I am.
My PhD is eating up all of my time. Perhaps I could write to Captain Marvel and ask him to help me?
Reblogged via letterheady:
Captain Marvel Club, 1942 | Source
