Last night’s online chat…

Well we had a decent turn out for the chat and through connection problems and mixed schedules we managed to lock down some details that are vital for the book.

Things we talked about…

Deadlines:
Pitches / Thumbnails / Sketches: DUE JULY 4th
ROUGHES: DUE AUGUST 4th
Final: DUE SEPTEMBER 4th
PUBLIC RELEASE: When; September 26th Where; SPX (Small Press Expo)
ALL DEADLINES MUST BE MET.

Format:
Page size: 7.5″x7.5″ (it’s hip to be square)
Color: CMYK Cover with B&W pages
Binding: Perfect Bound
Content: PG-13 or T for Teens
Printer: LuLu.com
*We would like to add color inserts to each book we sell in person. The inserts would be kind of like baseball cards only it would be the artists on the cards drawn by other artists of the book.

Finances:
Treasurer: Bryan Louie
Distribution: Sales of books will primarily be sold on lulu.com, with profits from the site  going to hosting & advertising costs ( this will change if margins increase).  Other sales will be done by the artists themselves, in that they will be open to purchase copies at whole sale cost from lulu.com and then be responsible for selling the copies they have purchased, in return they keep the profits from those sales.

Advertising:
The primary source of advertising will be the artist’s and fan’s responsibility. BUT we would like to have someone at as many comic conventions as possible to distribute postcards with info on the book and a reference to this site (this initially will be a shared expense among volunteers). If you would like to submit a post card design please post it to this thread in the forum. Around august when there is a set number of artists and participants we will start with the artist’s playing card campaign.

UPCOMING CONVENTION:
Wizard World Philly: Bryan Louie and Dustin Johnson have volunteered to help distribute post cards.

Finally…
Submissions:
There will be a form on this site that has required fields that need to be filled out by anyone who would like to submit a story or illustration.
Submissions to participate will be open till July 4th after that time only submissions for illustrations (IE “Breakers”) and rare special exceptions will be allowed.
*In rare cases some submissions may be rejected for the final print if we either we have an overwhelming amount of artists  OR that the quality of the submission has been deemedun acceptable by a set of peers who have been approved by the administrative staff. Though, we don’t want to discard anyone’s hard work so we will plan to have an “uncensored” online version for artists who don’t make the official printed copy (in this case uncensored doesn’t mean go rated XXX on us, but instead it just means no one’s work will be excluded from this version.).
Sooooo… I think that’s about it for now. We would like to have another online chat in a couple weeks to see where everyone is as well as see how well of a reception we had at Wizard World Philly. Till then we got a lot to do (IE POST CARD SUBMISSIONS!!! DUE on the 14th), and getting started on some scripts and thumbnails for that July 4th deadline.
Later,

BREAK ADMIN STAFF
PS. To view the “abbrivieated” logs of last night click here.