Princeton Comic Makers Weekly Roundup #45
Summary of the Last Meeting (2/12/2025)
🛑No meeting next week, February 19
Don’t come!
💝Casual Pal-entine’s gift swap
We’ll do a very low-key, low-stakes gift swap for Valentine’s Day. This will be more craft-focused (eg. cards, origami, etc.), so there is no pressure to spend money. The swap will be February 26.
💎Resources
This came up as we were talking about vendor and tableing opportunities. Check out New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and Call for Entry (CaFÉ) for jobs, internships, open applications, etc. in the area.
💻Mike’s design-focused demo
Mike does design work professionally and is very kindly offering to demo professional art programs such as InDesign, Photoshop, etc. To make this demo more helpful, please let Mike or an admin know what you want to hear! We haven’t yet decided a date, but once we do, we will announce it so anyone who wants to attend can plan for it.
🥚EGG-thology Reminders🥚
Sign ups for contributors are now open until March 5, giving you 3 weeks to decide. Just let an admin know (Discord, email, in person) and you’re set. Feel free to team up! Again, just let an admin know, and please do not jump around different groups once you’ve declared your place.
We are also looking for title suggestions! We have quite a bit of time before we need to settle on something, so take your time and let those ideas cook.
Content and Format
Submissions should be a 1-10 page comic. The final product will be black-and-white and A5 (printer paper folded in half). We will also be sticking to a PG-13 rating, meaning references to and depictions of violence, sexual situations, drug use, and strong language are ok, but nothing intense or graphic. Age ratings are weird and vague, so if you’re not sure where your idea lands, feel free to check with an admin.
Our rough schedule:
Mar 5 - Contributor sign-ups close ⬅️ Apr 9 - 1st check-in (scripts, thumbnails) May 14 - 2nd check-in (lines) Jun 11 - 3rd check-in (SOFT DEADLINE, tones/shading/lettering) Jun 25 - All final artwork due (HARD DEADLINE) Jul 23 - Layout 1st check-in Aug 13 - Final layout due Aug 20 - Start of promos and pre-orders
The final note about the anthology: once it is published, you are free to acquire and sell copies for yourselves. However, copies sold this way will be set at the same price for everyone to prevent undercutting.
📸Princeton Art Council’s Insta-Takeover
The Arts Council of Princeton has invited us to film some meeting activities for them to post to their Instagram account. There is no (imminent) deadline, so we will start recording snippets starting next week. We will announce when the recording starts, so if you do not want yourself or your work to be captured, you will have ample time to let us know. Additionally, if anyone is interested in doing the filming, feel free to speak up! This is a nice, low-stakes way of trying out videography.
🫵Your projects!
Luke’s comic “Mars Lightning” is now live!
You can find it on Webtoon, Tapas, and GlobalComix. Now up to chapter 8!
Anita is exhibiting with the Hopewell Tour Des Arts!
Presented by The Healing Arts Steering Committee at Capital Health, this exhibition will be open until April 30. You can find it at the Investors Bank Art & Healing Gallery at Capital Health Medical Center - Hopewell (1 Capital Way, Pennington, NJ 08534).
📆Projects for This Year
Don’t forget about JetLAG Festival (Downsville, NY)!
It’s an outdoor music festival/camping excursion in late June that also provides the opportunity to do outdoor installations! If this combination of activities appeals to you, please let us know your interest as soon as possible.
🛌Old links and reminders
Tomato pins
We also still have tomato enamel pins, which are $10 for members. The proceeds from these pins go directly to our rent. If you want to help with rent but don’t necessarily want a pin, you can also just give Chris the same amount of money. No pressure, of course, and thank you to everyone who already contributed!
Email and Discord links
For the new folks and anyone who was not receiving emails until recently, please click here to access the backlog of all our email blasts.
And as always, here is the Discord invite link. At first, you'll only see the "about-rules" channel; just enter the command written at the bottom of the guidelines to access to the rest of the server. If the link doesn't work, let us know and we'll send you another.