Princeton Comic Makers Weekly Roundup #49
Summary of the Last Meeting (3/19/2025)
🖋️In Short: Surprise manga workshop next meeting 3/26 courtesy of Kofi Bazzell-Smith. First anthology check-in is April 9. Middle Township Savor The Arts Festival deadline June 14. JetLAG application has been approved.
💥Manga Workshop with Kofi Bazzell-Smith
The Arts Council has kindly set up a hands-on workshop with visiting manga artist Kofi Bazzell-Smith this Wednesday, March 26. He will be giving a talk on his work and career in the Taplin Gallery (1st floor) at 6:30, after which he will join us for the workshop around 7:30. The talk is free to attend, just register first by clicking the link. He’s also a professional boxer!
🎸JetLAG Festival (Downsville, NY)
It’s an outdoor music festival/camping excursion in Fri-Sun, June 20-22 that also provides the opportunity to do outdoor installations. Masha’s application has been approved, and she will be setting up a goblin market-themed space to sell her wares. If you would like to participate in any form, let her know!
💻Mike’s design-focused demo
Mike does design work professionally and has kindly offered 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.
📆Upcoming Events/Applications
Middle Township Savor The Arts Festival
Deadline: Sat, June 14 What: Colorful, joyful art, suitable for family audience. Pieces that tell a story, engage young minds, and inspire creativity. All mediums accepted. To apply: Register at www.middletownship.recdesk.com For more info, contact: 609-465-8732 or abecica@middletownship.com Event date/location: Sat, June 28, 12:00-5:00 (rain date June 29); Ockie Wisting Recreation Complex
Princeton Zine Fest
*Updates still coming* What: Represent the Princeton Comic Makers. Cannot sell goods, but can bring promotional items (eg. business cards, illustrations, zines, etc.) Event date/location: June; Hinds Plaza (front of Princeton Public Library)
🥚EGG-thology Reminders🥚
Sign ups have closed; first check-in will be April 9. Please keep in mind the content and format guidelines:
1-10 pages
Black-and-white
A5 dimensions
PG-13
Additionally, make sure to plan your layout so that the comic starts on the right page. This way making 2-page spreads will be easier.
Our rough schedule:
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
At some point, we will be recording snippets of our meetings for the Art Council’s Instagram. We will not film you if you do not want to be filmed. Additionally, if anyone is interested in doing the filming, feel free to speak up!
💤MoCCA post-mortem
Look at all these lovely faces. Hope you all had fun and made some connections!
👀Your projects!
Luke’s comic “Mars Lightning” is now live!
You can find it on Webtoon, Tapas, and GlobalComix.
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 (address here).
🛌Old links and reminders
Tomato pins
They are $10 for members, and the proceeds go directly towards our rent. You can also just donate to rent, sans pin. 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.