Princeton Comic Makers Weekly Roundup #58
Summary (6/25/2025)
🖋️IN SHORT: Art All Night is this weekend at the Trenton War Memorial. Vinny will be hosting a panel there about his short film on Saturday night. Also that weekend is the Garden State Comic Con, where Steve will be tabling. Comic writer/artist Ryan Estrada will do a Zoom talk about his career and industry tips on July 9. Artrepreneur is accepting submissions of ready-for-print images until July 25.
🎸JetLAG breakdown
Welcome back happy campers, and thank you all for making the Goblin Market a huge success! Besides the one rainy day, the weather held out, and the Market got a lot of enthusiastic traffic, especially the workshops. We’d love to collect the thoughts from any attendees so we can make a mini presentation for the group. You can just reply to this email!
Princeton Zine Fest breakdown
Thank you as well to everyone who attended the Princeton Zine Fest! Everyone had to be moved indoors due to the heat, but besides that, it sounds like things went smoothly.
🌙ART ALL NIGHT
Supported by Artworks Trenton, Art All Night is a “24-hour celebration of art, music, and film.” Look at art, listen to live music, and participate in hands-on workshops. It is this weekend, June 28-29, 3:00pm-3:00pm, and it is free to attend. We unfortunately missed the deadline to submit art (submitting art is also free), but this event comes by every year, so keep an eye on it.
🗣️Ryan Estrada Zoom talk
Ryan Estrada is a comics author and artist, as well as a comics journalist. He will be doing a virtual talk with us on July 9, 7:00-9:00. Like the Amy Chu talk, he will be discussing his career and giving tips he picked up on the way.
📆Upcoming Events/Applications
Artrepreneur Open Call
Deadline: Fri, July 25 What: Submit 3-5 ready-for-print images. Artrepreneur will make limited edition prints of the winners and help market them. Winners can set the price between $250-$500 and take 60% of sales. You must be an Artrepreneur member to apply, but becoming a member is free. To apply: Visit this link to upload pictures and pay $12 fee For more info, contact: N/A Event date/location: N/A
🥚EGG-thology Reminders🥚
We are currently in the 3rd check-in stage, ie. looking at tones, lettering, and general polish. You have about a month til the final deadline, July 30, the last wednesday of the month.
Our rough schedule:
Jun 11 - 3rd check-in (SOFT DEADLINE, tones/shading/lettering)⬅️ Jul 30 - 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
🫵Your projects
Mars Lightning Kickstarter launch
Luke’s comic Mars Lightning has a live Kickstarter now!
Vinny presenting at Art All Night
Vinny is doing a panel on Sat, June 28, 8:00pm-9:00pm, and it will be about his animated short film. Check it out! Remember that it’s free to attend!
Garden State Comic Fest
Steve is tabling at the Garden State Comic Fest, the weekend of June 28-29, 10:00-5:00 (ends at 4:00 on Sunday), at the Codey Arena. Go say hi!
Gibram’s sticker app
Gibram has a sticker app in production “to make something that can help artists promote their work at conventions and art fairs by letting visitors decorate items with their stickers.” Please give it a look!
Haley’s comic “The Girl and The Gun” Issue #2 is out
Check it out! Get updates at Haley’s instagram.
🛌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. Check the “about-rules” channel first, then follow the instructions there to gain full access. Let us know if the link doesn’t work.