Princeton Comic Makers Weekly Roundup #59
Summary (7/2/2025)
🖋️IN SHORT: Comic writer/artist Ryan Estrada will do a virtual talk about his career and industry tips this Wednesday, July 9. Artrepreneur is accepting submissions of ready-for-print images until July 25. Final deadline for Egg-thology submissions is end of this month, July 30.
🗣️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:
Jul 30 - All final artwork due (HARD DEADLINE)⬅️ 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!
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.