Magazine

Cartoon Allies Magazine

The history of Inkstains goes back as far as a decade. At the turn of the 21st century, SVA's dedicated cartoonist population took it upon itself to create a print publication to showcase student work and give them a voice. Inkstains began as its own club, separate from the equally young Cartoonist Alliance, and its early issues featured submissions from such illustrious SVA alumni as Raina Telgemeier. This self-published venue for student promotion was distributed throughout our school's halls and from SVA's booth at many a convention. Halfway through its lifespan, overlap between Inkstains editorship and Cartoon Allies officers encouraged the organizations to become one, with editing and printing of the regular magazine becoming part of the expected duties of CA's leadership.

Since then, the overwhelming responsibility of running both a club and a magazine led to the decision for Inkstains to become its own organization again, reborn as INK.

As a digital-only product, INK is a very different type of magazine, creating a smashing product while leaving a void for a print, open-submissions magazine at SVA. Cartoon Allies is filling that void with a new magazine to be printed for MoCCA Fest and Fresh Meat, and we need your submissions!

The CA Magazine is brought to you by The Princesses: Heather Nunnelly, Hanh Nguyen, Laura Knetzger,
Emily Kay Jolkovski, and Pablo Castro.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

PHOTOCOPIES: Submit a black and white photocopy of your comic pages on 8.5 by 11

sheets of paper. Photocopies can be done in the library or The DIC. UNLESS INSTRUCTED, DO
NOT SUBMIT ORIGINAL WORK. IT WILL BE DECLINED.

WHERE? The Senior Cartooning Studio or at the Cartoon Allies meetings.

BY E-MAIL? Send comic files to blisterfish@gmail.com. When you submit your
piece, make sure to size it down to 72 dpi at about 700 pixels wide.

WHEN? By mid March. Date has yet to be decided.

HOW MANY? Submit a comic that’s between 1-6 pages long. You can submit
more than one story at a time.

POLISHED AND COMPLETE: The submissions will be judged based on clarity and the

finished quality of the work. It has to tell a complete story from beginning, middle to end. In
other words it can’t be “To be continued”.

If you get rejected, you will be notified politely through e-mail.

BLACK AND WHITE: We will not be accepting Color this round. Sorry, guys.

PROVIDE FOLLOWING INFORMATION…

(Staple on the back of your photo copy submission)

NAME: __________________________________________________________

E-MAIL:__________________________________________________________

TITLE OF COMIC: ___________________________________________________