Modern Tales Looking for Submissions
by Shaenon
With IW leaving, Inanna’s Tears at the end of its run, and my first anniversary as MT editor fast approaching, I think it’s time to put out a new call for submissions. If you’d like to publish on Modern Tales, send your submission to moderntales.submissions at gmail.com. I suggest that you first read my old Submission Guidelines post, not to mention Lisa Jonte’s suggestions for creators submitting work to her site, Girlamatic.com. Let me know if you’re interested in running your comic on the Strip Lounge (i.e., the free side), the V.I.P. Room (the subscription side), or Longplay (the section for longform comics, which is also free). The free side of MT is non-exclusive–that is, you can run your comic elsewhere online while appearing on MT. We do not pay you directly, but you can run ads on your section of MT and use the MT Swapmeet to sell merchandise. For the subscription comics, we ask for exclusive Web publishing rights; however, you are free to publish in any other medium, including print. Cartoonists on the subscription side are paid a portion of the income MT earns from subscriptions.
For this round of submissions, I’m only looking for a few new comics, and I’m hoping to get comics that will fill niches I feel are currently neglected on MT. Translation: if I reject your submission, it’s not your fault. It’s probably an awesome comic, and I just don’t have a place for it right now.
Okay? Okay! MT is now accepting submissions through the end of August!
July 13th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
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July 13th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
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July 14th, 2007 at 7:46 am
Shaenon- you’re way too nice. Some of the people who submit will not be selected because it is their fault.
What type of niches are you hoping to fill genre-wise? I’m sure you don’t want to give specifics like, “I’m looking for a romance between a boy and his toaster”, but maybe just general style or themes.
I haven’t read MT in a while. I’m going to go see what’s going on there lately.
July 17th, 2007 at 8:41 am
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August 1st, 2007 at 12:10 pm
What type of niches are you hoping to fill genre-wise? I’m sure you don’t want to give specifics like, “I’m looking for a romance between a boy and his toasterâ€, but maybe just general style or theme.
Sorry I took so long to reply here; I blame Comic-Con.
More than anything else, I’m looking for comics that aren’t like the work already running on Modern Tales. Part of the impetus for the submissions call is that two comics recently ended their run on MT: Irregular Webcomic, a daily gag strip, and Inanna’s Tears, an historical-fiction graphic novel. So I’ll be very happy to get another funny daily strip and another big, ambitious longform comic.
I’m very happy to announce that two great comics fitting just those descriptions are joining MT. The first, Chris Baldwin’s strip Little Dee, starts on MT today. The second will be announced soon. I may bring on one or two more comics as well. Submissions are still open until the end of the month.