GAM Submission Guidelines

So, here they are. Follow them. If’n you won’t follow, I won’t respond.

1. Look at what’s already on GAM. All of the series’ most recent updates are viewable for free. Also take a look at the Sunday Comics page at http://www.onipress.com/sundaycomics/ . GAM is kindly disposed towards good manga and Oni-like comics. We are looking for comics with appeal to young adult to adult women.

2. BEFORE YOU SEND ME YOUR PITCH, BUY or BORROW and READ “How To Write a Book Proposal” by Michael Larsen.
While it is geared towards non-fiction proposals, it does teach everything you need to know about crafting a readable proposal. I can’t say for sure I’d know for sure if someone HASN’T read this when they pitch, but I bet I can tell who HAS. What I do not want to see is your entire story written out in a single-spaced block in email. Have mercy. Write your proposal and put it up as a web page, or send it as an attached .rtf or Word file.

3. Email me at gam.editor@gmail.com, subject line “GAM: (title)”, otherwise my spam filters will eat it. To this address, send me the URL of your comic or sample pages.
Don’t tell me it isn’t your best work. If it’s not, why should I look at it? If you usually do things like use “u” for “you”, “4″ for “four” and “LOL” for punctuation, DO NOT when you write me. I expect to see a command of conventional English. Also, sell yourself without resorting to emoticons. They are for casual correspondence, which a professional proposal is not.

4. Show me that you already know how to put a comic/images online. I want to see clean presentation (which means learning how to use an image editing program to take out grays from scans), good lettering (many decent free fonts available at blambot.com, so there’s no excuse for lettering in Times New Roman).

5. You MUST be at least 18 years old to work for GirlAMatic, because that’s how old you have to be to enter into a contract.

6. It might take a while to look at your comic and write a response. Please be patient.

7. It’s okay to be disappointed if I feel your comic isn’t right for GAM, because DAMMIT no one enjoys rejection, but being a bittermint about it in public will not dispose me kindly to future submissions.

8. I worship you for submitting, no matter what my answer is.

9. Only a bribe big enough to send me to Disneyland with Lisa Jonte’ will be considered, and you can set yourself up for that.

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