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Bored, amateurish illustrators and writers wanted

  
 
rizla mission
14:42 / 31.01.03
OK, so, I’m putting together another issue of my fanzine, and it’s gonna be bigger, A4, and slightly more professional (that’s relatively speaking – ie, it hopefully won’t be rendered near unreadable by typos, illustrated by pictures torn out of newspapers and hopefully I won’t scrawl all over it in biro quite so much).

So I’m thinking, it would be kind of a good thing to have some input from other people...

The general feeling I’m going for is one of open ended, intelligent stuff largely anchored in an aesthetic of pop-cultural weirdness. With – let us not beat about the bush here – a particular concentration upon loud, whacked out rock music.

So then, stuff I’d welcome, should anyone feel like contributing it:

Cool, random illustrations – I’ve already done the cover, so primarily smaller stuff – page borders, nifty titles, cartoons and generally cool drawings of things are all welcome. Things I’d specifically approve of: anything comic-y, anything with a kind of psychedelic rock feel, any groovy horror movie / Lovecraftian stuff…
(and I hate to sound like I’m layin’ down the law, but to fit in with the way I’m doing things, everything has to be black & white (or able to become so), photocopy-able and preferably not computer generated).

Prose-wise, brief reviews of / thoughts about records, comics, books or films would be good, and I was wondering if anyone wanted to volunteer to write brief columns, like about the length of individual blog entries, holding forth about any particularly interesting, er, thing you feel the need to hold forth about, be it cultural, political, both or neither..
 
 
Eloi Tsabaoth
14:55 / 31.01.03
I'd love to contribute some kind of review or insane rant, with your permission of course. Something about television. And lizards.
 
 
rizla mission
15:11 / 31.01.03
That sounds good.

Um.. assuming it's not a direct rip from the Chris Morris sketch with the TV and the lizards .. not that I'm suggesting it is or anything..

Oh, and I forgot to mention that stories / poems / all purpose bits of nuttiness are all good too. Assuming they're not too long or ponderous.
 
 
Yotsuba & Benjamin!
16:43 / 31.01.03
I'd be all over contributing something. I'm looking at a hastily drawn sketch of Christina Aguilera as Pig Pen that I've been itching to make all nice and inky. How'd that fly?

I could also write something of a slightly critical bent about, say, some comics I've read recently (I'm currently rereading Akira). Or, actually, I've got some thoughts about promoting comics on the web.
 
 
moriarty
18:56 / 31.01.03
I'm pretty "square" so I don't really get what you're looking for illustration-wise. Could you give possible examples of what you would accept, like Yog-Sototh attending a Hawkwind show for instance? The actual names of the titles that you would like drawn? How large or small they should be? Multi panel comics, one panel cartoons or spot illos? Did you want illustrations and panel borders that match articles written, or that stand on their own, or both?
 
 
that
11:38 / 01.02.03
I only do stuff on the computer... I could be useful if you ever want psychedelicious titling done on a computer. Other than that, I can't draw for toffee...
 
 
rizla mission
12:00 / 02.02.03
Ben Birdie:

I'd be all over contributing something. I'm looking at a hastily drawn sketch of Christina Aguilera as Pig Pen that I've been itching to make all nice and inky. How'd that fly?

Pig Pen out of Peanuts? I honestly can’t imagine how that would look, but, er, yeah, sounds suitably unexpected and libellous!

I could also write something of a slightly critical bent about, say, some comics I've read recently (I'm currently rereading Akira). Or, actually, I've got some thoughts about promoting comics on the web.

Yes. Anything involving analysis of Akira is good. And it would also give me an excuse to throw in some panels from it..

Moriarty:

I'm pretty "square" so I don't really get what you're looking for illustration-wise. Could you give possible examples of what you would accept, like Yog-Sototh attending a Hawkwind show for instance?

Actually, that’s precisely the kind of thing I’d like to see! Yes! Waht an image!
The ideal kind of thing I’d be looking for would be anything that combined Rock n’ Roll imagery with b-movie / horror story imagery (though maybe not in an ironic Cramps way..?), expressed in universal terms of Hewlett/Bond/Mahfood comics coolness… although of course I’m open to suggestion – just about anything that looks good and isn’t wildly inappropriate or corny would be fine with me..

The actual names of the titles that you would like drawn?

er.. I don’t know if I’ve got that far yet. Could let you know as stuff gets written, because the way I work there’s a fair chance that, of my current conception of the things that are gonna be included, a pretty high percentage will be dropped / forgotten about / replaced, and I don’t want people to do illustrations or titles that’ll never get used..

Like I say, I’m in the planning stages, so the only definite, finished things at present are 1.the cover (a collage featuring a small panel from a Dan Clowes comic blown up to 40 times the size and a photo of a guy with an impressive beard playing a heavily modified Hammond organ that I cut out of The Wire) and 2. a fairly lengthy email discussion with the band Oneida (whose record / poster artwork I like an awful lot, incidentally).

How large or small they should be?

Well the zine is going to be standard typing/printing paper size – that’s A4 in Britain, I know (the hard way) that the equivalent in America is a *slightly* different size, but, um, hopefully that won’t be a problem in case anyone’s intending to fill the whole page..

Multi panel comics, one panel cartoons or spot illos? Did you want illustrations and panel borders that match articles written, or that stand on their own, or both?

All are good. Although three panel strip cartoons with a gag at the end are possibly verging on the normal… though if they’re strange and non-sensical, that would be good too..

Chol:

only do stuff on the computer... I could be useful if you ever want psychedelicious titling done on a computer.

Well I do like the thought of psychedelicious titling, but, aggh, it’s the computer thing.. I hate to sound like a deliberately miserable luddite bastard all the time, but I am gonna be doing things the old fashioned way – eg, sticking pages together with glue in meatspace, so anything that would look pixellated and dodgy when printed out and photocopied isn’t going to float sadly..
 
 
that
12:01 / 02.02.03
Understand perfectly - best of luck, dude.
 
 
_pin
07:24 / 03.02.03
I can't actualy remember if it was actually you or actually someone else who was actually lavishing praise on my over-long and under-interesting blog post, as I was too busy staring intently and weirdly at my wuvverwy gwitterwy naiwls to look up and see who was shouting at me last weekend, but still... anythingn on there you want to use, feel free. Also, feel free to reproduce anything form the sky is falling in (but if you do, please credit the designer, as well as me)- may I recomend first a truth from that, as it's only a page, and I seem to remember thinking it was actually some cop (not that I've read it in about 9 months, and I don't plan to either).

Super tip top plan, at any rate! How you get around to finishing it.
 
 
rizla mission
11:03 / 03.02.03
I may well do that. Thanks for the permission.
 
 
rizla mission
15:10 / 20.07.03
I'm resurrecting this thread cos I still think it would be cool if anybody out there would like to do some art of some description for my zine..

Since I'm now in the process of assembling it, I have a list of some of the sizes of the spaces I've got left over.

They are (across followed by down, just to avoid confusion);

20" - 9"
7.5" - 10.5"
15" - 22"
8" - 27"

So - I challenge you to fill those spaces with anything that takes your fancy so long as it'll look good when black and white and photocopied and (in the case of computer-based stuff) printed out..
 
  
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