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Jenny Everywhere Weekly Strip
Specifications - This is the most likely thing to change in the coming weeks, so please do not start yet. Each strip will be 3 times the length of its height. The basis for this is Calvin and Hobbes, where the strips in my collections are printed at 9 inches length by 3 inches height. You can work in any size that is in that proportion (eg. 24 inches by 8 inches, or 12 inches by 4 inches). The size of the strips may be smaller then 3x9 when posted on the site. Please keep this in mind, especially when it comes to your legibility.
Promotion - I plan on sending samples of the strip to various print publications, including alternative weeklies and student newspapers. Please keep this in mind while creating your strip. Your names will obviously be included in the strips, if you wish, and any payments will be made in full to the contributors. If you aren't interested, you may still contribute to the website portion of the weekly while turning down the print aspect. I am unsure as to whether it will be accepted anywhere, so don't get your hopes up. Keep in mind that only those strips, if any, deemed acceptable by the respective publications, both in quality and content, may be chosen.
Schedule - Each artist or writer/artist team will work on their strip or strips from now until October 31st at which time they will submit their best strip. That pool of strips will be the first batch posted as of January. I am recruiting a large number of people who have an interest in Jenny but do not have enough time for a full-length story. I have received five positive responses already, and expect at least a dozen more. I may even have a Jenny getogether when I visit the Niagara Region. Feel free to recruit anyone the slightest bit interested.
Secrecy - It's natural to want to show off something you're proud of. Feel free to show your strip to your friends. Even show a teaser if you like. But please do not post the entire thing for all to see. I would really like to have this be a regular little treat on the site.
Misc. - These will not replace the long-form Jenny stories. They are obviously limited by their size. Many people will find the format too restrictive. Others will view it as a challenge. Though the basic dimensions of the strip will remain the same, you can divide the panels anyway you like, into the classic four identical panels, one big long panel, etc. Your strip needn't be a gag strip. It can be romance, western, space opera, zen, whatever, though a humour strip is probably the easiest to do. Stand-alone strips only, please. If you create more then one strip, we will most likley accomodate that strip on the site, perhaps as a bonus strip. If this is more successful then I imagine (and I doubt that), and we have many people wanting to do multiple strips, we may have it become bi-weekly. A comic made in the same format as this one need not be involved in this project at all.
At it's most basic, this is an entry-level position for those new or hesitant about the Jenny Everywhere project, and a way for those who are working on other Jenny stories to take a small break or flex unused muscles. For the reader, it allows them a view of many different and distinct voices, all contained within the same format and using the same character in a way that subverts the usual weekly comic strip. Above all else, it should be fun for everyone.
Except me. I have a headache now.
Any questions, comments, and criticisms (especially from the net savvy among you, who may question the format) are welcome. As of the 9th of August, the rules will be set in stone and I will unleash the dogs. |
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It's a very productive Jenny day for me!