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iamus
00:57 / 23.03.07
Okay you lovely, talented Barbeloids.... Wasted is a new anthology comic being put out under the Bad Press label by Jamie and Alan. The primary target is an 18-year old audience, but in reality we want it to be read by anyone from 16 upwards. Covers are being visualised by Frank Quitely, all the interior content is up for grabs.

Printing and distribution has been pretty much locked down in such a way that means we have a quality, glossy magazine being distributed all around the UK for a very, very low overhead.

Bad Press are now looking for any interested writers or artists to solicit their material. Editorial control is Alan's, so anything you send in goes by him. Stuff that'll piss off the parents is order of the day, but under that remit almost anything goes. Anarchic slapstick, inane humour, dark and twisted tales... whatever.

Submissions can be anything from a single-illustration gag, to a a maximum of four pages. Unless it's already complete, you shouldn't submit finished work. An outline, character sketches, a panel or two to indicate style and tone. The copyright to all submitted material stays with the creator. If the magazine is a success, you get the benifits. If it fails, you're no worse off than you were.

Anyone interested in submitting material can PM me for further details and contact addresses.
 
 
grant
15:55 / 23.03.07
Is this open to writers sans artists?
 
 
electric monk
17:01 / 23.03.07
You don't have to be "sans" if you don't want to, g.
 
 
iamus
00:16 / 24.03.07
Is this open to writers sans artists?

Yessum deedy.

The plan that's mostways into effect is for a Bad Press online forum where contributers can put their stuff and put out feelers for writers, artists, colourists, letterers etc. etc. It's not quite up and running yet, but what I've seen so far is very good and very intuitive.
 
 
Jamie Grant
15:48 / 29.03.07
Thanks Iamus for kicking off the thread!

W A S T E D - the all new comic for today's youth gone wild!(tm)

Nationwide casting call for exciting fresh material for new FULL COLOUR UK humour mag.

Alan Grant and I are delighted to announce Bad Press' broad humour comic Wasted. We've a broad theme aimed at mainstream youth culture with twisted tales, malicious whimsy & sexy babes covering anarchic slapstick and inane humour for today's youth gone wild.

++ STATUS ++
Editor Alan Grant is accepting and reviewing choice solicited scripts and quality artwork from creators now. Frank Quitely, Cover Editor is steering artists as they design their cover art. He's creating a few himself. Art Editor Jamie Grant (moi). I'm working with pencillers, inkers, letterers and colourists on production and help develop glossy all*star colour treatment. There's quite a team in the Bad Press Gang who're on-hand at the studio to help with production and layout. We've excellent printers sourced (quality at low prices). Stout plans for direct local UK distribution have been mooted, avoiding the harsh 65% striped off the cover price by national distributors.

SOLICITING WORK
We'd like to invite everyone with good, solid ideas to solicit material for consideration. Unless already complete, please do not send finished work. Instead, send an outline, some sketches of characters and the odd panel or two to give us an inkling of what you're thinking. Length can be anything from a single illustration joke up to a maximum of 4 pages.

SENDING MATERIAL
Please prepare 2 packs of your printed / photocopied material and personal message Iamus or myself for addresses to send your ptches to Alan and to the Bad Press production studio here in central Glasgow. It's far better to receive a pack in the morning post prepared lovingly by a writer/artist and mull over it with a coffee than print out and prepare. Don't worry - we're nae luddites. Email is great for subsiquent follow up and continued collaboration, we just like to recieve new material by post.

DIGITAL SUPPORT STRUCTURE
For the digitally minded we have a custom 1TB(terrabyte) file transfer system running from the Hope Street studioffice www.hopestreetstudios.com and a private online creator's forum to help carve up production chores between creators and create a 'bull-pen' style production department supported by a hands-on team here at Hope Street Studios.

BAD PRESS - ©OMMITTED TO ©OPYRIGHT
Bad Press remain committed to creator's ©opyright. Please let your colleagues with interesting material know about us should their material suit Wasted. We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Jamie Grant
Glasgow, 29th March 2007

"You got your comicbooks an' you got your armies. Wanna turn a comicbook into an army - this is what you get!"
 
 
matsya
21:41 / 29.03.07
Hi Jamie,

Are you accepting material from outside the UK?
 
 
Jamie Grant
10:14 / 30.03.07
Although it's UK centric, yes Matsya, we do. Humour in all shapes and sizes - as long as it's funny!
 
 
H3ct0r L1m4
19:38 / 01.04.07
good news!
just sent an email [only option for me this week, sorry].

any info on when it's coming out, along with the Quitely book?
 
 
Glenn Close But No Cigar
19:47 / 01.04.07
Um, as much as I like to see an independent UK comic with creator-owned strips shoot out of the trap, doesn't the cover smack of Loaded et al just a teeny, weeny bit? Isn't this a teeny, weeny bit problematic?

"They're not gonna release the album... because they have decided that the cover is sexist".

"Well, so what? What's wrong with bein' sexy?"
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
20:11 / 01.04.07
Tits! Booze! Hangovers! Several-degrees-sub-Tank Girl covers! Woooargh!

Good grief.

Sorry, I'm just looking for things to be offended by again.
 
 
iamus
21:38 / 01.04.07
No. That's fair enough. In its defence, the magazine has undergone a bit of a creative reshuffle since those pages were composed.

Also, as I said earlier, the content is very much still to be defined by the quality of the submissions. Light a candle, curse the darkness and all that.
 
 
Glenn Close But No Cigar
21:53 / 01.04.07
So, we're judging a (comic) book by its cover, or is that going to be reshuffled too?

More importantly, do I still win a Shit Dog t-shirt if I send a letter in? Is a Shit Dog t-shirt one that doesn't have any leg holes? And if so, won't it make rover a bit of a laughing (barking?) stock?
 
 
iamus
22:00 / 01.04.07
Covers will be totally different. That was from a test issue put together a good while ago now. All new covers from the Brain Of Quitely. All new interior by those willing to step up to the plate.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
00:25 / 02.04.07
I'm going to try and submit something, anyway; really, if the tone of the magazine seems a bit much, it'd seem a shame not to send in material that seems more germane, if the editors are apparently prepared to consider almost anything.
 
 
Dark side of the Moonfrog1
12:20 / 02.04.07
Just out of interest, is this going to be on newstands or just comic shops/direct market?
 
 
Jamie Grant
14:13 / 03.04.07
Gleetingz beautiful mutants,

Alex's Granny / Matsya et al...
Please do by all means submit and pitch new material.

Moonfrog1
Wasted is mainstream with general appeal, thou' dedicated comic shops are welcome to sell it.

Iamus is correct, the covers featured on the Wasted and Bad Press sites (thread links in my email above) are early working covers and already changing. The lush Frank Quitely edited covers are to come. Hope this finds you all well. Look forward to your pitches.
 
 
misterdomino.org
02:26 / 02.05.07
This is really exciting, and thanks for the opportunity! I just have a quick question about color. Since this is a full color book, would a strip thats in black and white suffer in judgement? Are you looking for the mainstream style, penil to inker to colorer aesthetic, or a more 'underground' comix feel? Or both?
 
 
iamus
23:08 / 02.05.07
What kind of is piece is it? Is it intended to be black and white even when printed or are you wondering if it'll bias it at the submission stage? The magazine is intended to be full colour throughout, so all finished strips will be coloured, but that won't matter so much at this stage. We are going for a very glossy, poppy look. The kind of mainstream penetration you find on buses and the subway.

When the forum is up and running there will always be the possibility of getting another colourist to tackle that. If you want to try yourself, a bit of flat colour is good, even. How do you work? Just pencils and scans, or do you know a bit of photoshop?

PM Jamie or myself if you want a bit more indepth information.
 
 
misterdomino.org
20:43 / 03.05.07
Thanks. I like to use a limited color scheme, but a colourist sounds good too. When are you guys beginning publishing? I think I would pee myself if my name was on the same book as Frank Quitely.
 
 
Jamie Grant
14:56 / 09.05.07
- Mr. Domino,
Yes it's full colour, but there's no reason why minimal or clever use of limited colour might not make great comic strips. All depends on how you do it and what it is. As for straight centre mainstream vs. the hip and swingin' underground... Variety is the spice of life.

Frank Quitely is cover editor, making sure that cover artists garner the very best from their work. Same goes for Alan Grant on words and myself on colour. Wee Think (formerly Iamus), Rob from Khaki Shorts and Curt Sibling of Total Fear fame are on-hand to help directly on production chores. 2007 - the year we all get WASTED(tm)
 
 
Jamie Grant
22:46 / 30.05.08
Alan and I have launched new title from Bad Press 'W A S T E D' - Earth's new comic for Today's Youth Gone Wild. Banned across six galaxies! Enjoy it now before you too are liquidated by rightgeous alien censors squads! Enjoy ALL of Wasted issue one as a .PDF full content download today - WASTED COMIC for 100% content .pdf download Printed and in stores late summer.
 
 
Jamie Grant
14:43 / 21.10.08
LAUNCHED in London late Sept '08 and then Edinburgh early Oct. Wasted is now out and in the shops. Available online for lazy armchiar surfer at BUY it ONLINE - Future covers by Simon Bisley and Brendan McCarthy. Frank Quitely (now that he's not on exclusive contract) is working on a new creator owned series for the title. "For today's Youth Gone Wild" indeed. There's a launch in Amsterdam in the same week at the SubGenius Devivial and Frop Cup.
 
  
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