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Prism Comics encourages submissions from both professional and amateur writers for its three main feature areas: Queer Eye on Comics, Color Commentary, and its annual print resource guide Prism Comics: Your LGBT Guide to Comics.
Please note that—as Prism is a nonprofit charity—all work is unpaid. However, you will retain the copyright to your article or review for reprint purposes. You will also gain the benefit of exposing your writing skills to a wide and diverse audience—many visitors to our website and readers of our annual guide are not necessarily LGBT themselves or even ordinarily readers of comic books. Before submitting any work, please first e-mail the designated contact person with a brief description of your proposed article/review to ensure one of our other volunteers isn't already working on something similar.
Queer Eye on ComicsContact David Stanley, david.stanley@cbre.com
Queer Eye features an analysis of a mainstream comic book (from all eras—not just current releases), but with lots of humor and a definite LGBT perspective. Most members of the Queer Eye Review Crew have committed to writing a minimum number of reviews for the year and are on a recurring deadline schedule. However, guest reviewers can sometimes be plugged into the weekly rotation. Each reviewer is encouraged to have his or her own writing style, but the general guidelines for each review would be to:
Color CommentaryContact Rich Thigpen, rich@prismcomics.org
Color Commentary features a serious analysis of any comic book (from all eras—not just current releases) that has overt LGBT content. Unlike Queer Eye, these reviews are not posted on any set schedule, so the number of reviews featured each week will depend on the number of submissions. Please note that—while we want to promote quality comics with LGBT content—these reviews are not required to be favorable ones (even the best cook sometimes has a soufflé that flops). Each reviewer is encouraged to have his or her own writing style, but the general guidelines for each review would be to:
Prism Comics: Your LGBT Guide to ComicsContact Charles "zan" Christensen, zan@prismcomics.org
Feature articles for the annual guide, which is published each summer to debut at Comic-Con International, run the gamut from short commentaries on super-hero costumes to in-depth interviews with LGBT creators. Word count will obviously vary, but you should include a target length in your proposal. The key characteristic of these articles—beyond having an LGBT theme or subject—is that they are exclusive, original works that can't be found elsewhere.
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