This month’s newsletter is full of festival applications so make sure to get your apps in before the window closes.
Reminder that any ongoing ops are removed after a three-month cycle, allowing space for new opportunities.
All links to an opportunity are in its header. To submit an available opportunity fill out this form.
June 6 – 7, I will be tabling at TCAF in Toronto, Ontario. Excited to be back at my favorite festivals. Please stop by and say hi! I love to meet my newsletter readers.
If you want to support me, and in turn this newsletter, my debut graphic novel Song for Medusa is now available for pre-order. Find the pre-order link here.
I will be doing book tour all throughout autumn and winter of this year. If you are interested in me visiting your university or local bookshop as part of my book tour, please feel free to email me at grace.desmarais(at)yahoo.com
Seeking cartoonist who focus on original comics and indie press work for their Nov 7 show.
Note from Grace: This was one of my first ever comics festivals and it made a major impact on me. They prioritize community and ORIGINAL art not fanart. Definitely apply to this show if you are just getting into comics and are excited about DIY community.
San Francisco Zine Fest – Jun 14 – San Francisco, CA
Seeking cartoonists and zinesters for their small press fest.
New York Queer Zine Fest – Opens Jun 6 – New York, NY
QUEER APPLICANTS ONLY Seeking zinesters for their small press fest. Priority to artists with affordable, activist focused work.
CALA – Jun 28 – Los Angeles, CA
Seeking cartoonists for their amazing comics festival.
Seeking cartoonists and zinesters for their small press festival.
MAC Fest – Open Jun 22, Closes Jul 30 – Madison, WI
Seeking cartoonists and zinesters for their small press fest. Applications open June, 22. Follow on Instagram or their email updates.
Heading includes link, compensation, and deadline.
Garden Art Exhibition – Paid – Jun 6
PRIORITY TO NYC LOCALS Seeking artworks that celebrations diversity in urban nature for public art show opening on Aug 15.
Pencil Magazine – Artist Copy – Jul 7
MUST BE RENDERED WITH TRADITIONAL PENCIL. Seeking submissions around the theme: ‘how to use.’
Video Game Art Show – Gallery Display – Jun 30
Seeking video game artists to display their work in a retail space as part of an interactive art show.
Email videogames@thiscorner.co to apply. For more information see this link
The Living Gallery – Gallery Display – Aug 1
BIPOC APPLICANTS ONLY Seeking mixed media and/or fiber artists for gallery show.
BEM Bookstore – Event Booking – Ongoing
BIPOC APPLICANTS ONLY BEM Bookstore is open to hosting events with black and brown authors and cartoonists of food related publications. Especially those related to African Diaspora cooking.
Seeking artists and designers to collaborate with a book subscription box for fantasy and romance readers.
Seeking single panel comics, gag cartoons, spot illustrations, and public domain artwork.
Strip Comics Mag – Artist Copies – Jul 1
Seeking comics, essays, poems, and general artists to submit under the theme Life & Death.
Dirty Water Comics – Paid – Ongoing Until Closed
Seeking graphic novel submissions for their small press.
DISABLED APPLICANTS ONLY Seeking comics about chronic illness and/or disability.
Unpublished Picture Book Showcase – Paid – Jul 5
Seeking unpublished or rejected picture books for a juried showcase.
Seeking genre fiction (i.e. sci-fi, romance, fantasy, spec-fic, etc.) novellas, novels, short story collections for publication. They are open to graphic novel submissions, but this is not their priority.
Brown Paper Fox – Paid – Ongoing Until Closed
Seeking picture books for publication with their small imprint.
Desert Island Press – Consignment Opportunity – Open Until Closed
Seeking comics and zines for their store for wholesale and consignment.
NYC Gutter Show – Unpaid – Ongoing
Seeking cartoonists and/or animators for live readings and screenings of their comics.
Note from Grace: This is an amazing event which I have participated in. The format is especially suited to humor cartoonists and for those who are interested in the combination of performance and comics.
Stray Cat Press – Consignment/Wholesale – Ongoing
Seeking A4 zines for distribution.
Pages and Panels – Press – Ongoing
Seeking writers and journalists to cover comics for this online publication. Email contact@pages-and-panels.com or for more information see this link.
PIETN Anthology – Paid – Jun 14
TRANS APPLICANTS ONLY Seeking art about trans perseverance and joy.
Seeking comics, journalists, reviewers, and artists for their comics lit. magazine
Coin Op Press – Paid – Ongoing
Seeking art for their themed zines.
Fit to Print (in collaboration with Anyone Comics) – Compensation Unclear – Ongoing
Seeking comic strips, article ideas, essays, reviews, pop culture op-ed, literature, & poems.
Email submissions to any1news@gmail.com
Heading includes opportunity name, deadline and location.
Tokyo Arts and Space Residency – Jun 16 – Tokyo, Japan – Fully Funded
Seeking international, interdisciplinary artists for their fully funded residency.
Drawn & Quarterly Fellowship – Jun 8 – Employment and Training
RECENT GRADUATES ONLY Offering work training and career development at one of the premier independent comics publications in the Americas.
Bunker Residency – Jun 21 – Pittsburgh, PA – Studio Space, Housing
Seeking artists of all disciplines for a for their live/work residency.
Penland Residency – Jun 15 – Bakersville, NC – Fully Funded
Seeking artists working in craft for their fully funded residency.
Make More Comics x Power Pulp Comics – Jun 15 – Grant
Offering $1000 grant for cartoonists in their early career.
WNY Book Arts Center – Rolling – Buffalo, NY – Studio Space
Month long studio space residency for printmakers.
The Ou Gallery Residency – Rolling – Vancouver Island, Canada – Housing and Studio
Peaceful residency to unplug on Vancouver Island.
TCAF – Jun 6 – 7 – Toronto, ON
Premier indie comics fest in Toronto. Amazing panels, artist floor, and workshops.
Note from Grace: I will be there at Table 325.
Brooklyn Pride Comics Fest – Jun 6 – Anyone Comics
Small comics fest at Anyone Comics in Brooklyn.
Astoria Zine Club – Ongoing Events
Community run events for the Queens zine community.
Tiny Grant Salon – Jun 13 – Brooklyn, NY
Gallery show, performance, and open studio.
Art Swap – Jun 13 – Brooklyn, NY
Art supplies swap, free to attend.
Binch Press X Queer Archive Work – Jun 14 – Providence, RI
Zine library and open studio. Open 12 – 3 PM
Brooklyn Pride Comics Fest – Jun 6 – Brooklyn, NY
Small comics fest hosted by Anyone Comics.
BCAF – Ongoing Programing – Greater Boston Area
Boston Comics Arts Foundation has fabulous ongoing programing in the greater Boston area.
Pride Book Fair – Jun 26 – NYC – Location TBD
Book fair inspired by Scholastic Book Fairs of your youth. Queer books only.
How to Launch Your Graphic Novel Course
Taught by literary agent and founder of Kids Comics Unite, Janna Morishima, this course will help cartoonists from all sectors of publishing launch their graphic novel. Especially useful for debut authors in the middle grade age range.
Kaylee Rowena is a comics artists and illustrator based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is full of bright colors, a sprinkle of horror, and lots of sapphic energy. Her website is a fabulous example of coding ones own site. In addition to her delightful feat of coding, Kaylee has a bounty of resources available here.
On her ko-fi you can find a comics progress tracker that allows artists to keep a handle on their projects. Find that here.
As usual, here are some additional resources available for your own personal research.
I’ve come across these sources on my own time, of which have sponsored me for their shout out.
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