So there’s a lot going on in the editorial end of my life at the moment.
ParaVox #2 is being printed right now (more on that after it’s released) and we’re soon in the process of making the selection for #3, but we extended the deadline until Jun 9, so there’s still time to send us something on the SNITCH SOCIETY theme. Things are looking good so far, but we still have some empty pages that need filling. And we got a cover for it by Danijel Žeželj, which we’ll announce soon!
See the call for submissions for info on that, and for the next issue (deadline Jul 5): MISINFORMATION.
The illustrations for both of these calls for submissions were made by Layal Safieddine (Urjuen), who is also one of the editors.
So that’s what’s going on right now with ParaVox.
Meanwhile, CBA also has two calls for submissions. The first one is CBA vol 74|75: APATHY, which is another sign of the times just like the two ParaVox themes are.
The illustration for this one is by Marie Tillman, who is also the main editor of the issue.
See the call for submissions and send us comics, deadline Sep 15.
We also just announced the issue after that, where I’m the main editor, and for which I didn’t do the illustration:
CBA vol 76: WORLD WITHOUT PICTURES – ART ON STRIKE, which will be an entire issue without any pictures:
Both comics artists and illustrators are heavily underpaid. Yet illustrations of all kind, from instruction manuals and pictographs to logotypes and deeply involving visual storytelling, surround us constantly. With this theme, we imagine a world where illustrations are on strike, where what remains is a collection of stories completely devoid of pictures. Let’s see what their absence has to say about our forgotten need, our neglected dependence, for the visual arts.
I’m pretty excited about this one, both as creator and as editor. How do you make a comic with no pictures, without turning it into something other than a comic, where the absence of art is a part of the experience? We’ll see.
Check the call for submissions to see the list of rules for it. Deadline Feb 15, so you have a lot of time to not draw something for it, if you’re so inclined.
And to tie this all together, here’s the cover for ParaVox #2, by Sajan Rai:
