03.Feb.2012 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS : CARTE BLANCHE 15
A reminder to all cartoonists, the submissions deadline for Issue #15 of carte blanche are coming up in a month!
There is more than one way to tell a story.
Carte Blanche would like to know how you would!
There’s no theme for this issue, it’s wide open. There is a small honorarium, and you retain all rights to your work.
Stories can be 1 to 25 pages long – If you want to hit us up with something longer write first before submitting. We accept original submissions through our online submission form. See here for instructions. If you have problems using our submission form, please send us an email.
For comics/graphic fiction, we’ll consider work that has been published in a limited venue, say on your personal blog or via a small press local/regional publication. Work that has not had wide exposure.
For an idea of our editor’s taste [that would be me, max douglas aka Salgood Sam.] check out the last few stories we’ve published. Stories by Daniel Ha, Ainsley Olsen, James Romberger, Shannon Wheeler, Nina Bunjevac, Mara Sternberg, & Dustin Harbin!
10.Jan.2012 Call for submissions : Carte Blanche 15
There is more than one way to tell a story. Carte Blanche would like to know how you would
We’re taking submissions now for the spring issue. The submission deadline is March 1st - for publication in May.
There’s no theme for this issue, it’s wide open. Stories can be 1 to 25 pages long – If you want to hit us up with something longer write first before submitting.
We accept original, previously unpublished submissions through our online submission form ONLY.
See here for instructions. If you have problems using our submission form, please send us an email.
For comics/graphic fiction, we’ll consider work that has been published in a limited venue, say on your personal blog or via a small press local/regional publication. Work that has not had wide exposure.
For an idea of our editor’s taste [that would be me] check out the last few stories we’ve published. Stories by Daniel Ha, Ainsley Olsen, James Romberger, Shannon Wheeler, Nina Bunjevac, Mara Sternberg, & Dustin Harbin.
Last issue we had a really strong batch of stories submitted, looking forward to what people send in this time!
07.Jan.2012 carte blanche 14 Graphic Fiction
Bit late posting about this, carte blanch 14 has been live for a little while now already, i have not gotten it together to post the runner ups from the submissions like i have previously.
They’re worth it, some very strong submissions for this issue – thanks everyone!
I’ve just been too busy and disorganized to get it done yet. I will, later this month. But in the meantime you should check out our selected stories for this issue.
We had a loose theme this issue, Obsessions.
Ainsley Olsen gave us this short one pager titled PIECES on the subject.
And Daniel Ha sent us a ten page story titled A sunset.
Also I quite like Aurora Ira‘s “PAIRED“. Bit of visual poetry.
That and much more in carte blance 14 | the on-line lit journal you didn’t know you didn’t know about. Lots of surprisingly good stuff.
18.Aug.2011 carte blanche deadline is September 15th
A reminder to all cartoonists, the submissions deadline for Issue #14 of carte blanche are coming up in a month!
The Issue’s special feature is on Obsessions.
From your vintage stapler collection to spying on your exes,
we want to know about your passions, compulsions, and preoccupations!
The Theme is optional but it will win you brownie points if you can fit it.
Submission deadline is September 15th, 2011.
Being published in carte blance will put you in good company, our previous published graphic fiction submissions include stories by James Romberger, Shannon Wheeler, Nina Bunjevac, Mara Sternberg, & Dustin Harbin!
- -Submission can be between 1 and 20 pages! For anything longer please send a query first.
- -Original work, previously unpublished or limited [like on your web site] published stories.
- -Contributors receive a $45 honorarium per published piece on carte-blanche.org. And since I began editing I’ve published a set of the runner-up comics here on Sequential too, with the permission of the creators of course.
Check out the submission guidelines for more information.
Please indicate in your cover letter if your your work is themed for the feature on obsessions.
Attention!: All submissions from Quebec residents that are selected for publication in carte blanche are eligible for the 3Macs carte blanche Prize ($300) sponsored by MacDougall, MacDougall, & MacTier Inc.
PS: carte blanche also is looking for submissions of Fiction and Nonfiction, Poetry, Translations, & Photography! Check out the submissions page for details!
PPS: carte blanche is a not-for-profit journal published by the Quebec Writers’ Federation. We rely on funding from the Canada Council for the Arts and the support of individual sponsors. Our editorial staff is largely volunteer and generously donate their time to keep carte blanche going.
You can help us cover costs by donating to carte blanche. Your donation will help us pay our contributors honorariums, update our website, and explore new ways of distributing carte blanche (e.g. print-on-demand, apps, and eBooks). Any size donation is greatly appreciated
31.May.2011 Carte Blanche 13 Graphic Fiction
The newest edition
of Carte Blanche
is alive, it’s Alive!
For lucky 13 we are happy to present a special feature on CRISIS.
There’s a lot of great stuff in the issue, including two excellent graphic fictions stories by some heavy hitters.
From the Eisner Award–winning creator of ‘Too Much Coffee Man’, Shannon Wheeler, ‘Oil Spill’.
And from James Romberger, of ‘Seven Miles A Second’, ’2020 Visions’, ‘Bronx Kill’, and ‘Aaron and Ahmed’, we are very proud to present ‘Raymond’.
We had many other excellent submissions we couldn’t accept, but i’m pleased to present a few of them here instead! To read the stories just click on the art to go to the next page…
‘The Boat People: My Name is Tuan’
By Daniel Ha.
A 10 page story about a young Vietnamese boy getting ready for school. Once there, he meets and befriends a Canadian girl in the school yard…
‘Dates’ Dates’
By William Brian MacLean.
A 16 page story of a pair of new lovers, comparing their experiences.
’13.0.0.0.0′
By Paul Houston and Alan Ackerman.
A short 4 page story about what might happen in the year 2012. The year in which the Maya have predicted as a year and time of great change.
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22.Jan.2011 Calling all Cartoonists, Sequential Artists, and Mark Makers.
The next Bi-annual deadline for submissions of graphic fiction to be published in the spring 2011 – 13th edition – of carte blanche is March 15th! You have 53 days to submit!
carte blanche is an online Literary review
published twice a year – in the spring and fall.
Now in our seventh year we insist there is more than one way to tell a story. Figurations written, spoken, captured and drawn. Our mandate; to provide a venue for narrative of all forms. Including Sequential Art described by the categories of Photo Essays, and Graphic Fiction.
For Graphic Fiction we are honoured and pleased to look at new unpublished creations. We will consider previously published work if it has appeared on personal websites/blogs or in small run print zines. If your work has been previously published, please specify where.
We are looking for the best of the Sequential Arts. There are no boundaries on theme, length, or the regional origins of the creator. While carte blanche is backed by the Quebec Writers’ Federation, the journal is open to submissions from anyone, anywhere!
This is an opportunity to get graphic fiction published in a recognized online Literary review. Previous creators published are Nina Bunjevac, Mara Sternberg, Dustin Harbin, Aaron Costain and Francis Raven. There will be one graphic fiction story in the 13th edition, will it be yours?
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Important! – Updates
- Please save the images at 72 dpi.
- Images should be 1000 pixels wide. carte blanche is a digital journal so we don’t limit the dimensions, we just need enough resolution to have some flexibility. Hence only the width dimensions. Make pages whatever shape you like. Round even!
- Submissions should be collected into a SINGLE .zip file or multi page PDF in order to upload it.
- File formats to use are .png, .gif, .pdf, or .jpg. Do not send Tiff or PSD files.
- Please submit a completed story. Not a proposal or outline. We will only consider work already completed and ready for publishing.
-You may submit more than one story. However only one submission will be published in the next issue.
-Story length/page count is flexible, but we suggest no more than 20-30 pages maximum. If you have a longer work you would like to submit we would consider an excerpt.
Upload your work using our online Submission Manager, via this link.
http://carte-blanche.org/submissions/
Note: We’re switching a Submishmash submissions manager which will be operational by Jan 30th latest. Not to worry though, If you already have created a password for our submissions site it will still work and any material you submitted before the changeover should still be received.
Simultaneous submissions: We do accept simultaneous submissions. Please indicate in your cover letter if you are sending your piece elsewhere and notify us immediately if your piece is accepted somewhere else.
Rights: We ask for first world serial rights and the right to archive your work on the website. Copyright reverts to the author upon publication. At this time we’re only publishing digitally, if we wish to use your work in a future print publication we will contact you about obtaining the rights to do so at that time.
Payment: carte blanche does pay a modest honorarium per submission. We hope to increase the amount in the future but at this time there are no page rates or royalties.
Cheers
Salgood Sam
Editor of Graphic Fiction
http://carte-blanche.org/
27.Nov.2010 Hey Kids, Comix!
To start off this weeks comic post, i’m putting my hat on as Editor of Graphic Fiction at Carte Blanche, and presenting the short listed works from our submissions for issue 12.
I was a bit slow getting the word out about submissions, still getting my sea legs – but we had a very strong set of stories to choose from. Here they are. Click the pages to read them at full size…
First, Coveted Nails by William Owen & Dominic Salerno.
Next we have Dakota McFadzean’s Ghostie: The Happiest Damned Ghost Around
Daniel Ha’s Sand Castles appeared in Sequential Pulp 2 at TCAF 2010,
it’s one of his strongest pieces to date. An upcoming artist to keep an eye out for.
And last we have a submission from Mara Sternberg,
the author of Hush, the story featured in issue 11 of carte blanche.
For 12 she submitted Ella.
Nice eh?
And finally, For issue 12 of Carte Blanche, i’m happy to present WAITIN’ FOR CHIP by Nina Bunjevac. Click on the first page here to go on to the site and read the rest.
Nina is a Toronto based cartoonist and illustrator. Her arts education began at the Djordje Krstic school of applied art in Nish, Yugoslavia. And continued on to Central Technical School Art Department and the Ontario College of Art and Design.
Her work has been published in a variety of literary magazines and comics anthologies in Europe, US and Canada. Recent publications include: Mineshaft magazine (USA), Giuda, InguineMah (Italy), Le Dernier Cri (Marseille, France), Komikaze (Croatia) and Komiko (Serbia).
Ok, that’s it for now. For all you doodlers, FYI, submissions are open for the next issue of Carte Blanche!
Spring issue – March 15th (May publication)
Fall issue – September 15th (November publication)
cheers
Max
06.Sep.2010 Carte Blanche wants your comics! Sept 15th
Hey cartoonists!
It’s time for the next Bi-annual Carte Blanche
The Literary review of the Quebec Writers’ Federation.
We’re taking submissions for graphic fiction, thats comics to you, for the 12th edition!
The deadline is soon, September the 15th!
Yep it’s soon i know, sorry about that. But we’re not looking for you to do all new work for this. If you would like to try go for it, but pre-existing work is just fine.
I’m Editing the submissions this year, and we’re looking for the best of the sequentail arts to present in what will be an all new site design. So dig into your sketchbooks and archives, and send us your best stories to show off!
There are no real boundaries on the theme, length, or regional source of the work. While Carte Blanche is backed by the Quebec Writers’ Federation, the journal is open to submissions from anyone anywhere! That’s right, an open opportunity to get your sequential work in a recognized Literary review.
Previous creators published are Mara Sternberg, Dustin Harbin, Aaron Costain and Francis Raven.
You can submit using this online Submission Manager: Artists collect your submissions into a single zip file to upload here, save your pages as 72 dpi .png files, 1000 pixes wide.
If you have any questions or problems uploading write me at graphiccarteblanche@gmail.com!
Simultaneous submissions: We accept simultaneous submissions. Please indicate in your cover letter if you are sending your piece elsewhere and notify us immediately if your piece is accepted somewhere else.
Rights: We ask for first world serial rights and the right to archive your work on the website. Copyright reverts to the author upon publication.
Payment: carte blanche pays a modest honorarium per submission. We hope to increase the amount in the future.
Cheers
Salgood Sam
