We’d like to personally invite you (and everyone you know!) to be a part of What’s In The Box?: the sixth annual Open Invite Group Project from Young American Comics!

Write and draw a two to six page comic that involves an unopened box with mystery contents. It can be any sort of box and a part of any type of story, as long as the contents of the box remain unknown to the reader.

Deadline: January 21, 2008

Click here to download the official WITB Invite. We encourage you to print, copy and distribute as you see fit! Invite contains complete submission guidelines and some helpful hints.

Despite our name, we welcome submissions from all over the globe. You may work alone, or team up with others.Stories will be judged on artistic merit, overall story and originality. We love a variety of unique and traditional art and writing styles and encourage you to experiment within the comics medium! We look forward to seeing what you come up with!

Sincerely,
Tod and Corey Marie Parkhill
Young American Comics

Hey dudes and ladies! We’ve been putting together some cool new digs for ourselves here on the web, and we’re pretty pleased with them if we say so ourselves. (and we do.)

You’ll see a couple placeholders for some new sections that will be coming soon, including a wealth of resources for Small Press-ers and a brand new forum. While we don’t expect a ton of traffic in the forums, we know there are a lot of writers out there who would like to participate in a group project, but don’t have any artists friends (and vice versa.) So hopefully that’ll give those of you who are looking to meet your soul mate new partner-in-crime a place to do so, and we’ll get even MORE entries for next year’s group project…

…you didn’t think I was going to tell you what it is yet, did you? Tsk tsk. That, oh impatient reader, will be announced at San Diego Comic Con this year, or maybe - just maybe - a week or so early. (If you’re on your best behavior.)

Speaking of group projects, we are putting the final touches on small town/BIG CITY before we send it off to the printer. I should have a preview of the cover for you, hopefully soon.

By the way, all pre-orders for Snakepit Quarterly #16 have been sent out, and you can get your very own copy in the YAC Store.

Thank you to everyone who submitted! Here is the final list of accepted submissions. small town/BIG CITY will be officially released in mid-July and debut at the San Diego Comic Con. We were completely blown away by many of these entries and are very excited to be putting out this book. Cities from across the world are represented in this book, by some of the most talented artists and writers in small press comics. Give yourselves all a pat on the back and keep your eyes peeled for more group projects from Young American Comics.

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