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Friday, March 26, 2010

Gathering Info For Resource Sections



One of the main ideas that was in my head when I started Grimalkin Press was wanting to help and publish all the beautiful work that languished inside of sketchbooks and seldom visited blogs because of how daunting taking the next step to being published seems to lots of artists. I wanted us to be not just an anthology but an institution that helps and guides artists towards the goals of both self publishing and promoting their work. We don't claim to be experts in the field but we do have kindly avuncular natures and the desire to put the sweat and man hours into your project and see it succeed. We get totally stoked at the idea of your comics getting reviewed and people being able to hold the pictures and words that you worked so hard on.

With that in mind I want to put together a section on this site that is a resource pool of publishers that take unsolicited submissions and sites that will review your work. So when you have a new piece finished you can just come here and go down the list mailing it out to your heart's content. We have a list of places we've compiled just from a year or so of pouring over websites and finding new review blogs, but we'd like YOUR help.  Email us or comment with lists of all the review sites and underground publishers you know about. We'll continue updating the resource sections as we get your intel.

I think the spirit of community that exists within small press comics is one of the greatest strengths of the medium. Okay that's it kids we'll all meet up at the tree house after school!

Friday, October 9, 2009

HIVE THREE release date!

Rejoice! For HIVE THREE is nigh upon us. The date that was foreordained before the foundations of the Earth has been revealed. November Six of the Two Thousandth and Ninth axial turning since the great Celestial Defection! The Word of HIVE will be there!


P.S. HIVE THREE comes out on November 6th. Release Party at the Coffee Ethic in Springfield, MO starting at 6 PM.

Sneak preview forthcoming!

Monday, July 20, 2009

A tentative line up for HIVE NUMBER THREE in October

Starting to gear up for HIVE THREE which is slated to appear in October so I thought I'd show a tentative list of contributors

J.W. Cotter
Matt Kindt
Hawk Krall
John (Sorry Comics)
Malachi Ward
Chris Mostyn
Jon Freihofer
J.M. Shiveley
Joe Decie
Eamon Espey
Thomas Beard
Chad R. Woody
Mark Leicht
Wayne Wells

and a cover by the talented Doug Wilson

We are pretty excited about this issue. It will have a shocking secret agenda! It will show you your true love! It will whisper the things you've never told anyone into your ear as you sleep. We will be on the front pages of the WORLD! Maybe.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Hive News

News from the printing front.

The faithful mendicants here at Grimalkin Press have been busy spreading the good news of Hive and we are happy to report that the first printing (and most of a second) of Hive: A Somewhat Quarterly Comics Journal have flown off the shelves.

The next issue should be out in the first part of July and will feature the work of

Jeffrey Brown (Eisner Award Winner)
Chris Mostyn
J.M. Shiveley
Mark Leicht
Thomas Beard
Jon Freihoffer
Kyle Jeffries
Lauryl Wagoner
Wayne Wells

and tentatively

J.W. Cotter
Shawn Cheng

It looks like it will be clocking in somewhere around a hefty 150 pages and be perfect bound sporting brand spanking new limited edition and numbered linocut covers by the talented Chris Mostyn.

We are still accepting submissions for the July issue with the deadline being Mid Mayish.

As always we love hearing from you so drop us a line or come by and sit on the porch a spell . . . we'll provide lemonade and small talk.

Contact Info:

Email: jordanshiveley@gmail.com

Old Fashioned but Neato Mail:

Jordan Shiveley
722 S. Jefferson B01
Springfield, MO
65806