Grimalkin Press publishes Phil Mcandrew's Debut book!

Hail and well met faithful mendicants of printed art! We are gathered here today to unleash announce that the much rumored ascendance of Phil McAndrew is at hand! All the signs and portents have led us to this annunciation!

WE WILL BE PUBLISHING "Crying in Front of Your Dog and Other Stories" by Phil McAndrew EARLY SECOND QUARTER 2013!

McAndrew is an artist that we have admired for quite some time and we are giddy with the chance to put his ideas and vision into ink and paper.  His art comes from the illustrative tradition of Searle and Steadman.

 

Crying in Front of Your Dog is  over 200 pages of new and collected stories about life, death, love, ghosts, cats, time travel, humans, literature, fear, magic, evil organizations, happiness, television, secrets, dogs, loneliness, house plants, ancient dark rituals, pizza, failure, power, money, nature, government conspiracies, regret, the internet, horrifying monsters, awful jobs, wizards, the ocean, aliens, dads, kissing, crying and teeth.

We will be collecting ALL of Phil's previous never to be reprinted work as well as over a hundred pages of new material! We're pulling out all the stops and nerding it up on the print front. French flaps, heavy offset vellum paper, patterned interior covers! We're all a'twitch just thinking about it.

Also we've decided to offer a limited edition, available ONLY with presale orders print for those who reserve a copy now! 

BUY IT HERE!

We plan to debut the book at TCAF 2013.

PREORDER HIVE FIVE!

Hey quick announcement! 

You can now preorder HIVE FIVE!

'Nuff said! Get to ordering!

HIVE 6 Cover super early sneak peek!

Hey did you know that the incredible Vincent Stall, mastermind behind King Mini is doing the cover for HIVE SIX? Well now you do and your fecund little brains can start imagining what this obvious blueprint for AWESOMENESS will end up looking like. And I'm not talking high score on Skate or Die awesome I'm talking full of SOME AWE!

-J.M. Shiveley, editor

the KING IS DEAD!

Okay let me introduce the new main editor for Grimalkin Press during my hiatus

Ingrid Bohnenkamp

All  submissions and queries should be adressed to her at:

ingrid.grimalkinpress@gmail.com

or

Ingrid Bohnenkamp
407 N. 8th St.
Apt. D
Columbia, MO
65201

Chris Mostyn Launches Graphic Novel Endeavor!!!

One of my favourite cartoonists and recurrent HIVE contributor, Chris Mostyn is starting up on a new full length book! You have the chance to watch it progress through his new blog and see the process and new pages as they emerge. Seriously folks this is going to be an epic book. Keep an eye on this guy!

P.S. Look at all that beautiful heavy black!!!

Partial 2010 Publishing Schedule

Here's quick look at some of what we will be publishing in 2010

HIVE: A Somewhat Quarterly Comics Anthology Number FOUR
Release date: May 1, 2010.

"Dave the Wank" Minicomic by O'Shell
Release date: By August 2010

Grimalkin No. 1 by J.M. Shiveley
Release date: By August 2010

As yet untitled "Best of Blammo" minicomic by Noah Van Sciver
Release date: By September 2010

HIVE: A Somewhat Quarterly Comics Anthology Number FIVE
Release date: By September 2010

"Food Service Anthology" Stories from the salt mines!
Release date: TBA

NOTE: All dates are what we want to do and at the moment they seem to be completely feasible. Hopefully that won't change! :D So buy some books!

Stick this in your cap

Grimalkin Press has plans to do an stand alone anthology separate from "HIVE Quarterly" anthology about working in the food service industry. No set dates or anything but start those wheels turning and pens drawing.

DHARBIN! KICKSTART! DO IT!

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!

HIVE FIVE SUBMISSION DEADLINES

Devout, the moment of annunciation is upon you. The call of the faithful is among us! HIVE demands your tithe in beautifully drawn rows of pictures!

Submission Deadline for HIVE FIVE: July 1st

1-15 Pages
Black & White/Greyscale
End page size is 5.5x8.5
At least 300 dpi

Also submit a self portrait and a short bio at the time of your submission

You can either email your submissions to jordanshiveley@gmail.com

or

Mail them to:

Jordan Shiveley
722 S. Jefferson Ave.
B01
Springfield, MO
65806

Jess Smart Smiley "A Map in the Dirt" Kickstarter

 Jess Smart Smiley is trying to fund the printing of a minicomic version of "A Map in the Dirt" through Kickstarter! We totally think this is rad.

HIVE Back Issue $5 Sale!

We've got slightly damaged back issues of HIVE One and HIVE Two for sale in the online store! Get you some!

HIVE ONE

HIVE TWO

HIVE FOUR Sneak Peak!

We have made a time machine! Here is what we found* when we traveled to April of the year 2010! Pages from HIVE FOUR!

Hurk 

Joe Decie

Jess Smart Smiley

 

Cole Closser

Craig Collins and  Iain Laurie

Andrew Waugh

Gloria

John Kinhart

José Antonio Alonso Barrueco

Malachi Ward

O'Shell

Peter Richards and David Orme

  

Megan Borque

 

Pat Aulisio

Noah Van Sciver 

 

Jarrett Dawson

J.M. Shiveley

Plus a comic by Mark Leicht! It will also sport nifty hand silk screened dust jackets by Daniel Zender

*We also found really good tacos! And became our own step children?! It got a bit crazy.

Letter Section in Future HIVEs

I've always loved the old letter sections in comic books and respected companies like Dark Horse who still include them. So the doors are open for any letters you might want to address to the staff at HIVE or maybe to the journal itself. We've been worried about HIVE lately all it does is listen to The Album Leaf and watch Encounters at the End of the World over and over . . .


Address all letters for HIVE:A Somewhat Quarterly Comics Journal  to: jordanshiveley@gmail.com

Barnes & Nobles

Did I mention that we are at Barnes & Noble? Yes. Yes we are.

 

 

 

HIVE FOUR Submission Deadline

Just a reminder the submission deadline for HIVE FOUR is the end of February.

HIVE FOUR call for submissions!

Faithful mendicants of the HIVE gospel! We require your service! We are accepting any and all submissions for our next issue. The deadline is mid February. Send us the insides of your brains* either on paper or electronical bedevilment.

Technical Details:
1-15 pages
Black and White
5.5"x8.5" final page area

Send hard copy submissions to:

Jordan Shiveley
722 S. Jefferson
B01
Springfield, MO
65806

Send submissions via email to:
jordanshiveley@gmail.com



*Please don't actually send us your brains that would be gross and illegal.

HIVE Shots

HIVE TWO, HIVE THREE, HIVE ONE

HIVE THREE On Sale!

HIVE THREE is in the online store!

TYPHON! ANTHOLOGY!

You guys need to check out Danny Hellman's awesome anthology TYPHON It is well worth the price of admittance! Beautiful full color with intriguing stories from some of my favorite cartoonists. I can't recommend it enough.