Comic-Lit, anyone?

Issue Six Comics Conributors
T. Motley, A Happy End, [link] Ever at Your Elbow, and Funny Ha Ha
Maggie McKnight, France 1993
David Axe and Matt Bors, War Is Boring [off-site]
Randall Munroe, xkcd [link]

Issue Five Comics Contributors
Dorothy Gambrell, Cat and Girl [off-site]
Robert Sergel, Idiot Comics [off-site]
Kurt Parsons, Reunion
Jonathan Baylis & David Beyer Jr., So...Racist? [off-site]
Maris Wicks, Frog Comics [full comic]

Issue Four Comics Contributors
Adam York Gregory, Smugness for Dummies [off-site]
Tomasz Kaczynski, 100,000 Miles [excerpt]
Austin Kleon, After the War
Will Dinski, The Midwestern Artist [link]
Drew, Toothpaste for Dinner [off-site]

Issue Three Comics Contributors
Rafael Ávila, Consciousness
Lindsay Nordell, Something I Never Gave Up [link]
Jesse Reklaw, from Slow Wave [off-site]
Patricia Storms, Lethem v. Offutt
Isaac Cates & Mike Wenthe, The Case of the Shifty Shavian
Lynda Barry, from Marlys Magazine [off-site]

Issue Two Comics Contributors
Jeremy Broomfield & Claude le Monde, Universal Donor vs. Claude le Monde
Kenneth Koch, from The Art of the Possible [excerpt 1][excerpt 2]
Paulette Poullet, Robot Building with Parent and Me
Nate Powell, The Prime Directive
Patricia Storms, The Amazing Adventures of Lethem and Chabon [off-site]

Issue One Comics Contributors
Tom Chalkley, Heat Wave
Peter S. Conrad, What's in a Name [.PDF]
Jim Rugg, The Stoned Ape Theory [.PDF]

Comics Submission Guidelines

For every issue of the BCR, we reserve about 10% of the pages for comic-lit. We're wanting to up this number to about 20%, but that depends on artists submitting good work. Tell your friends and be the first (well, fourth, really) kid on the block to get your stuff published in the BCR.

General Guidelines: Address all manuscripts to proper editor (by genre) and to the address below. Include a self addressed, 37-cent stamped, #10 envelope (SASE) for response. No reply will be given via email or postcard. Send only recyclable copies of your manuscript, as we are not responsible for the safe return of originals and discard all unused submissions.

Comics Editor
Backwards City Review
PO Box 41317
Greensboro, NC 27404

Cover Letter: All submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter that somehow includes the author's name, titles of all pieces submitted, and a brief biographical statement.

Graphic Narrative: Up to 10 pages. Includes comics and other pictorial works which engage the reader/viewer in a narrative manner. We will consider acceptance based on two aspects of graphic narrative: that they be art, and that they be literary - we'll take either/or or both. We want strong graphics or a strong story, but will favor submissions that have strength in both these aspects. We do not want the funny pages. Humorous graphic narrative should be witty and we will not accept superheroes unless they are creative and different.

Please submit hardcopies on 8.5 x 11 paper. (We scan and digitize into a variety of formats - keep in mind, however, that our publication size is 6x9" and your images will be reduced to fit. Make sure the text is clear and will be legible when shrunk.) Copies should be clean and free of chaff, spots, stray marks, or general detritus. Submit work flat, unfolded, and in a manila envelope. Do not send originals, as manuscripts will be recycled. If interested in submitting work via slides, please follow the guidelines listed under artwork.

Full submission guidelines, all genres.