SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Orang Utan Comics are now accepting submissions of 6-8 page stories for inclusion in future issues of our critically acclaimed anthology series FTL.
These need to be COMPLETE strips, with full colour artwork and lettering (although we may redo your lettering, so don’t worry if lettering isn’t your forte).
All stories are welcome, in any genre, and while adult themes are ok, please refrain from including gratuitous sex and violence, as this will result in your submission being rejected.
Please note that we do not pay people for publishing their stories in FTL, all profits from FTL go towards funding future issues of FTL, paying for convention appearances and promotion. You will, however, retain full rights to your story, and will be free to publish it in future elsewhere.
Please also note that we DO NOT accept submissions of scripts without artwork. Sorry, but we simply don’t have the time to sit and read scripts, and all scripts received will be deleted without reading them.
Please send your completed strips to FTL’s editor, David Wynne, at fasterthanlighted@gmail.com and include “FTL Submission” in the subject header of your email.
We do occasionally need artists for the verious other projects we have in development, so feel free to submit five pages of sequential artwork to our Managing Editor, Ian Sharman at ian@orangutancomics.com
However…
PLEASE NOTE
Orang Utan Comics is all about working together as a team to get greater exposure and to get our best work into print and as such we DO NOT pay page rates. In fact, the vast majority of small to medium sized publishers do not pay page rates either. Like them all of our artists and writers recieve a percentage share of any profits for the comics they contribute to.
We are mainly making these comics out of a love for the medium, and to get our work noticed by bigger publishers who do pay page rates, not to make vast sums of money.
Do not give up the day job just yet, but please do still apply if you would like to be part of a friendly, talented team with a bright future.
