Comments on: PR: What Not to Do: Limited Submissions

By: Dwight Williams

Dwight Williams — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:27:28 +0000

I wasn’t sure that I wanted to raise the point either way.

I certainly appreciate the fact that we now have more than one viable publisher up here, though.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:08:47 +0000

I knew that sounded funny… but I couldn’t remember why. That’s it!

By: Ed Cunard

Ed Cunard — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:47:22 +0000

Canada’s largest comic book publisher? Someone better call Drawn & Quarterly.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:43:59 +0000

Not 22 stories, 7 stories at 22 pages each. (They may be using some other page count, though. I’m just assuming that that’s what they mean by “full length” (sic).)

By: Oni-Press FAN!

Oni-Press FAN! — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:55:18 +0000

Johanna,

I am beginning to think that your entire existance is to find the negative in a press release.

I don’t see anything wrong with the way they put things. They already have recieved 30 submissions, but are looking for more. If you’ve ever edited, I am not sure you have or haven’t so I am not slighting you here, you’d know that the idea is to get the BEST stories out of the bunch. If they’ve only read 30, how do they know which 22 will be best overall? Are they waiting to see the best 22 out of whatever the total number is?

Who knows.

On your other note, you’re right on the head. What sort of company makes an annoucement without at least spellchecking the names of the shows and comics you work on?

By: Nat Gertler

Nat Gertler — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:37:47 +0000

To be fair, when you open up submissions to everyone and anyone the vast majority of submissions are likely to be unacceptable; it’s not a surprise if they can’t find 150 usable pages out of 30 submissions.

(And if anyone is wondering, while Psych is actually a USA Network series, the USA Network is owned by NBC Universal, making the NBC reference at least semi-legit.)