I got the following from a staffer from the Florida Review, a university literary magazine that’s open to comic submissions. (Here’s coverage of one of their previous comics when they started running them back in 2005.) No pay, but it sounds like good exposure to a different kind of audience.

The Florida Review is a national journal of prose and poetry, funded both by The University of Central Florida and The Florida Arts Council. In the past, we’ve published some very reputable names in the literary world, from National Poet Laureate Billy Collins to David Foster Wallace, as well as interviews with Mark Doty.

In the past couple years, we’ve also started a comic-lit/graphic narrative section for our journal, in the hopes of providing a venue for artists and writers whose work stretches beyond the usual text-based literary forms of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. As a result, we’re one of the first university-published literary magazines to explore comics as a “literary genre.”

As we move forward with our 2008 issues (we publish in Spring and Fall), I would like to invite your submissions, and encourage you to also forward this information along to any artists and writers who might be interested. Prose and poetry can tell incredible stories, but comics–like film–have an ability to take the story one step further. How much can just a single panel, a single drawing, a single line of text, tell us about a character or about a story? The more we can open up literary magazines (and universities) to comics as a literary genre, the more publication venues that all artists and writers will have (nearly every university sponsors one).

We are looking for finished comics that tell an intriguing story or set a distinct mood. The grander the imagination, the more excited we’ll be. Editorial cartoons are also welcome and encouraged. In short, we love creativity, and we love to laugh. And though we don’t have a page limit, shorter works are given a better shot at publication, simply because we like to be able to publish several works each issue.

Some technicalities: We can only accept black-and-white comics. Published work will be reduced to 6×9 to fit our current magazine. We do not publish previously-published pieces (excerpts from upcoming work could be considered, however), and we reserve only the first-publication rights (after publication, the rights revert back to you, and you may republish wherever you like). Upon acceptance, we ask for the work as a tif file, at a minimum dpi of 300 (this is our printer’s requirements). As we are a non-profit publication, payment is made in the form of contributor copies.