If you're a talented and ambitious comics artist looking for online publication, then PopMatters is looking for you, too. Let's get together! We're planning to expand our PopComix section in the near future, and we're seeking quality webcomics of all varieties. While we are generally looking for humorous features of the "gag-a-day" or serial storyline variety with a pop culture angle, we're certainly interested in all quality features, including editorial cartoons.
PopMatters cultivates smart contributors from the world-at-large. PopMatters recognizes that creative, compassionate intellectuals reside in all levels of society, in all types of societies, and it values their ability to provide intelligent, entertaining cultural criticism in the form of thoughtful reviews, essays, interviews. The PopComix section was created with the intent of expanding the expressions of intelligent cultural criticism into the realm of comic art. We feel PopMatters can offer a broader readership, drawing a new and possibly untapped audience into the world of online comics. Much in the way that print newspapers have traditionally offered serial comics and editorial cartoons, we want to run the best online comics available.
The compensation we can offer is the platform to broaden your readership within a reputable publication with more than one million unique readers per month, and counting. For the last six years, PopMatters reviews and articles have been picked up by various websites including Yahoo, AlterNet, and MetaCritic, while the magazine's writers have been used as sources for NPR, BBC, and various print resources. Many of our contributors are called upon for their opinion by media outlets such as the BBC, NPR, MSNBC, Radio Australia, and VH1. Publications including USA Today.com, Alternet.org, and Movies.com regularly pick up links to PopMatters content.
If you're interested in submitting a serial feature for daily publication on the PopComix page, you must have sufficient material to provide original strips or panels five days per week, with an initial batch of two months (approximately 40 individual strips) ready to publish. For editorial cartoons, please provide five examples from your portfolio.
If you're interested, please send a query -- along with a URL of your existing work -- to BOTH:
Karen Zarker
Senior Editor
Zarker at PopMatters.com
and
Sarah Zupko
Editor & Publisher
Editor at PopMatters.com
