Are you
young and inebriated? Are you old and drunk? Do you loathe mainstream
publishers with attitudes too big for their own good? They can’t afford to give
YOU the time of day? Jerks! Did you once work for a mainstream publisher who no
longer has time for you? Have you recently escaped police custody and need
legal representation?
If you
answered “yes” to most of these questions WE WANT YOU!
Actually,
let’s be clear: If you like to make funny pages and think we may like them
enough to publish them in a future issue of Bad Halo Comix Magazine then we
want what you want. And that’s good for everyone.
Maybe you’re
not an artist (or all-purpose cartoonist). Maybe you’re a writer and your work
is so funny people laugh directly in front of you, instead of behind your back.
Yup. We wanna see your work too.
Here’s what
we want from artists: fan art, cover art (depicting our characters or abstract
and humorous concepts), interior art, cartoon strips, single panel gags, comics
(complete stories in general, but if you’re work is good enough to spread out
over several issues we will serialize it), and general miscellaneous
items.
Here’s what
we want from writers: articles on just about any topic (700 words or less).
This seems vague but we are open to new things. If you have a unique idea we
want to read it. People are sick of reading the same crap over and over. Don’t
send us crap. We also want to read your short stories (2,000 words or less). If
your short story is good and over 2,000 words we may serialize it. And let us
emphasize once again we are open to just about anything. A good way to look at
this is to think about the early days of Rolling Stone Magazine. Back in the
day those guys were publishing articles no one else wanted to publish. If you
have an article (or an idea) that no one else wants send it to us.
Here’s what
we DO NOT WANT: It’s easiest to compare what this magazine will publish to a
video game or film rating. We are rated PG or PG-13 at most. In other words,
we’re not going to publish porn or anything that requires a warning label of
“Mature Content”. There are many other magazines and sites where such can be
found and that’s not something we want to compete with.
Something
else we don’t want to see is hatred; genuine hatred. We joke about hatred, and
that’s all it is – a joke.
Your work
just needs to be funny. Unless your story is about shit itself there’s no
reason it needs to be full of shit jokes.
Example:
Late Saturday night after the club you walk into a Denny’s restroom and someone
has smeared shit all over the walls. Maybe you’re still a little drunk and you
innocently laugh. After all, the punch-line is shit all over the walls. And who
wouldn’t laugh at the site of shit all over the walls? But at the end of the
night there’s still shit all over the walls.
What are we
talking about here? We’re talking about an idiot who walked into a Denny’s
restroom, stuck his hand up his own ass and smeared shit all over the walls. DO
NOT SEND US YOUR SHIT!
Writing
“clean” humor can be a challenge, but think of some of the great comedy giants:
Bill Cosby, Weird Al, Jerry Seinfeld, Ken Ham.
“Does my
work need to have a religious bend?”
Short
answer: no.
Our slogan
is “Because Religion is Funny” but that doesn’t mean we’re only about religious
humor. We just take the approach that religion covers more of the planet Earth
than water and shouldn’t be held so sacred it hinders people from laughter.
“Will it
help?”
Maybe.
Whaddaya got for us?
And the BIG
question…
“What do you
pay?”
Take a look
out your window and close your eyes. Imagine the Universe before the Big Bang.
Take it all in. Really picture yourself there. You can’t? Oh. I guess that’s
because there was NOTHING!
Bad Halo
Comix is in the deep, deep dark end of the nets. I can’t even get rl friends to
LIKE and SHARE posts that aren’t cat videos on Facebook. I have no clout and
even less money. But like many others I love comics and that’s the only reason
to be doing this. If you have other options let me be the first to encourage
you to take them. But, if after reading the above litany you are undaunted and
still want to make a submission, please do so. We very much want to see your work
and if it’s of good quality and it makes us laugh we’ll publish it in a future
issue… and there will be great rejoicing.
EMAIL US NOW!
EMAIL US NOW!
--David Paul
Co-creator,
Publisher
Bad Halo
Comix
