Cover Art

Your book will be printed with a wraparound color cover. This means that you can submit one large piece of art which will flow from the front cover to the back, or two separate pieces of art, one for each cover. If you don't have any large color art related to the strip, we can work with you to produce a collage of strips or some other graphic design.

Some additional things to keep in mind:

• The cover should be PG at most: cheesecake is fine but no nudity. Having to put modesty stickers on covers at conventions makes books awkward to sell.
• The front cover should have enough dead space for the series logo, the strip title and your name, and the Jarlidium logo/price box (which includes the mature-readers label, if required). This dead space doesn't have to be empty, it's just that what whatever is there will get covered up so it should be unimportant. These elements normally appear at the top of the cover but can be moved if that produces a better layout.
• See the general remarks about DPI and file formats too.

Introduction or Bio

The inside front cover is your page to talk about your webcomic. An introduction or your bio is one possibility, but you're welcome to write about something else if you like. You are also welcome to plug your website, your art, or anything you may be selling. If you have any art which could be used as a frame or a background or accompaniment to the text, feel free to provide that as well.

Interior

You have 23 (or 27 or 31) pages to fill. During the contract negotiations we will have agreed on how many strips are required for that page count. If you have a story arc which is a couple pages short, then strip-related filler art will be needed; the same is true if you'll be sending in multiple story arcs and want to put breaks between them.

We will normally do the layout of the interior, so you only need to provide the text and strips. However, if you have some layout ideas, we are open to suggestions. The best way to communicate your ideas to us is via low-resolution mockups of the page(s), then we can reproduce them on our end, adjusting them for the technical requirements of our printer.

One thing we can't print is anything beyond an R rating.* This is not an editorial decision. It is a limit imposed by the printers who are willing to do these very small print runs and we have no control over it. Nudity is fine but anything explicitly sexual is not. We will work with you on what we can print or not. (If you've ever seen a recent copy of our North American Fur, that would give you an idea of what we can print.)

*Pssst... if you really want to do a hardcore, no-rating book, ask us about WCA Midnight Specials! There are still a few things we can't/won't print, but the limit is determined by what's legal and what we can stand to look at while we assemble the books. Midnight Specials are a lot more work for us since we print them in-house, so we only do them in cases where we feel that the art and content warrants one.

NAF #24

336 pages of art and stories from 32 creators, B&W interior, $18

DSV Nautica #1

(WCA #5)
First print issue of Rei Vegan's science fiction webomic, 28 B&W pages, $4            

NAF #23

320 pages of art and stories from 31 creators, B&W interior, $18            

Xfrmations Unlimited #1

Transformation-oriented comic anthology, 24 B&W pages, Adults Only, $4