#power magic

POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology VOLUME 2is coming to Kickstarter this October 2019! ★

ThePOWER & MAGIC SERIES fromP&M Press is all about queer witches of coloras icons of female power. 

Witches represent rebellion, transcendence, healing, feminine monstrosity, so-called “deviance,” and interconnectedness – with the cosmos, with their bodies, and with each other. 

These anthologies exist as a space for women of color to explore gender, power, struggle, selfhood and community, all in the context of compelling fantasy comics for young adult readers (and up)!

THE VOLUME 2 COVEN:

• Ahmara Smith
• Alexis Cooke
• Arby Essex
• Bex Glendining
• Che Grayson&Steenz
• Cynthia Yuan Cheng
• Dominique Evans
• Fanfi&Mafe Balmaceda
• Grace Teoh
• Jessica & Jacinta Wibowo (JesnCin)
• Joamette Gil&Rose Bousamra
• Juliette GMM López
• Kimberly Wang
• Lorena Reyes
• Myisha Haynes
• Nicole Miles
• Shivana Sookdeo
• Wendy Xu
• Yash Kesanakurthy&Annalise Jensen
• Yeon Kyung Charlotte Cha&Ciel Bahena

EXCITED FOR OCTOBER? FOLLOW ALONG:

• Join our email list ☆
• Follow us on Twitter ★
• Add us on Instagram ☆
• Like us on Facebook ★
• Catch up on the series at the P&M Press shop ☆

P&M Press is now taking submissions for POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics AnthologyVolume 2.

First, there was the award-winning POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology… then, our “spirit”-ed interstitial volume, Power & Magic: IMMORTAL SOULS… and now,POWER & MAGIC returns with a full-length Volume 2, bigger and better than ever before!

ThePOWER & MAGIC SERIES is all about queer witches of coloras icons of female power. Witches represent rebellion, transcendence, healing, feminine monstrosity, so-called “deviance,” and interconnectedness – with the cosmos, with their bodies, and with each other. These anthologies exist as a space for women of color to explore gender, power, struggle, selfhood and community, all in the context of compelling fantasy comics for young adult readers (and up)!

Submission Period

Submissions will be open to the public from February 11th - March 10th (11:59 PM Pacific Time).

Who Can Participate

To submit to POWER & MAGIC Volume 2, both of the following must apply to you:

1. You are a person of color.
   
2. You identify – whether fully or partially or complicatedly – as a woman. This can include cis women, trans women, bigender people, two-spirit people, demi-girls, questioning-but-leaning-woman-aligned, etc. Sex assigned at birth is irrelevant. We’re looking to represent womanhood as a spectrum rather than a fixed point.
   

For team submissions: At least the writer must meet the above criteria. 

If you’re a member of a long-standing comics partnership that includes a white writer and an artist of color, you may pitch together so long as the partner of color plays an equal-or-greater role in determining the story. 

If two submissions are equally matched, the team whose members all meet the criteria will be prioritized. 

Use#CovenSearch on social media to find teammates!

Age Restrictions

All contributors must be 18 years or older. All content must be suitable for readers as young as 14 years old.

Specifications

• Comics from 2 - 10 pages long (must be an even number)
  
• 6” x 9” trim size (template will be provided)
  
• Bleed? Yes.
  
• Black & White or Grayscale (no screentones, please)
  
• 600 dpi
  
• .PSD final files
  

Timeline

Selection Process (Feb 2019 - Apr 2019)

• Open Submissions: 2/11 - 3/10 (4 weeks)
  
• Selection Period: 3/11 - 3/24 (2 weeks)
  
• Acceptance Emails/Pitch Feedback: 3/25
  
• Paperwork: 3/25 - 4/1 (1 week)
  

Creation Period (Apr 2019 - Sep 2019)

• Script: 4/1 - 4/21 (3 weeks)
  
• Feedback/Edits: 4/22 - 4/28 (1 week)
  
• Thumbnails: 4/29 - 5/12 (2 weeks)
  
• Feedback/Edits: 5/13 - 5/19 (1 week)
  
• Pencils: 5/20 - 6/23 (5 weeks)
  
• Feedback/Edits: 6/24 - 6/30 (1 week)
  
• Inks: 7/1 - 7/21 (3 weeks)
  
• Feedback/Edits: 7/22 - 7/28 (1 week)
  
• Toning & Shading: 7/29 - 8/11 (2 weeks)
  
• Feedback/Edits: 8/12 - 8/18 (1 week)
  
• Lettering: 8/19 - 9/1 (2 weeks)
  
• Feedback/Edits: 9/2 - 9/8 (1 week)
  
• Final Files Due: 9/15
• Kickstarter (October 2019)
• Payment (November 2019)
  

Compensation

Contributors will be compensated at $106/page plus any Kickstarter bonuses unlocked through stretch goals. Contributors also receive a minimum of 10 complimentary copies of the anthology, royalties on all digital sales, and royalties on any future print runs of the anthology after the first printing sells out.

Rights

Creators will cede exclusive first worldwide print and digital rights to their stories for a full calendar year from the date of publication, and non-exclusive worldwide print and digital rights in perpetuity. Ownership remains with the creators.

What We *WANT*

• Previously unpublished stories.
  
• At least one protagonist must be a queer woman of color (or woman-aligned).
  
• At least one character must be a witch, and at least one witch character must be a queer woman of color (or woman-aligned).
  
• The queer woman of color protagonist(s) must be human or human-appearing.
  
• Any era, any location, any type of witch – real or folkloric or invented.
  
• Fantasy elements! How fantastical or understated is up to you.
  
• Peaceful stories, sad stories, triumphant stories, funny stories, failure stories, action stories, love stories – the full spectrum of humanity is welcome. The catch: it must end “positively.” Everything doesn’t have to work out, but we’d prefer for stories to end on a note of hope or new understanding or resilience, etc, even if things go wrong.
  

What We *DON’T* Want

• No fan works. No auto-bio. No prose. No one-off illustrations.
  
• Comics that are already finished or that you’ve already started drawing.
  
• Meet-cutes (“Two people meet and crush at first sight, the end”). A meet-cute may occur within the story, but it can’t be the whole story.
  
• Horror: Your story can use fear and danger as plot elements, but if instilling fear/existential dread in the reader is the overarching goal, this is the wrong anthology.
  
• Tolkienian fantasy: no elves, dwarves, orcs, etc. We won’t freak out if you make something up that’s very loosely(!) inspired by any of these (unless it replicates the problematic elements of Tolkien’s work, in which case your work will not be accepted).
  
• Cursing is permitted as long as words aren’t used literally (i.e. “Shit, you scared me!” as opposed to “Let’s go shit in the woods!”) and are used very sparingly when used at all. In general, we’d prefer not.
  
• No porn. No references to specific sexual acts. No explicit nudity whether sexual or non-sexual (sorry, folks). “Consensual fade-to-black sex between legal adults” is fine.
  
• No depictions of abuse (sexual, physical, psychological) whether pictorial or written. Characters may vaguely reference (in non-graphic language) abuse that they have suffered in the past if doing so serves the story or is integral to the character.
  
• No gore. People can get hurt, bleed, die, etc, but not in a grossly over-the-top way that fetishizes violence.
  
• No slurs, no racism (not even “gnomes hate all faeries” fantasy racism), no misogyny, no transphobia, no ableism, no xenophobia, and no white supremacist nonsense in general. (And please, no stories whose sole purpose is to teach that these things are bad.)
  

Ready to pitch? FILL OUT THIS FORM.

Here’s what you’ll need to complete your submission:

1. A working title and page count for your comic (doesn’t have to be exact).
   
2. A synopsis of your story, including a beginning, middle, and end. Spoil everything, but try to keep it under 500 words.
   
3. Preliminary sketches associated with your pitch: character ideas, important creature designs, environment concepts (the latter is especially important if your portfolio lacks strong examples of background art), etc. These don’t need to be final or polished pieces! Just detailed enough to give us an idea.
   
4. Links to any relevant publishing credits (whether you’re writing the comic, drawing it, lettering it, or doing everything yourself). Self-published works and webcomics count as credits! Choose examples that best reflect the style you intend to use for this comic. You may simply include a link to your portfolio if you have no pre-existing credits, but please note that folks with sequential storytelling examples will receive preference.
   
5. Tell us about yourself and anyone else working with you, your cultural and artistic background(s), and why you want to be in POWER & MAGIC Volume 2. Short and sweet is best!
   

More Questions?

Check out the FAQ. If your answer isn’t there, Askaway!

HEARTWOOD: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy is the first ever non-binary comics anthology, featuring 22 young adult stories made entirely by cartoonists who identify as a non-binary gender, available here in PDF and CBZ formats.

Across time and cultures, humanity has spun tales about the forest: tales of caution, adventure, rites of passage, and discovery. It remains a symbol for facing the unknownandemerging transformed. This anthology is for everyone who has walked through the undergrowth, in the silence of nature, and longed for an adventure of their own to unfold.

Download these modern-day tales of sylvan fantasy today to follow characters and creators like us into the woods and back again.

Present-time is right around the corner! Get your loved ones some queer, witchy comics before the 20th for shipping in time for Christmas! https://powerandmagicpress.com/collections/all

I’m a visual learner/thinker, so deciding on story order for #HeartwoodAnthology was a nightmare… until I thought to print out baby-sized Heartwood pages and shuffle them around!!!

It’s that time of year again: Witch’s New Year, All Hallows Eve! Today through the end of November 1st, all P&M Press comics will be 30% off with offer code ALLHALLOWS at checkout: 

https://powerandmagicpress.com/discount/ALLHALLOWS

powerandmagic:

Flawed softcovers of POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology are now on sale at 50% off their cover price (and on our brand new store, no less)!  https://powerandmagicpress.com/

You can still back HEARTWOOD: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy throughCrowd Ox until September 14th! 

We closed out as one of the top 15 most funded Kickstarter anthologies, but 3 of our 14 stretch goals remain LOCKED.Pledge on Crowd Ox now to get the first all non-binary comics anthology!

Ready for some 25th-century Latinx comics? Follow us on @kickstarter for an automatic notification when MAÑANA: Latinx Comics From The 25th Century launches later this month: http://ow.ly/SnbX50Ar5cJ

powerandmagic:

P&M Press is now taking submissions for POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics AnthologyVolume 2.

First, there was the award-winning POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology… then, our “spirit”-ed interstitial volume, Power & Magic: IMMORTAL SOULS… and now,POWER & MAGIC returns with a full-length Volume 2, bigger and better than ever before!

ThePOWER & MAGIC SERIES is all about queer witches of coloras icons of female power. Witches represent rebellion, transcendence, healing, feminine monstrosity, so-called “deviance,” and interconnectedness – with the cosmos, with their bodies, and with each other. These anthologies exist as a space for women of color to explore gender, power, struggle, selfhood and community, all in the context of compelling fantasy comics for young adult readers (and up)!

Submission Period

Submissions will be open to the public from February 11th - March 10th (11:59 PM Pacific Time).

Who Can Participate

To submit to POWER & MAGIC Volume 2, both of the following must apply to you:

1. You are a person of color.
   
2. You identify – whether fully or partially or complicatedly – as a woman. This can include cis women, trans women, bigender people, two-spirit people, demi-girls, questioning-but-leaning-woman-aligned, etc. Sex assigned at birth is irrelevant. We’re looking to represent womanhood as a spectrum rather than a fixed point.
   

For team submissions: At least the writer must meet the above criteria. 

If you’re a member of a long-standing comics partnership that includes a white writer and an artist of color, you may pitch together so long as the partner of color plays an equal-or-greater role in determining the story. 

If two submissions are equally matched, the team whose members all meet the criteria will be prioritized. 

Use#CovenSearch on social media to find teammates!

Age Restrictions

All contributors must be 18 years or older. All content must be suitable for readers as young as 14 years old.

Specifications

• Comics from 2 - 10 pages long (must be an even number)
  
• 6” x 9” trim size (template will be provided)
  
• Bleed? Yes.
  
• Black & White or Grayscale (no screentones, please)
  
• 600 dpi
  
• .PSD final files
  

Timeline

Selection Process (Feb 2019 - Apr 2019)

• Open Submissions: 2/11 - 3/10 (4 weeks)
  
• Selection Period: 3/11 - 3/24 (2 weeks)
  
• Acceptance Emails/Pitch Feedback: 3/25
  
• Paperwork: 3/25 - 4/1 (1 week)
  

Creation Period (Apr 2019 - Sep 2019)

• Script: 4/1 - 4/21 (3 weeks)
  
• Feedback/Edits: 4/22 - 4/28 (1 week)
  
• Thumbnails: 4/29 - 5/12 (2 weeks)
  
• Feedback/Edits: 5/13 - 5/19 (1 week)
  
• Pencils: 5/20 - 6/23 (5 weeks)
  
• Feedback/Edits: 6/24 - 6/30 (1 week)
  
• Inks: 7/1 - 7/21 (3 weeks)
  
• Feedback/Edits: 7/22 - 7/28 (1 week)
  
• Toning & Shading: 7/29 - 8/11 (2 weeks)
  
• Feedback/Edits: 8/12 - 8/18 (1 week)
  
• Lettering: 8/19 - 9/1 (2 weeks)
  
• Feedback/Edits: 9/2 - 9/8 (1 week)
  
• Final Files Due: 9/15
• Kickstarter (October 2019)
• Payment (November 2019)
  

Compensation

Contributors will be compensated at $106/page plus any Kickstarter bonuses unlocked through stretch goals. Contributors also receive a minimum of 10 complimentary copies of the anthology, royalties on all digital sales, and royalties on any future print runs of the anthology after the first printing sells out.

Rights

Creators will cede exclusive first worldwide print and digital rights to their stories for a full calendar year from the date of publication, and non-exclusive worldwide print and digital rights in perpetuity. Ownership remains with the creators.

What We *WANT*

• Previously unpublished stories.
  
• At least one protagonist must be a queer woman of color (or woman-aligned).
  
• At least one character must be a witch, and at least one witch character must be a queer woman of color (or woman-aligned).
  
• The queer woman of color protagonist(s) must be human or human-appearing.
  
• Any era, any location, any type of witch – real or folkloric or invented.
  
• Fantasy elements! How fantastical or understated is up to you.
  
• Peaceful stories, sad stories, triumphant stories, funny stories, failure stories, action stories, love stories – the full spectrum of humanity is welcome. The catch: it must end “positively.” Everything doesn’t have to work out, but we’d prefer for stories to end on a note of hope or new understanding or resilience, etc, even if things go wrong.
  

What We *DON’T* Want

• No fan works. No auto-bio. No prose. No one-off illustrations.
  
• Comics that are already finished or that you’ve already started drawing.
  
• Meet-cutes (“Two people meet and crush at first sight, the end”). A meet-cute may occur within the story, but it can’t be the whole story.
  
• Horror: Your story can use fear and danger as plot elements, but if instilling fear/existential dread in the reader is the overarching goal, this is the wrong anthology.
  
• Tolkienian fantasy: no elves, dwarves, orcs, etc. We won’t freak out if you make something up that’s very loosely(!) inspired by any of these (unless it replicates the problematic elements of Tolkien’s work, in which case your work will not be accepted).
  
• Cursing is permitted as long as words aren’t used literally (i.e. “Shit, you scared me!” as opposed to “Let’s go shit in the woods!”) and are used very sparingly when used at all. In general, we’d prefer not.
  
• No porn. No references to specific sexual acts. No explicit nudity whether sexual or non-sexual (sorry, folks). “Consensual fade-to-black sex between legal adults” is fine.
  
• No depictions of abuse (sexual, physical, psychological) whether pictorial or written. Characters may vaguely reference (in non-graphic language) abuse that they have suffered in the past if doing so serves the story or is integral to the character.
  
• No gore. People can get hurt, bleed, die, etc, but not in a grossly over-the-top way that fetishizes violence.
  
• No slurs, no racism (not even “gnomes hate all faeries” fantasy racism), no misogyny, no transphobia, no ableism, no xenophobia, and no white supremacist nonsense in general. (And please, no stories whose sole purpose is to teach that these things are bad.)
  

Ready to pitch? FILL OUT THIS FORM.

Here’s what you’ll need to complete your submission:

1. A working title and page count for your comic (doesn’t have to be exact).
   
2. A synopsis of your story, including a beginning, middle, and end. Spoil everything, but try to keep it under 500 words.
   
3. Preliminary sketches associated with your pitch: character ideas, important creature designs, environment concepts (the latter is especially important if your portfolio lacks strong examples of background art), etc. These don’t need to be final or polished pieces! Just detailed enough to give us an idea.
   
4. Links to any relevant publishing credits (whether you’re writing the comic, drawing it, lettering it, or doing everything yourself). Self-published works and webcomics count as credits! Choose examples that best reflect the style you intend to use for this comic. You may simply include a link to your portfolio if you have no pre-existing credits, but please note that folks with sequential storytelling examples will receive preference.
   
5. Tell us about yourself and anyone else working with you, your cultural and artistic background(s), and why you want to be in POWER & MAGIC Volume 2. Short and sweet is best!
   

More Questions?

Check out the FAQ. If your answer isn’t there, Askaway!

powerandmagic:

Present-time is right around the corner! Get your loved ones some queer, witchy comics before the 20th for shipping in time for Christmas! https://powerandmagicpress.com/collections/all

powerandmagic:

Flawed softcovers of POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology are now on sale at 50% off their cover price (and on our brand new store, no less)!  https://powerandmagicpress.com/

I’m gonna be at the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival (in Canada) this weekend. Stop by to get yourself some queer witch comics or just to say hi! 

I’m also hosting a very special panel: We’re Here! Non-binary Creators & Publishers Talk Shop! The map above is to the panel and panelists alike!

Here’s the wallpaper illustration I made as an incentive for the POWER & MAGIC Kickstarter, featuring Didan and Jiji from “As the Roots Undo” (they’re not named in the comic, so there you go)!

“As the Roots Undo” is my contribution to the 2017 Prism Award-winning, Ignatz-nominated POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology.Here it is for all to read in full!

HEARTWOOD: Non-binary Tales of Sylvan Fantasy is the next P&M Press anthology headed to Kickstarter Fall 2018.

Across time and cultures, humanity has spun tales about the forest: tales of caution, adventure, rites of passage, and discovery. Some of those stories persist as the folklore and fairy tales that delight our imaginations today, and the forest remains a symbol for facing the unknownandemerging transformed.

This anthology is for everyone who’s walked through the undergrowth, in the silence of nature, and longed for an adventure of their own to unfold. These stories of modern-day sylvan fantasy will showcase the best non-binary cartoonists of our day, guiding characters like us into the woods and back again.

Announcing the Full List Contributors:

A.B.V.andOrion

Annabelle H.

Ashanti Fortson (Galanthus)

Brian Wolf(Hex Americana)

Chlove (Go Get A Roomie, Headless Bliss)

Cori Walters(Spectra)

Diigii Daguna(Adventure Time: Islands)

Emily MadlyandMaria Li

Ezra Rose andJey Barnes (Job Satisfaction)

Joamette Gil(Editor)

Juliette “Joules” G.M.M. Lopez

Mar Julia(The House On the Cliff)

Polly Guo(Houdini & Holmes)

Raven “raveyrai” White(cfbg tips)

Rhiannon R.S. andChan Chau

Rii Abrego(Steven Universe)

S.J. Miller (Gone Astray)

Shan Murphy

Sunmi

Sunny Ôchumuk andShaina LuwithVivian Ho

Ver

Xanthe Bouma (5 Worlds)

Z. Akhmetova(Gods Can’t Die)

Follow us here on Tumblr, on Twitter, and now on Facebook for updates and sneak peeks throughout the year; and join our email list to get first dibs on special deals from P&M Press!

powerandmagic:

Find me and 44 copies of POWER & MAGIC: The Queer Witch Comics AnthologyatSPX Table E9 (contrary to what it says on the website/print maps)! This weekend is a rare opportunity to get your copies signed by multiple contributors:Ann Xu, contributor to P&Mand Ignatz nominee in her own right, will be at Table J13. 

If you’ll be attending this weekend, don’t forget to vote for the Ignatz Awards! The nominees were chosen by a panel of industry judges, but the winner is chosen by attendees. Make your voices heard!

powerandmagic:

That’s a wrap, everyone! Thank you all so much for your preorders, signal boosts, press coverage, and general hype for P&M Press’ second title!

powerandmagic:

We’re so excited!!! Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics Anthology has been nominated for Best Anthology in the inauguralPrism Awards! All winners will be announced this this weekend at the Queer Comics Expo in San Francisco. Congratulations to all nominees, and that includes every single creator who made Power & Magic! <3

I’ll be at Toronto Comics Arts Festival this weekend! You can buy copies of Power & Magic: The Queer Witch Comics AnthologyatTable 244 on the second floor! I hope to meet some of you there! <3