Now Accepting Submmissions for First Issue--Superheroes

We are kicking off our quarterly publication Black Cross. The theme for the first issue is superhero fiction and is called "Heroes Wanted." We are looking for short stories, illustrations, short comics...If it's about superheroes, we want to look at it. Maybe you want to write a newspaper article about a superhero. Go for it. Have a one-page comic story you've written and drawn? Send it in. Did you make a cooking recipe as done by a superhero? That's weird, but I really want to read it. A comic book script will be a hard sell to us, because we don't have the resources to have an artist devote his time to it, but we may consider it for publication in the form of a script if it stands out.

The collection will be in black and white, so please, no color work. Also, no copyrighted characters. If you've got a great story about a certain man from outer space who was raised by humans to be our greatest protector, I'm sure it's awesome, but don't send it to us. Likewise, no art of copyrighted characters.

We are looking for 5-10 written pieces for this collection. We have a certain length in mind for the publication, and we will use as many pieces as we need to to fill it. Maybe it's one awesome novella, or fifteen great short short stories. Whatever it takes. Illustrations will generally be single-pages, and we can fit a good number of them in here.

This is a small press, so you're obviously not interested in pay, but just in case that is your motivation, here is how it works. For writing over 2500 words, we will pay $3 and a copy of the completed magazine. For written pieces less than 2500 words, we will send you a copy of the magazine. We will pay $5 for a page of illustration, along with a contributor's copy. If you are submitting a multi-page comic story with art, we will negotiate a rate with you.

We will print these and have them ready for sale at the ASH comic show in Indianapolis on December 30. Our deadline for submission is November 15. Please submit .rtf files to blackcrosspub at gmail.com. Art may submitted as tiffs, jpegs, or pdfs.