Anime / Manga style Artist Wanted!

Are you the artist we're looking for?

If you've been reading this blog for awhile you'll already know I'm Kristine Pratt and I'm one of the partners over at Written World Communications, a fairly new company. While for the moment we're offering author services and website solutions, in the next two years we're expanding into the publishing industry through the creation of five new magazines. The first of which we'd like to release this fall.

Where do you come in? Well the first magazine is called "Gambatte!" and is a mag written for anime / manga fans BY anime / manga fans. For this magazine we need a website so we can launch properly and get started taking submissions. For this website and for the first advertising we would like some original artwork. We're looking for a fresh new character that captures the spirit of Gambatte that can be used (perhaps in different poses) for the website, business cards, brochures, and advertising copy.

Because we're a new magazine and have no idea what to expect at this point for sales we really have a small budget for art. But in addition to your pay you can expect to be featured prominently in our first issue as an original artist with a chance to showcase your work. We're also willing to work a deal that would involve free advertising if you so choose for your freelancing.

To give you a feel for the magazine, this is an idea of what we're about.

Gambatte! will feature more than just your usual reviews. We're looking for fans who want to show their love for anime / manga. We want to see fanfiction and fan art. We want to teach about Japanese culture in a fun and interesting ways. We want to talk cosplay, showcasing not just the costumes but giving some how to tips. We want to see original work done in the style of anime / manga. We foresee this being 90% freelance written with the other 10% being regular columnists.

Gambatte! is a mag that you'll be able to read online, that you can download and read at your convenience, and will also be available in print edition for an extra charge. Right now we're looking at publishing 4 times a year with the first issue being available in October of 2009.

If you're interested in working with us, then we'd like to see your work. Send us either some samples of work in attachment to this email or provide URLs so that we can check this out online. Please let us know what you would charge for an original image in three different poses. We're open to all media types so give us some ideas what you would charge for black and white and color images. We'd like to hear by June 21, 2009.

Also, if you're interested in writing for us, do let us know. We don't have formal submission guidelines just yet but we're really interested in hearing your ideas.

Any questions, please ask. You can reach me at kristinepratt at gmail dot com. We can't wait to hear from you!