10th Anniversery Edition of the Zine, And we need all of you memebers to help!

Greetings good members of Anime Angels! I am sure you all have experienced the wonderful services of this site and have enjoy it. I know I sure have. We are coming up on our 10th anniversary and we are reviving our magazine for the special occasion.

I know we have some great God-given talent within our members here so as the announcer of the mangazine team, I would like to ask you to help us make this a very special edition.

We are accepting all types whether it be mangas, or stories, or anime/manga reviews, or articles of interest. We would like anything and everything. Even drawings! We will be having an artist gallery section to display the wonderful work of our artists here that do not have a manga. So send us what you have!

Deadline is October 10th.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask here or email either me at:

ekormekolindo@yahoo.com

Or the assistant editor, anime4christ:

anime4christ@gmail.com

Also, when submitting something, I would appreciate it if you could send two copies of the email; one to anime4christ and one to me. Thank you!

~ Eko

What are the preferred sizes and file formats for submissions?

I will help any way I can! ^^

This post has been edited by water_wolf_angel on Aug 15 2009, 11:46 PM

Darkerpaths,

For sizes, I would prefer to keep the stories to an 8 page max. Manga chapters to 12 pages. Articles: 6 pages. Art: As big as you can give me and as high of a resolution as I can get.

I can handle just about any format. Send it in whatever format you have it in and I can convert it myself if I need to. If I have any problems I would then request a specific type but it shouldn't be a problem.

uhm... I'll help if I can...

wow that's vague...

any size or shape of paper is acceptable for the manga? any orientation?

any font for articles, any line spacing or font size?

wow that's vague...

any size or shape of paper is acceptable for the manga? any orientation?

any font for articles, any line spacing or font size?

darkerpaths, when I did the mangazine it really was easy to convert almost any size. But then again, we are all amatuers at creating a zine. Do you have any suggestions for a standard size (maybe based off of one of our mangazines you've reviewed)? I'm sure eko would appreciate it

wow that's vague...

any size or shape of paper is acceptable for the manga? any orientation?

any font for articles, any line spacing or font size?

So far we have published the zine in letter size, portrait orientation, so I would imagine that is the preferred paper size and orientation. As for fonts, spacing, etc. on articles: I don't think it matters since we would make all the articles have the same font settings for most of the text so the zone would be consistent.

For articles, I would set a specific font size, that allows for the 6 pages of text to fit into the text areas you set inside the 'zine, unless you're just printing them like school essays. I would say that you should have them use the font and size you intend to use in the magazine, or a close approximate font. If you go this way you might want to specify double or single spaced, since there would be a large difference in the amount of content between a single spaced and a 1.5, double or triple spaced 6 page article.

Another way would be to set 6 pages of filler text in the page you plan to use in the font and size you plan to use and then round it down slightly and give out a word limit rather than a page count.

As for manga... other than the bleeds, you have everything covered with your second post.

This post has been edited by darkerpaths on Aug 22 2009, 07:26 AM

Oh, I see what you mean. I didn't understand your purpose correctly the first time. My apologies. I'll leave that for eko to answer then.