Lea Hernandez Grants For Femaleses

[Gail Simone]

WOMEN WEBCOMICKER GRANT NAN

PURPOSE
In order to foster women publishing independently, with economy, and as owners of what they create, I will award FOUR grants annually, of a year's free hosting at WebComicsNation.com, to women making a regularly-updating new or existing webcomic of any genre or style.
The recipients will have unlimited data storage and bandwidth, the ability to choose to support their work with ads, and a storefront for selling merchandise.

The name of the grant is "Nan", after the "digital person" Nan 11 from Rumble Girls: Silky Warrior Tansie. In RG, Nan agitates, comments on, and works behind the scenes to help the heroine, Raven, come to the understanding that being her own girl is the key to her strength.

I believe the Web already has what women wanting to make comics need, and that it has and continues to transform American comics from a work-for-hire Boy's Club to a stage for everyone to perform on and be seen. The Web is living up to its promise, and comics can, too.

DEADLINE
Submissions are now open. Deadline for submissions is FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2006, 6PM Central.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF GRANTS
NAN Grant recipients will be notified WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2006, via email. A press release will be sent out concurrently. (Because, dadgum, we all need good news by Wednesday.)

ELIGIBILITY
1. Persons applying MUST be female. You will have to provide me with a document such as a driver's license, birth certificate, military I.D., etc. stating you are female. In the case of team comics (no more than three persons on a team), the entire team MUST be female, and remain so for the period of the grant.
2. Applicants must be 18 years old.
3. The work submitted must be free of contractural obligation for web publication, must be the property of the applicant(s), must not infringe on other's rights, nor be libelous or slanderous.
4. I am kindly disposed towards manga and Oni-like comics, but good comics most of all.
5. Previous experience a plus, but not neccessary.
6. The NAN Grant is open to ALL female webcomickers, regardless of experience. This includes young, brand-new comickers, older brand-new comickers, experienced comickers now paying a success tax for bandwidth use, professionals from other fields. You have to either already be making a comic that needs hosting, or want to host a new one.
7. Applicant bears sole responsibility for following these guidelines. Failure to comply with items 1.-3. will result in revocation of awarded grant.

RIGHTS
1. Applicants retain ALL rights to their work. Submissions are the sole property of their creator(s), period.
2. Comics published with a NAN Grant that are later collected for print are requested to add "Originally published in (year) on Webcomicsnation.com, with the aid of Women Webcomicker Grant Nan" to their indicia.
3. I reserve the right to use applicant's names and representative art to publicize NAN without further compensation. (This means I will tell people who's applied, who's won, and point the inquiring to their work.)
4. NAN Grant recipients are encouraged to crow as soon as they recieve notification emails.

GUIDELINES
1. Ideally, BEFORE YOU SEND ME YOUR PROPOSAL, BUY or BORROW and READ "How To Write a Book Proposal" by Michael Larsen. (Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...710080-8024610)
While it is geared towards non-fiction proposals, it does teach everything you need to know about crafting a readable proposal.
What I do not want to see is your entire story written out in a single-spaced block in email. Have mercy.

2. Show me you already know how to put a comic/images online. I want to see clean presentation (which means learning how to use an image editing program to take out grays from scans), good lettering (many decent free fonts available at blambot.com, so there's no excuse for lettering in Times New Roman), and basic HTML (which will greatly enhance your experience in hosting with WebComicsNation.com).
Excellent proposals by Lynn Lau and Leigh Dragoon that won their creators contracts at GirlAMatic.com can be found here:
http://tentative.net/jupiter/
And here:
http://www.spidric.com/proposal/default.asp

3. Email me at nanoneone@gmail.com, subject line "NAN: (title)", otherwise my spam filters will eat it.
To this address, send me the URL of your submission, and attach a scan of a document that verifies your gender.
Don't tell me it isn't your best work. If it's not, why should I look at it?
If you do things like use "u" for "you", "4" for "four" and "LOL" for punctuation, don't when you write me. I expect to see a command of conventional English. Also, sell yourself without resorting to emoticons. They're for casual correspondence, which a proposal is not, at least not to me.

4. It's okay to be disappointed if I feel your comic isn't right for Nan Grant, because no one enjoys rejection. I regret I will be unable to provide detailed guidance or critiques of submitted material. I hope you will submit again.

5. I and grateful to you for submitting, no matter what my answer is.


--
Lea Hernandez
Atelier Original Keepsakes and Commemoratives
Creator: Rumble Girls (NBM/rumblegirls.com)
Texas Steampunk I, II III (Cyberosia/GirlAMatic.com)
Author: Manga Secrets, Impact Books

[Ell Aich]

Thanks for posting this, Gail.

[stealthwise]

Can I do this if I wear a dress? Er, not that I own a stunning purple one that goes with my shoes.



The heels, that is.

[Sabrinaset]

Lea Hernandez Grants For Femaleses

What are Femaleses? Are they like Lebians?

[Magneto_X]

This is great news.

The industry needs to all the help it can get to encourage women and girls to partipate in it.

[The Xenos]

I too would pull a Klinger to get into this. Very neat.

[Cam63]

Originally Posted by Sabrinaset

What are Femaleses? Are they like Lebians?

Similar, but they can't belch the alphabet nearly as well.

[sk716]

Originally Posted by Sabrinaset

What are Femaleses? Are they like Lebians?

Yes, and they taste better than scientologists.

[Karl J. Barnes]

Originally Posted by stealthwise

Can I do this if I wear a dress? Er, not that I own a stunning purple one that goes with my shoes.



The heels, that is.

Oh don't be so coy. You look GREAT in it and with your hair up...JUST STUNNING!

[Karl J. Barnes]

Originally Posted by sk716

Yes, and they taste better than scientologists.

But not as good as babies, right?

[sk716]

Originally Posted by priestvyrce

But not as good as babies, right?

My reply would be so dirty SuperSonic would explode. And Sabrinaset would giggle for an hour.

[Sabrinaset]

Originally Posted by sk716

My reply would be so dirty SuperSonic would explode. And Sabrinaset would giggle for an hour.

...and what's wrong with THAT? :evilsmile

[Super Sonic]

..what happened? Who said what?

<.<


>.>

[Michael P]

The following spoiler text contains me being an inveterate asshole, for those who want to read it:

spoilers:

Does the winner have to make a minimum number of message board/blog posts per year complaining about how she wants nothing more to do with mainstream comics because they're so horribly sexist and hateful towards women creators, and/or how the women who have succeeded in mainstream comics are Aunt Toms filling up token spots that she deserves far more?

end of spoilers

Turning the asshole switch off, this is a great idea, and I applaud Lea for putting it into action.

[sk716]

Originally Posted by Sabrinaset

...and what's wrong with THAT? :evilsmile

Are you gonna clean up the mess Sonic makes when I manage to use the words:

Eat
Lebian
Taste
Beaver

and

Baby

All in the same sentence?