Do you dazzle with drawing?  Worship writing? Cherish coloring? Love to letter?  Well, Saint James would love to see what you can do.  Below you’ll find all the nitty-gritty of what we’re looking for and how we’re looking to get it, and if you’re still not clear, send an email to saintjamesco@gmail.com and we’ll try to get back to you as soon as possible.

Seriously, make sure you read through everything below first.  We spent a lot of hard work on these here guidelines, and we’d hate to be brushed aside.

Submissions Policy

Below we’ll tell you exactly what we’re looking for, specifically, including formats, sizes, etc.  Once everything is good to go on your end, email what you want us to see, and we’ll try our best to get back to you.  Because of the amount of submissions we receive, if we don’t get back to you within two weeks, we probably won’t.  It’s a cold, harsh world, and, well…that’s just the way it is.

Submissions Agreement

We here at Saint James, being artists ourselves, absolutely respect talent of all kinds, whether you draw or write, or want to do nothing but pin-ups and covers.  In order to protect us, though, it’s important we have all interested parties download, sign, and return this agreement with your submission(s).  It may sound tiresome, but we’ll need a new agreement with every new piece of work (whether it’s a script, art, etc.) to, you know…cover our butts.  Trust me, if you were in our shoes, you’d do the same.

Download Submissions Agreement

Guidelines

For writers
We prefer a script in MS Word or PDF format.  Make sure you send us a clean script without typos (please, no typos!) that truly articulates the story you’re trying to tell.  We understand there are different ways/formats in which people write and get the stories onto the paper, and we’re cool with that, but having unnecessary length or description or, well, anything unnecessary is just no good.  You’re writing a comic, not a novel!  Just tell us a story and make it good.
If you plan on submitting a written proposal to Saint James, please make sure the following is included:

1. SUBMISSION AGREEMENT
Remember?  It’s right there,
2. COMPLETE SYNOPSIS
Make sure you tell us the whole story…every single part.  We’re not watching a trailer to a film here, and we don’t want to be left totally confused, so make sure you include the beginning, middle, and end.  Spoil it for us, okay?!  If you have an idea for a short work, like a one-shot or limited series, the synopsis shouldn’t be more than a page.  If you’re proposing a longer series, something you see going on for a long time, submit a proposal between three and fives pages.  The synopsis is an important way to pique our interest before we read your script, so if you don’t sell it here, we may not even get to script.  Eek!
3. FULL SCRIPT
Duh!  This is all the hard work is, right?  Don’t send us more than the first issue, whether it be a limited series, one-shot, or super long-running title – we’ll have your detailed synopsis to guide us, and if we really like it, we’ll contact you and you can fill in the rest.   Capiche?  If you’re sending us the script to a completed work, something that’s already been drawn and illustrated and printed, and you’d like to have our nifty little Saint James logo put on it, you can send the final comic for us to look over.  Note: We do not accept hardcopy submissions.  Only submit via email.

For Artists
Ideally, we’d prefer to have links to your online portfolio, but if you don’t have one, send us JPGs around 800 pix wide at 72dpi.  Sure, we can probably look at other formats, but we want to make this as easy as possible, you know?  Now read the fine print below!

Sequential art – Okay, so a picture’s worth a thousand words, right? So make this count, folks!  Send us your very best work (no more than five story pages), and remember: we don’t want any less! We want to see, more than anything, that you can tell a story using sequential art.  You could be the greatest artist whoever lived that can, with great accuracy, draw anything you lay eyes on, but this is the comic biz!  It’s all about the sequential art, so make sure you mix it up a bit and show us your range.  We want to see some quiet shots, some action shots, some…in-between shots.  We want to know that you understand angles and postures, the way a human body bends (or any body!).  Everything! Got it?

Covers/pin-ups – Well, this is pretty self-explanatory.  Send us your best work, and it should be pretty easy to see what you’re made of.  Woo!

Colors/letters – Same as above.  Send us over the best samples you have, we’ll check it out, and, if it’s what we’re looking for, we’ll get back to you.  Cool?

How/Where to Send

Seeing as it’s the Age of the Internet, we insist on having you deliver your submissions via email to saintjamesco@gmail.com (don’t forget the Submissions Agreement!), because, you know, we work with people all over the world and the logistics of waiting for mail to arrive and to respond to said mail becomes, well…just bothersome.  We’re impatient folks, okay?

Again, please remember that we won’t be able to respond to every submission.  We’d love to, but we just can’t.  Our dance-card is all full, afraid to say.  We wish you the best of luck if you don’t hear back from us, and we hope you enjoy the stories we’re putting out.

Good luck!