The deadline for submissions for the Hic & Hoc unsolved mysteries anthology, edited by Yours Truly, is coming up fast – September 15th!! As you’ll recall, we’re looking for short comics (2-10 pages) of nonfiction mystery stories. That means anything from cold case murders and disappearances, to the bizarre phenomena science can’t explain. There’s only a couple weeks left to start on something, but it’s not too late!
Followers of this blog know that I’ve been traveling all over the place for the past few weeks, ending with an epic cross-country road trip to my brand new home in Portland, OR, so I haven’t been the best at responding to emails as of late. I assure you, however, that I have internet more readily available now (thanks, local coffee shops and bars!) and can respond to all inquiries in a timely manner. Please do not hesitate to email me with submissions, questions about submissions, general comments, and whathaveyou.
If you would like to begin work on a new story, please email me to let me know what subject matter you’ve chosen, and refer to this list of stories people have already proposed to prevent overlap:
The Axe Man of New Orleans
The Dyatlov Pass Incident
The Marfa Mystery Lights
Deuteronomy 21: Atonement for an Unsolved Murder
The Lead Masks Case
The Barton Murder of Hamilton, Ontario
Spontaneous Human Combustion
The death of Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
The possible murder of Dmitri Ivanovich
Washington Irving and the real Sleepy Hollow
The disappearance of Barbara Newhall Follett
The Nain Rouge
Bella in the Wych Elm
The disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
The Oak Island Treasure Pit
The death of William Desmond Taylor
The disappearance of Gordon Page Jr.
The Leatherman
The Mary Celeste
Gil Perez’s journey from Manila to Mexico City
The murder of the Grimes sisters
John Edward Mack’s alien abduction research
The Hinterkaifeck murders
The Kentucky Meat Shower
Jerome of Nova Scotia
The Taos Hum
The Salish Sea human foot discoveries
Polybius
The Lindbergh Baby
The Devil’s Footprints
The Voynich Manuscript
The Bloop
L’inconnue de la Seine
The disappearance of Ambrose Bierce
Mysterious gelatinous blobs in Washington
The murder or disappearance of Anastasia Nikolaevna
The Monster with 21 Faces
Old Green eyes
The Zodiac murders
The disappearance of Frederick Valentich
The Overtoun Bridge mystery
The Cleveland Torso Murders
Here are our submission guidelines:
* Printing will be done at 6″x9″ (please add 1/8″ for bleeds)
* Black and White
* Please send 300dpi JPEGs
* Stories between 2-10 pages
* Must be nonfiction (and mysterious!)
* Submission Deadline: September 15th, 2012