CARTOONS AND ART
WHAT WILL BANG PRINT?
Any kind of style...American or manga, black-and-white or color, detailed or sloppy (not TOO sloppy). Whatever you're comfortable with. What matters isn't the form, but the skill. We will print what impresses us the most, and is SFW (safe for work). Remember that though BANG isn't a kids' paper, it IS being sent to a lot of places where children are present. Censor yourself, or we will do it for you, and you won't like it.

WHAT SIZE SHOULD MY ARTWORK BE?
If you're experienced at all with digital art, you know the widely adopted standard for resolution in print is 300 DPI. However, when you send us something for consideration, we would prefer it NOT to be the huge print size...at least not yet. Large images are more of a pain to deal with when your job is looking at as many of them as possible. If we like what you offer and buy it, we will be sure to let you know, and THEN you should have the high-res version ready for BANG.

WHAT DIMENSIONS SHOULD MY ARTWORK BE?
We'll print any dimensions, but vertically-oriented or square cartoons will be easier to fit into our format than horizontally-oriented ones.

WHAT WILL BANG NOT PRINT?

WE'RE NOT CURRENTLY INTERESTED IN PICKING UP REGULAR STRIPS
What we mean here is, slots in each issue are judged on merit, not handed out with contracts. If you want to be in more than one issue of BANG, you must prove yourself worthy each time -- no free rides. It is okay to submit the same strip for each issue, but you may not always make it in; no guarantees. You can't just sign on for 20 years and half-ass every other strip to allow time for your golf. That's how the newspaper comics rotted. Never again!

ANYTHING REALLY LONG
We don't anticipate this being a problem that often, as we'll allow MUCH more space for the creative artist to strut than a newspaper does. But the more pages your submission takes up, the less likely it is we'll print it. A fourteen-page comic will have a harder time making it to the finish than a six-pager, for example. In the future, if the paper gets a better schedule, this could change (so tell your friends about BANG!) but as long as we're a quarterly publication, this is the way things will have to be.

THE KIND OF THING THAT SELLS IN A REGULAR COMIC BOOK SHOP
Grim, gory, dark, confusing material with off-model "realistic" humans in strange outfits......just....no. We have taste around here.

OFFENSIVE MATERIAL
Excessively offensive material will probably be rejected no matter how brilliant or funny it is. That's print for you.

BANG DOESN'T HATE
We will not accept any material meant to stereotype or slander any race or group that exists. We hate stereotypes -- it'll be a big mark against you if you send us something with one. Basically, use this criteria: if it's something they would do on an episode of Family Guy made after 2005, it's not a good idea.


SHORT STORIES
WHAT WILL BANG PRINT?
If you know how to tell a story, it should be no problem. We'll print any genre....fiction, nonfiction, historical fiction, sci-fi, fantasy.....anything, as long as it's well-written and entertaining.

CAN I ADD AN ILLUSTRATION OR TWO?
We'd appreciate it, but we don't have the budget for it right now...it'd be on your own dime.

DO YOU PRINT MULTI-PARTERS?
Currently, no. Our quarterly schedule would make to-be-continueds hard to follow. If BANG ever becomes successful to shift to a shorter schedule, then we'll start allowing longer stories. But for now, keep them short.

IF I WROTE A MULTI-PARTER, SUBMITTED ONLY THE FIRST CHAPTER, AND THEN PUT A WEB ADDRESS AT THE END DIRECTING TO THE REST OF IT, WOULD THAT BE OKAY?
Would it be okay if you picked up a book and it ended in the middle, and you were expected to find the rest on the Web? That kind of gimmick is not reader-friendly.

WHAT WILL BANG NOT PRINT?

CONFUSING MYTHOLOGIES
Storylines that are bogged down with thousands of little details about the inner workings of a fanciful world. Anything that you can't possibly understand if you didn't start from the beginning. This publication is young and many people who pick it up will be reading it for the first time. They need to understand the concept behind your creation as quickly as possible. When we're more established, maybe we can take more chances with more elaborate narratives, but until then, remember the acronym K.I.S.S.

OFFENSIVE MATERIAL
Excessively offensive material will probably be rejected no matter how brilliant or funny it is. That's print for you.

BANG DOESN'T HATE
We will not accept any material meant to stereotype or slander any race or group that exists. We hate stereotypes -- it'll be a big mark against you if you send us something with one. Basically, use this criteria: if it's something they would do on an episode of Family Guy made after 2005, it's not a good idea.