Generation 2009 Cover Image

New 2009 issue will be available in the following conventions:

26/27 June – Supanova Sydney

25/26 July – AVCon

8/9 August – SMASH

21/23 August – Manifest

Sample Preview Pages:

Generation 2009 Preview Sample: Artist - Helen Li

Generation 2009 Page Sample Preview : Artist - Katie Huang

-Comic etc(Brisbane)
-Rocking Horse(Brisbane)
-Ace Comics(Brisbane)

To celebrate our fifth year, Generation has decided to print a FULL COLOUR EDITION. If you’re interested in joining us for 2008, you can submit in either one of the 3 following formats:

1. Colour Pin-Ups (with your bio)
Size:18.2 cmX 20cm. 300dpi
colour mode:CMYK
content: Any content that complies with our submission policy(i.e.PG rating content)

2. Colour Comics
size: B5 (18.2cmX25.7cm).300dpi
colour mode: CMYK
page limit: 1 – 10 pages

3. B/W Comics
size: B5 (18.2cmX25.7cm).300dpi
colour mode: Grayscale
page limit: 1 – 10 pages
* If we cannot print your workfor 2008 due to page limit issues – It’ll be published for 2009.

4. Cover
For Generation 2008 Colour Edition, we will invite Areku-demon to make our cover art (and it’ll be in B/W XD), so no cover entries will be accepted this year.

For details on submission policy, please refer to our Submissions page.

I just realised that, to Sell Generation 2008 on time for the first con in 2008, The deadline has to be in Feb 1.

However, Generation 2004-2007 will be available at the following conventions:

Brisbane
April 4-6 Supanova Brisbane – www.supanova.com.au
July 3-6 Gencon OZ www.genconoz.com

Sydney
Jun 20-22 Supanova Sydney www.supanova.com.au
Aug 2 SMASH – http://www.smash.org.au (New exclusive 2008 Issue!)

Melbourne
Manifest

Adeleide
AV-con (not confirmed)

Thanks to anyone who came to the seminar. There’ll be another one available at Newtown City Library on 15 April covering the following topics:

+Anime in Australia and Self-Publishing
+How to finish a page of comic
+How to draw a head
+Inking tips

For more information, please refer to the City of Sydney council website.

Starting from left are the cover page by Nadia Attlee,“Nina and Gina” by poshua, “Lamentations” bu Nadia Attlee, “Marrow” by Lorialet and “Ys9″ by Fiona Darwin and Althea Aseoche.

Generation 2007 has 54 pages in total, and are available online at $8 each at Minotaurs (Melbourne), and it’ll soon be available in Kings Comics (Sydney)

For online purchases please contact: poshua@gmail.com

The full comic entry for “Gina and Nina” can also be found here.

SMASH! the Sydney Manga and Anime Show, is a one day convention celebrating anime, manga and japanese pop culture. They’ve got all these cool prizes to give away too, so share your artistic creativity and passion and engage in a bit of competition love at SMASH!

There’ll be 4 different competitions, with prizes including Copic markers and one of several Wacom graphics tablets! Categories include Traditional Media, Digital Media, 4-Panel Comic and an on-the-day doodling competition. The deadline is August 18, so submit your artwork at the convention for the chance to win! And, you know, that warm fuzzy feeling you get when you enter competitions.

Theme conditions apply for some competition entries, so please visit http://www.smash.org.au for more details.

http://www.smash.org.au

There are still over 100 days left, that should be plenty for all of you

Page limit is 20 for this year, the rest are the same as previous years.