Hallowscream 2020

[endo]

So, every year at Halloween I download this free .pdf comic called Hallowscream put together by a site called Back from the Depths and containing both story and art submissions from all over the place.

Every year I forget to post about it until it's too late to get submissions in, so I figured this year, if anyone was interested in submitting either a story or art, I'd post it in time for someone to send something in if they want to.

They don't pay you for your story or art, but you will retain copyright on any original material you send in. It's read by a lot of people every year so it would be a cool way to get your work out there.

Here's some info for anyone that might be interested.

"It’s the time of the year when we at Back From The Depths are once again looking for contributors for our freaky free annual pdf horror comic, HALLOWSCREAM, but, (just in case you haven’t being paying attention), the planet’s gone a bit mental this year and we’re going to have to add an additional stipulation.

Here are the submission guidelines…

Submissions should be horror orientated and must be weird or spooky to make the final cut.

We are mainly looking for completed comic strips between 1-7 pages in length. Anything already completed is far more likely to make it into the comic.

Script submissions should also preferably be around 1-7 pages in length.

Eerie illustrations and artwork along with interesting horror/comic articles, scary short stories, petrifying poems or anything just plain creepy will also be considered.

To get an idea of the sort of stuff we’re after, you can download previous issues of Hallowscream here.

Now here comes that additional stipulation…

IMPORTANT : No stories about global pandemics, please! Stories containing the living dead are allowed, but the E.C. comics-style vengeful revenants are preferable to the contagion-spreading George Romero types. The last thing we need right now is a comic full of nothing but tales of how difficult it is to find toilet paper during a zombie apocalypse, (don’t pretend you didn’t think about it). First and foremost we’re producers of escapism (quite icky, gruesome horrible escapism at times, but escapism nonetheless), and we feel it’s a good idea to lay off certain storylines at least until such time as current events have settled down a bit. I’m sure you’ll understand where we’re coming from.

If you’re looking to illustrate something, get in contact and we’ll give you details of available scripts to see if anything suits your fancy.

We’ll also consider material previously published elsewhere, as long as the contributors own the copyright.

Completed artwork can be either colour or black and white, and should preferably be A4 (21cm x 29.7cm) 300 dpi jpeg or png.

Submissions can be sent to [e-mail] or [e-mail]

As this is a non-profit, small press publication, contributors will not be paid but they will retain copyright on any material submitted."

www.backfromthedepths.co.uk/thetheatreofterror/

Anyway, it's become kind of a tradition for me to download the latest issue when it releases every Halloween night, and I figured I'd put it out there. If nothing else you can download it and check it out this Halloween.

[NDX]

I honestly first read that as Hallowcream an was wondering when we started promoting horror porn.

[endo]

Lol. No, nothing like that. Didn't know if maybe you or Macready or even Smeets, if he ever comes back, would be interested.
Like I said, if nothing else, it's a new comic to read. A lot of the stories and art are...not great. But some are really good.