April Fool's Day, 2006
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Information for event hosts sites
  • Hosting an event is open to any comics retailer (physical stores specializing in comics material or with a Diamond Comics Distributor account) in the U.S. and Canada. For practical and logistical reasons, we cannot involve stores from other countries this year.
  • The price to participate is $150 US. This covers as many teams as you want participating at one physical location. The physical location does not need to be the store itself if you need room elsewhere, but all of a site's participants must do their work in a single building. (The money, once paid, is non-refundable.)
  • For your $150, you get:
    • Two copies of a one-color promo poster before the event. We will start sending this out in January at the latest.
    • At least $195 (cover price) worth of the winners book upon publication
    • Your location and contact information (including a graphic logo within reasonable size limits) posted on this website
    • Additionally, if your check arrives by February 1st, you will receive 6 JAM WAR t-shirts in your selection of sizes (S-XL, or replace 3 shirts with 2 shirts XXL-XXXL). What you do with these shirts is up to you. You can put them on your store workers to promote the event, you can give them to your participants, you can feed them to your goat.
  • The event location needs to have some sort of internet access. This will be used to access the website at the start of the event, to view the details of the story. It will also be used at the end of the event to email pictures of the finished work, so you will need a scanner as well, and a digital camera may be handy. (CLARIFICATION ADDED JANUARY 28th, adjusted MARCH 12: You will need to upload either low-res scans or high-res photos of the finished stories within a few minutes of the end of the event - they need to be clear enough that we could see if additional work was done later. You will also need to supply either very clean photocopies or high-res scans, burned onto CD and postmarked on April 3rd and arriving by April 6th or uploaded on April 2nd. That way, you don't have to do the scanning in store at the end of the long day.)
  • Event hosts will also be in charge of watching out for cheating (basically, the use of pre-drawn materials) at their event location.

Questions? Email

Retailer sign-up form

: name
: email
: store name
: street
: city : state/province : zip/postal code
: phone
: website

I understand that About Comics is just providing promotion and judging for this event, and that they are not responsible for running the event at my location or seeing to the safety of participants at my location. APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED UNLESS THIS BOX IS CHECKED.

T-shirts ($48 worth included in the intial fee if your check arrives by February 1st, so be sure to order at least that much. We may not be able to provide even separately paid-for shirts for checks that arrive later.)

small ($8)
medium ($8)
large ($8)		 XL ($8)
XXL ($12)
XXXL ($12)
Payment information and Paypal link appear on the page following the sending of the form.
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