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A friendly group of international artists accepting anyone who creates, writes, illustrates or markets their own titles. Titles can be webcomics, self-published print editions, graphic novels and comics.
Group
Founded 1 Year ago
Nov 16, 2011

Location
Global

Group Focus
Art Creation

532 Members
558 Watchers
10,515 Pageviews
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Accepting New Members/Rules

Welcome New Members:
This new Deviant Art group is seeking artists and submissions from folks who self-publish comics, web comics, graphic novels, manga, comic related posters and custom merchandise.

All levels from Newbies to Masters are completely acceptable. Welcome and please read the rules below or read the complete Guidelines for more information.

Basic Guidelines for Entries/Members:
1. We are an indie group for original titles and not a Marvel/DC fan comic or character group. No Spider-Man, Hulk or Superman fan art will be accepted.

2. Nudity, as in the artistic sense, is acceptable. Depiction of the human form is great - fat, skinny, sexy, etc. Pornography or hentai, as in explicit sexual imagery, intercourse and genital contact are not acceptable. This includes written or text file pornography as well. Also, no dongs.

3. A maximum of seven (7) entries a week are allowed from any member, or contributor, to Indie Graphic Novels.

4. No photographic work (portraits, photo-manipulations). unless it is of artist merchandise, will be accepted.

5. No icons will be approved for gallery folders.

6. "Trolling" aka the unwarranted harassment of members, guests or users will not be tolerated.

7. Violations of these simple rules will result in one (1) warning followed by a compulsory expulsion from this dA group.

8. Any member, or contributor, that commits a severe violation of one (1) of these rules such as posting multiple amounts of pornography or venomously disrespecting a member or user will face a mandatory expulsion. No exceptions. Violating Rule 8 also means being reported to Deviant Art and potential account termination.

9. No re-posting of any other artists original work unless you are or were on the art or writing team that generated the page or image. Theft or impersonation will be reported. Violating Rule 9 also means being reported to Deviant Art and potential account termination.

The complete Guidelines explain group submission criteria in greater depth.

Deviants

Holiday Wars by Michael Odom, Arturo Said and Giuseppe Pica. Written and created by Scott King.

May is here at Indie Graphic Novels and we are very happy to report that this group is going strong! To add to this good news, overall comic sales in America and Canada have risen to levels unseen since 1994.

This rise in sales, after a 10 year industry wide slump for comics, is truly unprecedented. This news is reported by Comic Book Daily and Comic Chron. Each source uses book sales reporting numbers directly from Diamond Distributors.

This an excellent time to be publishing indie titles in order to add to the growing number of comics and graphic novels being distributed and sold on a national level. There is clearly plenty of room for new artists and stories as evidenced by sales alone.

Welcome New Members
Welcome to MDiPascale, AlexLandish, HippyGirl5, SympatichnaCzarina, PlanetKhaos, Dream-Engineer, CarpeDiemCarousel, DougGarbark, VincentDorian, TARDISgirl908, RaindeerFalcon, andreadotta, GuntherGoltz, gustav-plume, cyomAn, Obman-Veschestv, Earthsoul22, Last-Kiss-of-Damaris, magdielshiranui, Reality-or-nothing, cjjoughin, zarran67, Teagle, Supa-Syrex, senilephilosopher, daaku-no-tenshi, Carisna, anghorkheng, GhostPockets, JigsawPuzzleTree, vocher, malara-art, dbmichel, Kebiru, icadraws, Ealaincraft, Josh-Iapetus, ashbox75, FrontierEnforcer12, inisipis, JamalIgle, RickBrowder, Rothmansmoker, Zakosauris, towbson and Rivenis.

New Indie Comic And Book News
This month we are featuring Holiday Wars. This title features the art by member Swimming Bird aka Michael Odom with inks from Arturo Said, colors from Giuseppe Pica and written and created by Scott King.

Holiday Wars, the art for which makes up the header of this month's newsletter, follows a group of people who learn about a war on humanity conducted by magical and mystic beings which are led by a mysterious villain. These people run into the physical embodiments of our traditional holidays including a surly Sasquatch who does enjoy his booze - which I believe is the personification of any quality Drunksgiving holiday.

The book is in two volumes, has enjoyed success on Kickstarter and Amazon and is available on Comixology in digital formats.

New Affiliates
We are very proud to announce that Indie Graphic Novels has 45 affiliate groups to date. Members of our affiliates may enter their work to our galleries as associate members of this group!

Our newest affiliate group is Pulp Hero a group dedicated to classic pulp novels and illustration in the tradition of pre-comic code books like The Shadow, Zorro and Conan.

Artists and Writer Interviews
Do you have a book that you have or would to have like published? Are you a part of a creative team that’s planning a print run? Are you the compulsively creative publisher at your own comic company? Have you launched a title that you’d like to share with fellow artists and writers? Well, Indie Graphic Novels wants to help you promote your titles.

Contact Indie Graphic Novels Moderator Paul Schmitt for more information.

Comic Conventions
C2E2 was in Chicago, IL. last month and Indie Graphic Novels members Little Guardians attended this huge event and survived the savage experience along with many incredible artists and illustrators.

Speaking of savage experiences - do you have comic con horror stories of your own? We would like to hear 'em.
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Newest Members

Affiliates

Friends, colleagues and our fellow artists in comics and art.
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~Scarecrow76 Jun 8, 2013  New member
Hey guys and girls. Im new to this site. Im starting work on a graphic novel. But Im planning to do it in cgi medium. I know, I know, most cgi comics are done in poser and it looks horrible. I don't use poser. And I plan on doing post work in photoshop. Ive painted over 3d art before and it gives it a nice painted look but still has the lighting and textured look that cgi allows. Also this gives me the chance to paint in any objects in my scene and with having to make 3d models of everything. I was wondering where i can show updates of the novel while also promoting it?
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*Gargantuan-Media Jun 9, 2013  Professional Filmographer
Good that you're making an honest appraisal of 3d comics. Their technical failures could serve as lessons to the right artist. Submit some pages and we'll go from there.
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~SurrealGrotesque77 May 9, 2013  Student Artist
I am looking to collaborate with someone on a comic book who has an art style similar to John Cassady, kind of a surreal and unusual visual but detailed. I have a story concept and idea, I just need a dedicated artist who could produce a promo issue so we could try to kickstarter it and get it published or publish it underground. I also run, Surreal Grotesque magazine (www.surrealgrotesque.com). If you are looking for a challenge and your art style is more surrealistic than superhero, hit me up so we could collaborate. I don't want to give away the idea for the comic but I will say it is based on Evolution and the ideas of Charles Darwin and also time travel.
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*caananwhite May 5, 2013  Professional Artist
Thanx for the invite to this gallery! lets give Indie artists a voice!! :D Good Stuff!!
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*AHochrein2010 Mar 2, 2013  Professional General Artist
Thank you for adding my work to your gallery!
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