Hello! If you would like portfolio advice, please send an inquiry to our Email with specific questions and areas in which you would like to improve and we will do our best to respond with constructive feedback. Just due to the sheer number of messages we're dealing with right now we unfortunately can't truly guarantee a response (or at least a full one), but we'll do our best to help you with your questions as we do believe in the power of feedback. Thank you so much for your support of our project and we wish you the best with your future work!

Hello! We have about half of our Emails left to send, not sorted by acceptance or rejection, just numbers. We've been wrestling with Gmail and simply need to spread things out. There's also a chance that your Email could have ended up in your spam. If you're still waiting for an Email after we post about having sent them all out then please message us directly.

We plan for application results will be sent out sometime tonight. At the latest, they will be sent tomorrow morning.

Hi! We've gotten this request a number of times and we'd rather not share exact numbers. However, we totally understand your curiosity so we'll at least share that we received the most page applications, followed by merch applications, followed by writers. We hope that all of you feel proud of your hard work, as every single applicant deserves praise!

Hello! Time at which you applied will not affect your candidacy, as we wanted to make sure all applicants had an equal chance. Final evaluations will only be made now that applications are closed. Thanks for applying!

Hello! Yes, once the project is nearing its end we will announce to contributors when all rights return to them, after which they may post, produce, and sell their art however they'd like. Merch artists may have to wait until leftovers sales end so that we can make sure to clear out our stock, but after that are welcome to produce merch from their designs themselves.

Hello! We typically operate in EST, but we do want to give everyone their best chance to apply, so at very earliest we will close applications at midnight CST on the 12th. Depending on our moderator team’s schedules, we may be able to wait until midnight PST, but if you want to guarantee you won’t be late then send yours in by midnight CST. We’ve also had some questions misunderstanding that we’ll close tonight, on the morning of the 12th—we’ll close at night on the 12th so you’ll have the full day.

Hello! We do generally recommend only applying to both positions if you are willing to take on the workload of both, but you can leave a note at the end of your applications specifying that you'd strongly prefer to only be given one. Truthfully, it is very unlikely that you will be chosen for both regardless, as, if we do take on any contributors for both roles, they would be extremely few as we want to maximize space for more artists.

Hi! Information like this can be found on our Carrd under FAQ! This zine will be for charity, with all profit at the end of the project going toward a reputable charity combatting food insecurity (the exact charity has not yet been selected). Contributors are guaranteed a digital copy of the zine and, if sales allow, we aim to compensate contributors with a full bundle (zine and merch) free of charge. In the event that we do not meet that goal, contributors will be able to purchase items at production price, highly discounted from the sales price.

Hello! All contributors, regardless of whether they will be contributing the the 18+ side zine, will be able to opt in or out of viewing the 18+ servers of the Discord channel as well as receiving a copy of the digital side zine once complete. All contributors are guaranteed a (digital) copy if they would like it!

All applicants will be informed of their application results at the same time after applications end--we will not be making final application decisions until we have all applications. We hope to send out all results on the 17th (five days after applications close), though we may need a few extra days due to the high volume.

If there is sufficient interest in working in comic teams, we will make the teams based on shared interests and provide a private channel for the team (writer, liner, and colorist) to discuss throughout the process. This way the artists will be involved for the writing process and the writer will be present for the illustration process, both able to give feedback throughout. Comic teams would formulate their pitches as a group. However, if there is not sufficient interest in these roles, we will have some artists writing and illustrating comics on their own.

Hello! As we've answered before, applicants' personal preferences or posting content outside of the zine is something we will not be considering. No applicant will be disqualified for content on their social media excepting hate speech, serious harassment, bigoted behavior, or other behavior which violates our guidelines. Applicants will be evaluated by the quality of their submitted pieces. All other information will remain your business. That being said, discussion of "dead dove" content will not be permitted in the server and all content submitted to the zine must follow our content guidelines.

Yes, our public reminder of our zero tolerance policy was in response to an application we received which included AI works. However, to protect the safety and privacy of all of our applicants we will not be sharing any names or account information regardless of circumstances. We hope you understand. We agree that it is a shame that AI has begun attempting to invade a space crafted by creators for creators and hope that this pattern does not continue. Meanwhile, we encourage you to be vigilant but generous in your support of creators. There are still so many incredibly talented and hard-working artists to follow and support.