Business
What sort of Company Are we?
Psycho Bunny Studios is an independent publishing company, which is looking toward helping artistic youths and adults find their way into the publishing world based on skill and not whom they know or how much the company can make off of them.
Psycho Bunny Studios started originally back in 2000 as a project between a few friends to publish our works under an anthology called “Wakarimasen” (Japanese for “I don’t understand/ I don’t know/ understanding has not taken place”) As the years passed this circle grew smaller as life came in and sucked artists and writers away, causing those who stayed to re-evaluate everything they did. In 2003 the Studio’s name was coined for a project and the anthologies title was changed to “Unoriginal” as they decided they did not want to restrict their audience or creators to the Manga style.
In 2004 Unoriginal 1 was released.
 
In 2006 Unoriginal 1.5, essentially a remake of Unoriginal 1 was released.

-While we do have two Anthologies out by no means do we know completely what we are doing, so all help is appreciated.  However we do warn you there will be times when we will not coddle you, as much as we appreciate you, we're probably talking out our ass half the time. Our word is not law, we want to be approachable so don't feel the urge to stay formal we are going to try to be professional but not to the extend we talk in business riddles.

About the Industry
Some things you should know:
The Print industry in general has been suffering for the past few years from a shrinking market due to competition from other venues such as the internet and TV in general.
Web comics, scan sites, fan-fiction/fan-art circles have been slowly making the market a much harder one to get into since it began to expand for the independent publisher in the early 90’s. (So ever since the market opened to the independent publisher, it’s been getting shut down by everything from bigger studios to the internet)

What does this mean?
Large prints are what a company needs to keep prices down, and keeping prices down are what keep profits up, however large prints are becoming harder as people are becoming less willing to buy comics since they can get much of what they want for free.

What does THAT mean?
It means everything we are doing right now up until we can get a high enough print is Voluntary. The work I do (and it’s a lot of work) I do not get paid for, and it is my money going into the printing of this comic (and it’s a lot of money too)
Because of this on one hand we may be a little picky, but we’ll also be asking for a lot of lenience and dedication from you when we shuffle around deadlines and have breakdowns which cause the whole studio to grind to a halt or when we realize we have a print window of only a month and need everyone to send in their work within a week or two.

How Much Money do we need? What will we use it for? What will Investors get out of it?
Currently we are looking at a projected start up fund of $10,000 (CAN) from this we will be able to print the work of 4 artists in their own comic as well as continue to release Unoriginal, our current project aimed at giving people a preview of what we have (Much like the Shounen Jump books by Viz which are later released into their own comics)  The $10,000 (CAN) will be split between the 5 projects, each project gaining around $2,000.

We are working on making stocks so investors will have something to show for their money. However making stocks involves registering as a corporate company, which means getting a lawyer which means less money for the comic. While I will hopefully use personal money for this (Or become the first investor and loan the company the money) currently we're going to be running on non donations)

What will the artists get? What are they expected to do for it?
The independent artist’s will receive $150 for a 24-page comic and 1 title page in color (Averaging to 6$ a page) and will receive 50% of all profits after printing costs. (Generous in comparison to competitions 500$ for 24 page comic but only 7% profit share.) The remaining $1,850 will go into printing the comic. (Aprox. 200 units depending on printing company) Independent artists however will only be used for printing their own comics, Not with the anthology. Because of this the competition for this position will be tough, not only will you have to completely impress our group of Editors (some of which don't even like comics so you'll have to be really fancy) You will have to prove to us you have a fanbase.

The Artist under the Unoriginal Title will receive a percentage of profit based on the amount of pages contributed to the Anthology (100 pages they did 40 = 40% profit after print cost) all $2,000 will be placed into the comic. Since some of the artists within Unoriginal we'll be taking a risk on some of the print money will be going into promoting the comic, so buying ad space on other websites. However we request that if you comic is in Unoriginal you of course tell a many people as you can and post it everywhere. Because especially for you, the more that sell the more money you make.

What are we looking for?
Editors, artists, writers, business partners, layout editors, programmers, you name it we want you.  We need more bodies for a lot of different jobs, the more people the better because on one hand that means if one person cannot keep up or has to go on hiatus, someone can replace them. You need to have the time and the dedication.

General Submission:
E-mail to submissions at psychobunnystudios.com put in the subject line Psycho Bunny Application: (What your applying for)
In the body we want:

Your Name: (What name you would like to be called if you get printed/credit for something)
Your Age: (Tell the truth, if you are under 18 then we won’t be able to print your work without parental consent however we can give you credit for editing work done)
Your Abilities: (What can you do for us? Webpage work? Forum Admin? Editing? Artwork? Motivational skills?)
Consent: I (your name) hereby give Psycho Bunny Studios non exclusive rights to print, publish, modify and transmit all work I submit specifically to their Studio for these reasons. I retain all rights to my work and the right to give my work to any other publisher. I realize that all work previously submitted to Psycho Bunny Studio can be re-printed in its original format only, by Psycho Bunny Studios and can be printed in no other format but the original printed version without my permission.

Artist Submission:
Please have a link to 3-5 PAGES of rendered (penciled, inked) black and white SEQUENTIAL art (comic style) and 1-2 full-page colour cover art examples with your submission.

If you wish to submit your own original series, we suggest you start with a 10-20 page one-shot or a 3-4 issue mini-series. Starting with a one-shot or mini-series will enable us to gauge the response of retailer and fan response without dedicating a large amount of time and resources to a book that may be canceled due to poor sales. If you already have material prepared then send us a synopsis of the story and some sample pages of the art. These sample pages can range from 4-5 pages to the entire mini-series if you have it.

Realize that if we do get popular enough you will be expected to keep up with a monthly printing demand of 10-20 pages, if you do not think you can keep up save submission until you are a month or two ahead and then submit, Currently however we are running on a 70 + 1 demand (once we sell 70 books, we have one month to get the next issue out) this can give you anywhere between one month to a year to complete your next submission so be aware of the lack or over abundance of time you may have.

Writers Submission
We will take short stories as well and print them as they are. We will NOT take any poetry.

A LINK to a 1-4 page typed STORY SYNOPSIS or a SAMPLE of a story. Unfortunately, we don't have the time or manpower to read every full script we receive. If we like your idea, we'll request more.

A typed cover sheet of the overview of your story-example: How many issues the story will be and how many pages per issues. 1-4 issue mini-series are preferred over ongoing series. Stories that are finite encourage the retailer to give your new story a chance, and, even if sales are low, we, the publishers, will be more likely to finish the mini-series' run for the sake of completeness. Ongoing, unproven series that get low sales are more likely to be cancelled because of the monthly financial loss.