Q. What's the deadline?

A. There is no deadline. It's first come first served. When 100 pieces of art come in for the Single Mailer, I'll assemble that book. Those artists are in the queue for the Big Mailer. After that we'll do some smaller ones concurrently for faster turn around, but as far as deadlines go, there aren't any. Just do what you can as best you can.

Q. This is a great project, I want to be involved immediately, can you send me the Big Mailer now?

A. I wish I could. There's been people who've already sent in artwork months ago and deserve to get the Big Mailer sooner.

Q. How long until I get the big sketchbook.

A. I can't really say, it may be years.

Q. What happens if I move before it's my turn?

A. If you move but keep your email address, I'll be able to find you. If you want, you can always send me a note with your new address.

Q. Is there a theme for the book(s)?

A. Not artistically. The new projects focus on artist or medium type, but it's not a focus on any style of art.

Q. What size paper can I draw on? What type?

A. Doesn't matter. If you're sending in art, if it's somewhere between a piece of copy paper and a piece of 11x14 sketchbook paper, I'll try to make it work.

Q. Can I do a drawing on both sides?

A. I can't stop you from drawing on both sides of the paper. However, if the art received is wildly different sizes and I have to mount all the art onto blank sheets, whatever you draw on the back will be lost.

Q. Can I include my web address or email on the drawing?

A. Yes. I'll be making a credits sheet to go in the back with the names, emails and web portfolios (if available) for all the artists. But you're more than welcome to sign it thusly.

Q. I only work digitally, can I email you a file?

A. This is a new thing and I'm still working it out, but one of the new projects will be a digital only book so we'll only be doing print runs. I'll work on getting specs up soon.

Q. Do you cover shipping?

A. Short answer, no. Long answer, if you have one of the sketchbooks and have absolutely no way of sending it, ie you're a 12 year old orphan with no income and no post office within 100 miles, I might be able to help with FedEx. However, the size of the project means I can't cover everyone's shipping, it'd run me into the several hundreds which I don't have.

Q. Can I only do the Big Mailer?

A. Not at this point, no. Volume One is already essentially booked, but we'll start new ones so you can JUST do the sketchbook.

Q. Can I draw nekkid wemins?

A. Yes. Nudity is fine as long as it's not explicitly sexual in context. Same goes for gore and violence. Keep in mind, I can't control who the book is eventually sold to. Let's keep it somewhere between PG-13 and R.

Q. I've done two pieces, but I can't decide which one to send. Can I send both?

A. By all means, send whatever you'd like. I may not use both in the book, but I'll keep everything I get on file and use whatever is left over for later projects.

Q. I've changed my mind about being involved, can you send my work back to me?

A. Absolutely. It's a volunteer based project and you free to back out at any time up until the books are finished.

Q. Can I have my friends draw something too?

A. You bet! The more the merrier. If you can have them sign up so I can keep records of who's involved for later credit, that's all I need.

Q. I'm not a comic book artist, can I still participate?

A. Yes. This started as a project on a comic book forum, but it's by no means a comic book project. Draw whatever you like.

Q. Can I paint something?

A. Yes. I hope you don't plan on sending a canvas though, that'd be hard to scan.

Q. I'd like to scan it anyway for myself. Would you like it if I sent you that scan?

A. Aboslutely! The way I'll be scanning is at 300dpi and saved as a TIF file with LZW compression. From what I've been told, that's the best lossless format for printing (which we'll be doing later.) Those files tend to be very big, probably around 25-30mgs, so if you're going to do that, I'd suggest using a big file sharing tool like Send This File or Mail Big Files. They're free and you can then send me the info on how to download them.

Q. Are you going to have a gallery of the artwork?

A. I have a gallery of the first 100 on Flickr. I may use that for the online gallery for everything.

Q. Are you making any money off this?

A. I wish. I have a donate button for the project to help cover costs, but that's only to make sure the project moves forward. 100% of everything recouped from auctions or sales of the book online will go to the foundations.

Q. Are you going to pick different funds for later projects?

A. We already have, check out the Concepts page for what's going on now.