Salutations Sup Forums! Four years ago, various anons from here joined forces to put together an indie comic anthology called Premier Pulp. The magazine released eight issues and ran until 2014, when it went on a long hiatus. However, the time is right for the project to return!
In order to help rebuild our readership and find newer contributors, I will be storytiming several issues for everyone to read. More information about the project will be available in the following posts.
I'll be starting off with the 2012 collection issue, which contained the reader's favorites from the year. Enjoy!
Sup Forums's spam filter has become more strict over the years so I threw the information on contacting and following us into this pastebin: pastebin.com/etA9anzC
It contains a link to the Discord & IRC servers as well as several other sites.
Jackson Adams
And now for a FAQ
Q: So what the hell is this? A: An indie comic anthology that got started on Sup Forums back in 2012. The goal is to get beginners making comics and to help people team up to work on making comics.
Q: Well ok then. How does this magazine work? A: We run on a deadline system over a period of several months. There's an entry deadline, two progress deadlines, and a final deadline. Currently we're looking at early September for the next entry deadline.
Q: Do contributors get paid for this? A: Nope. I understand if not everyone is willing to do something like this without being paid, but every contributor I've talked to has said it's helped them greatly to becoming better at making comics.
Q: What kind of comics do you accept? A: While our site is outdated, information can be found here: premiercomics.com/submission-details Pay attention to the technical requirements in particular, we want the comics to run to be uniform in format.
Q: Do you have to both draw and write to get something in the magazine? A: Nope, you can be just a writer and have someone else draw it for you. Many past contributions were team efforts. Many artists feel their writing isn't great, so teaming up with someone confident in their abilities can help them a lot.
Mason Myers
So the first comic from this issue comes from Troy Green. If you enjoy what you're reading, I recommend following him at teeroygreen.tumblr.com/
The main force behind the revival is the fact that I have free time once again to do whatever I want. Since this project has been the most fun and rewarding thing I've worked on, I'm happy to return and get things going again.
Jordan King
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Bentley Sanders
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Jeremiah Perry
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Adrian Barnes
So awesome to see this making a comeback. My brother and I might submit something.
Lucas Peterson
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Christian Cruz
Glad to hear it! A lot of the past contributors have said they'd return and I already have a few completed submissions sent in, so the revival is 100% going forward.
Here's another comic drawn by Troy Green and written by MailOrderClone (Who doesn't have a website).
This is a favorite of mine since it's a perfect example of a short comic and a team effort. I'd love to see more one page comics get sent to us.
Anthony Hughes
darn cute
might participate in this, bump for other readers
Elijah Thompson
Next up is Nancy 'n' Winston by Dustin Jackson. Seems he dislikes his old work nowadays but I still think it's pretty good!
>Just noticed I listed it as 'Nancy & Winston' in the table of contents Errors like this keep me up at night
Chase Long
I'm gonna ask my friend if he wants to do something. Is there any specific theme? I don't want to submit something too weird desu
Christian Jackson
There's no specific theme. We've run tons of different genres and the stories have had a variety of tones. Personally, I love seeing how varied each issue comes out as.
However we don't run porn/fetish comics (as that'd prevent us from having our comics uploaded on many sites) and comics with obvious political agendas (because I don't want them).
Keep in mind short stories are the main focus of the magazine. They can either be one-shots or a more episodic ongoing series (like this comic is).
Adam Peterson
Oh, great! I'll try to write something fun and esoteric.
Ryan Stewart
Sounds good! If your friend isn't up to drawing it you can always send in the script and we'll see if we can find anyone who likes it enough to draw it.
If your comic doesn't meet the technical requirements we can't run it.
Nathan Perry
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Caleb Wilson
>Tfw we'd never be able to do this again
Angel Hall
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Jeremiah Rodriguez
>That lava lady
Sign me up
Juan Cook
She's pretty hot
Nicholas Long
You gotta believe
Cameron Gutierrez
Might be cool. I'll see if I can write up a fun eight-pager.
Luis Stewart
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Isaiah Turner
I'd like to try this out. I can draw but I've never made a proper comic before.
Oliver Hughes
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Carter Edwards
Go for it! If you can't draw you can always see if someone likes your script enough to draw it.
Lots of comics in the magazine were the first comics people ever completed. There are a lot of people you can ask for help on the Discord server if you get stuck too.
Elijah Martin
Now we have 10kb by rocko. Haven't heard from this guy since 2012, which is a real shame. Last site he gave me was: cyclescomic.blogspot.com/
Hasn't been updated in four years but maybe he starts seeing a spike in visits he'll notice what's going on.
Adrian Barnes
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Liam Rogers
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Mason Williams
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Jackson Jones
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Xavier Gutierrez
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Grayson Jackson
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Juan Walker
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Samuel Hernandez
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Julian Flores
thanks for the storytime
Dylan Reed
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Jackson James
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Cooper Thomas
You're welcome!
Next up is a comic by Jamil Gonzalez. You can find his tumblr here: jamilsart.tumblr.com/
It's from the May 2012 issue so that comic is about four years old. That's how much you can improve if you keep working on your craft.
Asher Robinson
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Jace Allen
Next up is ZURK by Punt SpeedChunk. This is the second installment in the series. Since I believe that was his first comic this would be his second comic. He doesn't have any sites I know of.
Eli Hughes
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Isaac Richardson
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William Clark
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Ian Evans
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Gabriel Cruz
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Angel Kelly
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Brody Torres
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Hudson Ortiz
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Wyatt White
This comic isn't from the 2012 collection but I think it makes a good breather between ZURK and the next comic.
I would like to see more stories without dialog, we had a few stories like that and they were always interesting.
Connor Wood
What ever happened to Mouth, the Cthulhu thing stuck in a man's form?
I always wondered where that was going.
Justin Perez
From what I understand, the project's on hold. Possibly forever. I'd love to see it come back as a webcomic or as part of the magazine, but I think the artist ended up finding work somewhere.
Next up is a Sup Forums classic. If you don't know who the Lovely Ladybug is, shame on ye. Shame shame shame. Sites will be at the end of the comic.
Carter Robinson
see, Sup Forums is dead. here is some actual real content and this is the response
Wyatt Collins
>tfw no ladybug gf
Why live
Samuel Gomez
Well to be fair this is old content. That and storytime threads tend to gather the most posts at the end from what I've seen.
Chase Morales
The Ladybug team remains strong.
They're 5 issues in (counting issue 0), plus 3 specials for holidays.
They set up their own comic tumblr that they're updating MWF with pages from their already released issues and plan for the next issue to be finished by the time they get through all of their previously completed work.
