Guilty Gear Copybook Zine

Low budget, library-made, collaborative DIY zine project based around the pre-Xrd Guilty Gear games. 

🔥🔥 This is a mature (18+ only) project. Applications will be limited to people 20 years of age or older 🔥🔥

ABOUT:

The goal of this zine is the creation of something viscerally handmade — a throwback to earlier zines made entirely at home or in libraries as opposed to printed by expensive manufacturers. It will be 20 pages (5 sheets, front & back, folded) and printed at a local library, then folded and stapled entirely by hand. All interior pages will be black & white, with the outer cover sheet being in color.

To push back against censorship and purity culture, this zine will be open to mature themes and concepts, such as sex, sexual fetishes, and nudity, though the final zine may not contain all of those. It will also allow and embrace LGBTQ+ representation and headcanons.

NO AI.

ZINE INFO, BRIEF:

13 total contributors (10 artists, 2 authors, 1 Radguy)

20 pages (5 sheets, folded)

Color cover, black & white interior

Limited to characters from before Guilty Gear Xrd (Guilty Gear (1998) to Guilty Gear Vastedge XT (2013)). Guilty Gear Xtra is not allowed.

LINKS:

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/ggcopybook.bsky.social

Carrd: https://ggcopybook.carrd.co/

Carrd includes a FAQ with contributor guidelines and expanded physical details of the zine itself.

MODS:

Head Mod & Organizer: Sol Radguy ( @solradguy ) // Discord: solradguy Bsky: solradguy.neocities.org

General Mods & Helpers: Joel AXLFAN2000 // Website/socials: joeled.nekoweb.org

Only acceptance emails will be sent out (sorry...)

We got a total of 28 applications, with only one applicant applying for both author and artist, making 27 applications when narrowed down to per-person. 22 were for artist and 6 for author.

Top character requests were:

Testament (7 picks)

Millia (6 picks)

Chipp, Fanny (tied for 5 picks each)

Sol, Izuna, Baiken, Anji (4 picks each)

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED!

Thank you so, SO, much to everyone that applied. We got way more applications for this little project than we expected it to, and our hearts are overflowing. We will spend this weekend going through them. Acceptance emails will start mailing out on Monday.

Yeah go ahead and submit twice if you're interested in both!

APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN!!

Open from April 10th to 24th. Please read the guidelines thoroughly and keep in mind this zine will have mature content. Applicants must be 20 years of age or older. Thank you! We look forward to seeing everyone's work!

TOMORROW...

What is a copybook zine?

A copybook is a type of Japanese doujinshi neither printed or bound by a publisher, instead generally being printed on a home or library printer, then bound with staples; while a "doujinshi" is a non-professionally made, independently published, creative work similar to a "zine," though a doujinshi can also be a novel, music, or other form of creative media while a zine generally isn't.

We decided to combine the Japanese "copybook" with the English "zine" in an attempt to emphasize the low budget, DIY, aspect of this project.

Applications open this Friday, April 10th!!

We're looking for 9 artists and 1 author. A poll will be held after acceptance emails are sent and everyone joins the server to decide if profits go to contributors or to the Kaleidoscope Trust (our charity of choice).