Symbolia: Call For Pitches: Symbolia's Preview Issue →

Symbolia has opened the call for pitches for the preview issue! The theme is “How We Survive.” If you’re interested in contributing, check out the blog post below and submit a pitch.

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The theme of Symbolia’s preview issue is “How We Survive.”

This issue will explore survival, social adaptations, and evolution over the course of 5-6 stories that merge comics and illustration with prose, audio, and infographics. And we want you to become a contributor.

We’re looking for…

Symbolia: Meet Symbolia's Editorial Advisors →

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Meet Symbolia’s Editorial Advisors

From comics creation to user experience, public media to news innovation, Symbolia’s editorial advisory group spans a fantastic spectrum. Jessica Clark, Howard Finberg, Joan Hilty, and Kevin Smokler will play a critical role in Symbolia’s development. They’ll help hone the overarching themes for each issue, recruit emerging talent to contribute to Symbolia, and connect Symbolia with potential content-production partners.

Read on to meet them. We’re thrilled to be working with such an august group.

Also, a quick heads up: Symbolia will be putting out a call for pitches for our preview issue later this week. Get the jump on contributing and submit a your story ideas here.

Jessica Clark, @beyondbroadcast, is an internationally recognized expert on the transformation of independent journalism and public media. As the Media Strategist for the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR), she is currently focused on Localore, a project powering transmedia innovation at 10 public stations across the U.S. She is also a senior fellow at American University’s Center for Social Media, and a media policy fellow at the New America Foundation. The co-author of Beyond the Echo Chamber: Reshaping Politics Through Networked Progressive Media (Free Press, 2010), Jessica is a freelance journalist and researcher who has co-produced widely circulated reports about the future of journalism for Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, among others. She has served as a source and speaker for numerous conferences and outlets, including ABC, NBC, PBS, Newsweek, Voice of America, the BBC, multiple NPR stations, and SXSW. Finally, she does have a sense of humor, though you’d never know it from this bio.

Howard Finberg, @HIF, is the director of interactive learning at The Poynter Institute, where he leads Poynter into the world of e-learning programs. He is responsible for the institute’s e-learning project, News University. NewsU (www.newsu.org) launched in 2005 and has more than 160,000 users in 225 countries, accessing more than 200 training modules. Finberg also teaches news executives and journalists about online and the impact the Internet has on the media industry. Finberg joined the Institute in 2003 after serving as its Presidential Scholar in 2002. His resume includes positions with the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and The Arizona Republic. He was the Presidental Scholar at Poynter in 2002 and joined Poynter full-time in 2003 to direct its e-learning project, News University.

Joan Hilty, @joanhilty, is an independent editor and packager of graphic novels and illustrated content. Her clients include Viacom, Forbes, Macmillan and A&E Networks. As an editor at DC Comics from 1995-2010, she developed and edited a wide range of fiction and nonfiction comics and graphic novels, including projects by the journalists Brooke Gladstone and G. Willow Wilson. As a cartoonist, she created the syndicated strip Bitter Girl and her illustrations have appeared in Ms. Magazine and the Village Voice. She is a founding member of the independent editors group 5E and teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Kevin Smokler, @weegee, is the author of the upcoming book “Practical Classics: 50 Reason to Reread 50 Books you haven’t touched since high school” (Prometheus Books, 2013). His writing has appeared in Fast Company, The LA Times, The San Francisco Chronicle and on NPR. Called “A publishing visionary” by The Huffington Post and Mashable, Kevin sits on the advisory board of SXSW Interactive and speaks on the future of media and culture at companies, conferences and universities throughout North America.

Symbolia: Welcome to Joyce Rice, Symbolia's Creative Director →

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Symbolia is growing! I’m pleased to announce that Joyce Rice has joined Symbolia as Creative Director.

Joyce, pictured above, is an active voice in Chicago’s independent comics scene and has done extraordinary work to merge illustration and interactive storytelling, both on the web and on…

It’s official! I’ve joined Symbolia as Creative Director! Symbolia is a tablet publication that combines incendiary reporting with thoughtful illustration and comics. Symbolia merges the types of work I love to do most, so I can’t express how pumped I am to be collaborating on such an exciting and timely project.

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EXQUISITE CORPSE ORDER (top to bottom): JOYCE/PATRICK/JANA/SIMONE

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EXQUISITE CORPSE ORDER (top to bottom): JANA/SIMONE/JOYCE/PATRICK

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EXQUISITE CORPSE ORDER (top to bottom): SIMONE/JOYCE/PATRICK/JANA

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(via design is mine : isn’t it lovely?: thought of the day : a hard battle.)

Into the typography and the sentiment.

(via thealbumartists)

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Sticks in the City. 

Thanks to Simone for joining us the other weekend! 

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From the Wizard Sisters Easter weekend challenge.

Prompt
Panel 1: clearing in the woods. worn altar with carvings. a fresh severed hoof rests on top next to a stained medival knife. nighttime.