Conbook

As every year, we will have a Conbook as guide through the convention and its events, as map, and as souvenir. If you're interested in contributing content, here are the guidelines.

If you want to send us your artwork, stories or question please use the contact form. Share your pictures via your own website, a cloud service or a gallery which does not need a login. Make sure it has a good resolution and quality for printing following the instructions further below.

Deadline: June 19th

Need some help and inspiration with this years theme? Check out our visual guide. If you have some unique ideas in how to interpret the theme we encourage this of course! This is only meant as a rough orientation - Let them guide you, then make it your own.

Illustrations

(If you're an artist, this one is for you!)

• The Conbook is in full color, so we prefer color illustrations as well.
• We are looking for full page illustrations as well as smaller fillers.
• The format for full page illustrations is A4, upright (210 x 297mm) plus 3mm cropping area along all edges, adding up to a total of 216 x 303 mm or 2551 x 3578 pixels at 300 dpi.
  
  
• File format should be JPG set to highest quality (low information loss). Other formats are acceptable too but may cause issues due to the resulting file size.


• For a full page illustration, do not draw anything important into the cropping area. Please avoid symmetrical motifs or motifs that rely on exact cutting of the page – for technical reasons, the cropping of the finished book may occur anywhere in the cropping area of each page.


• Fillers that do not have an illustrated background (extracted cutouts) need to have a fully transparent image background, since the pages themselves will have their own color background. The foreground needs to be intransparent (opaque). Be careful about holes in the foreground (transparent) and white foreground elements (opaque)!
• To submit illustrations that contain transparency, please use the PNG format.
• The submission must NOT exceed PG-13 rating.
• The artists for the cover art work and the centerfold will be chosen and approached directly by the team.
• Sometimes we can include horizontal pictures in the Conbook but usually these spots are not planned in advance. If you have something that fits the theme you can still send it in. So we might only be able to show a part of it or use it as a background image.

Short Stories

We would love to include a couple of short stories, poems and similar again! The story has to be written in English, a theme fitting speech style can be used. Word count for short stories: Roughly a full or half page so 300-500 words.