Submissions don't always work. As Lucy Bellwood said on this episode of the Make It Then Tell Everybody podcast: "You have to be your own small business, kind of, or your own social media empire before a publisher contacts you... I didn't get an agent, I wasn't approached by serious publishers until I had raised 40,000 dollars on Kickstarter to print a book. And then people said, okay, we've had my eye on this person, we know she's someone we want to work with. But we're not going to ask her until we know she can deliver the goods."
Also see Jason Thibault's Definitive List of Comic Publisher Submissions Guidelines (last updated on January 7, 2018).
- Archaia – open for submissions via website
- Avatar Press - open to submissions via email
- Boom Studios - open for submissions via a submissions-specific Facebook page timeline
- Dark Horse - open for submissions via postal mail
- DC - does not accept submissions
- Drawn & Quarterly - open submissions via email
- Dynamite - open for submissions via postal mail
- Fantagraphics - open submissions via postal mail
- First Second – not open for submissions
- Humanoids - email for submission guidelines
- IDW - not open for submissions
- Image – open submissions via email or postal mail
- Iron Circus Comics - open submissions via email
- Koyama Press – does not accept submissions. Annie Koyama said on this 2014 episode of the Comics for Grownups podcast that she simply finds artists on Tumblr
- Marvel - does not accept submissions.
- NBM - only accepts submissions from already-published authors
- Nobrow Press - open submissions via email
- Oni Press - not open to submissions
- SelfMadeHero – open submissions via email
- Soaring Penguin Press - open to submissions via email or post
- Top Shelf – open submissions via postal mail