Box of Rain

Welcome to the Box of Rain website. The home of Sector 13 Comics.

If you see something that peaks your interest and want to comment or even contribute something to one of the pages, please send me a message to admin@sector13comics.co.uk.

Just out, the second issue of Hoodoo Comix, continuing Bob Curran's tale of Cajun Horror. This B&W, square-bound, US format comic conatins the stunning art of Andy Paciorek.

Price £9 inc. UK P&P or £6 if you can drag yourself to one of the Sector 13 editorial meetings in the Parlour Bar in Belfast on most Wednesday evenings.

Price for both issues of Hoodoo Comix, £15 inc. UK P&P.

Links below.

Click here for Issue 1

Click here for issue 2

Click here for both issues

Outside Uk, please contact us at admin@sector13comics.co.uk

From our friend Bob Curran's Fool Moon Press is the first issue of Sinister Tales. This sixty-page, US standard-sized comic tells a deeply mysterious tale of a man searching for his identity and the source of his ever-growing psychic powers.

Set in the bleak political world of the post-war years of the early sixties, it's a claustrophobic tale that may or may not, link to almost every conspiracy theory you've ever heard. Story by Bob Curran, stylish art from Andy Paciorek available now from Sector 13 Comics. £9:00 including UK p&p.

Order Sinister Tales 01 vIA Paypal to admin@sector13comics.co.uk or by using your

credit card here.

For foreign prices, please contact us on the admin@sector13comics.co.uk address.

Sector 13 is putting together its plans for next year. We have at least three titles slated for release next year, we'll be publishing details of the others shortly but are starting with, ‘GOTHIC’.

‘GOTHIC,’ will be an A4, square bound, comic that we expect to contain a mix of B&W and colour art. The aim is to produce something that reflects the girls’ comics of the past, especially the dark stories found in Misty. But written for the grown-up readers of those comics today.

We will be making small, ‘token’ payments for first publication rights, copyright will remain with the writers and artists.

WRITERS

We want stories that will have the same appeal to the grown-up women (and men) who as girls (and boys) loved Judy, Spellbound or Misty etc.

We want ‘GOTHIC’ to be female-oriented, and, if possible, feature a, mainly, female team of writers.

We’re looking at stories with exclusively female protagonists. But that reflect the multiple genres popular in the girl’s comics of the past.

A school story would be very welcome, or a tale of doomed romance. Hauntings, evil aunts/uncles/schoolteachers are all fair game. Maybe even a monster story or some heroic fantasy so long as they have gothic overtones. I'd like to cover horror (not gorefests), dark romantic fantasy and straight romances as well as stories in the style of early Gothic novels, Castle of Otranto, The Monk etc.

There are no restrictions on storytelling techniques, so long as sequential illustration is involved. That goes from wordless comics to heavily illustrated prose stories. Just so long as the pictures are essential to the telling of story.

Submissions can be in any form at this stage. We’re happy to read a synopsis, or a full script, or even chat about an idea you have.

No comic writing experience is required. We love collaborating with people who have good story ideas but have not written a comic before. If that means some teamwork to turn their tale into a format suitable for comics, so much the better. There is nothing we enjoy quite as much.

If you want to try and put a full comic strip together, and are not sure how to start, we have a Word template for a script format we can send you. Just ask.

Stories can be up to 10 pages, if you have something that would be longer, have a word with us but we’ll only be accepting one story of greater length. Avoid double page spreads, we’ll be publishing square-bound and I hate how that distorts the artwork, and assume your story will be starting on a right hand page when you consider big reveals or surprises in your script (always better to have those on a page following a page-turn.

We’d prefer you to use Microsoft Word for your submissions, if you send a pdf, we just have to copy it to word anyway, but that’s not a deal-breaker in any way.

Most of all, have some fun! Any questions, contact us at admin@sector13comics.co.uk.

Deadline for completed scripts, December 24th, 2024, but the earlier the better.

ARTISTS

As with the writers, we will be giving preference to female artists for GOTHIC. Please send samples of sequential art (some comics pages, basically) to admin@sector13comics.co.uk. Let us know a little about any previous publications you have had and any genres you are interested in. If you are someone who would like to try their hand at comics for the first time, please feel free to contact us and we may have a suitable sample script to send to you to try out.

We’ll look at any styles, including Manga, but be aware that’s something we’ve very little experience of and we don’t want GOTHIC to be dominated by it.

COVER ARTISTS

We have a pretty clear idea of what we want for a cover, and already have a few people who we will be contacting to see if they are interested, but please feel free to submit examples of your work and ideas. We’re looking towards, brooding romantic images. Probably painted, probably featuring a redhead named Oonagh (she is our host for the comic), an Irish version of Misty.

Samples to admin@sector13comics.co.uk, ASAP.

No AI art. Sample art taken from Freepik and will not be included in the comic. We were shocked at just how much how much selecting 'no AI' reduced the number of images available.

If you want to see what we are about at Sector 13, I'd suggest you take a look at our latest anthology, 'Anno Domini 1900' on our store page. https://www.boxofrainmag.co.uk/store/

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Buy Whapp!, Splank! and Yow! Plus Anno Domini 1900

For those brave souls wishing to see all four of our new comics for 2024, we offer this package.

Whapp!, Splank! and Yow! plus S13 issue 01, Anno Domini 1900 in one package. With more than 250 pages of comics for £36 this is great value and will invovle a hefty donation to 'NHS Charities Together' from Whapp!, Splank! and Yow!.

A hefty package, it has to go as a 'small parcel' rather than and large letter.

Credit Card Payments link, here. Or visit our on-line store here.

Special Offer

THREE ISSUES OF SECTOR 13 £10 plus p&p

Three issues of Sector 13 for £10 plus £3 UK p&p.

With stunning covers by Stuart McCune, Will Simpson and Joseph McCafferty, see the issues where Sector 13 'came of age'. Moving from an amateur fanzine run by a chaotic collective effort to an ambitious magazine with something that might be loosely described as an organised editorial team.

In these three issues we featured some of our favourite stories. Including John Farrelly's Alpha Male, a superbly rendered, 'Flesh' tale. Plus, Ironic, a very different story of the Sector 13 Judges that took the whole editorial team to get ready and, in issue 5, our ambitious quartert of linked stories. Order here, while our stocks last.

More offers here at our on-line store .

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