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What's an Amoeba?An amoeba (or ameba) is a small single celled organism.How do you pronouce Amoeba?ah-mee-ba ...the "o" is silent. We left it cause it looks pretty. Also there's some designers in Australia that go by Ameba. Since they do shirt/clothing design as well, we didn't want to cause confusion.What's the significance of the amoeba?An amoeba is small and very flexible, but also a fairly independent creature.How are Amoeba Ink, Amoeba Play Group, and Amoeba Dreams related?Amoeba Dreams was the name of my amateur production company in college. I bought the domain www.amoebadreams.net to host online portfolios for a writer and two artists friends. In October 2008, Amoeba Play Group was started as a small child care service with the intention of funding artistic endeavors. Amoeba Play Group will be incorporating as Amoeba Ink in 2009.Amoeba Play Group will continue to exist as the child care side of the business. It's represented by the blue amoeba. Amoeba Creative Group/Amoeba Dreams will nuture our creative projects and is represented by pink amoeba. The green amoeba represents Amoeba Developement Group...which is so far off in future, it may never come to pass. So this is the only place we'll mention it. Is Amoeba Ink a Christian company?Amoeba Ink is Christian owned and currently most of the artists/writers we represent are all Christian. Our first title "Orange and Blue Cream" is a Christian comic. However we're not limited to Christian only material. We don't hire or promote artists because they are Christian. We promote them because they are good artists.We do try to maintain a certain level of cleanliness and put forth material with some sort of positive message. A majority of our output will be all ages appropriate. However in the future, we may put out some PG-13 and possibly R material if we feel it's necessary to tell a particular story, so please read the age warnings. Are You Hiring? Or accepting submissions?Not currently. We're a very small, close knit group of multi-talented friends, who are currently working for royalties. For the immediate time, we're going to be pulling talent from friends, family, and people we already know. As the company grows we may have hiring needs, but that's a ways off. However if you see us at cons or on the web, feel free to say hi and show us what you do.If things go well, we may be needing a colorist sometime in the next year, but don't send in submissions until we have a process, okay? Just check back every few months. Multi-talented in what way?There are five artist/writers who are partially represented by or contributing to Amoeba Ink.Kay Iscah - Holds a B.S. in Mass Communications. She writes, edits, draws, acts, sings, dances, designs webpages, and plays manager to Ashley Malone. All business matters will initially go through Kay. Kristen Michelle Collins - Holds a B.A. in Graphic Design and works full time as a graphic designer for a large company. Kristen is an exceptionally talented artist who has conquered a variety of mediums. She also writes, acts, models, speaks some Japanese, and can sing. Ashley Malone - Ashley is a self-taught artist with great raw talent. She's planning to go to art school this fall to take herself from good to excellent. She mainly draws and writes comics in a clean, simple style, but she can do realistic work as well. Nate Connell - Nate writes and draws comics as a hobby and posts them on his website MagicBucket.com. He got involved with Amoeba Ink when Kay asked him to draw some comics to make her book on budgetting more fun. P.J. Lockabey - P.J. writes and sings. He'll be working with us mainly on non-fiction titles to start out. Can I hire you?Yes and no. We're pretty busy with our own projects, but we can work in simple jobs for the right price...and we're not restrictive with either our staff or our independent contributors, so all our artists can take on side projects if they choose.You can view Kristen's website for her commission rates (Kristen may be contacted directly for jobs if you just want her). Or check out Ashley's commission rates here. If you already have a budget in mind, please let us know. Can you do special requests on cafepress items?Certainly. Simple requests will not cost you any extra beyond our standard retail price. For more time consuming requests, we can add the price of our labor into the cafepress markup, so you only have to worry about making one payment rather than two.Generally simple requests involve putting an existing piece of artwork onto an item for you or creating a simple word shirt. If the request requires new or exclusive art, then the price will increase. What other kind of work can you handle?If it can be done with pencil and paper, paint, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, or MicrosoftWord, we can probably handle it. We can create simple, html only websites, but we don't host them. We've been pretty happy with 1and1.com for our hosting needs. Likewise, we can get files printer/press ready, but we don't have the capacity to print out anything beyond what the typical inkjet can handle.We love comics and comic books, so we'd be happy to work on yours, but we can't accept commission/royalty only projects. We have our own stories to finish. Can you watch my kids?If you live in Hermitage, TN, and have an infant less than 6 months old, we can talk about it. There are 2 slots open. Again, contact Kay. You will have to provide proof that you live in the area and have a child the right age, before you are given the nursery location.Phase II of Amoeba Play Group will involve a community drop off center (again Hermitage, TN) for kids up to 12 years of age. But we have to get the funding together first. We're a debt free company, so this will take a little time. If you are excited about this service and want to help get it started, again contact Kay and let her know your idea. We're considering pre-selling drop off hours. |
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