This came to me last night and I got so excited I couldn't sleep!

My idea is to start a quarterly e-zine chock full of exclusive art and stories from the best artists and authors (including myself of course :P), curated by me so that each issue has a theme running through it, like in every one we're exploring a new universe together- or maybe even the same universe, just a different piece of it! And each moth would have a different set of artists, though of course if they like it they could participate for as many issues as they want. This would make it very different from Tailheat and other furry magazines, because it would be run via my commissioning and collaborating with artists and authors so that it all flows together rather than them submitting to me with me being a quality control person.

I'd run it through patreon, and only charge per issue, so 4 times a year. I'd have 2 tiers, one where when you will get the e-zine emailed to you as a HD PDF, and a higher one where during the month you'll get to see behind the scenes stuff like cropped wip's and excerpts of the stories as they're being written, so you really get to anticipate the awesomeness!

I would need your help, though! I'd need to spread the word around and the first patron goal met before the release of the first issue so that I could be sure that I'd recoup losses from paying the authors and artists. I'd also plan, when it reaches a certain milestone, on creators getting a percentage of the patreon earnings!

The last bit is that after an issue is released I'd make it available to buy online in digital or print format, so newer patrons could grab earlier issues they missed out on :)

Here are the artists and authors I have in mind to approach and ask them to participate, so far- (there will not be this many creators per issue; I'm thinking it might be around 15-20 pages per issue, so it'd just be 6 or 7 artists and authors per issue):

Artists I'm going to approach, in no particular order:

Zaush
Kenket/blotch
Darkgem
Klausd
Blickfen
Patto
Cathricorn
Keto
Explicital
Alpha0
Lion21
Anhes
Braford0005
Jailbird
Chicobo
Mystikfox61
Honovy
Raccoon21
Badcoyote
Wiredhooves
Requiembeatz
Werethrope
Tacklebox
Avarice_panthera_leo
Null-ghost
Forge


Authors (need more):
Kyell
FuzzWolf
Danath
Hooves
Gabrielclyde
Whyte Yote
Sisco
Stinkdog
Cheetahs
Zwoosh
Star ringer
Tesslyn
Comidacomida
Tank Jaeger

Are there others I may have missed? For artists I'm wanting people who can do full-rendered work, and for artists they've got to be really good with character development and imaginative settings. As the magazine continues, people I haven't come across would of course be able to submit their portfolios and stories for consideration for future issues.

Big question: will you help me with this? Spread the word about it when it's time? It won't be until I have a few artists and authors interested, so that we can leverage all of our combined followers. Please let me know if you'd enjoy this, and if you'd like to help!