Uploading Guidelines

Submitting your Comicbook to ComixCentral

ComixCentral is an Indie Comics hosting platform, not a publishing house. This means that product quality is left in the hands of our contributing artists.

We have a very short and simple approval process. Basically making sure you have filled out the upload form correctly.

Digital Comics Document Specs: Accepted File Type: PDF

Things that will get your Comic rejected.

  • Hate propaganda
    • ie: Any Comics, zines, art pieces, blog posts or any other creative content used by a person or group which promotes hatred based on race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation or ethnic origin.
  • Licensed characters or copyrighted materials you do not own the copyright to.

Things to watch out for when saving your PDF

Pixelation

Pixelation is when your images come out fuzzy and not crisp. This can happen unintentionally when a low-resolution image designed for an ordinary computer display is projected on a large screen and each pixel becomes separately viewable.

This can be caused by over compression of the file or upscaling (making bigger) a rasterized image. A rasterized image cannot be made bigger, only a vector is capable of upscaling.

The best way to avoid pixelation and artifacting (banding) is to draw your comics as large as possible. 300-600dpi. This way you have a large file you can play around with.

Download a copy of our Standard Comicbook Template PDF »

Suggested Guidelines (Not required)

You may choose to follow these standard Comicbook guidelines. Although not required, we would suggest following them. Using these standard layout sizes will make printing your Comics easier and cheaper if your choose to do so.

Single Page Layout

TRIM: 6.625” x 10.187” - This is the actual size of the book when trimmed, folded & stapled.

LIVE: 6.125” x 9.687” - Safe Zone. This is the area that any important images and lettering should be contained in.

BLEED: 6.875” x 10.437” - This is the total size of your page files including a 0.125” bleed on all sides. The bleed is trimmed off so artwork that goes to the edge. Please make sure all artwork fills the bleed area.

Double Page Layout

TRIM: 13.25” x 10.187”

LIVE: 12.75” x 9.687” - To ensure artwork and lettering doesn’t get lost in the gutter, leave a 0.5” gutter area down the middle.

BLEED: 13.5” x 10.437”

Color guidelines

ComixCentral accepts both RGB and CMYK. Please note that these two color spaces can appear very different from each other, especially true black. It may be useful to create 2 versions of your comic for your own files, one for digital and one print.

  • RGB is primarily for Digital. If you are not planning on printing your Comic now or in the future you many choose this option.
  • CMKY is for print. If you are planning on printing your comic, you may wish to choose CMYK color.