I am delighted to present to you Steve Loya’s cover for Magic Bullet #8. Magic Bullet is Washington, D.C.’s free comics newspaper published by D.C. Conspiracy, a comics creators’ collective in the capital region. This is the third issue I’ve been in charge of as Editor-in-chief.

Thanks to El Jefe Design for the design of our masthead, which we started using in Magic Bullet #6. This issue is open-themed and has been sent to print with a run of 5,000. It will be hitting the streets in early February. Be sure to look for it around town and pick up this free publication.

Here are the contributors who made the cut for print publication in Magic Bullet #8:

Jeff McClelland
Rachel Scheer
Matt Dembicki
Sean Hill
R.M. Rhodes, Evan Keeling
Terry Flippo
Dale Rawlings
Zarmina Sulaiman, Jacob Warrenfeltz
Rafer Roberts
Troy-Jeffrey Allen, Matt Rawson
Art Hondros
Mark Lindblom
Michael Neno
Steve Loya
Kevin Panetta, Brooke A. Allen
JTW
Eric Gordon
Paul Zdepski
Bizhan Khodabandeh
Aaron DeLaRosa, Mark McMurray
T.R. Logan
Andrew Cohen
S.G. Artley
Daniel Rosa
Jason E. Axtell
Michael Cowgill
Jerry Carr
C. Michael Hall
Santiago Casares
Adam McGovern, Ellen C. Stedfeld
Joe Sutliff
Joe Carabeo, Carolyn Belefski

Thank you to all who submitted and we urge you to submit your comics to be considered in future editions.

I plan to bring several hot-off-the-press bundles to the D.C. Conspiracy Meet-Up next Sunday, February 9, 2014 at Buffalo Billiards (1330 19th Street, NW, Washington, DC) starting at 5:30 PM. We will also be distributing Magic Bullet to local establishments in DC, MD, and VA (places like book stores, restaurants, theaters, tattoo parlors, record shops, etc.).

We also plan to have Magic Bullet #8 at the cARToons exhibit opening reception on Thursday, February 13, 2014 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM at University of the District of Columbia Campus (4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20008 in Gallery 42, Building 42, Room A-12).

Magic Bullet contributors will be distributing the newspaper for free at many of their convention appearances in 2014.

Stay ‘tooned for more information about where to find Magic Bullet #8 as well as details about advertising and comic submission for the next issue, which will be announced shortly.

Your Pal,
Carolyn Belefski