What are mini comics?

I know part of the fun is in their lack of concrete definition, but is there a loose standard as such? Maybe it's best to create a standard type of mini comic artists can aspire to?* If you created the standard what would it be?

Mine would look something like this:

• A mini comic is A6 in size (one quarter of an A4 page) form american and Canadians this would be a quarter of a letter or legal sized piece of paper
• A mini comic is 8-24 pages in length not including the cover
• small mini comic = 8 pages + cover
• medium mini comic = 12 pages + cover
• large mini comic = 16 pages + cover
• super large mini comic = 24 pages + cover
• Ideally the cover should be a thicker stock to protect the inside pages
• Productions values should be kept simple, eg, plain paper and B&W printing. The book should be easy and cheap to make, keep the extra effort saved for drawing and writing an awesome comic

*By 'standard type of mini comic' I don't mean every mini comic should be this way or it's not a mini comic but rather, a pre-imagined format that has a name, ie, 'Browns standard mini'**

**Yes this is a poo joke

Chugnut Comics No.3 now available, inspired by 'Free Comic Book Day' I have put together a showcase of some artists here for you to download and checkout, totally free. Clicking on the link will take you to a download page were you will see the file called 'Chugnut_FCBD_2013', from here you can download the file (perfect for a tablet) or chose to read on your browser. Enjoy! http://cl.ly/Ojvw 

Chugnut 2013 (March 22-24)

It has begun! Attending this year are,


Anthony Woodward
David C Mahler
David Blumenstein
Sarah Howell
Marta Tesoro
Rob Macfarlane
Gregory Mackay
Mandy Ord
Andrew Fulton
Jo Waite

There are some more folks, but we will have to wait until they arrive. More updates soon

the caravan of comics

I don't know if you know - but I do and I'm here to make sure you know - that some very special Chugnutters (google it) have made a very special little trip -

Hopefully someone from the ACTUAL Caravan of Comics posts here eventually upon their return to our shores girt by sea. BUT I'd like to write a quick thingo to say how proud I am that Aussies made this awesome adventure over to the states and Canada to go and GET IT ON for their comics and Aussie comics in general!

If you haven't ch-ch-checked it - you should ch-ch-check it out on their website http://caravanofcomics.com/ 

• DAVID BLUMENSTEIN
• JEN BREACH
• ANDREW FULTON
• PAT GRANT
• MICHAEL HAWKINS
• DOUG HOLGATE
• SARAH HOWELL
• BEN HUTCHINGS
• GREGORY MACKAY
• MANDY ORD
• JOHN RETALLICK
• MATT TAYLOR

On behalf of all Australian comic-makers ... I'd like to say thankyou Caravan of Comics ... may your beards grow long! 

comics ahoy hoy

EDIT:
Ok, I wrote this for my personal blog and accidentally posted it in chugnuts...but we should get some comics on here, yeh? so i've removed the unnecessary text and have left le pictures:

This one originally appeared in Wooly Bully's free comic book day comic, edited by the deloightful Marc Pearson. It's part one of a (so far) 50+ page book I'm working on.

Chugnut this year

So I meant to put some of me drawings up from Chugnut but I spent most of the time finishing off this comic that I was doing for a magazine at Chuggers and I don't wanna stick it up just yet ... so I'm gunna stick up some of me other favourite project.

- drawing footy players!!! OHHH YEAHHH!!!!

CARN' The BLUE-BAGGERS!!!!

More of that dynamite stuff at me website. And at the bottom is another travel comic I did the other week whilst cruising around the sickeningly windy roads of Western Tasmania at Easter time ....

What I done at Chuggers- Neale B Year 8c