Highway 62

The Submission Guidelines for every Comic and Manga Publisher in the Universe | Optimum Wound

Here's a nice service being rendered. Optimum Wound Comics offers up a list of comics publishers who are taking unsolicited submissions for books.

Unless you're a writer.

Okay, I'm overstating things a tad (as is my wont). However, you'll find a lot more houses who want artists and colorists than they do writers. There's a few reasons for this, I bet. One of them is that a lot of these smaller publishers are formed around a team (or several) who are putting out their own books under their own banner. This is not a criticism. I'm doing the same damn thing. But like them, Highway 62 Press isn't looking for other projects to publish (and yes, I've gotten several queries and unsolicited submissions--mostly at conventions.)

The other reasons for this fall into the category of "why it sucks to be a writer trying to break into comics." 1) Everyone thinks they can write. You can look at your own art and know whether or not you can get a job in comics (or you'd think that, there's some submissions that make me wonder). 2) It takes a lot more work to grade a writing submission than it does art. I can look at art and know in three seconds whether it's worth spending another thirty on to see if it's worth spending three minutes on. That makes sorting art submissions very, very speedy. Reading a script page will tell you whether the writer can do dialogue and set a story. It won't tell you if they can structure one (I still can't.) It won't tell you if they have the full skillset or can be taught it (not that anyone wants to have to teach a writer much, other than in exceptional cases.)

Good luck! I know that there are people who've gotten work through the slush pile, but I don't know any of them personally. Which is why that whole eyebrow raising about Marvel's "new policy" of not reading unsolicited submissions didn't get said reaction out of me. Just because you accept those submissions doesn't mean that they'll do anything other than sit on a gigantic pile.