What Is This?!
Smut Peddler Presents: Baddies is a nefariously sexy comics anthology focused on the people we love to hate and hate to love: villains. Enemies to lovers? A romantic corruption arc? Sexy serial killers, wicked beasts, or deliciously deviant schemers? Rabid or refined, we want all your fiendishly erotic stories featuring your most dastardly baddies!
Who’s Involved?
We’ve already got some incredible creators conspiring with us to make this anthology happen! Our star-studded lineup includes:
And we have an amazing cover by Gobifrip!
What We Want!
Smut Peddler Presents: Baddies will be a full-color, all-comic anthology. Each story will be between 4 and 20 pages in length. Here are some examples of subject matter we think would fit the tone of the anthology:
- Venomous rivalries and sabotage, like in Tierney’s Heated Rivalry, and Oshimi’s The Flowers of Evil.
- Killers in love, like Fuller’s Hannibal, Stone’s Natural Born Killers or Brite’s Exquisite Corpse.
- Evil scientists doing anything for their experiments, like Gordon’s Re-Animator or Cronenberg’s The Fly.
- Monstrous hotties seducing their prey, like in Stoker’s Dracula or Gailey’s Spread Me.
…Or anything in the same vein as these ideas that you can conjure up. Just make it hot and evil!
What We Don’t Want!
- No submissions from creators under the age of 18.
- No generative AI content of any kind, written or visual. This is not up for negotiation. Art or writing suspected or discovered to be AI-assisted or generated will be removed from consideration immediately.
- No pin-ups and prose submissions. This anthology will exclusively feature comics.
- No proposals from incomplete creative teams. If you’re an artist without a writer, or a writer without an artist, please find a partner before submitting your proposal. Iron Circus Comics can’t play matchmaker. (Single-creator submissions are fine. We don’t prefer multi-person teams over single creators, or vice-versa.)
- No primary characters under the age of 18. All characters in your story must be adults, and look like adults.
- No bestiality / recognizable animal genitalia. While any monsters featured can have odd/alien/inhuman genitals, we don’t want to get arrested. So please, no recognizable animal junk!
- No non-consensual sexual content. The Smut Peddler line is built on enthusiastic consent. Always has been, always will be! That means every character in every sexual situation depicted should want to be there, and that should be obvious. This anthology isn’t for non-con (non-consensual) or dub-con (dubious consent) stories. No one’s yuckin your yum, but that’s just not what Smut Peddler’s about.
- No fanfic, fan art, or pastiche. Please don’t submit stories using intellectual property you don’t own, stories that are clearly referential of such work, or take place in the same universe or reality.
Payment
Smut Peddler Presents: Baddies will pay contributing teams a page rate of $100, plus ten contributor’s copies per creator, and the perpetual right to buy copies of the anthology for 50% off the cover price for as long as the comic is in print. There will also be a bonus to page rates for all contributors if the Kickstarter campaign meets its stretch goals!
Creators’ Rights
Creators submit stories to Smut Peddler Presents: Baddies with the understanding that, if accepted, they are ceding exclusive first worldwide rights to the story for a full calendar year from the date of publication, and non-exclusive worldwide reprint rights in perpetuity. Intellectual property rights will remain in the hands of the creator(s).
We don’t want your characters or concepts, just your comics.
Production Timeline
- Submissions are opening October 1st, 2026.
- Submissions close December 1st, 2026.
- Successful applicants will be announced February 1st, 2027.
- Final art will be due July 15th, 2027.
- The Kickstarter will run through February 2028.
- The book is expected to ship in late 2028 or early 2029.
If your submission is accepted, the final art must be designed to fit standard American comic anthology dimensions: 6.625″ × 10.25″. What this means for your production process depends on your choice of medium, but the following guides may be useful.
For more information, consult Blambot’s page on the subject.
FAQ
What material will we need to submit for consideration?
Submissions will open October 1st, 2026. Prospective participants will be required to provide:
- The names and email addresses of all creators involved in the story
- The title of the proposed story
- A summary of the proposed story which includes the beginning, the middle, and the end
- A predicted page count (estimates are fine)
- Portfolio links for the proposed participants, which may also include any preparatory sketches done for the proposal, although this is not required
Each participant will also acknowledge and agree to a release, which will be part of the Google form.
What level of ability will you be looking for in submissions?
This is a professional publishing project. Writing and art will have to meet our standards of quality. Please browse our previous anthology efforts to get an idea of what we consider acceptable.
I’m not American. Can I still submit to this anthology?
Sure!
Can I submit more than one proposal? I have multiple good ideas!
Yes, but please, no more than three per creator/creative team. We want your best ideas, not every idea you have.
I have an already-finished comic that fits this prompt perfectly. Would you be willing to consider it?
Only so long as it truly fits the original prompt, follows the stated guidelines, and has never been physically published before. (Online publication as a webcomic or portfolio piece is fine.)
What age group will this anthology be meant for?
Adults.
Is the page rate per comic, or per team member?
Per comic. If the anthology finishes its crowdfund with a $100 page rate, that page rate will be universal, regardless of the size of the creative teams. A comic with three contributing creators won’t make $300 per page.
What about intellectual property rights? Are you buying those from selected stories?
No. Participation in Smut Peddler Presents: Baddies cedes universal first publication rights to Iron Circus Comics for a period of one year, and general publication rights in perpetuity.
What that means in practice is that only ICC, and no one else, will be permitted to sell your story in the agreed format (as part of an anthology) for one calendar year, and will be permitted to continue to sell your story non-exclusively in perpetuity. After that initial year concludes, you can put your submission on your Patreon, sell it to a different anthology, stick it up on itch.io with pay-what-you-want pricing, print it as a mini for cons, anything you like.
And ICC is not purchasing intellectual property rights. If Guillermo del Toro decides he needs to make a movie out of a story we’ve published in Smut Peddler Presents: Baddies, he’ll have to go to you, not us. ICC exclusively publishes creator-owned comics.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this project which have not been addressed here, you can contact the coordinators at [email protected]. Please read this page in its entirety before emailing.