Summoning Circle Press

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TTRPG Zine Publishing Co-op | Queer-run | We make Splat Magazine ft. inclusive gaming advice & intersectional relationships to games. 😷🍉🏳️‍🌈✊ Rituals For Dead Games out now! https://summoningpress.carrd.co/

Splat issues on a zine rack
Poster for Zinetopia. Medieval art makes the background and a speech bubble from a wolf with wide open mouth says "Im tabling at Zinetooia winter Fair." Other text reads Saturday December 23th, 12-4pm, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, 101 Queen St North. Mask up.
Booth display from PAX UNPLUGGED that has our Splat zines on a rotating rack and Rituals for Dead Games displayed by itself at the front (next to all the wonderful Starlight Grove games)
Summoning Circle Press logo on a torn paper background with PAX Unplugged logo above and text "booth 4059" below
Poster for Grafficker Alley, a comic, mange and zine show. A raccoon, dog, and pigeon cling to a photocopier on wheels racing through the city with the CN tower in the background. Details on the poster include: Saturday September 06 from 11-5pm. Free Admission. Hundreds of artists. Small Arms Inspection Building at 1352 Lakeshore Rd East in Mississauga. Graffickeralley.ca
Jupiter's hand holding a printed copy of Rituals For Dead Games outside near a black fence
Poster for Grafficker Alley, a comic, mange and zine show. A raccoon, dog, and pigeon cling to a photocopier on wheels racing through the city with the CN tower in the background. Details on the poster include: Saturday September 06 from 11-5pm. Free Admission. Hundreds of artists. Small Arms Inspection Building at 1352 Lakeshore Rd East in Mississauga. Graffickeralley.ca
The cover of "Where You Still Find Me" that mentions a url for a discount when the full project goes live.
Updated zine cover. Half the title: "Rituals for" is now handwritten on torn brown paper in the top left corner. The blue roses remain as the background image. The rest of the title "Dead Games" is now stylized where the word dead is faded and wavy.
Cover for a zine called Rituals for Dead Games. Black text in two different fonts over an edited photograph of roses and petals that has been recoloured blue
Jupiter speaking to the camera while laying down. Her purple hair is splayed out around her head. She wears a red shirt and white sweater.
An open box labelled "The TOMB! Write epitaphs for dead characters" with index cards placed inside
Splat Magazine display at Breakout Con vending table.
Jupiter shows off the sticker sheet
A sticker sheet of drawn illustrations about zines and a claw over books and the Summoning Circle Press logo. The printed sheet sits on a colourful box.
A digital proof of a sticker sheet. there are 6 stickers. One is how to fold a zine, one is a dragon glaw over a stack of books that says "own your media", three are zines with slogans on them. the slogans are "Archive your life", "Doesn't have to be 'good' to matter", and "Make weirder art". The last sticker is the Summoning Circle Press logo which is the words curled around a sparkling orb.
Promo image of text on a dark purple background. Text reads "Rituals for Dead Games" in an all caps bookish font with "spring 2025" in a sketchy handwritten font. There are orange sparks floating around. The Summoning Circle Press logo sits in the bottom left corner.
Jupiter, a white woman with purple hair and a black sweater explains the pitch call. It starts with just her speaking directly to camera. The middle of the video is greenscreened with her talking over the image of the pitch call and she gestures at "3-4 writers" as well as "prioritizing BIMPOC writers". The video returns to just her talking directly to camera.
A Pitch Call announcement of white text on dark purple. The Summoning Circle Logo of the words around a sparkling sphere appears in the top left corner. Text reads as follows: Pitch Call: “Rituals for Dead Games” What: New, small, playable games/rituals that address the grief and loss of a game/campaign that is no longer. Who: You! No experience required. We are prioritizing QTBIMPOC writers. All are welcome to apply. When: Applications open until Feb 2, 2025. Work due in late March. Pay: $100 USD for ~500 words. Other: ISO 3-4 writers. If there are many strong pitches, we will consider a Volume II for later in the year.
Jupiter, a white woman with purple hair and wearing a ouija board sweater talking directly to the camera with some manual zooming in for emphasis.
The cover of Splat 5 against a golden border. The illustration is a ladder to the moon starting from a dice pile planet. A stick figure climbs the ladder. The sun of Dice world is flat and almost pencil drawn, there the moon and starry sky of Moon world is 3D and more digital. There's our logo in the bottom left corner with the tag "History" and "#5 - 2024" sandwiching the logo in the box.
A selfie of Meguey in a cornfield. She has a grey knit witch hat on, a blue and pink patterned scarf, and a chunky orange sweater. She smiles knowingly at the camera.
The Splat zine logo which is an illustrated gelatinous cube full of miscellaneous game pieces and the word SPLAT.
A drawing and text on a goldenrod coloured background. The illustration is a tarot card featuring a sword made of different materials up the blade. The bottom block is covered in dragon scales, the next block is a gelatinous cube full of bones, the third block is a computer chip, the fourth block is a spooky face in a ghostly form, and the top, pointed block is covered in thorny vines and has rose petals drifting from it. These are callbacks to former zine covers. There are mountains, clouds and the sun in the background. The card border lists Splat as the card title at the bottom and has card number 5 at the top. Text next to the image reads: Summoning Circle Press Presents: Splat 5 - Golden. The fonts are art deco inspired and the word Golden has a curly flourish underneath it to separate it from the logo. The bottom corner of the banner has the Summoning Circle Press logo (which is the three words placed around a sparkling orb).
Hotch takes a mirror selfie. He wears a yellow shirt w pizza and a white N95. He shows a peace sign.
Copies of 3 issues of Splat on a retail table with other TTRPG products. On cover has a person reading in a spaceship, one has two women dancing, one has a gelatinous cube melting into 3 people's heads.