Regular Show Zine Project!!!
The project is on!!! So far we have about 25 artists willing to participate!!
The zine’s official blog: regularshowzine.tumblr.com (under construction)
This is not an exclusive project!! Any Regular Show fan is welcome to contribute! Just please message me letting me know that you want to join in so you’ll be put on the list!!!
The theme is: The Main 3 (Mordecai, Rigby, and Benson)
Description: This zine will explore and celebrate the fascinating platonic relational dynamics between Mordecai, Rigby, and Benson. Your challenge is to create one or two pieces of art that focus on two or all three of the characters interacting in some way.
Acceptable entries (digital art is preferred):
-A fully finished illustration or painting
-A page of cleaned up sketches, colored (must be several sketches)
-A comic (finished illustration or colored sketches)
-Fan made title cards (for any episode with a main focus on two or all three of these characters eg: Blind Trust, Wall Buddy, Lunch Club, Weekend at Benson’s)
Relationship Dynamics (my interpretation):
-Mordecai + Rigby = brotherly best friends
-Mordecai + Benson = coach and trainee, brotherly friends, have each other’s backs, a little more open with each other, a little more on the mature side, willing to admit their own faults
-Rigby + Benson = coach and difficult trainee, warming up to and learning to trust one another, goof off together like college/high school kids
-Mordecai and Rigby and Benson = brothers/good hearted “tough love” employer and his employees/fatherly figure and his adoptive sons, hoping they become more wise and hard working than he was when he was younger, and pushing them to do better
Note: These are only some of my ideas about their relationships. Their canonical relationships are open to your own interpretation, but I thought I’d write out my ideas as a very rough guide to help you out!
Rules:
-No NSFW please! Keep it PG so everyone can enjoy! If it wouldn’t happen on the air, please don’t put it in the zine!
 -No shipping/subtle shipping hinting please! Platonic pairings/portrayals only!! Shipping creates division between fans and I want this zine to encompass how wonderful the friendships in the show are!! 
 -Canon characterizations only please! If it’s too out of character from what they’d do in the show, don’t put it in the zine!! I want this zine to fully appreciate the show, so I want it to be authentically real! (Take this rule with a grain of salt. It’s totally ok to exaggerate the characters’ actions! Just don’t draw them doing anything extremely abnormal from what they would do on the show).
Open conversations on tumblr (and on any other website), streaming/video recording your entry drawing process, and posting previews are more than welcome!! If you talk about the zine or post previews, please tag it as #regularshowzine so I and anyone else interested can see!! Just please don’t post your entry before the zine goes live.
Also please note, the zine MIGHT be printed, but not for profit. (I don’t want to get folks’ money involved if I can help it, I just want all of us to have fun! However, if I find a high quality, cheap way to get these printed, I may try to make it happen, and the zines would only cost the price of shipping and printing. I also might try fundraising on my own time to get them printed).
If you are creating an entry, please stay on top of communication and please follow the guidelines and due dates!!
Current due date: September 6th, Regular Show’s premiere date and the show’s 6th birthday!!
Date of zine going live: To be determined (when everyone is allowed to post their work)
If folks aren’t ready or if this isn’t enough time, I will push the final due date back further.
Thank you everyone!!! Have fun!! I can’t wait to see what you’ll draw!!