Great Hoboes of New York

You ain't seen nothin' yet. The Great Hoboes are just getting going. We'd like you to visit and visit often. We're trying to recreate some of that wonder that hits most people when they first visit the East Village, Bowery and Lower Manhattan through our art and words. New content is added roughly three months. We are exploring different methods of presenting our material and individuals (film, spoken word recordings, a print quarterly) and are always open to suggestions for new methods or performance spaces. A broadsheet run was distributed at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade, several Summers back, which quickly ran out. If you would like a copy, please email Tyler Carey at tyler@greathoboes.com. If we get enough requests, we will run another printing.

This is a non-paid site - even the publisher has never collected a dime off of the site traffic or content (if anything, he's poured buckets into it). Essentially, it is a portfolio site. Our intention is to create a forum where creative types can get clippings or citations in their portfolio, and then try to roll the pieces or related concepts over to somebody who can compensate you for your talents. A few Great Hoboes have already done quite successfully, using this as a launching pad to other projects. All submissions are owned by their creators ("creator-owned" in the parlance of The Business). In other words, unlike other publications, you actually retain the rights to whatever you send us. If you want to take it down, edit it, or try to sell it to another publication, you can. To a beginning writer/artist, this may not seem like much, but as most publishing agreements for young freelancers make you sign over your rights, this is actually quite handy. The Mighty Skullboy Army has been a flagship success story of this on the site, starting as a strip here and ending up as a successful comic book with Dark Horse Comics, even with merchandising, and not a penny has been owed or paid to The Great Hoboes of New York for serving as the starting place of that comic.

We'd love to see any art, articles, photos, reviews, and musings that you have. Submissions should be emailed to tyler@greathoboes.com in MS Word format. While we're not sticklers, it's best if submissions adhere to the Strunk and White style manual.

One should also note that while Jean Paul Sartre said that every act is inherently political, we are not a political journal. Please keep submissions to literary and artistic endeavours and to general commentary, rather than point/counterpoint on the day's issues.