Contributors

The Gamecock Codex is written, edited, and illustrated by a small group of working contributors. They are listed here, in alphabetical order, with a brief note on their work for the Codex.

Iris Marlow — Editor-at-Large

Iris writes the long-form essays for the Codex. She is the author of Anatomy of the Cock, The Long Tail, and The Shape of Courage. Her work for the Codex is supported by a deep reading of the breed books (Lewis Wright, Harrison Weir, William Bernhard Tegetmeier) and the primary ethnographic sources (Aldrovandi, the Manasollasa, Audubon’s Birds of America).

On her approach: “The gamecock is a difficult bird. He is beautiful and he is brutal; he is the emblem of three continents and the shame of a dozen legislatures. The Codex tries to hold all of that at once, and probably doesn’t.”

The Editors — Imprint, Colophon, Editorial Standards

The editorial standards, the colophon, the imprint, and the byline of the magazine Gamecock (which is not a real magazine) are credited to The Editors — a working name for the editorial collective. The Editors also write the closing notes, the section openers, and the marketing copy on the homepage.

The Illustrators — Plate Series, Ornament Library

The SVG plates in the Codex are drawn by a rotating cast of contributors, all working in the engraved-plate tradition. The current plates were drawn by The Illustrators — a working name for the design team.

How to become a contributor

The Codex is a working project, and we are open to new contributors — particularly in the following areas:

• Original breed portraits — drawn in SVG, in the engraved-plate tradition. We will accept up to four new breeds a year.
• Translations — the Codex is currently English-only. We are particularly interested in Hindi, Japanese, Spanish, and Bahasa Indonesia translations.
• Primary-source contributions — out-of-copyright breed books, agricultural-press articles, broadsheets, stud-books. We are particularly interested in sources that are not yet in the public-domain digital libraries.
• Editorial review — the four-step editorial process (research, drafting, review, revision) is open to volunteer readers.

If you are interested in contributing, please open an issue on the GitLab repository with the tag contribution.