International Comic / Manga School Contest 2023 Coming Soon

[CLIP STUDIO PAINT] Our popular manga, comic, and illustration contest aimed at students worldwide will soon be back for another year! Winners can win cash prizes, digital art app plans, pen tablets, and a chance to get feedback on their work from pro artists and their entries published! School registration starts today, with submissions opening soon after that, so now is the time to get started on your project! Only entries from registered schools will be accepted, so talk to your teachers or school staff to get your school registered right away! You don’t have to be in an art school to participate - all schools are welcome! [See details here]( Contest theme: Light and Darkness School registration: Nov 1, 2022 — April 3, 2023 09:00 UTC Entry period: Dec 1, 2022 — April 10, 2023 09:00 UTC Results announced: early July 2023 (TBC) Categories There are six categories you can enter! Take a look below and see which one fits your style best. Comic Category: an original comic drawn in color or black-and-white Manga Category: an original manga drawn in black-and-white Bande Dessinée Category: an original bande desinée (francophone traditional comic) drawn in color Webtoon Category: a vertically scrolling comic drawn in color or black-and-white Storyboard Category: a comic, manga, or webtoon drawn according to a supplied manuscript text Illustration Category: an original color illustration Awards and Prizes Comic / Manga / Bande dessinée / Webtoon categories ・Contest Grand Prize (1 winner) ・Category Award (1 winner each) ・Runners-up (3-5 winners each) Storyboard / Illustration categories ・Category Award (1 winner each) ・Runners-up (3-5 winners each) Winners may receive cash prizes, a Wacom Cintiq Pro 16 (DTH167), and other prizes useful for digital creativity. Overall winner of 2022 contest Victory Christian International School Artist: kanins (Philippines) Title: PAGPAG [Read]( Contestants may receive critiques and advice from the judges in this contest on their works. Be sure to take a look at what the judges said last time. 1) These depict a number of different experiences in a single day, but it’s hard to tell how much time passes during all these events. It could be a few days or a few hours, so it might help to have some dialogue or a sunset, to help your readers grasp the passage of time here. 2) After the action of page 1, it felt a bit sudden for him to go back to the car and talk about Alissa. I think it would have been more natural for him, after reminiscing about his memories of Alissa in high school, for him to talk about his feelings about her after she passed away. [Read critiques]( Sponsors Gold sponsors [SHUEISHA]( SHUEISHA is a Japanese publisher that specializes in manga, fashion magazines, and literary books. They publish a variety of comic magazines from Weekly Shonen Jump and Weekly Young Jump to Ribbon in Japan. As well as being the publisher of the worldwide smash hit, One Piece, SHUEISHA also provides manga fans with the Shonen Jump+, Manga Mee, and YoungJump! apps. [KADOKAWA]( An all-around entertainment company, KADOKAWA, runs a wide range of businesses in publishing, videos, games, web services, education, merchandising, intangible services, and inbound sales. The company’s free comic site, [Comic Walker]( features popular KADOKAWA manga. It boasts more than 4,000 titles ranging from mixed-media works to popular isekai comics. [BookLive is looking for original comic artists!]( Top all-round Japanese e-book store, BookLive, is looking for authors to write for two new collections: COMIC Ambre, a seinen manga anthology aimed at adults regardless of their gender, and COMIC Etoile, a collection of manga for women, offering realistic love stories that excite and delight in an isekai setting. Whether professional or an amateur, we look forward to falling in love with your entries! [Ki-oon]( Ki-oon is a French publishing house founded in 2003 by two manga fans. It is currently the third largest publisher in France, publishing "My Hero Academia," "Jujutsu Kaisen," "Frieren", "BEASTARS," and many more. In addition to purchasing licenses, they also produce and publish original works in a variety of genres, such as "Tsugumi Project", "Léviathan", "Beyond the Clouds", "Outlaw Players", "Lost Children", "Outsiders" and "L'Éden des sorcières". These works are initially published in France and then licensed for Japanese and worldwide distribution. ★To all participants★Hello and thank you for joining this contest! I am honored to be a judge for the third time in this contest. I hope to make some great discoveries again this year, and maybe even meet some authors to work with. Remember, a good layout, clean lineart, strong characters, a coherent narrative, and universal themes... These are all the basic ingredients you need to create a story that will win over the hearts of your readers. Give it your best shot! See you soon, and I look forward to reading your work! [pixiv]( pixiv is a social network where creators can communicate with their artwork, publish and share illustrations, manga and short stories. We are planning a campaign in conjunction with this contest to help everyone to make their first post! Stay tuned! ★To all participants★Hi, pixiv here. When you draw comics, sometimes you might feel alone in the dark. Sometimes you suffer so much you feel like quitting. But work created in such tough conditions transcend time and space like light that ends up touching someone else on the other side of the world. We at pixiv try to help your works reach faraway places like that. We are looking forward to seeing what stories come out of this year’s contest. [Wacom]( Pioneer of pen and display tablets made for creatives, used to create the world’s most exciting digital art, films, special effects, fashion, and design. Click [here]( to learn more about educational use. ★To all participants★Wacom hopes to continue building a bright future for young digital artists everywhere by developing natural and intuitive digital solutions that have been the preferred choice of professionals in artistic fields. We look forward to seeing your creative works. Silver sponsors [MangaPlaza]( MangaPlaza is one of the largest providers of digital manga in the U.S. Boasting over 76,000 titles from 40+ publishers, users can discover exciting works, including platform exclusives. We also offer a monthly plan that grants users access to 21,000 chapters for a great deal. Begin your journey on MangaPlaza and find your next favorite series! [FUNGUILD: On the lookout for talented creators!]( FUNGUILD produces and edits original comics that resonate with readers for consumption on a wide variety of digital comic sites in Japan and around the world. We are on the hunt for the next big talent in Girls’, Boys’, and Women’s manga. If you have the skills, we can guarantee you a series and immediate debut! We’re also looking for webtoon (vertically scrolling comics) creators and look forward to seeing all your entries this year! (Enter at: [( ★To all participants★ To bring FUN to life through the power of stories. This is the mission of FUNGUILD, and we believe in the power of storytelling. We can only imagine what kinds of stories and works of art will come from the free, unrestrained imaginations of everyone who has gathered from across the world for this contest. We can’t wait to see what unique new ideas and visuals come out of this! [Planeta Cómic]( Planeta Cómic (Grupo Planeta) was founded in 1982. We offer a wide range of the world's best shonen manga: Dragon Ball, My Hero Academia, Naruto, One Piece and Kaiju No. 8, as well as kodomo, seinen, shojo, yuri, and BL manga. We also have our own successful magazine: Planeta Manga. As for North American comics, our Star Wars books and independent works deserve special mention. Both our collection of national graphic novels (Los pacientes del doctor García, Voces que cuentan, Cuatro poetas en guerra) and international graphic novels (From Hell, The Hunting Accident, The Eternaut) are all highly acclaimed. [DUPUIS]( Dupuis is a Belgian publisher with over 100 years of history, and the main creator of many great Franco-Belgian comic heroes, such as Spirou, the Marsupilami and Gaston Lagaffe, to name a few. It is also known as the publishing house with the most diverse library in Europe, with titles in teen & young adult comics, manga, webtoons, graphic novels, news and many other genres. ★To all participants★The Dupuis group owns the Vega Dupuis manga label, which is due to publish original manga titles by artists from all over the world, as well as its own platform of original webtoons in English and French, Webtoon Factory. Dupuis is on the lookout for young talents in the manga, webtoon, comics, and bande dessinée fields. [Webtoon publisher RED SEVEN: on the lookout for international creators]( RED SEVEN is a company founded with the combined powers of REDICE STUDIO, creators of "Solo Leveling," and L SEVEN, creators of "Omniscient Reader." They aim to provide a superior media experience for our readers and set the full potential of both companies into motion. With works such as "King of Excavation", "The Great Mage Returns After 4000 Years" and "Lady Devil", RED SEVEN aims to realize the potential of both and provide readers with an elevated reading experience. They are looking for all sorts of manga works, beyond the webtoon genre they’re known for and look forward to your entries. [SORAJIMA Inc.]( SORAJIMA Inc. is a manga studio with the largest share of Webtoons produced in Japan. What’s more, while developing its global and multimedia offerings, the studio is also taking on becoming a platform provider and putting effort into its new manga app, SORACOMI, all built in-house. [Mangatari]( We are a Manga Artist Entertainment Production company with a vision to create the stage where the next generation of manga artists can be active and accelerate the evolution of Japanese manga. Working closely with manga artists' careers, we push the envelope on manga as an artform. For companies, we provide services such as the Original Story Advertising Manga "Orist" service, which produces manga for commercials. We also deliver manga to publishers through our Team-based Serialization and Comic Production "Manpro" business. ★To all participants★ We are excited to meet the next generation of manga artists who will build a new future together with us! We hope that you all see this as an opportunity to try out something truly daring and ambitious! Collaborators [SHOGAKUKAN]( SHOGAKUKAN is a general publishing company that publishes magazines such as comic magazines, children's magazines, information magazines, women's magazines, books and picture books. The comic magazine genre covers a wide range of readers from boys and girls to adults, such as CoroCoro Comic, Weekly Shonen Sunday, Sho-Comi, and Big Comic. The company also runs the comic app, Manga One, which has been downloaded over 20 million times. [BOOK WALKER Global]( BOOK☆WALKER Global is one of the world's most popular eBook stores and apps for reading over 29,000 digital Manga & Light Novels. Experience and enjoy the latest manga and light novels, mainly from Japan on your iOS and Android devices and/or the web viewer. ★To all participants★ As fellow manga fans, we know the power that a good story can have. Give it your best and let your work shine! Good luck! [EVER GLORY PUBLISHING CO.,LTD.]( Founded in June 1991, Ever Glory Publishing Co., Ltd. has mainly had educational- and entertainment-oriented children’s books published and distributed. It once gained authorizations from SHOGAKUKAN, Kodansha, SHUEISHA, and Akita Shoten to issue Chinese versions of comics in Taiwan. As part of its recent focus on training manga artists and holding original manga contests regularly, the company also welcomes aspiring authors to submit their comics and novels whenever possible. [POCKET COMICS]( Pocket Comics is a manga app with a large selection of full color webtoons, known as comico in Japanese, Korean and Thai. In English, French, German and Traditional Chinese it is known as Pocket Comics and has been downloaded over 41 million times worldwide. ★To all participants★Pocket Comics is also actively engaged sharing the workload in producing vertically scrolling full-color manga (webtoons). We look forward to seeing all your entries for the Webtoon Category this year! [SILENT MANGA AUDITION®]( One of the biggest international manga competitions, exclusively without dialogue. It is organized by COAMIX Inc., a manga publisher founded by iconic creators such as Tetsuo Hara and Tsukasa Hojo. The competition aims to discover, nurture, and publish the next generation of international manga creators through exclusive opportunities, such as the MasterClass and Kumamoto-based Artists Village projects. ★To all participants★Thanks to Celsys for letting us take part in the International Comic/Manga Schools Contest again! We are delighted that more and more creators seem to be interested in creating manga every year. At SILENT MANGA AUDITION®, we believe that manga is a tool that breaks language barriers and reaches readers across the the world. We look forward to seeing more wonderful stories you share through the contest. [Minto Studio]( Minto Studio is a webtoon specialist, which built up a unique production system through its vast global creator network and 10 years of content production knowledge. It produces works in collaboration with a number of platforms including Kakao Pikkoma, with whom it has a business alliance with. At the moment, they are recruiting storywriters and other comic creators, and depending on your ability, there is a chance for an immediate debut and serialization deal! ★To all participants★My name is Nakagawa, and I am in charge of Minto Studio. I experienced launching a manga app in 2013, at the dawn of the manga app explosion in Japan, and I feel like webtoons today offer so many more opportunities to creators than they did at that time. Webtoons are growing so quickly, and are close to being a standard form of entertainment around the world. We hope to be able to work with you to create titles that touch the hearts of people around the world. We can’t wait to see what you produce! [Tokyo Name Tank]( Our goal is to support everyone in creating their own manga while having fun drawing it. We have produced many award-winning and debut artists. In addition to storyboard lessons that cover how to structure a complete 32-page storyboard, we also hold individual consultations and storyboard exchange sessions to answer concerns about the creation of comics. ★To all participants★Hello to all of you manga artists out there! This is Goto, lecturer and president of Tokyo Name Tank. We specialize in teaching people how to tell stories in manga. In my lectures, I teach my students that manga is a letter to their readers. Reading this, you might think that you have nothing to write in a letter but, if you can have fun drawing something from the heart and ask, "I like this! What did you think?" and start a dialogue with your readers, isn't that the same kind of communication as in a letter? Right! That's exactly like a letter and, as your reader, I am looking forward to reading all the messages you send from far-off countries! Junpei Goto [Cork Co., Ltd.]( Cork is a creative agency with a mission to "Change the world, one person at a time, through the power of storytelling." A creator agency whose mission is to change each and everyone's world through the power of storytelling. The agency aims to create a world where comics can shine brightly, where excitement is generated from creators and fans connecting directly and building a model for entertainment that goes beyond traditional publishing and distribution. In line with this mission, we aim to build the next generation of entertainment models with "Cork Studio," where new manga artists and editors team up to create works, and "Cork Lab Manga Senka," which trains professional manga artists whose main area of activity is through social media and fan communities. [LINE WEBTOON]( LINE WEBTOON is a new global digital comics platform available on both computer and mobile devices. The Traditional Chinese version was released in July 2014 and is dedicated to providing readers with manga content that you won’t want to put down once you start reading! LINE WEBTOON also strives to nurture Taiwanese creators. For more information, see their official website: [( Supporters [Japan Cartoonists Association]( The Japan Cartoonists Association was established in December 1964 as the only nationwide organization of Japan's manga artists at that time and became an Incorporated Association in 1985 before becoming a Public Interest Incorporated Association in 2014. It is engaged in a variety of projects, such as research on comics, efforts in popularizing comics and comics culture, and comics cultural exchange with other countries. [Manga Japan]( Manga Japan is an organization that aims to promote the development of manga culture and artists, contribute to society through the manga industry, promote international exchange, and improve production environments for manga authors and others involved in the industry. [Digital Manga Association]( The Digital Manga Association is an organization of volunteers established to explore creative technologies for the creation of digital manga and comics and research copyright issues caused by digitization. ★To all participants★Comic drawing is a wonderful thing. There are some stories that only certain people can create. Draw the world of your imagination as best as you can. 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