International Art Competitions - art contest for artists

Comic competition 2020

Deadline: 4 January 2020

Fumetto Comic Festival Lucerne annually publishes a competition. It should offer comic creators the opportunity to face an international comparison and present it to the general public.

We connect us with other people, the clima is linked with the whole globe and for some of us, the heating at home is connected with the cellphone. How we do get connected – no matter if voluntarily or unavoidably – is still individual at the moment. But how is that in the future: what is the benefit of more networking, where does this lead us to? What is the advantage, what are the risks? How do we handle networking in the future?

Draw us your comic, that includes the topic «networked» in any form.

Categories:
18 years or older
13 to 17 years
up to 12 years of age Reference date is the deadline

Format: A4 or A3 (other formats will be disqualified)

Form and number of pages: Only comics (stories in picture form), no entries via e-mail. Maximum 4 pages (only 1 comic story).

No entry fee

Prizes:
Fumetto will award three prizes in each of three categories: 18 years or older, 13 to 17 years, up to 12 years of age. The winners will receive cash prizes.


Details:
https://www.fumetto.ch/en/wettbewerbe/fumetto-wettbewerb-2020/

Deadline: periodicaly

We believe that each person has its way to Feel and contribute to the world with different ways of expressing it through Creative Arts. That is why we are promoting a New Talents Contest.

Six different Disciplines:

Story: Between 500 and 1.000 words long in the Spanish, English or French languages and about any of the Feelings or Attitudes specifically proposed in this section.

Illustration: Color drawing of a Character that identifies with the Feelings or Attitudes specifically proposed in this Section.

Comic: Between 3 and 6 sheets in DINA4 size, without any texts inside, either in black and white or in color, and concerning any of the Feelings or Attitudes specifically proposed in this section.

Optional: The Comic may consist of several vignettes i.e. comic drawings with descriptive-reflective texts underneath them that help us understand the Comic as well as make us Think and Feel.

Fashion: Design of a garment (from a Sock to a Haute Couture clothing), using contents from our website: Logos, Characters, enlarged/modified vignettes or parts of those vignettes or concerning any of the Feelings or Attitudes specifically proposed by ME&MYLIFE in this section.

Jewels: 3D design, concerning any of the Feelings or Attitudes specifically proposed in this section.

Music: Instrumental, vocal and/or mixed musical composition, in any language, concerning any Feeling or Attitude specifically proposed in this section.

No entry fee

Prizes:
6 prizes of 3.000 euros
6 prizes of 2.000 euros
6 prizes of 1.000 euros

Details:
https://www.meandmylife.com/en/new-talents.html

Deadline: 14th June 2019


The Japan International MANGA Award was established in May 2007 upon the initiative of then Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Taro Aso, with the aim of awarding MANGA creators who contribute to the spread of MANGA culture overseas and international cultural exchanges through MANGA. The Award has been presented every year since then.

Among entries, the gold Award will be given to the best work and the Silver Awards to three other excellent works. The awardees will be invited to Japan by the Japan Foundation to attend the award ceremony. During their stay in Japan (approximately 10 days trip), they will also have the opportunity to exchange ideas with Japanese MANGA creators, visit publishing companies and make an excursion to local sites.

MANGA works:
- need to be composed ofmorethan 16pages.
- should be the ones which have been producedwithin the past three years(2016-2019)

Only one work may be submitted per applicant

No entry fee


Prizes
The Gold Award and the Silver Award winners will be invited to Japan to attend the award ceremony. During their stay in Japan (approximately 10 days trip), they will also have the opportunity to exchange ideas with Japanese MANGA creators, visit publishing companies and make an excursion to local sites.

Details:
https://www.manga-award.mofa.go.jp/index_e.html
https://www.mofa.go.jp/press/release/press4e_002413.html

Deadline: 9th May 2019

This manga, comic and illustration contest is open to students enrolled in an Art/Design school, technical/vocational school, school art club, or extracurricular art program. Submit your work for a chance to win a cash prize, creative software, pen display tablet and even a chance for your artwork to be featured in media publications! We can’t wait to see what you’ll create.

Artists are free to use any art medium to create their submission. Submissions must be unpublished original artworks that have not won other contests and must be suitable for all ages. (You may submit artwork that has been published in fanzines or on websites that do not offer compensation for artwork.)

The competition theme is Gift.

There are two categories:

• Comic Category – an original color or black-and-white comic of 8–48 pages.
• Illustration Category – an original color illustration.

No entry fee

Prizes:
Total sum of 12,000 $

Details:
https://www.clipstudio.net/promotion/comiccontest/en/

Deadline: 15 December 2018


We are looking for comics on the added value of the European Union. What are the advantages of the European Union? What did the EU do well according to you – in general terms or in your personal experience? Anyone is welcome to participate! All you need to do is register and send us the first finished page as well as a summary of the story you would like to tell us.


One entry per entrant. For co-productions, the participation with one additional person is possible.

Prizes:
seven finalists will receive a grant of 800 €
winner will get additional 500 €


No entry fee

Details:
https://fnf-europe.org/animate-europe/europe-animate-europe-2019

Deadline:
30.06.2017


The comix competition Nouveau talent BDFIL 2017 is open to anyone over the age of 15 domiciled in Switzerland or abroad and whose work has never been published in the form of an album or regularly in a large-circulation newspaper or magazine. Participants whose work is being published at the time of the award ceremony (Thursday 14th September 2017) will be disqualified. Each participant may enter one project only. As the competition aims to encourage and recompense complete artists, collective entries will not be accepted. Winners of previous competitions, with the exception of ‘special mentions’, are not allowed to re-enter.

This year's theme is THE WAVE.

You may submit a complete comic story, on one (1) board, with or without text.

No entry fee

Deadline:
31.07.2017

A participant can submit one complete and full story, up to 8 pages.

The competition is open for everyone and there is no given theme of the works

The allowed techniques are: drawing, painting, digital art and photography.

The pages should be in a vertical A4 (210 x 297 mm) or A3 (297 x 420 mm) format.

Entry fee
10 €

Prizes
Grand Prize: 7,000 PLN
1st prize: 4,500 PLN
2nd prize: 3,500 PLN
3rd prize: 2,000 PLN
three special awards – 1 000 PLN each


Details:
http://komiksfestiwal.com/en/konkurs-komiks-mfkig-uwaga-inny-deadline/