There’s just under a week to go until the deadline for this year’s Jonathan Cape/Observer/Comica Graphic Short Story Prize, a happening which has now become a bit of an annual event among the UK comics folks. It’s been great to see this becoming more established and it is a terrific opportunity for the talent in the UK scene to show off their skills to a wider audience. This year’s judges are Audrey Niffenegger, David Hughes, Rachel Cooke, Dan Franklin, Paul Gravett and Suzanne Dean, with the winner scooping £1000 and their four page short published in the Observer Review, while the runner up wins £250 and their work appearing on the Guardian and Vintage websites.
It’s great to have this happening again and I’m sure it has stimulated a lot of folks in the comics community to give it a try. I suppose the only drawback to this if that obviously only a couple can be in the winners and so there will inevitably be interesting work that most of us won’t see (the Cape Twitter feed has been commenting on an ever growing in box of entries to look forward to reading next week). Some folks who didn’t win in previous years have posted their entries online afterwards and we’ve linked to them where we’ve seen them, but we were thinking, wouldn’t it be nice to bring those together into one place to celebrate all of them and let folks see those works too?
So if you have taken part this year, once the competition is over and the winners are announced and shared with the world perhaps the other comics creators who entered would like to share their entries with us and we could post them here on the blog with links back to your own site? Obviously this would have to wait until after the winners are announced and published, but it would be nice to gather some of the other entries together and display them in one spot after that so we can all enjoy them and show them off a bit. If you’re taking part this year and are interested let us know via the comments or email me at joe.gordon (at) forbiddenplanet(dot)co(dot)uk
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
Awards, Comics and cartoons, Competitions