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Buddha competition for the Enlightened

4. August 2010

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Over on his blog Jon Haward is giving readers the chance to win a very collectable prize in the form of a script for Buddha signed by Brit comics god and frequent collaborator with Jon, Alan Grant, and a page of original art by Jon as well, so a pretty unique prize. Unlike a lot [...]

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Win a copy of 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams

21. July 2010

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Tim Sullivan’s HG Lewis inspired horror flick 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams is due out on DVD and Blu-Ray on the 26th of July, but you can win your own copy on DVD without spending a penny by entering the competition on our webstore.

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Manga Jiman competition

30. June 2010

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Once again those very nice people at the Japanese Embassy in London are holding the Manga Jiman competition, which is open to any UK residents over the age of fourteen, with a brilliant first prize of a trip to Japan. It seems to have become a bit of an annual fixture on the UK comics [...]

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Dredd – from script to page

19. May 2010

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2000 AD Review – a fan site, not surprisingly, given over to celebrating the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic – is running an interesting series of script-to-page features, with the scripts for 2000 AD and Megazine tales on show along with some illustrations. Quite interesting in its own right and, I’d think, also worth a look for [...]

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Win limited edition Robin Hood posters

12. May 2010

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With Ridley Scott’s new Robin Hood about to open in cinemas across the UK this weekend NBC Universal have arranged for us to give away an exclusive framed movie poster, limited to only 250 worldwide. Head over to our webstore and enter your name and email address to be in with a chance of winning [...]

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The campaign for real fear

12. March 2010

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Maura McHugh has news of a short story competition that should interest all our readers with a creative bent: “What are the horror myths for the 21st century? Sure, we all love our werewolves and vampires, but where are the new monsters for our age? Where are the characters that reflect the diversity in our [...]

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Win an ink sketch from Graeme Neil Reid

5. February 2010

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Graeme Neil Reid tells me he posted up no less than eighteen different ink sketches on his blog through December and January, taking in science fiction characters, comics and sci-fi movies. Now he’s offering a chance to win your choice from the sketches, simply by clicking the follow button on his blog and leaving your [...]

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Ken Sprague Fund International Political Cartoon Competition 2010

20. January 2010

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The Ken Sprague Fund, set up in memory of the late cartoonist and campaigner for human rights and staunch supporter of socialism, has its political cartoon competition open for entries, with the 2010 competition being on the theme “Money makes the world go round: globalisation, financial meltdown, fair trade and economic justice”. The closing date [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Jim Medway & Andi Watson

8. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. To end our little look at the great works entered for the Graphic Short Story Prize we have two familiar names to the regular readers of this blog. First up Jim Medway, who comes up with the beautiful and frankly hilarious Paul Crystal, Graphic Designer. But, [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Sion Smith & Charlotte Rose, Mickey Lam & Hannah Forward,

8. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Fire Sermon by Sion Smith and Charlotte Rose (available as an free ebook here) – a very different style from a lot of the entries it seems, and Sion says on the Tales From The Zodiac Lung blog that “they were obviously looking for something very [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Laurie J Proud, Maddy Vian, Khaled Abou Alfa & Dan Archer

8. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Three very different styles on show with these entries, first up is Laurie J Proud’s entry Aubrey, which brilliantly features the line “We moved away in 1948 after Dad went mad and burned the shed down”. And then there’s Maddy Vian‘s IDEAS – Maddy is very [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Jason Cobley & Paul Harrison Davies, Natalie d’Arbeloff & Frances Castle

7. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. Next up we have the entry from the writer and artist team of Jason Cobley and Paul Harrison Davies – a reworking of their Hugo The Zombie strip from the Accent UK Zombies special. Following that we have the entry by illustrator Frances Castle as she [...]

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The Observer / Cape “non-winners” – Rob Davis, David O’Connell, Luke Pearson

7. November 2009

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For an explanation of all this – see here. To kick things off, the first “non-winner” that I saw online a couple of weeks ago: Rob Davis. Rob put his excellent entry “How I Built My Father” up on his blog here, complete with a little explanatory commentary here. And then David O’Connell brings us [...]

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And the winner of the Cape/Observer 2099 Graphic Short Story Prize ISN’T………

7. November 2009

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Last weekend, the Observer/Cape Graphic Short Story prize was announced. Our post on it is here, together with rather a lot of comments. Even before the winner’s announcement I had been thinking it would be nice to put up a few of the “non-winners” as the quality of the work looked really high. But since [...]

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And the 2009 Observer/Cape graphic short story prize winner is…….

1. November 2009

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The annual Observer/Cape graphic short story award prize winners were announced today online nd in the Observer. The 1st prize was awarded to Vivien McDermid with her story “Paint”. Described as a “vividly captured and tender story” that was a “touching portrayal of mother with a small toddler“. Vivien will receive a cheque for £1000 [...]

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