Asian Youth Animation & Comics Contest

deadline: 20 May 2008
Discipline(s): Comics/Animation/Gaming

Asian Youth Animation and Comic Contest is authorized by All China Youth Federation and hosted by ACYF International Project Cooperation Center, Cartoon Commission of China TV Artists Association and Guiyang government, Asian Youth Animation & Comics Contest (hereinafter referred to as “AYACC”) is aimed to be top annual award for Asian original animation and comic.

AYACC is dedicated to integrate Asian cultural resources, promote the influence of Asian animation and comic, create cultural image of Asia, provide a platform of information exchange, as well as to boost Asian animation industry development . It is the great event for Asian animation and comic.

The Theme of 2007 AYACC is “Cartoon Dream”, which involves TV series, short animation, comics, illustration, etc. The Grand Prize and more than 30 other awards has been set up for the Contest, such as Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Student Work and Best Visual Effects. The total amount of prize will be 100,000 RMB together with trophy. A grand Awarding Ceremony will be held on July 2007 in Guiyang, China. All prize winners will be invited to the ceremony, and participate series of programs including “Cartoon Industry Development Forum”, “Best Animation & Comics Show”, “Cartoon Night Party” and so on.

Up to now, AYACC has promoted its event among 20 Asian countries and region, such as Japan, Korea, India, Israel, Thailand, Malaysia, Turkey, Singapore, Philippine, Iran, Kuwait, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc. The Contest received great concern and actively answer. The Asian Embassies in China also expressed their willing to support the event by organizing domestic artists to participate in.

AYACC is going to integrate top-level resources of Asian cartoon industry, boost the influence of the Asian cartoon, create Asian cartoon image, as well as to provide a information exchange platform for Asia cartoon industry. AYACC aims to become the vane of Asian cartoon, the performing stage of young Asian artists, the grand ceremony of cartoon art in Asia.

About the Contest

1. Eligibility:
Anyone living in Asia and /or with roots in Asia under age of 40 is eligible for enter.
2. Genre:
TV series, short animation, computer-assisted or computer-generated, animation, comics, illustration
3. Prize:
* Total amount: 100,000 RMB
* Trophy and Certificate

oh, look

Sam Seen VS. the Philippines

Malaysian Mandarin-language poet and cartoonist Sam Seen will be collaborating with Filipino writers for his next graphic novel project, tentatively titled The Other Side. Updates will be posted on this blog.

[Above image is a page from Sam's last graphic novel China X'perience (2006).]

MUD: call for submissions

MUD is a new alternative comic quarterly magazine that will be published by Typhoon Books, Thailand.

It will feature works by “Tum-kun” (Wisut Ponnimit) as well as other Thai comic artists.

I thought it might be fun if comic artists from other countries (Japan mainly, I guess?) would like to participate.

So if you like to draw comics and want to join the trip, you are invited to submit your work to Typhoon Books.

The address can be found at www.typhoonbooks.com

Please do not send originals. It would make our lives much easier also if you could scan your work and send it as a CD. The resolution should not be lower than 300 dpi. Your story should not be more than 20 pages. If your work is in languages other than Thai or English, please provide translations. Whatever you send will not be returned to you even if it was not selected to be published. The deadline is November 9, 2007.

Beware that the reward (money!) is not much. If you’re looking for fortune, look elsewhere. As for fame…well, who knows.

[Reposted from Prabda Yoon's blog.]