š! #39 starting up call

Can you continue to protect with the substandard news? Now that COVID-19 has officially change into an epidemic and of us are stocking up on bathroom paper and pasta worldwide is it time to alarm? Properly, the supreme you may perhaps perhaps perhaps bag is wash your fingers, socially distance your self, and cease at house. Not yet the worst-case scenario for introvert silly artists. Whereas you may perhaps perhaps perhaps use about a of the next weeks in quarantine, here is at all times a correct alternative to attract some comics! That is the explanation, we are launching a brand new starting up call!

Please send us your comics to the theme ‘The Discontinuance’. As continuously the interpretation of the theme is entirely as much as you! We are hoping to put up our very handiest challenge so some distance, accurate in case or no longer it is our closing one.

Fleshy details of participation:

– Theme: The Discontinuance

– Web page count: 4-14 

– Language: English
– Structure: DIN A6, width 10.5cm × peak 14.8cm

Bleed: In case you desire your comics to be paunchy bleed bag certain that to add 3
mm lower off assign in some unspecified time in the future of the comics (in this case the width of each and each
page have to be 11.1 cm and the peak 15.4 cm). Don’t assign
texts and anxious crucial sides shut to the page borders (Bleed outlined in a graphic).

– Colors: Yes, CMYK, b/w works are furthermore welcome

– Resolution: 300 dpi (1200 dpi for b/w works)
– File layout: preferably tiff or pdf

– If we put up your comics, you can bag a virtual hand shake and 10 free copies of the anthology


Submit handiest low-decision jpgs for our consideration (but substantial
enough
to study (roughly 900 pixels in width)! The substantial decision
recordsdata as described above we will ask you to send later.) Please bag no longer send
zip recordsdata, bag no longer use google pressure, dropbox or the take care of, we
handiest desire preview recordsdata now as easy attachments.
– Please consist of a extremely rapid description of your self and a link to your assign/instagram

Lower-off date: 27 Would possibly perchance perhaps also merely 2020

– Send to komiksukonkurss@gmail.com

Additional notes: 


After receiving your work we will write you a affirmation e-mail within
14 days. In case you bag no longer hear from us, write us one more time, perchance your mail obtained
lost or the cyber internet obtained shut down.
– The choice what we will put up will be made till 1 July. We are going to mail you whenever you happen to may perhaps be in!
– We’d settle on whenever you happen to bag no longer put up the paunchy comics on- or offline outdated to we print
it. 
– Please bag no longer send comics that are made for a much bigger
layout. In case your silly is unreadable in A6 layout, this may no longer be
printed!

– We are continuously cheerful to characteristic experimental approaches in storytelling and art work. Don’t restrict
your self!
– If
you salvage any questions, accurate write us. Easiest whenever you happen to write a observation beneath,
as other of us may perhaps want the the same ask.

And one more display: Except for global news, 2020 has been already very advanced for us. For the explanation that new 300 and sixty five days shipping prices salvage doubled or even tripled – no longer a correct challenge whenever you happen to thought to distribute 1000 copies by your self… And we furthermore handed in this challenge to bag funding. However the Latvian utter culture capital fundation conception this topic is no longer of “most modern relevance” (we would like they had been accurate) and made up our minds now to no longer toughen it. Despite all these moderately darkish conditions we made up our minds to put up this challenge anyway. And you may perhaps perhaps perhaps abet, even whenever you happen to bag no longer thought to send a silly, you may perhaps perhaps perhaps rob into myth buying any of our outdated disorders and due to the this truth toughen the printing of the next one. It’s likely you’ll salvage our books on komikss.lv and apply us on twitter, facebook and instagram.

Observing to your submissions. Live safe!

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UPDATE: We now salvage got some unforeseen delays. We hope to bag the closing want and uncover all artists by the pause of July. Thank you to your patience!