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Greetings from pixiv.
Attention all manga creators around the world!
Global manga talents, get noticed! Japan's leading manga publishers are here to support you!
We're calling for submissions in both free and themed categories.
Exceptional creators might even get the chance to debut, guided by actual editors.
This is your chance to showcase your manga to a global audience!
Don't miss outーjoin us and let your talent shine!
Contest Period
From January 10th, 6:00 pm JST to March 31st, 2024, 11:59 pm JST
Categories
If you wish to explore your creative world without constraints, the Free category is ideal for you. For those who enjoy crafting stories around a specific theme, we invite you to participate in the Themed category.
In the Themed category, we are looking for works about “time”.
It could be eons, a fleeting moment, or any other interpretation of time that you can imagine. Unleash your creativity and explore this theme in your own unique way!
・Free Category
Tag: #GlobalComicAwards2024_free
・Themed Category
Theme: Time
Tag: #GlobalComicAwards2024_Time
Selection Process
Entries will go through a rigorous judging process before winners are decided.
Grand Prize
1 winner from all works submitted
Prize money: 500,000 JPY (approx. 3,500 USD)
Additional prize: Clip Studio Paint Ex Single-Device Plan 3-Year Edition
Free Category Mastery Award
1 winner from the Free category
Prize money: 150,000 JPY (approx. 1,050 USD)
Additional prize: Clip Studio Paint Ex Single-Device Plan 3-Year Edition
Themed Category Mastery Award
1 winner from the Themed category
Prize money: 150,000 JPY (approx. 1,050 USD)
Additional prize: Clip Studio Paint Ex Single-Device Plan 3-Year Edition
Award of Excellence
10 winners from all works submitted
Prize money: 20,000 JPY (approx. 140 USD)
Additional prize: Clip Studio Paint Ex Single-Device Plan 1-Year Edition
Submission Guidelines
・Format: Submissions must be in a manga format (including ToonScroll format)
・Content: Original works only
・Number of submissions: You may post more than one entry. However, you cannot post the same entry more than once
・pixiv privacy settings: Public
・Age restriction: All-Ages
Specifics
The specifications for the entries are as follows:
・Page count: Any
・Language: English is recommended, but other languages are also acceptable
・Size: Any
・File format: Must be compatible with pixiv submission formats (JPG, GIF, PNG)
* If awarded, you will be required to submit the original data of your work.
* Series submissions are also welcome (please tag the first episode of the series).
* Contestants may submit as many works as they like, but each submission must contain only one work (one episode or a series).
* Please note that works currently under consideration or previously submitted to other contests, initiatives, or manga awards, as well as those intended for future commercial release, are not eligible for this contest, regardless of whether they win an award or not. Participants are requested to refrain from entering their submissions into other contests or from commercializing them during the period extending from the submission phase to the announcement of results.
Offers from Partner Companies
・During the contest period, participants may receive offers from Partner Companies for potential serialization in their media. Participants are expected to give priority to these offers over others from non-Partner Companies, especially from the submission period until the announcement of the contest results.
・Please include your e-mail address, nickname, inquiry, and the subject “About Global Comic Awards 2024”.
Eligible works
Works that do not meet the following requirements will not be eligible.
・Works posted or edited after the posting deadline.
・Works not matching the theme of the contest.
・Works set to private or my pixiv in the privacy settings.
・Works without the contest tags set.
・Works currently entering a different contest.
・Works intended to be commercialized, or already commercialized.
・Works that do not belong to the contestant, or infringe upon the intellectual property rights, or any other rights of any third party.
・Works violating pixiv’s Terms of Use.
We’re looking forward to your participation.
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