PR: Kodansha manga competition

Posted on March 5, 2007 by Brigid Alverson

After the cut: MangaBlog reader Ceena e-mailed me from Japan with this info about Kodansha’s international manga competition. So sharpen up your pencils/steel nibs/styluses and get to work! I have added Ceena’s e-mail at the end of the press release and she says anyone with questions can e-mail her directly.

ABOVE US ONLY SKY
There are no boundaries. There is one sky.

The first full-scale international competition for Manga worldwide.
INTERNATIONAL MANGA COMPETITION presented by the manga magazine “Weekly Morning,” Kodansha, Japan.
Submissions are now being accepted in ten languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean, Thai, Italian, and Swedish.
The deadline: May 31 2007.
For more information at www.e-morning.jp/imc/.

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E-mail Ceena directly at animecomics4u@ybb.ne.jp.

About Brigid Alverson

Brigid Alverson has been reading comics since she was 4. After earning an MFA in printmaking, she headed to New York to become a famous artist but ended up working with words instead of pictures, first as a book editor and later as a newspaper reporter. She started MangaBlog to keep track of her daughters’ reading habits and now covers manga, comics and graphic novels as a freelancer for School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, Comic Book Resources, the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog, and Robot 6. She also edits the Good Comics for Kids blog at School Library Journal. Now settled in the outskirts of Boston, Brigid is married to a physicist and has two daughters.
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9 Responses to PR: Kodansha manga competition

  1. ceena says:
    March 5, 2007 at 11:37 am

    Thank you for posting the link to Kodansha’s international manga competition. I really appreciate it. (^^)
    But I gave you the wrong URL. I’m so sorry!
    Here’s the right one: http://e-morning.jp/imc/

  2. Tina Anderson says:
    March 5, 2007 at 1:43 pm

    That looks…like a lot of fun! ^_^

  3. Tivome says:
    March 5, 2007 at 2:41 pm

    Wait a minute, didn’t you blog about this a while back? Or maybe I left this link in the comment section? I thought the e-morning contest is wild-known now… I almost certain this was mentioned before. Oh well, no one really reads what I post anyway. :)

  4. pnyxtr says:
    March 5, 2007 at 9:01 pm

    Ho ho ho. If you go to the competition home page, it says Zweeds for Swedish. (The real name of the language is Svenska, and the romanised version is even further from that.)
    And odd choice of language, indeed.

  5. Chloe says:
    March 5, 2007 at 10:18 pm

    Well, it’s certainly something new, particularly the “5,000 cash and Japanese circulation” part. The flipside of keeping it totally international is that heavyweight Japanese doujinshi-ka circles are going to get it in high gear for the prize, thus potentially acing out less well equipped Western competitors….

  6. Sword Breaker says:
    March 6, 2007 at 2:57 am

    Wait a minute, didn’t you blog about this a while back? Or maybe I left this link in the comment section?

    It was mentioned here a while ago I think.

  7. ceena says:
    March 6, 2007 at 9:11 am

    I know that it was mentioned here and at other places before, but I asked Brigid to post the link again as a reminder since the deadline is less than three months away from now.

    The competition homepage doesn’t say anything about this, but there are no rules against professional comic/manga artists entering this competition.

  8. Tina Anderson says:
    March 9, 2007 at 2:03 am

    The competition homepage doesn’t say anything about this, but there are no rules against professional comic/manga artists entering this competition.

    I emailed and they said they also allowed writer/artist teams.

  9. Nohra says:
    March 17, 2007 at 12:31 pm

    It says that the postmark is 31may 2007 not 31 march

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