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Spiderman, drawn by John McCrea
THE COMIX SCHEME IS NOW IN PROGRESS AND APPLICATIONS ARE CLOSED. FOR DETAILS OF OUR EXCITING NEW COMIX TELFORD SCHEME, CLICK HERE.
COMIX—Calling all Comic Heroes!
About the COMIX Scheme
If you’re 16 plus, with a passion for comic art and live in the West Midlands, then Hi8us Midlands’ latest FREE comic art scheme called COMIX, could be for you. All the lucky winners will also get to work with people on similar schemes across Europe and get a supported trip to a comic art festival in Spain as well as a trip to the British International Comics Show (BICS).
20 talented individuals will get the opportunity to develop their skills with John McCrea (X-MEN, SPIDERMAN AND THE HULK), Hunt Emerson (THE BEANO, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND FORTEAN TIMES), Laura Howell (THE BEANO, THE GUARDIAN), Asia Alfasi (IMAF WINNER, BEST NEW MANGA, BLOOMSBURY GRAPHIC NOVELIST) and Andi Watson (GEISHA, BUFFY) amongst others.
HOW WE ASSESS SUBMISSIONS
Comix is a competitive scheme with only 20 places available for anyone 16+ who lives in the West Midlands. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and welcome applications from all groups — women are particularly encouraged as they're still under-represented in the comics industry. Applicants don't need any previous qualifications just passion, talent/potential and commitment to work hard!
If you have any questions at all about making a submission, please don’t hesitate to contact Kulwant (contact details below) — we want you to apply so don’t be shy!
WHAT WE NEED FOR SUBMISSIONS
We would like you to send us examples of your best and most recent work. We are looking for good photocopies of 2-4 pages of pencilled, original continuous comic-strip preferably without lettering (we don’t want pictures of single characters standing around). In other words, we want you to illustrate a comic story with out drawing the words or speech bubbles (if you’ve already put text on your artwork we will accept it). We want to see how you draw and also how you tell a story in pictures.
A FULL APPLICATION PACK WITH GUIDELINES IS AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD HERE. PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE CREATING AND SUBMITTING ARTWORK.
DOWNLOAD COMIX APPLICATION FORM AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES NOW ! (Right Click the links below and choose 'Save As'.)
(APPLICATIONS NOW CLOSED, FOR COMIX TELFORD, CLICK HERE)
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS
At the latest, submissions must reach us by 6pm on MONDAY 1st JUNE 2009.
RECRUITMENT SESSION TUESDAY 26TH MAY 6.30 pm to 8.30 pm
The informal recruitment session will give you an introduction to the scheme and opportunity to meet the lead artists, John McCrea and Hunt Emerson. We strongly recommend anyone wishing to apply to bring their submission artwork and application form to the recruitment session or, at the very least, examples of work.
PLEASE CONTACT US VIA EMAIL OR TELEPHONE ASAP TO BOOK YOUR PLACE AT THE RECRUITMENT SESSION.
TELEPHONE KULWANT ON 0121 753 7700 OR EMAIL
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IF YOUR SUBMISSION IS SUCCESSFUL, YOU WILL BE ATTENDING COMIX WORKSHOPS AS FOLLOWS:
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Saturday 6th June
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11am–3pm |
Saturday 13th June
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11am–3pm |
| Saturday 27th June |
11am–3pm |
Saturday 4th July |
11am–3pm |
Saturday 18th July
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11am–3pm |
Saturday 1st August
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11am–3pm |
| Saturday 8th August |
11am–3pm |
Saturday 22nd August |
11am–3pm |
| Saturday 5th September |
11am–3pm |
Saturday 19th September
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11am–3pm |
3rd to 4th October British International Comics Show (BICS). Additional dates for support sessions and trip to comic festival in Spain will be announced throughout the scheme.
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