ComiX4= Comics for Equality Award has announced its winners!

ComiX4= Comics for Equality - the first European Award for the Best Unpublished Comics by Authors with Migrant Backgrounds has announced the winners! The Competition took place from January 1st until June 30th, 2013 in 3 categories. While the comics readers voted by liking their favourite works via Facebook, international Jury* assessed and voted in two rounds.

Congratulations to all the wonderful authors!  
Finally here they are:
 
Category Stereotypes
 “Burocrazy”, Angela Wanjiku Njoroge - Audience Award
“Is it wrong to use stereotypes of your own country to your advantage?”, Mari Ahokoivu - Jury Award

Category Stories of migration
“The Boomerangs, in three chapters”, Corsino (Daniel López Bončina) - Audience Award
“How Mr. Black became Blue”, Dmitry Yagodin - Jury Award

Category – Fight against racism
“Helver, my first ROMmate”, Elena Vitagliano - Audience Award
“The problem”, Thomas Cuschieri - Jury Award

All winners will receive 1000 EUR prize each!
And the project goes on with a catalog and exhibtions, handbook and workshops all around partner countries and comics festivals in Europe. Stay tuned via Comix4= website and Facebook platform!

*The members of the ComiX4= International Jury were:
Sandra Federici, journalist, media education and intercultural issues expert;
Edo Chieregato, modern comics expert;
Zvezda Vankova, program coordinator at the Law Program of the Open Society Institute Sofia and co-founder and chair of the Multi Kulti Collective Association;
Eleonora Gadjeva, journalist, writer and editor;
Diana Trifu, specialist in human rights and intercultural communication;
Radu Mircea, consultant on Migration Issues and Intercultural Communication;
Sanita Muižniece, Latvian comics culture magazine kuš! editor;
Ingrīda Pičukāne, comic artist, illustrator and movie animator;
Joonas Sildre, illustrator, designer and founder of the Estonian Comics Society;
Diana Tamm, social design and creative solutions for education and community development.

 

ComiX4= is generously supported by the EU:

With financial support from the Fundamental Rights and Citizenship Programme 

of the European Union

 

ComiX4= Comics for Equality

kuš! (the association 'Grafiskie stāsti') is a project partner of the ComiX4= Comics for Equality project. Find out more about it!

The ComiX4= Comics for Equality project is based on the need to promote the development of a European society based on respect for fundamental human rights, and to fight against racism, xenophobia and other related forms of intolerance. This is more important than ever due to ongoing European enlargement, and to European countries’ key roles as destinations for migrants from both outside and within other European states. The most effective way of achieving this goal is to promote mutual understanding and dialogue.

Piedalies nākamajā (ku)š!ā!

Piedalies - radi un sūti komiksu nākamajam (ku)š! numuram par tēmu "SPORTS"!

1927.gada 25. marta žurnāla "Atpūta" vāks

Tēmu vari interpretēt ļoti brīvi - mēs gaidām dažnedažādus eksperimentālus, mākslinieciski un saturiski aizraujošus un kvalitatīvus grafiskus stāstus. Tie var būt gan par kādu īstu vai izdomātu sporta veidu, notikumu, skandālu, personību, gan vizuālas pārdomas par sportisko mākslā vai māksliniecisko sportā - spēles laukumu izvēlies Tu!

Don't miss!

If you are ready to wake up from hibernation, we have a bunch of comics competitions and other opportunities to recommend to you.

The regular kuš! blog readers might have found all of the recommendations already right here on our blog's "don't miss" section (column on the right side). We regularly update it with links to events, open calls and competitions, which we personally like and want to advise to others. Now we'd like to say a few words about some of the upcoming ones:

kuš! cookie competition

You probably heard this before "it's that time of the year...". Well, at the kuš! HQ we like to spend that time baking cookies. To make it a bit more interesting for us, we took comics characters which have appeared in our publications and turned them into tasty sugerlumps which we'll soon happily devour!

mini kuš! #13

mini kuš! #13 could have your name on it!

We just released four new mini kuš! and are very excited how they turned out, so we decided to print four more before Christmas! The mini kuš! #10-12 are ready to be published, but we have one more printing slot which could be for your comics!

CUNE comics residencies

Kuš! is a project partner of the CUNE comics residency program. In 2013 CUNE will start with the first pilot residencies in Helsinki, Tallinn and also Riga! After that the residency program will hopefully continue and might also be extended to more destinations. Currently artists from the Baltics, Scandinavia, Russia, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands can apply for the residencies.

illustration by Ingrīda Pičukāne

The artists will be selected according to their project proposals. For Riga the main focus will be on new art production. The artist can freely create his/her own individual comics project, or prepare a small exhibition to be shown in Riga. During their stay, the artist are encouraged to take part in Kuš!’s monthly comics jam event and get to know the local scene. The 4-week Riga residency will take place in April 2013. The residency flat is either on a house boat on the river Daugava or in the city centre of Riga provided in cooperation with NOASS.

To find out more about the application process and the residencies in Tallinn and Helsinki you should visit the Nordicomics website.

Comics artists from Scandinavia also have the chance to make a Nordicomics Island residency in  Iceland, Faroe Islands, Greenland or Åland. The first application is also open for Baltic artists, in case there are no applications by Scandinavians, the Baltic artists get a chance to go. More info about that you find here.

ABECEDEX

 

ABECEDEX – international competition for best children/teen comic book.

The objective of the competition is to promote authors who create comic books of excellent artistic and educational value dedicated to children and teen readers. The competition attempts to draw attention to the richness of this comic branch which in Poland is, unfortunately, limited only to commercial publications.

Submissions will be accepted until 31st August, 2012. Applications are accepted only through the application form. If the work is in a language other than English, it is necessary to enclose a translation in a text file.

Two main prizes 2 x 3000 pln. (That is about 2 x USD 1000)

Poster made by Maria Inez Gul
http://marjainez.com/

Please read rules of competition.
http://www.ligatura.eu/eng/competitions

Entry form:
http://www.ligatura.eu/eng/abecedex

(ku)š! # 11 "Artventurous" - piedalies!

Piedalies - radi un sūti jaunus vizuālus stāstus nākamajam (ku)š! numuram par tēmu "Artventurous"! Tēmu vari interpetēt, cik plaši vēlies, galvenais, lai Tavu stāstu ir iedvesmojusi māksla - piedzīvojumi radot, atklājot, sadzirdot, aptaustot, sarunājoties ar un par mākslu...

Noteikumi:

Open call for š! #11

It is time for an open call and and the theme of š! #11 is  "artventurous".

We are looking for stories with a certain twist either inspired by art or about art.  The theme can be interpreted very widely - your work can be about adventures encountering art, making art, inspired by art, or in any other way very "artventourous".

Details of Participation:

Cēsu Alus dizaina konkurss turpinās!

Cēsu Alus dizaina konkurss turpinās!

Dizaina konkurss Cēsu alus skārdenei

Cēsu alus ir izsludinājis interesantu konkursu – jārada dizains Cēsu Premium National Edition alus skārdenei. Uzvarētāja dizains jau šogad nonāks ražošanā un veikalu plauktos. Papildus nevīstošai slavai uzvarētājs saņems arī 1000 Eiro. Ir vērts piedalīties!

Konkursa tēma National Edition. Tas ir veltījums vērtībām, notikumiem, vietām un lietām, kas mūs iedvesmo mūsu zemē Latvijā.

NORDICOMICS un NATUREGRAFFIX

Komiksu kultūras žurnāls kuš! piedāvā divas starptautiskas komiksu ekspozīcijas: NORDICOMICS un NATUREGRAFFIX

No 12.janvāra līdz 12.februārim kultūras platformāNabaklab skatāmas divas starptautiskas komiksu mākslas izstādes NORDICOMICS un NATUREGRAFFIX, ko piedāvā komiksu žurnāls kuš!.

Izstādes atklāšana 11.janvārī plkst. 19:00.

(ku)š! # 10 "Jūras stāsti" - piedalies!

Ir atkal laiks „open call” un atkal var piedalīties vīrieši! Radi un sūti jaunus vizuālus stāstus jaunajam (ku)š! numuram! Tā kā kuš! grib lasīt arvien vairāk latviešu komiksus, šoreiz piedalīties "open call" aicinām tikai māksliniekus no Latvijas.

Lai iepazītos ar jau kuš!ā publicētajiem komiksiem, meklē iepriekšējos kuš! numurus Lukabukā, Randomā, Muhamorā un Galerijā „Istaba".

 ilustrācija: KJ Martinet

Noteikumi:

- Tēma: Jūras stāsti (Sea Stories)
- Saturs: Komiksi (var būt arī ilustrācijas)
- Valoda: Angļu vai latviešu (ja latviski, atstāj vietu subtitriem)
- Formāts: A6, platums 105mm × augstums 148mm (+ 3 mm malas pārlaides. Tā kā izdevums būs līmēts, ja zīmē atvērumu (2 lapas blakus), svarīgākās detaļas nezīmē vidū, tās būs grūti saskatīt.) Oriģināls, protams, var būt lielāks par A6. Dažkārt oriģināli lielāki darbi izskatās labāk drukāti mazākā formātā.
- Krāsas: Jā, CMYK (drukāsim uz Munken Print Cream)
- Izšķirtspēja: 300 dpi, vēlams kā tiff vai PDF fails
- Lappušu skaits: Ne vairāk par 8
- Citas lietas: Ieteicams dot darbam nosaukumu, to (ie)raksti pirmajā lapā. Autoru vārdi tiks nodrukāti katras lapas apakšā blakus lapas puses numuram. Tāpat par katru autoru publicēsim īsu aprakstu (ku)š! pēdējā lapā. Lai arī publicējam tikai vienu katra autora darbu, vari sūtīt vairāk nekā vienu darbu, tā būs lielākas iespējas izvēlēties.
- Termiņš: 2012. gada 15. janvāris
- Sūti Kušmenam uz kushmens(at)gmail(.)com
- Publicētajiem autoriem atlīdzība graudā: 1 kg (ku)š! = 5 gabali...

Jautājumu vai neskaidrību gadījumā raksti Kušmenam: kushmens(at)gmail(.)com. Negarantējam, ka visus iesūtītos darbus publicēsim, dažādu iemeslu dēļ tas var nebūt iespējams. Lai vai kā kuš! cer un priecāsies saņemt jaunu, vēl neatklātu autoru darbus. Ja publicēt neizdosies šajā reizē, kuš! paturēs prātā gan Tevi, gan Tavu darbu nākamajiem projektiem!

kuš! (www.komikss.lv) ir komiksu kultūras žurnāls no Latvijas, kas publicē gan vietējo, gan ārzemju komiksu autoru darbus. kuš! interesē atklāt jaunus māksliniekus, it īpaši no Latvijas. Piedalies!

komiksu konkursa rezultāti!

A/S "Latvijas valsts mežu" un kuš! rīkotais komiksu konkurss par tēmu "Mežs - atjaunojams zaļais resurss" ir noslēdzies un rezultāti zināmi! Liels paldies visiem komiksu autoriem, kuri piedalījās konkursā.

UKNO par komiksu "Mežamāte" saņem galveno balvu - Dāvanu karti atpūtai nedēļas nogalē ar ģimeni un draugiem tūrisma un rekreācijas centrā "Ezernieki".

Dace Sietiņa un Kristofers Reidzāns saņem atzinības balvas - - bezmaksas ieejas kartes Tērvetes Dabas parkā (2 pieaugušajiem un 2 bērniem).

Visi uzvarējušie komiksi tiks publicēti jaunajā kuš! "Meža stāsti".

Fumetto Comix Competition 2011

Each year, Fumetto – International Comix-Festival Lucerne holds a competition to give comic creators the opportunity to compare their work, present it to a broader public and to exchange views with others. The competition’s theme this year is Energy.
In our opinion this is probably the most interesting comics competition and we want to encourage everybody (and especially Latvians) to take part. It really is a great opportunity to get your comics out to a broad public!

Find more details here: Fumetto Comix Competition 2011

Competition from Providus

We just heard that Providus has organized a competition, find the information (in Latvian only) below:

Četri gadi ir tik ilgs laiks, ka pat pētnieki un politologi nespēj atcerēties visu svarīgo, kas noticis politikā. Lai atmodinātu vēlētāju atmiņu, Sabiedriskās politikas centrs PROVIDUS izsludina radošo darbu konkursu „Politiķu darbi un nedarbi 9.Saeimā”.

• Izvēlies, Tavuprāt, svarīgu notikumu 9.Saeimā;
• radi video (sižetu, īsfilmu vai rullīti) vai ilustrāciju (karikatūras, komiksus vai zīmējumus);
• iesniedz savu darbu līdz 10.septembrim, nosūtot uz inara@providus.lv  vai atnesot uz PROVIDUS biroju;
• un iegūsti vērtīgas balvas (1.vieta 100 Ls, 2.vieta - 80 Ls, 3.vieta - 60 Ls, kā arī skatītāju balsojuma prēmijas katrā kategorijā - 50 Ls)

Pēc iesniegšanas, darbi tiks publicēti portālā www.politika.lv, kā arī nodoti skatītāju vērtējumam portāla politika.lv Facebook profilā. Konkursa rezultāti tiks publicēti 20.septembrī.

Konkursa darbus vērtēs žūrija, kuras sastāvā piedalīsies Filmu studijas „Rija” vadītājs Vilnis Kalnaellis, LU SZF politikas zinātnes nodaļas docents Ivars Ījabs, mākslinieks, žurnāla IR karikatūrists Ernests Kļaviņš, veikala „Pērle” īpašniece Žanete Skarule un PROVIDUS direktore Vita Tērauda.

Konkursa nolikumu un tēmas iedvesmai meklē www.politika.lv/temas/18322/

Konkursa mērķis ir radošā veidā atmodināt vēlētāju atmiņu par 9.Saeimas darbības laika notikumiem, kā arī politiķu darbiem un nedarbiem. Projekts Konkurss vēlētāju atmiņas atmodināšanai tiek realizēts ar Atvērtās sabiedrības institūta atbalstu.

Informācijai: Ināra Kehre, tālr.67039339, e-pasts: inara@providus.lv.

Boomfest 2010, St. Petersburg

Boomfest poster by Julia Grigorieva

The Boomfest in St.Petersburg is one of our favourite alternative comic festivals, so we would like you all to mark the dates 24. to 26. September in your agendas. If you can't go there yourself (wich is a real shame!), then at least you should take part in the comic competition with the topic "hero" and this deadline: 15th of August. Detailed infos you find here.

Boom comics competition

The comics festival Boomfest announced the theme of their annual comics competition: HERO. The deadline is the 15th of August and all other information you can find here.