£2500 Caliburn Prize For New British Comic Creators For A Second Year

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Last 12 months, Tony Lee launched The Caliburn Prize, a UK comic-based literary grant, for £2,500. And now he’s doing it once more.

Last 12 months, comedian creator and crime novelist Tony Lee launched The Hooded Man Caliburn Prize for Comic Creation (The Caliburn Prize), a UK comic-based literary grant, recognising contemporary and unpublished voices on this planet of comedian and graphic novel creation. And now he’s doing it once more. A £2,500 grant geared toward serving to unpublished UK-based creators get a foot on the comics ladder.

“When I started in comics, it was a different world” Tony Lee defined. “I was able to walk into a publisher with experience in other media under my belt, but many of today’s creators don’t have the same advantages I did, as the industry has massively changed over the last twenty years, and the doors I entered through are now boarded up. The prize fund is a way to help the next generation of comic creators find their own route into the room where it happens.”

Named after the legendary sword within the stone from Arthurian mythos, the Caliburn Prize is a contest working from the first January till the thirty first May 2024, with the winner being introduced on the 2024 London Film & Comic Con in July. In addition to the prize cash, the profitable creator / staff can even acquire a free desk and resort on the 2025 London Film & Comic Con, because of organisers Showmasters Events, a 12 months’s membership of each the Comic Book Legal Defence Fund (CBLDF) and the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi), because of help from each organisations, and an hour-long zoom name with Oriana Leckert, Director of Publishing for Kickstarter. It is open to all unpublished UK-based comedian creators, with an finish purpose of helping them in finishing their first completed e book.

The winner of the 2023 Caliburn Prize, Michael Lomon mentioned this about it “Winning the 2023 Caliburn Prize has had a huge impact on my creative life as a comic book artist. It has granted access to a host of industry professionals whose input has been invaluable as well as assisting me in successfully Kickstarting my first full length graphic novel. To have a prize that offers such a range of opportunities, in addition to financial support and recognition within this often undervalued industry is fantastic and ensures that new creators have a better chance of finding an audience and levelling up their practice.”

To be thought-about, entrants should submit a venture containing eight pages of completed comedian, a completed cowl with brand, a one-page synopsis of the story and a one-page biography checklist of all creators concerned. After the shut of submissions, the shortlisted candidates will transfer on to a judging panel of award-winning writers, artists, editors, publishers, and literary brokers earlier than a choice is made, and the winner will probably be introduced on the London Film & Comic Con on July eighth, 2024.

The 2024 Judging panel include comedian creators Gail Simone, Mark Buckingham and Sonia Leong, Kickstarter Director of Publishing Oriana Leckert, Titan Comics Group Editor Jake Devine, Literary Agent James Wills, Bleeding Cool founder (me) Rich Johnston, and Legendary Comics Senior Vice President and Publisher Robert Napton.

“As a fan of Arthurian legends, the sword in the stone was this item that could change the life of anyone – if they managed to pull it – and it resonated with what I wanted to do here,” Tony continued. “This is a prize that can change the trajectory of the winner, as they not only get the funds to help finish the book, but thanks to Showmasters Events, they have a place they can reveal it, and with the Comic Book Legal Defence Fund, the Alliance of Independent Authors and Oriana Leckert, with her Kickstarter knowledge, they can progress the project to the next level.”

The Caliburn Prize was additionally created to honour the reminiscence of Tony Lee’s different, Doreen Lee, who died of most cancers in 2004. “Mum was my biggest supporter when I started, and always looked for ways she could help me,’ Tony finished. ‘I got my first Marvel work shortly before she passed, and it was one of the greatest feelings in my life to show her the finished book, but the enthusiasm and advice she gave me back then is still felt and used now, all these years later.”

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