Tony Lee Launches £2500 Caliburn Prize To Aspiring Graphic Novelists

During lockdown, comedian ebook author Tony Lee of Hooded Man Media grew to become bestselling novelist Tony Lee below a few pseudonyms. Now he’s seeking to share the love. The Hooded Man Caliburn Prize for Comic Creation, or The Caliburn Prize for brief is a brand new UK comic-based literary grant, recognising contemporary and unpublished voices on the planet of comedian and graphic novel creation. The Caliburn Prize is a £2,500 grant aimed toward serving to unpublished UK-based creators get a foot on the comics ladder.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 sword within the stone from Arthurian mythos, the Caliburn Prize is a contest working from the ninth of February till the thirty first of May 2023, with the winner being introduced on the 2023 London Film & Comic Con on July eighth. In addition to the prize cash, the successful creator/crew may also acquire a free desk and resort at 2024
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 and Comics Outreach for Kickstarter. It is open to all unpublished UK-based comedian creators, with the tip aim of helping them in finishing their first completed ebook.

To be thought-about, entrants should submit a challenge containing eight pages of completed comedian, a completed cowl with brand, a one-page synopsis of the story and a one-page biography listing 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 call is made, and the winner shall be introduced on the London Film & Comic Con on July eighth, 2023.

‘As a fan of Arthurian legends, the sword within the stone was this merchandise that might change the lifetime of anybody – in the event that they managed to tug it – and it resonated with what I wished to do right here,’ Tony continued. ‘This is a prize that may change the trajectory of the winner, as they not solely get the funds to assist end the ebook, however because of Showmasters Events
they’ve a spot they will reveal it, and with the Comic Book Legal Defence Fund, the Alliance of Independent Authors and Oriana Leckert, along with her Kickstarter data, they will progress the challenge to the subsequent degree.’

The Caliburn Prize was additionally created to honour the reminiscence of 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 completed. “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.”

For extra data on the Caliburn Prize, together with submission pointers, the listing of judges and a Frequently Asked Questions part, click on right here.