международный фестиваль комиксов КомМиссия

International Festival of Comics and Games in Łódź

Rules of the competition for a short comics story

§1

1. The competition is open for everyone, there is no given theme of the competition.
2. Participants can use techniques such as drawing, painting, computer graphics or photography.

§2

1. A participant can submit one complete and full story, up to 8 pages.
2. The pages should be in a vertical A4 (210×297 mm) or A3 (297×420 mm) format. On the back of each page there should be: title of the work, page number, name and surname of the author/s, their functions: (artist / scenarist etc.), home address, e-mail and phone number. This information should be written on the back of the page only.
3. When sending original pages, copies or prints you should enclose a CD or DVD with the digital version of the work (.tiff, CMYK, A4 - 300 DPI).
4. The works should be securely packed in a stiff, cardboard folder, which should be signed, enabling the organizers to send it back to the owner by post (copies and prints will not be sent back).
5. The works should be sent to the following address: Lodzki Dom Kultury, Stowarzyszenie Tworcow ‘Contur’,  ul. Traugutta 18, 90-113 Lodz, Poland with a signature ‘KOMIKS 2010’. The deadline for this year is 31 August 2010 (date on a post stamp will decide).
6. The registration fee is 30 PLN for Polish citizens and 10 Euro for foreigners. The fee should be paid to the following account: Stowarzyszenie Tworcow „Contur”, ul. Traugutta 18, 90-113 Lodz, MultiBank, IBAN PL66114020170000490202454189, SWIFT: BREX PL PW MUL. The print of the transfer should be enclosed with the works as confirmation.
7. Only works complying with the requirements will take part in the competition.
8. The works will be shown at the exhibition of competition works housed in the Lodz Cultural Center, during the International Festival of Comics and Games. The organizers exercise the right to verify the participants’ works which are to be presented in the exposition.
9. All competitors will be allowed free entry to all festival events. What is more, all competitors whose works will be published in the catalogue will get a free copy.

§3

1. The works will be evaluated by a jury appointed by the organizers.
2. The jury, after examining all the submitted works, will choose the Grand Prix of the festival, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize and three special awards.
3. All the winners will obtain financial gratification. Moreover, the Grand Prix winner will get a special prize, funded by the Embassy of France in Poland, and will go on a trip to Angouleme, France to see the biggest comics festival in Europe.
4. The award ceremony will take place on October 2, 2010, during the International Festival of Comics and Games in Lodz.
5. The winners will be informed about the results before the festival and invited to participate in the ceremony – travel expenses will be reimbursed by the festival.

§4

1. The exhibition of competition works can be presented in other cities and events after the festival.
2. The grand prix winner will have the honor to design the next festival’s visual elements (for the International Festival of Comics and Games in 2010) and present the project to the organizers by the end of the year 2009. The organizers will have the right to abandon the project if it does not meet their expectations and therefore they have the right to ask another artists, chosen by them, to design the visual elements.
3. The organizers will have the right to publish chosen works in the catalogue of the festival, in special extra publications, press releases and in the Internet as a form of promotion of the authors themselves and the festival. Furthermore, the organizers will have the right to publish the works, with no extra authorization, in the festival’s jubilee publications in the future.
4. The organizers will also have the right to entitle a sponsor of the festival to a single publication of a given work (in print or in the Internet).
5. By submitting the works to the competition, the participants accept the fact that their personal data might be given to any publisher who is interested in their work, unless a suitable, signed document that says otherwise is enclosed with the works.
6. After the exhibitions are over, the works are available to their owners at the festival’s office or shall be returned by post within three months.

Organizers: Lodzki Dom Kultury (Lodz Cultural Center) and the Association of Artists CONTUR.