First Graphic Novel Contest

As you can check on the publisher's website Without sense, With the aim of promoting and encouraging literary production in the field of comics, Sins Entido and Fnac editions announce the First International Prize for Graphic Novels, endowed with 8.000 euros for the winning work. The original delivery period ends on November 30, 2007.

The bases of the contest are the following:
Bases

1. All authors who wish to do so, of any nationality or origin, may be eligible for the Prize, provided that the works they submit conform to the commonly accepted concept of graphic novels and meet the following requirements:
• Are written in Spanish language
• Are original and rigorously unpublished
• They do not correspond to authors who died prior to the announcement of this call.
• They have not been previously awarded in any other contest, or are pending a ruling in any other contest on the date the submission period ends.

2. Work.
The modality to present to the contest is the comic, in its graphic novel format. Each author must send a book proposal with a minimum of 16 finished pages, whose final length, for the winner, will be 96 pages onwards. It may be presented in black and white or color, attaching a dossier containing the 16 finished pages, with their corresponding title, in printed copies in DIN-A4 format, plus a detailed synopsis (of at least 2 pages) with the full story content. Said copies (original work will not be accepted, only copies), will be accompanied by the data of the author or authors: Name, surname, address, telephone, email and photocopy of ID, passport or any other identification document.

3. Shipping.
The originals will be sent or delivered, indicating on the envelope “I International Prize for Graphic Novel Fnac-Sins Entido, at the following postal address: Ediciones Sins Entido / calle Válgame Dios, nº 6/28004 Madrid

4 Deadlines.
The deadline for the admission of proposals will be closed on November 30, 2007. The Jury will meet and issue the decision that will be communicated in January 2008. The winning author will commit to deliver the finished project in the last week of June 2008. The publication of the winning work will be in October 2008.
The non-awarded copies will remain at the publisher so that their owners can withdraw them within a maximum of two months from the publication of the ruling, either personally or after sending courier, at their expense. After that time they will remain the property of the publisher, which reserves the right to destroy them.

5. Composition of the Jury.
The Jury will be made up of cultural professionals, appointed for this purpose by the promoting entities, which reserve the possibility for a reading committee to select from the originals submitted as many finalists as it deems appropriate.

6. Prize and decision of the Jury.
A single and indivisible prize of 8.000 euros will be awarded (to be paid in two stages: 50% of the amount with the communication of the ruling, and the remaining 50% at the time of publication). The winning work will be published by Ediciones Sins Entido, which will be responsible for the production and editing and the winner will sign a contract with this publisher. At the same time, the originals of the winning work will be exhibited at the Fnac, in its circuit of photographic galleries in Spain. The amount of the award will be subject to the legislation on withholding tax regulations. The decision of the Jury will be final, it cannot be declared void and it will be awarded to that work of those presented that unanimously or, failing that, by majority vote of the Jury, is considered worthy of being awarded.

7. Distribution and Public Presentation.
The winning work will be distributed by Sins Entido, and Fnac will guarantee the special implementation and communication of the winning work in all its commercial spaces. The public presentation of the award will take place in one of the Fnac Forum that the organization deems most appropriate. The fact of taking part in the contest implies the acceptance of the bases.

Well, let's go to the pencils and see who gets the money!