Judging in progress for the International Comic/Manga School Contest 2022

[CLIP STUDIO PAINT] 1) Judging has started! The call for entries was closed on April 8, 2022, and contest entries are currently under review! Thank you very much for your many submissions. The number of registered schools that participated entries are as follows. Participating schools: 1,315 Comics, Manga, Webtoons, Bande dessinée, Storyboard entries: 500 Illustration entries: 1,114 The judges and sponsors are currently reviewing all the entries. Please look forward to the results announcement in July! [Contest page]( 2）Let's see what advice they gave to the previous winners! Contestants may receive critiques and advice from the judges in this contest on their works. Be sure to take a look at what the judges said last time! [Critiques]( Click below to see more amazing winning entries from last year's contest. [See previous winning entries]( 3) Messages from sponsors! This contest receives support from a number of very influential sponsors in the comic industry. Check out the latest from each sponsor and their messages to you all! ["Coco - The Magic Island", a manga for kids... and grown-ups!]( Here comes the poetry and humor of the author of our successful manga ”Roji!” once again! In this colorful new adventure, follow the young apprentice witch Coco and transform your daily life with magic and enchantment. Coco only causes disasters around her, but one day, her power attracts the attention of a mysterious character... Volume 2 just came out this March. Here is [a free excerpt]( and [a trailer]( Official Twitter account (FR): [@ki_oon_Editions]( editors on the SHUEISHA manga upload site, Manga Meets!]( [Manga Meets]( run by the womens' manga department at SHUEISHA, is always looking for new works. Our editors guarantee a reaction on all works submitted! [KADOKAWA]( An all-around entertainment company, KADOKAWA, runs a wide range of businesses in publishing, videos, games, web services, education, merchandising, intangible services, and inbound sales. The company’s free comic site, [Comic Walker]( features popular KADOKAWA manga. It boasts more than 3,500 titles ranging from mixed-media works to popular isekai comics. Comics, novels, culture, journalism, fashion, picture books, anime, games - Kodansha has developed an all-around publishing business that creates and makes “stories” from all genres public, together with talent from across the world. As well as publishing a range of comic magazines for all ages, from Weekly Shonen Magazine, Young Magazine, and Nakayoshi, the company also runs the Magapoke and Comic DAYS manga apps. is looking for original comic artists!]( Top all-round Japanese e-book store, BookLive, is looking for authors to write for two new collections: COMIC Ambre, a seinen manga anthology aimed at adults regardless of their gender, and COMIC Etoile, a collection of manga for women, offering realistic love stories that excite and delight in an isekai setting. Whether professional or an amateur, we look forward to falling in love with your entries! [LINE MANGA]( To support manga artists looking at making their professional debuts, LINE Manga is increasing its efforts to revitalize and develop the manga market, including the Manga Artist Support Project, which has attracted over 1,500 submissions from both professionals and amateur artists. We invite all you contestants to post your manga to [Line Manga Indies]( Pioneer of pen and display tablets made for creatives, used to create the world’s most exciting digital art, films, special effects, fashion, and design. Click [here]( to learn more about educational use. [pixiv]( A social network for creators that makes getting creative even more fun! With over 71 million users worldwide, more than 100 million illustrations, comics, and novels have been posted. New, fun projects for illustrators, manga artists, and writers pop up every day. [DUPUIS]( Dupuis is a Belgian publisher with over 100 years of history, and the main creator of many great Franco-Belgian comic heroes, such as Spirou, the Marsupilami and Gaston Lagaffe, to name a few. It is also known as the publishing house with the most diverse library in Europe, with titles in teen & young adult comics, manga, webtoons, graphic novels, news and many other genres. [RED SEVEN]( RED SEVEN is a company founded with the combined powers of REDICE STUDIO, creators of "Solo Leveling," and L SEVEN, creators of "Omniscient Reader." We aim to provide a superior media experience for our readers and set the full potential of both companies into motion. [On the search for Girls’, Boys', and Women’s Manga Authors!]( We at FUNGUILD are on the hunt for the next big talent in Girls’, Boys’, and Women’s manga. If you have the skills, we can guarantee you a series and immediate debut! We’re also looking for talented webtoon (vertically scrolling comics) artists and look forward to seeing all the entries this year! [Solmare Publishing (NTT Solmare Corp.)]( NTT Solmare Corp. runs "Comic c'moa," one of the largest e-book websites in Japan, through its e-manga editorial department "Solmare Publishing." As well as adapting a vast number of properties, they provide full support to new artists to help them create smash hit works. [Planeta Cómic]( Planeta Cómic, part of Grupo Planeta, was created in 1982. It offers a wide range of shonen manga such as Dragon Ball, My Hero Academia, Naruto, One Piece and Haikyu, as well as kodomo, seinen, shojo, yuri and BL manga works. It also has its own successful magazine: Planeta Manga. The Star Wars books and other independent works form part of its North American offering, deserving of special mention. Also noteworthy is its collection of graphic novels, including titles such as Nada, Voces que cuentan and From Hell. [Mangatari]( We are a Manga Artist Entertainment Production company with a vision to create the stage where the next generation of manga artists can be active and accelerate the evolution of Japanese manga. Working closely with manga artists' careers, we push the envelope on manga as an artform. For companies, we provide services such as the Original Story Advertising Manga "Orist" service, which produces manga for commercials. We also deliver manga to publishers through our Team-based Serialization and Comic Production "Manpro" business. [Amutus Corporation]( Mecha Comic Creators, the manga upload site operated by Mecha Comic, one of Japan's largest e-book and manga stores, is now open for business! Post your projects on the site and have your work commented and reacted to by readers and editors! Note: Only available in Japan. [( [Tapas Media]( The leading digital publisher of webcomics and novels, Tapas is a pioneer mobile storytelling platform with more than 8.7 billion views to date from more than 9M registered users reading 99,000 series by 64,000 creators. [Tokyo Name Tank]( Tokyo Name Tank is a classroom and research lab specializing in manga. We hold a Storyboarding Course, where students can learn all about manga from how to structure them, individual consultations, where we can respond to students' struggles when it comes to drawing manga, and a Monthly Manga Studio, where manga creators discuss how to create manga that will resonate with readers. Through our efforts, we have helped many artists debut, including many who go on to win awards. [Cork Co., Ltd.]( Cork is a creative agency with a mission to "Change the world, one person at a time, through the power of storytelling." A creator agency whose mission is to change each and everyone's world through the power of storytelling. The agency aims to create a world where comics can shine brightly, where excitement is generated from creators and fans connecting directly and building a model for entertainment that goes beyond traditional publishing and distribution. In line with this mission, we aim to build the next generation of entertainment models with "Cork Studio," where new manga artists and editors team up to create works, and "Cork Lab Manga Senka," which trains professional manga artists whose main area of activity is through social media and fan communities. SHOGAKUKAN is a general publishing company that publishes magazines such as comic magazines, children's magazines, information magazines, women's magazines, books and picture books. The comic magazine genre covers a wide range of readers from boys and girls to adults, such as CoroCoro Comic, Weekly Shonen Sunday, Sho-Comi, and Big Comic. The company also runs the comic app, Manga One, which has been downloaded over 20 million times. [POCKET COMICS]( Pocket Comics is a manga/novel app that features a vast collection of vertically scrolling, full-color manga. In addition to the Korean, Thai and Vietnamese versions, the English version of the app is available in France, Taiwan, and the United States, as well as other English-speaking countries, having been downloaded more than 35 million times worldwide. [EVER GLORY PUBLISHING CO.,LTD.]( Founded in June 1991, Ever Glory Publishing Co., Ltd. has mainly had educational- and entertainment-oriented children’s books published and distributed. It once gained authorizations from SHOGAKUKAN, Kodansha, SHUEISHA, and Akita Shoten to issue Chinese versions of comics in Taiwan. As part of its recent focus on training manga artists and holding original manga contests regularly, the company also welcomes aspiring authors to submit their comics and novels whenever possible. [SILENT MANGA AUDITION®]( One of the biggest international manga competitions, exclusively without dialogue. It is organized by COAMIX Inc., a manga publisher founded by iconic creators such as Tetsuo Hara and Tsukasa Hojo. The competition aims to discover, nurture, and publish the next generation of international manga creators through exclusive opportunities, such as the MasterClass and Kumamoto-based Artists Village projects. [Shonengahosha]( We are a publisher specializing in manga with a long history, founded in 1945. Despite being a long-established company, we continue to create new and unique works every day. Although we have produced many popular works adapted into anime and TV dramas, our first and foremost priority is to value our titles and artists above all else. We are looking for new talent regardless of experience for our magazines, WEB magazines, and our app, Manga DX+! [FANFAN INC.]( Fanfan Inc., located in Hangzhou, China, is an all-around IP business that deals in importing international cartoons, fostering domestic Chinese cartooning talent, and selling character merchandise. Since its founding over a decade ago, Fanfan Inc. has grown to a mid-sized company in the Chinese animation industry. [Japan Cartoonists Association]( The Japan Cartoonists Association was established in December 1964 as the only nationwide organization of Japan's manga artist at that time and became an Incorporated Association in 1985 before becoming a Public Interest Incorporated Association in 2014. It is engaged in a variety of projects, such as research on comics, efforts in popularizing comics and comics culture, and comics cultural exchange with other countries. [Manga Japan]( Manga Japan is an organization that aims to promote the development of manga culture and artists, contribute to society through the manga industry, promote international exchange, and improve production environments for manga authors and others involved in the industry. [Digital Manga Association]( The Digital Manga Association is an organization of volunteers established to explore creative technologies for the creation of digital manga and comics and research copyright issues caused by digitization. [Contest Website]( [Twitter @clipstudiopaint]( [Facebook @celsys.clipstudiopaint]( [Instagram @clipstudioofficial]( [CLIPSTUDIOPAINTchannel]( CLIP STUDIO PAINT Channel]( [( Studio Support]( [Official Tips and Tutorials]( From: CELSYS,Inc. [( This mail is sent by Celsys to those who have entered a contest, purchased Clip Studio Paint, or signed up for a free trial. If you do not wish to receive this newsletter, you can [unsubscribe here](. If you are unable to unsubscribe with the above link, please reply to this email with the word "Unsubscribe" in the subject line. Copyright © CELSYS,Inc. All Rights Reserved. [View in browser](