Announcing the winners of the International Comic / Manga School Contest 2022!

[CLIP STUDIO PAINT] We are pleased to announce the winners of this year’s International Comic / Manga School Contest from amongst entries from 1,317 schools in 90 countries and regions around the world! Thank you for all of your entries! Take a minute to check out the winning entries of each category, Comics, Manga, Webtoons and Bande dessinées - we’re sure they’ll all prove to be good reads! [To the Results]( ■Overall Grand Prize Victory Christian International School Artist: kanins (the Philippines) Title: PAGPAG [View]( ■Comic Category Award Chungkang College of Cultural Industries Artist: JAY HuH / ì œì´ 허 (South Korea) Title: FREESTYLE LIFE [View]( ■Manga Category Award Tainan University of Technology Artist: theYOUNG (Taiwan) Title: 京那巴魯 - 尊貴的死者之地 [View]( Wait up! Check out all the runner up entries on the contest page, too! Check out the video on the contest page to watch speeches from the winners and judges, and read the articles to see the judges’ detailed critiques on the entries! They’re all sure to help you with your entry next year! [To the Results]( Comic fan? Check out these fun events and services! The sponsors behind this year’s contest are very influential in the comic world. See what they’ve been up to recently here! [LINE MANGA]( LINE MANGA is supporting new artists who are looking to publish their first works with new initiatives like the [Trial Serialization program]( where artists can post their work and have their work commissioned for a series in a mere matter of days, and the [LINE MANGA Indie Grand Prix 22]( a big manga contest (deadline: November 13). Don't hesitate to submit your latest project to the [LINE MANGA Indies]( Project, the internationally renowned series from Ki-oon!]( Tsugumi Project, the popular post-apocalyptic fantasy series, is back in France with the release of its 4th volume on July 7! With its ultra-detailed lineart and its incredible menagerie of monsters, Tsugumi Project is one of Ki-oon's flagship series and known throughout the world. Published in Italy by J-Pop and by Kodansha in Japan, it's even a big hit in the land of the rising sun! Read the [free extract here]( and watch the [trailer here]( Official Twitter account (FR): [@ki_oon_Editions]( 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. RED SEVEN is currently on the lookout for young Webtoon creators. Check out their website for more information.[Meet 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]( The All-KADOKAWA Vertically Scrolling Manga Award held in 2021 has started accepting submissions again this year under the newly renamed All-KADOKAWA TATESC COMIC Award! The deadline for submissions is August 31, 2022. More and more of the winning works from last year's contest are being released and we are excited to see what kinds of new talent will emerge. We hope this contest will let you take advantage of the functionality built into Clip Studio Paint to show off your full-color, vertically scrolling comic (what we call TATESC COMICS) talents and build on their global popularity. [The 2nd All-KADOKAWA TATESC COMIC Award]( [TATESC COMIC]( [ComicWalker]( 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! 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. [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. Solmare Publishing runs a general monthly manga contest on Comic c'moa where they accept completed works, vertical-scrolling manga, social media and website comic submissions, as well as comic drafts. The winners can win a serialization with them, so why not take your work to the next step and enter? Submit your comic through the link below: [ 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! [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. [SHOGAKUKAN]( 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. [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. Inc.]( 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. [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]( [TikTok @clipstudioofficial]( [( Studio Support]( [Official Tips and Tutorials]( From: CELSYS,Inc. [( This email is sent by Celsys, Inc. to customers who have a Clip Studio Account and have opted into receiving email newsletters, or contestants of the International Comic / Manga School Contest 2022. Clip Studio Account holders: To unsubscribe, go to Newsletter under Edit Account Information. [Click here to unsubscribe.]( If you are a contestant and would like to unsubscribe, or would like to inquire about this newsletter, please contact us at [Clip Studio SUPPORT](. 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