Call for Artists: “Make Your Manga!” Contest

• Submissions will be judged by a committee based on technical and artistic qualities; the quality of materials used will not be considered
• Winner will be selected by the committee
• Winners will be contacted by a staff member of Minnesota Manga to arrange obtaining prizes
• The full submission or parts of it may be used on Minnesota Manga’s social media and in magazines
• Please email minnesotamanga@gmail.com with any questions, comments, or concerns!

Rules:
All submission must:

• Be by a person who is able to collect the prizes from Wet Paint (1684 Grand Ave, St Paul, MN 55105)
• Be drawn in a manga or manga-like style (considered when judging, but not enforced when accepting submitting)
• Be read from left to right (if you draw a manga right to left, you can flip the pages though the art will be flipped too)
• Be printable in greyscale (using screen tones is recommended, but all methods are accepted)
• Not contain any explicit content or hate speech of any kind (as a guideline, if the manga was in a store there must be no possibility of it needing to be shrink wrapped)
• Not use images created by AI
• Be created entirely by the person submitting to the contest
• Not be “fan art” or based on copyrighted materials
• Be the only submission by a person
• Only include files formatted as PDFs, Word documents, PNGs, or JPEGS

Submission options:
All submissions must include a name and email address, and one of the following options:

• Option 1: any number of manga pages that can be read in order to tell a story.
• Option 2: 3-5 drawing(s) in a manga-like style, and a script for a manga story OR story pitch that is one-page or less in length.

Prizes: