OUAT,－The Master’s Touch! Open-call for Drama Comics Proposal and Comics Critique
The Master’s Touch!
Open-call for Drama Comics Proposal and Comics Critique
Organiser: Hong Kong Arts Centre, Comix Home Base
Sponsor: Create Hong Kong of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Supporters: Alliance Française Hong Kong, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels
In Association with: Hong Kong Comics & Animation Federation, Hong Kong Digital Entertainment Association, Angoulême International Comics Festival
Not knowing whether readers would understand all the drawn up and deliberated stories at hand? Why not show them to the masters!
We all go to our friends for brainstorming ideas that turn the working story into a reasonable, exciting and fascinating one. And if you are still feeling stuck, why not hear from comics professional of different backgrounds? With new thoughts come new inspirations in styles, plots and materials that can enhance your work, you may even see for the work’s potential to European readers!
HKAC is launching an open-call for drama comics proposal from June 15 to July 31, comics drafts, plot ideas, even drama comics already published in Hong Kong but have not licensed to be published overseas are all welcomed! Our guests this time are two veteran French comics editors and publishers who have very strong background in drama comics. They come from French publishing houses that value experimentation and the comics artists’ creative ambitions. Many of the published works won numerous international awards.
The two masters will choose 20 works among the submitted projects and come to talk one-on-one, face-to-face with the artists in Hong Kong this mid-August! Who knows, it may kick off something really big!
Rare is the chance and it’s even free-of-charge. So go check everywhere, delve deep into the forgotten piles, retrieve your hidden gems!
Application and details, press here
Proposal Submission: 15.06-31.07.2019
Comics Critique by Overseas Comics Professionals
Date: 18.08.2019 (SUN)
Time: 1530-1800
Overseas Comics Professionals:
Thomas GABISON (Director of Collection Actes Sud BD）
Sébastien GNAEDIG (Editor-in-Chief of Futuropolis)
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Conducted in French with Cantonese interpretation
Free of Charge
Quota: 20
Application and details, press here
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