Last year I entered the annual comic competition 'Manga Jiman', which is ran by the Japanese Embassy.
Much to my delight and surprise, I discovered that I was one of the shortlisted winners (11 in total ) and last Friday I went to the competiton ceremony, where I had so much fun catching up with fellow comic artists, and reading all the other wonderful winning entries.
Anyway, all the winning short comics are being exhibited from now until the end of Feburary at the Japanese Embassy in London. If you have the chance please go down there and have a read!
The exhibition is free and is open from 9:30 - 5:30 on weekdays. You can get more information on the winning entry, a list of the winners, and the adress of the Embassy (pretty much at the bottom of Picadilly Circus, or up the road from Buckingham Palace!)
here.
I can't post my short online until the exhibition is over, so I've cropped two images from the comic as a preview. I'm sure my comic looks better in print anyway! As you can see, my short was set in WW1. I actually based it around a real person, George Butterworth, who is one of my favourite composers and folk song collectors, and a soldier who died during the Great War.
So if you get a chance, get down there and have a read! I enjoyed all the winning entries for different reasons, there is a great variety of artists and stories, which is always lovely to see :)
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