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IMPORTANT NOTE: SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 31ST 2011

Submission Guidelines

CONTENTS

  1. Introduction
  2. Main
  3. Payment
  4. Page Specification

INTRODUCTION


AN UNPRECEDENTED opportunity to expose your talents to a global audience, the Eagle Awards Initiative is primarily a worldwide search to find the next superstars of the comicbook medium; creators who have originality, passion and crucially the skill to tell a story.

Entries, which will be considered on their individual merits, will be judged by a panel of the industry's top talents. Each should be a clearly told, self contained story of between 4 and 10 pages with no restrictions as to genre. Entrants can be a single writer/artist, a writer and artist, or a writer, penciller and inker team.

A cash prize is on offer to the top three entries as voted by the judges:
First: £1,000
Second: £500
Third: £250

In addition, all 12 shortlisted entries will made available both digitally and in print in the form of an internationally distributed anthology. A percentage based royalty scheme will be in place to divide any profits between the shortlisted creators and the Initiative prize fund for the following year.

Please read the following guidelines carefully. Failure to observe these rules will result in you being disqualified and your entry rejected. You will not be entitled to a refund of your entry fee should you choose to ignore these criteria. The organisers' decision in such cases is final.

MAIN CRITERIA

  1. All entrants must be considered an adult in their country of residence, ie 18 in the UK and US.
  2. Entrants must declare their name, address, date of birth, and contact details with their submission. These will be subject to verification.
  3. If a submission is created by more than one person (i.e. writer, penciller, inker, colourist, letterer), each must be declared, with full details given, on a seperate page to the submitted story pages.
  4. Entrants must not have been published professionally prior to their submission to the Initiative; in this context professionally is defined as being paid for work commissioned by a publisher, sometimes called a page rate. For example, if you worked on XMEN and paid a page rate, then you wouldn't be eligible. If your creator owned series was published by a small press publisher and you were not paid a page rate, then you would be eligible.
  5. Each entry should consist of a previously unpublished (in print, web or any other medium) self contained story of between four and 10 pages and told using sequential art.
  6. Entries may be in colour or black and white.
  7. There is no limit to the number of submissions an entrant or team of entrants may submit.
  8. All characters, names and/or situations must be original and of your own creation. You may use your own original characters, places, names and/or situations which have published previously. However the submission itself must be 100% original and must not have seen publication in any medium before. Any submission found to feature characters, places, names and/or situations created by other persons and used without consent will result in the entry being disqualified. In such instances where the discovery is made after publicatuon, the perpetrator(s) will be held responsible for any fines, motions or liabilities put into effect by the wronged party.
  9. All entries submitted remain the creative property of their creators. By submitting to the Initiative, you grant the Initiative exclusive first worldwide publication rights for print and digital platforms.
  10. Submissions can be in any genre. However they must be suitable for a general audience, ie 13+. That means no nudity, swearing, excessive or gratuitous violence. Any entries which contain obscene material of any kind, including but not limited to pornography, racism, sexism, ageism, or anything that is derogratory to a race, colour, creed, religion, or sexual orientation, will be rejected.
  11. All entries must be made by going to the submission page and following the instructions.
  12. By entering into the Initiative challenge, entrants acknowledge and agree to abide by these competition rules.

PAYMENT:

  1. An entry fee is payable for each submission as follows:
    UK addresses… £5
    US addresses… $10
    Euro zone… €10
    Elsewhere, please pay in US dollars.
  2. No entry will be accepted without payment of the entry fee, which must be paid through Paypal for each submission can be registered. One submission, though it may be made by a team, is still considered one submission. One member of the team must register. Confirmation of receipt of the entry will be sent. Multiple submissions from the same party will be considered unique submissions and therefore subject to the submission fee.

INITIATIVE ANTHOLOGY PAGE SPECIFICATIONS:


As the final twelve entries will be printed in a US format trade paperback, please follow the below guidelines when submitting pages:

These page dimensions apply to all US-sized comics pages —

  1. Full Bleed Size: 7 inches wide x 10.5 inches high- These are the dimensions that the page files you send to us must be.
  2. Trimmed Size: 6.75 x 10.25- This is the size that the book will be after it has been printed and trimmed.
  3. Live Area: 6.25 x 9.75- This is the safe area in the center of the comic page. All relevant artwork, text, captions, and balloons that are NOT intended to bleed off of the page should be confined to this area.

B/W pages should be greyscale, colour in CMYK or RGB at minimum of 300dpi, and all flattened jpegs uploaded in a zip/rar file or as a pdf.

IMPORTANT: Remember that digital editions of the anthology will be presented in multiple languages so when preparing your pages, please ensure your lettering is retained as a seperate layer that can be altered later on. All pages submitted to us initially should be flattened files.



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