Mango Jam Fan Art Contest Mechanics

Rules:

1. Contestants must be 14 years old and above. Male or Female.

2. Contestant must submit one (1) colored fan art of any existing Mango Jam character.

3. Entries submitted via e-mail should be 150dpi, .jpg file, no bigger than 5GB. E-mail entries to: boboy[@]mangocomics.com [Update as of Sept 22, 2006].

4. Entries not sent via mail should be on A3 (11x17) paper. Send entries to:

P.O. Box 3432 Makati.

5. Deadline of submissions is on October 15, 2006.

6. The winner will receive cash prizes and merchandize from Mango Comics and will be featured in one of the coming issues of Mango Jam. Announcement of winners will be on October 21, 2006 at the KOMIKON 2006.


This contest is brought to you by KOMIKON and our Major Sponsor, Mango Comics.

LEAD Slinger Challenge Guidelines

Want Php 10,000 cash? Here's how:

LEAD SLINGER CHALLENGE Contest Guidelines

1. Contestant must be a Filipino citizen (by birth or by naturalization) and 18 years old or above to enter the Challenge.

2. There will be three challenges/assignments which have to be completed in exactly one hour’s time each. The challenges/assignments and the materials needed will be given on the spot. Critiques will be given by the judges individually on stage during the KOMIKON 2006.

3. Interested parties must submit 5 samples of their work to be considered for the contest including their contact information (name, e-mail, URL, mailing address, landline number, and mobile phone) and a short bio-data (age, sex, etc.). Please submit your samples and contact information to jonas@storyboardsonline.com no later than October 6, 2006. The judges will shortlist five artists from the collective to participate in the said contest. The contestants will be notified 5 days before the event by e-mail, SMS, and phone call.

4. There are no contest fees to be paid.

5. The prize is Php 10,000.00 and a paid two-week working contract (internship, if winner is still a student) in IAS Manila, Inc.

6. The artworks produced by the contestants in the contest proper will become the property of IAS Manila, Inc.

7. The entire event will be documented via pictures and video, including the selection process for short-listing candidates. These will become the sole property of IAS Manila, Inc. to be used as promotional and press release material.

8. The judges’ decision will be final.

9. For further questions or clarifications, please send an email to:

jonas@storyboardsonline.com

This contest is brought to you by KOMIKON and our Co-Presentor, Storyboards Online / IAS.

UPDATES!! Komikon 2006 Contests

[update as of September 4, 2006]

Good news to everyone joining the Comic Creation Contest and Editorial Cartoon Contest! You can now submit your entries at Comic Quest SM Megamall (Bldg. A, Basement) and Comic Quest SM North EDSA (2nd Floor).

Please follow all submission guidelines. Remember, the deadline for submission is on September 30, 2006.

Voting ballots for the KOMIKON Awards will soon be available at Comic Quest. Stand by for further announcements. Or, you can vote online through the KOMIKON Forums (www.komikon.tk).

LEAD Slinger Challenge

Storyboards Online and the Artists Den presents to you...

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Guest for Komikon 2006: Steve Gan

Our Guest

Steve Gan

"I internalize my emotions with the characters and scenes in the frame. It's not only my hands that make my illustrations; there is the coordination of my heart and mind. I've got to feel it. Oftentimes, I'm the one inside those frames suffering, laughing, moving." — Steve Gan

One of the highest-paid comic book illustrators in the Philippines, Steve Gan is a naturalized Filipino of Chinese ancestry and he regards himself as a self-made artist. Since there were no schools that taught courses on comic book illustration, he had to learn the basics of the comic art through perseverance and he honed his talent through study.

Research is one task Steve never gets tired of. He has voluminous collection of books on paintings and well-known illustrators, and claims that he's learned a lot from poring over the biographies and analyzing the famous brush-pushers.

Drawing has two important aspects for him: the aesthetic and the commercial. He could easily combine them by simply going down to the leveI of standard the readers require without losing control over his art.

Steve became interested in drawing at a very early age. It was the work of Francisco V. Coching, the acknowledged dean of Filipino comic illustrators, who inspired him in the '50s. He became more engrossed in drawing comics rather than contemplating architecture (which he was taking up at the Mapua Institute of Technology).

Steve's illustrations began to attract attention within the Filipino comic book industry. To further develop his craft and help contribute to the advancement of comic art in the country, he joined the Society of Philippine Illustrators and Cartoonists (SPIC). His popularity soared to new heights when he began to reap awards from comic illustration contests sponsored by prestigious organizations concerned with giving due recognition to those involved in the arts. In 1980, he copped first prize for his work on Ang Panday (serialized in Pilipino Komiks) in an art contest under the aegis of SPIC, San Miguel Corporation, and Philamlife Insurance. He broke his own record by winning first and second prizes in '81 for Mekanizmo, which was serialized in the Tagaiog Klasiks.

The artist's initial break into comics came with a novel called Bernardita, serialized in the now-defunct Palos Komiks. His longest-running comic novel was Pieta, which ran for five years. Aside from doing most of his work for the Philippine comics, he also contributed to Warren Publications and Marvel Comics. For Marvel, he worked on many of their characters, such as Conan, Ka-Zar, Tarzan, Oracula, Solomon Kane, and Brak the Barbarian.

For Steve, to illustrate haphazardly is a professional sin. "I do not want the characters to appear like puppets. I do not want to do an injustice to my readers. I want them to enjoy my illustrations as much as I enjoy doing them"

In the early '90s, Steve was introduced by Lazarino Baarde to Chris Bartleman and Blair Peters, owners of Studio B in Vancouver, Canada. For 13 months, he did storyboards for various animation projects, including Jungle Cubs, Timon and Pumba, Calamity Jane, Savage Dragon, Invasion America, and A Christmas Carol. Being away from his family for that length of time proved too much for Steve, so he decided to go back to the Philippines and work for an animation studio in Manila doing storyboards and layouts for such films and cartoon series as X-Men, Fantastic Four, Biker Mice, Tarzan, Teacher's Pet, and Atlantis.

Today, some of Steve's drawings and paintings are on exhibit, along with the work of Francisco V. Coching, at the Pasig Museum in the Philippines.— Manuel Auad

Get to meet this great artist this coming October 21st at the KOMIKON!!!!

* Copied from Comic Book Artist Magazine, Issue #4. Published by Top Shelf Productions (2004)