Manga Jiman competition winners revealed

By John Freeman on January 24, 2013

The judging panel for this year’s Manga Jiman competition has selected the manga below as the winning entries for this year – and manga fans have a chance to be at the invitation-only awards ceremony at the Embassy of Japan in London next month.

This year, the Embassy is holding a competition for a limited number of its web site visitors to attend this exclusive event. For a chance to win, e-mail your full name, the name of the organisation you represent and your position to manga@ld.mofa.go.jp with “Webmagazine” as the subject.

Winnerss will be notified by e-mail no later than 31 January 2013.

Entries are listed in alphabetical order by title and the exact position of each entrant will be announced at the ceremony.

Title	Entrant(s)
A Comic Book	Joshua Green
Bon Appetite	Tammy Taylor
Ganbare, My Son	Wei Tran
I Love You	Sara Ferreira and Gisela Martins
Invidia	Katja Hammond
Kumakop	Zuhaib Dalvi
Moving House	Susan and Steven Cook
Saying and Doing	Dean McKnight and Jade Sarson
Sky Riders	Rhiannon Tate
The Boy Who Flew	Kieran Blue Walton
The Lady In White	Dounia Chanchorle

All of the above entries will be displayed at a special exhibition at the Embassy of Japan in the spring of 2013 and the website will be updated with the final positions once the announcement has been made.

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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.