The Philippine International Comics Festival has extended its Call for Entries for strips for its planned South East Asia Kommunity Anthology until 31st December 2023.

The PICOF team is asking comic creators from the South East Asia comics community to share an eight to 24 page one-shot comics that represents you, your culture, and your country.

“Include a ‘breakthrough’ moment – a topic, or theme, you want to break through, break away, or break free from,” they ask. “Let’s co-create a future where we are all equally important and celebrated as a comics creator from the SEA Kommunity.”

The fourth Philippine International Comics Festival, which has run online over two consecutive weekends this month, is currently running for the rest of today, via Zoom, and registration is free via this link.

It features more creators, festivals, scholars, and experts to discuss more things to love about comics.

Creators involved this year have included Bambi Eloriaga-Amago, Och Gonzalez, RH Quilantang, Divine Gil-Reyes, Bambi A. Rodriguez, Duy Tano, Randy Valiente (from the Philippines); Paul Gravett, Karrie Fransman and Jonathan Scott (from the UK); Gene Ha, Jimmy Palmiotti and Geoff Thorne (from the United States); Campbell Whyte (Australia); Belinda Billen and Eva “Ephameron” Cardon (from Belgium); Kifurai (Indonesia); Adam Pasion (Japan); Ryu Jung Hye and Kim Yangsu (Korea); Nadhir Nor (Malaysia); and Shreya Davies, CT Lim and Wayne Rée (Singapore).

Full details of how to submit entries and format required below

Requirements:
No. of pages: 8 pages (minimum) to 24 pages (maximum)
Page size: 6″x9″
Color: Full colour, CMYK and 100% black
Format: JPEG
Send a 3-5 sentence bionote, illustrated self-portrait, social media handles, email address, address, and contact number.
Honorarium: Roundtrip flight to Manila and a shared PICOF booth (for SEA creators living in SEA), or $100 USD
Deadline: December 31, 2023
Email picoflions@gmail.com

John Freeman

The founder of downthetubes, which he established in 1998. John works as a comics and magazine editor, writer, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He is currently editor of Star Trek Explorer, published by Titan – his third tour of duty on the title originally titled Star Trek Magazine.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Babylon 5 Magazine, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”.

He’s the writer of “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.

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