Scottish Independent Comic Book Alliance Awards Entry Deadline this week

By John Freeman on April 23, 2019

If you’re a Scottish comics creator, there’s still time to enter your work into the Scottish Independent Comic Book Alliance Awards for this year – but you’ll have to hurry, as the deadline is this Thursday, 25th April 2019.

Sponsored by Comic Printing UK , the awards are dedicated to supporting and nurturing Scotland’s vibrant and unique independent comic book scene and were set up to celebrate the ongoing growth of the medium in Scotland.” Past winners include Colin Bell and Neil Slorance’s Dungeon Fun, Morag Kewell’s Big in Japan, Chris Baldie and Michael Park’s Space Captain and Zhou Fang’s Garden.

SUCBA 2019 judges David Bishop, Sinéad Grainger and Andy Oliver

The results to be announced at Glasgow Comic Con on 28th June and this year’s judges are former Tharg, David Bishop, the programme leader for Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University; Little Shop of Heroes co-owner and Dunfermline Comic Con co-organiser Sinéad Grainger and Broken Frontier Editor-in-Chief Andy Oliver, who has been instrumental in championing new voices in comics.

The Awards are and there’s still time to submit to the Awards which close later this week.

• Find out how to enter here on the Glasgow Comic Con web site

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.