If you are an unpublished creator looking to get a grant for your work, then you should be interested in the Creators for Creators grant. Winners of the grant receive US$30,000 to create the work, publishing through Image, mentorship from industry professionals & so much more.
If you have not heard of the Creators for Creators grant, you should visiting their official website. Here is a brief overview of the grant: The Creators for Creators Grant is a grant to encourage and support creator-owned comics. It provides a publishing opportunity with the focus on helping to jump start the careers of NEW creators, managed by professional creators (hence the name).
The Creators for Creators grant is international, so there are no geographic restrictions on applicants. The submission deadline is March 18 2019 and the competition is open to writer/artist duos or a single cartoonist. The only condition is that it must be new and original work from an unpublished artist.
Requirements:
- You must not have had work published by a third party publisher (works published in anthologies do not count)
- The work submitted must be an original piece of work (creator-owned)
- The pitch is for what will be a 64-100 page project
- Deadline for pitch is March 18th 2019.
Winning creative team gets:
- US$30k to put together the project
- A publishing deal with Image comics or Iron Circus Comics; (winner gets to choose)
- Mentorship from at least one, if not more, of the creators that have put the grant together.
Some well-known comic professionals like Fionna Staples, Brian K Vaughn, Kieron Gillen, Matt Fraction, Jonathan Hickman, Scott Snyder and Eric Stephenson are involved in this project. Support will include everything from the creative, business, legal, and financial areas of the comics business.
If you’re still reading then great, that either means you want to get quick info to apply on your own or you believe in being a member of a creative team to further your career and not always creating commissions page by page to get by.
What you need for a pitch:
- A signed release agreement for each applicant.
- Bio: A written description of yourself, your work history, and your experience with comics (no more than 500 words per applicant).
- Proposal: A rough description of your proposed story, including the conclusion (no more than two pages long).
- Sequential Art: At least five consecutive pages of finished sequential art from your story collected into a single PDF to demonstrate your storytelling. Including more than five is allowed.
If you are an unpublished artist looking for help and exposure, you should definitely check it out. If you want to check out all the finer details and fine print and forms then check their their official website.