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thee SANTORO CORRESPONDENCE COURSE

and thee Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency presents

thee COMICS WORKBOOK COMPOSITION COMPETITION 2017

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1st place  – A week-long Comics Workbook Rowhouse Residency (valued at $500 - travel and expenses not included)

2nd place – $250 credit at Copacetic Comics

3rd place  – $100 credit at Copacetic Comics

plus four $50 honorable mention prizes from Big Planet Comics

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Create a 16 page signature comic book narrative to the specifications below

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DEADLINE: Tuesday, September 5th 2017 at 11:59 pm NYC time

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HERE and HERE and HERE and HERE are last four years if you haven’t heard of the contest. HERE are all of the 2016 contest entries. This isn’t a scam, silly.

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Here are the 2017 composition competition specs:

PAY ATTENTION!

Watch the video above!

Take an 11x17 inch piece of paper and cut it down to 10 ¼ x 13 ½ inches. Fold this piece of paper in half.

Measure in 3/8ths of an inch from the top and the sides, and 3/8ths of an inch from the center fold. Measure in 3/4s of an inch from the bottom. This will make a 6 x 9 inch live area on your 10 ¼ x 13 ½ inch paper.

Make copies of this “spread”. Do your layouts at this size.

Draw your original artwork at 10 x 15 inches. Use 11x17 inch paper - make a 10x15 inch live area on the paper. Measure in ¼ inch on each side and a ¼ inch from the top to situate your 10x15 inch live area within the 11x17 inch paper. See video.

Make three equal “landscape” oriented tiers on each live area. The top tier and the bottom tier must have two 5x3 panels. The center tier may be open completely to make one 5x10 inch panel or two 5x3 inch panels. Again see video for clarity.

The top tier and the bottom tier MUST have two panels. The center tier may have one panel or two. You may use the 6-panel grid throughout the entire 14-page story but one of the pages MUST have an open center panel. All of the pages may have an open center panel. Each page will have either 5 or 6 panels.

Watch THIS video and THIS video for context. Pay attention to the parts about opening up the center.

You may break up your panels like this:

14 pages and two covers. Meaning seven spreads and a front and back cover. A 16 page signature.

Work may be in color OR black and white – OR – a combination of both.

International students must use the same specs. No complaining.

It is recommended that you draw the pages on 11x17 paper with a 10x15 inch live area. It is recommended that you print your comic at traditional North American comic book size - which is 6 ¾ x 10 ¼. Again, see video.

THE STORY MUST BE COMPLETE. SERIAL INSTALLMENTS of a longer narrative ARE NOT ELIGIBLE. THE STORY MUST BE NEW. IF YOU REPURPOSE AN OLD STORY THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN PUBLISHED YOU WILL BE DISQUALIFIED.

Consider this an exercise in short story writing. I think the 16 page signature is ideal to contain a short story. Adaptations of existing works are not eligible. Like, you can’t copy a sequence from a movie.

To submit your comic to the composition:

Photograph or scan your pages and post them on your tumblr AS SPREADS. If you don’t have a tumblr – make one just for this contest. No exceptions! No complaining! Post the front cover as the lead image and the back cover as the final image and put your name and the title of the work in the text field and that it is for the Comics Workbook Composition Competition 2017.

Email me – santoroschoolATgmailDOTcom – that you have posted your entry to your tumblr and give me a direct link to the post – and I will reblog it on to the comicsworkbook tumblr.

I will be posting them – reblogging them – on comicsworkbook as they come in. The good, the bad, and the ugly. I will, however, only be posting stories that stick to the RULES. If you don’t follow the rules, I will not reblog the story and you won’t be eligible for the prizes.

I will reblog them as quickly as I can and keep the list of entries updated - if you do not see your entry right away do not panic - I will make every effort to keep the list up to date but as long as you get your entry submitted correctly via email before the deadline your work will be in the competition. Last year we had over 100 entries and near the end things were hectic - so be patient. 

Any questions about the competition – please email me.

The competition is open to all. You do not have to be a former student of mine. Former students of mine ARE eligible to compete, as are winners of previous competitions.

Again, if you have any questions about the rules please ask. Better to ask and be safe than to be mad when I disqualify you over some missed detail. Seriously.

Again, if you have any questions about the rules please ask. Better to ask and be safe than to be mad when I disqualify you over some missed detail. Seriously.

Work may be in color OR black and white – OR – a combination of both.

You MAY have panel gutters. You MAY work digitally. And you MAY work as a team.

Remember! Email me – santoroschoolATgmailDOTcom – that you have posted your entry to your tumblr – I will reblog it.

DEADLINE is Tuesday, September 5th 2017 at 11:59 pm NYC time

Winners will be announced the following week.

Please share this announcement

GOOD LUCK!

signed Frank Santoro

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New print. Trying new processes and combining them with old processes.

Note am orb oh.

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Something about wildness.Something about experimentation in art. I have always had a deep love of film, and lately I’ve been taking more pictures to suspend my memories or something. I guess I’m just documenting my life. But if that’s what your life’s work is, who’s to say that isn’t art?

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Working on a new piece. Thought I'd actually post it on the internet.

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Comics Workbook Composition Competition 2016 Final Entries

Quick note: including Disqualified entries, 2016 had almost as many entries as 2013, 2014 and 2015 combined.

Disqualified entries are marked as such.

$100 by Katelyn Haugdahl (Blame it on the) Night Moves by Janne Marie Dauer ‘Coach?’ by Tanya Guryel 2 Frogs on a Log by Alex Williams 42 by Alexey Sokolin A Boy’s Guide to Wilderness Survival by Ron Hotz A POOL by Amy Wang A Quick and Easy Guide to Finding a Husband by Hannah Kaplan A Tale by mLenaghan Abandoned by Preston Pettigrew Aerial Boundaries by Andy Rench All Imp a Days Work by Jeff Schwartzbauer Any Mood From the Feel Cart by Joan Reilly APPLE EXPLODES by John McGuire Olsen At the Base of the Statue of God by Drew Lerman Bad Smell by Fion Fitzgerald Bananas by Amanda Kay Baker Beauty is Eveywhere by Corey Bechelli Between Water and Air by Jason Hart Bloom by Evan M Cohen Body Work by Harry Deane Willmott Breach by R. Adams Carbon by Mike Shea Carnivalence by Graeme Shorten Adams Carrion Cheese by Jayro Lantigua Catnip Mice by ZEKM Cedar Grove Community Hall Circa 2002 by Josh Hicks Cock of the Walk by Erik Nebel Cold Sands by James and Adam Norfolk Congress by Oliver East Crazy Straw by Paul Daniel CYMKA by Matthew McDaniel Death Mask by Ioan Morris Diamond Comix by Danny Ceballos Did it hurt… by Mark Wang Disappoint by Jonx Rainer (disqualified) Dr. Dracula by Kalen Knowles (disqualified) Dream Sequence by Nicole Johnson Dry Season by Heron Prado Enjoy by Spencer Hicks Extragalactic by Luke Howard Eyes Out On Stalks by Karneeleus eyes wide shut // the intangible beauty of dreaming by Dennis Stratmann falling by Phillip Dokes First Performance by Ann Lewis FISH IN A TUB by Serene Lusano for a lack of better words by Cameron Nicholson Frisky in a Godless Universe by JOMM Frog.TV by Mateus Gonzales Fulfillment by Veronika Hanáková Gathering Dust by Wesley Russell (disqualified) GLGLGL by Pablo Selín glos·so·la·li·a by Louis Deux Half the Fun by Chris Anderson (disqualified) Hammer Lock by John Shields Heavy Mettle by Nicole Pergue & Jackie Kirby Hibiscus Vigilate by Nicolás Méndez Palacios I Called You My Peony by Tor Brandt I Got a Job by Jillian Fleck I know it’s not about me, but I don’t want to die. by Shee Phon I Love Trees by Rui Soares Imperative by Nilas RD In The Grass by Reilly Hadden Jeremy Meets the Forest Cow by Sienna Cittadino Kiddie Pool Bummer by Alicia Rose Obermeyer Kissing Scrapes by John Hexer La Petite Mort by Guarazú lo priestess by Courtney Loberg MAD DOG by Michael Kennedy Man in a Furnished Cell By Jon Aye MANNI by Daniel Isles mister poppers came running by emil brahe MOON CHILD by Carlos Bergfeld Muse by Alex Idei Mute by Jesse Rimler Mxgical Gurl Xhristina by Tommy Kempen My Only Remembered Dream by Sam Meister Night Swimming by Shannon Durbin NO COPS by Alisha Rae Notes for Improvement by Mark Wang Oasis by Cameron Arthur Odds by R. Feiereisel Ojoroido by Matt Aucoin Old Friend by Kimball Anderson Pest, written by Zach Buil and drawn by Robert Rusch Post Sappy Update by Patrick Allaby RECOVERY by Elisa Mask reflection by lina madöry Sapa by Brandon Meged Self by Mariana Yatsuda Ikuta Shell Creature by Faith Wiley Shellacking by Jackson J Edge Soap Star Joe by Juan Fernandez Sombra by Sebastian Valbuena Splitting Heirs by Finn Jordan stashed by Rick Chillot Static by Jakob Streiff SUB  OMNI  TROPICA by daniel tuucaan starflower (disqualified) Summer Session by Steven Arenius Summer’s Cauldron. Story by Jason Das (disqualified) Śūnyatā by Niall Breen Super by Oliver East Sweet Success by Alexis Johnson Swimmer’s Dilemma by Casey Kolodin The Blue Framework by Louis Deux and Graymoon The Child by Cesar Erhard The Devourer of Kingdoms by Carla Acácio the Eating of the Wolves by Ward Zwart The Grass Eater by Emy Peyret The Investigation by Graham Mason The Kind Of Cat I Am by Lauren Flinner The Last Time I Saw Tate by Lisa Wilkinson The Legend of the Nipple Story by Devon (age 27) THE MORPHOGENESIS by Dana The Rialto Variations by Louis Deux The Savage State by Alice Blank The Story About The Succulent, The Suspect, The Sailor, The Ants And Me by Ronja Paffrath The Sword of Souls by Ryan Holgersen The Tontine Ten by Sara Sarmiento The Toxic Land by Maya Templer Twenty Eight by Drew Lerman untitled by Louise Aleksiejew Urania’s Atelier by Rachel M Thornton VERTICAL ZERO by Lucas S. Teixeira Vintage Violence by Paul Vueltas by ErzE Waiting Room by Ghadi Ghosn Warsan the Warrior by Hugh Madden Where am I? by stc019 Where Does Your Money Go? by Stella Salumaa White Bones by Clarissa Hart (disqualified) X by Shanita Wannapat

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Preston Pettigrew // Abandoned

Made for the Comics Workbook Composition Competition 2016

Physical copies available September 17th as part of the anthology FANCLUB GANGMAG or as a stand alone comic on my website and at Oklahoma Zine Fest.

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#art #comix #postit

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I drew three #comix #art

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I drew three #comix #art

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I drew two things today #art #drawing #comix

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I drew two things today #art #drawing #comix

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Soon to be a dollar print on quality blue paper!

#comix #art #recycledpaper

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New artz #art #sculpture #recycled

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New artz #art #sculpture #recycled

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Tonitezzzzz (at The Barn)

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Next Friday!

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Studying Xerox art from the best. #cometbus