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Doshiwa Comic Competition 
26th-Aug-2009 10:18 pm
Jakim Al Taff





COMPETITION!


The hour is upon us! To celebrate the release of their “At Least We Can Dance” Remix EP out on August 31st on Doshiwa records, live soul / funk / house heads DEKATA PROJECT have taken over my livejournal to help run a neato mosquito ART COMPETITION




Dekata Project, who have recently enjoyed airplay on BBC Radio 1 courtesy of Fabio and Grooverider and Rob Da Bank, have also been featured as a single of the week in The Metro, and have been singled out for a "bubbling under" feature in September’s issue of iDJ magazine.


In addition to a cash prize, your winning entry will be used as promotional material to advertise their Remix EP! That is crazy! Be sure to write your name on it in big letters!

RULES!


Over the past few months, readers of my livejournal have created a huge amount of amazing artwork and characters- there were all the characters in the Choose a Cat, Draw A Girl project, henceforth to as CAT GIRLS, and then the people from Black Lion Week , who I will now be calling LION LADIES. If you've never seen them, I urge you do check them out!

Cat Girls and Lion Ladies- two seperate factions, as different as night and day! Or are they? Maybe they're pals! Maybe they have never met! In fact, we don't know anything about these people. They exist in a timeless void, characters in search of a novel. And that's where you come in.


1:) Take ANY TWO OR MORE characters from the huge roster of Cat Girls and Lion Ladies.


2:) Make a comic strip based on them! It can be 4 panels long or an Akira-length epic. You can also submit prose or an illustrated story, if you want.


3:) Then, post it in the comments of this livejournal! That's it! You have a month!


 

GRAND
WINNER gets £100 CASH PRIZE

That's
a hundred and sixty-four American dollars!

Also!
There is a mystery BOOBY PRIZE for dumbest, most horrible entry
to be judged and awarded by Daphaknee!

Everyone has a
chance to win!

Competition
Closes September 27th, 2009


 


Good luck! Tell your friends! See the comments for FAQ (kind of important).


 

Comments 
26th-Aug-2009 09:45 pm (UTC)
I AM ALL OVER THIS AND WHORING EVERYWHERE.

FUCK YEAUH COMICS!

Also everyone had such interesting designs I wouldn't know who to choose!

26th-Aug-2009 09:50 pm (UTC)
awww my lion lady :D

I am so bad at COMICS I HOPE I CAN DO IT (and not procrastinate forever).
26th-Aug-2009 09:57 pm (UTC)
FAQ

Q1) Hey James, what happens if the winning entry uses a character I designed, do I get a cut of the winnings

A:) I've thought about this conundrum, and this is best I can come up with: Since all the characters are based on my designs anyway, it's hard for any one person to claim intellectual ownership of them (besides me, of course); however, I fully understand that the author of the appropriated work may feel an entitlement to part of the winnings.

The best I can offer is that if you're not ok with someone using your character, please post your cat girl / lion lady in response to this comment and it'll be added to a roster of off-limits characters. Otherwise, your consent will be assumed.

If the winner wants to share out some bucks with the people whose characters he uses, that is totally ok!


Edited at 2009-08-26 10:02 pm (UTC)
26th-Aug-2009 10:01 pm (UTC)
Hey James I can't draw so lets say I use other people's drawings and maybe edit them around a little and then I win, what happens to the people whose drawings I've appropriated? Won't some of them be pissed?

- A Reader
26th-Aug-2009 10:01 pm (UTC)
GODDAM
26th-Aug-2009 10:28 pm (UTC)
what if I make a really degrading porno comic. I want to win daph's prize.
27th-Aug-2009 12:39 am (UTC)
Yes!
26th-Aug-2009 10:28 pm (UTC)
DUDE YAY so entering. Also, ADDED YOU AS A FREEEEEND. <3
27th-Aug-2009 12:39 am (UTC)
Hurrah!
26th-Aug-2009 10:53 pm (UTC)
GOOD THING MY SCHOOL HAS A SCANNER INNIT?

I am SO in. SO in.
26th-Aug-2009 11:19 pm (UTC)
Do we have to use characters people made or can we just make more of our own interpretations of the original cats & lions?
26th-Aug-2009 11:26 pm (UTC)
You can make more of your own if you want!
26th-Aug-2009 11:19 pm (UTC)
ha, is it awesome that i already had a fantastic story in mind.
26th-Aug-2009 11:26 pm (UTC)
Hellz yeah it is
27th-Aug-2009 12:03 am (UTC)
Jeepers, money that's close to $200 Australian, that's going in the pile that I use for records. Provided that I do something that elicits enough chubbies to get on top.
27th-Aug-2009 12:07 am (UTC)
harveyjames guess what, i was already doing a comic
of these girls who are also cats (actually the lions i did)

but since i am a man of slow motions i aint even done with the first panel yet so i guess it doesnt make much of a difference, i might be done in a year or so or maybe earlier, okay so give me time

oh also does it have to mingle cat ladies and lion ladies or can it be all cat / all lion
27th-Aug-2009 12:38 am (UTC)
It can be whatever you like!

Edited at 2009-08-27 12:39 am (UTC)
27th-Aug-2009 12:36 am (UTC)
hooray something to keep me preoccupied!
27th-Aug-2009 12:40 am (UTC)
You mean, besides defacing catalogues
27th-Aug-2009 05:22 am (UTC)
Are we limited to one entry? Or are we allowed to try and do both an awful and an awesome comic?
27th-Aug-2009 08:36 am (UTC)
you can enter as many times as you like
27th-Aug-2009 04:37 pm (UTC)
Anonymous
Just two questions:
1) what if i'm not a LiveJournal user (in fact i came up here from DA)? I do result anonymous when i post things, isn't it?
2)"Akira-lenght epic"? You mean it could be more than one-page comic? It doesn't sound much to gibe with the promotional advertisement thing...
27th-Aug-2009 07:08 pm (UTC)
You can make it as long as you like! How it gets used as promotional materials is our problem
(no subject) - Anonymous Expand
27th-Aug-2009 05:42 pm (UTC)
OMG I AM SO EXCITED

And that is my LION LADY up there, I feel so honored!
29th-Aug-2009 06:08 pm (UTC)
This is exciting!
I'll try my best.

EYES ON THE PRIZE BABY
29th-Aug-2009 08:02 pm (UTC)
i'm no good...but i'm going to enter for fun! it's something to do =D where do we post the comic? just link to it here?

since i'm literally out of money, and my bank won't let me get an over draft, getting £100 would be very good ^^; *starving*
29th-Aug-2009 08:24 pm (UTC)
oh, ps- question, can we turn a cat girl into a cat boy? =0
30th-Aug-2009 02:42 am (UTC)
oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit
2nd-Sep-2009 04:28 pm (UTC)
pleaaaaase remind me to do this!! :(!
2nd-Sep-2009 09:31 pm (UTC)
ok!
17th-Sep-2009 01:42 am (UTC)
harveyjames are you withholding the entries from us or is everyone real slow

also i am almost done with panel 1 i am on a roll!!
17th-Sep-2009 03:47 am (UTC)
everyone is real slow!
19th-Sep-2009 08:22 pm (UTC) - submission
I finished my submission for the contest. It's on my blog. Here's the link to it: http://factorzero.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/rain/
19th-Sep-2009 08:48 pm (UTC) - Re: submission
Oh man! i like her face!

I really dig that opening panel, too- it's very Stanley Kubrick
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