Call for Nominations: La Casa Encendida and Fulgencio Pimentel Puchi Award

Puchi Award is open to the most unique book proposals in the field of comics and illustrated books, as well as any hybrid projects.

Puchi Award is aimed at audacious projects with their own personality and evident artistic interest, in which images play a principal role, never an accessory or complementary one, in the narrative or exhibition development of the work.

Prize Information

• The winner will receive a prize of 10,000€ (VAT and other taxes included, as an advance payment for the publishing rights of the work) plus the publication of the work, which will be distributed by Fulgencio Pimentel.

Eligibility Criteria

• Any natural person of legal age, of any nationality, with an original and unpublished work may participate.
• The book they refer to is a work in which images play a major role in the narrative or expository development of the work. This includes established artistic categories such as the illustrated album and the comic book, as well as hybrid avenues or those on the margins of the above. Anything is possible, as long as the image plays a leading role. Works without text, and the use of any type of image: illustrations, photos, collage or any other type of image, are accepted.
• Any project in which the images have a merely accessory, decorative or complementary function, or in which the images are limited to accompanying a text, will not be accepted for the competition.

Judging Criteria 

• Fulgencio Pimentel and La Casa Encendida will appoint a reading panel, which will select the 10 shortlisted works to be judged by a jury of recognized prestige.
• The number of shortlisted works may be increased if the reading panel, in view of the quality of the works presented, deems it appropriate.
• The jury will be made up of two personalities from the world of publishing and culture, a representative of La Casa Encendida and a representative of the Fulgencio Pimentel publishing house.
• The jury’s decision will be final and may be declared void.
• All the documentation sent, except that of the winner, will be destroyed and no correspondence will be maintained with the authors who present themselves for the award.
• Participation in the Puchi Award implies full acceptance of its rules.

Application Requirements

• Each application must be accompanied by:
  • Completed online application form.
  • Curriculum Vitae of all authors.
  • National identity card, residence card or passport.
  • Descriptive text of the work and motivation (maximum 1,000 characters including spaces).
  • Biography (maximum 1,000 characters including spaces).
  • Portfolio (maximum 20 pages PDF format).
  • Complete final work in its original language (PDF).
  • Extract translated into English of at least two pages (PDF).

For more information, visit La Casa Encendida and Fulgencio Pimentel.