Call for European Artists to develop Live Comics Shows

This project aims to develop new skills for European comic artists on a European scale, in particular by implementing a week of training for twelve artists on the development of new skills: the entrepreneurial author posture, the creation of live drawing shows, collaboration with museums, games. Also, throughout the project, attention will be paid to comics workshops and their implementation: guidelines, lectures and webinars will be set up in order to provide training for comics artists, as well as for schools and other interested organizations. Forty comics workshops will be set up in Europe.

It seeks to foster the creation and circulation of European works and artists by overcoming the language barrier associated with books, in particular by supporting the creation, production and international distribution of four transnational comic shows, which can be seen and understood without translation – and the circulation and networking of the four artistic groups behind these works.

Each selected live comics show has to be presented by a duo, in example. a musician and a comic artist. It is not mandatory to have a comic artist as part of the duo. Applicants can be more than a duo, but the budget is for two-person-projects, and additional person’s costs (be it technical staff or artists) cannot be covered by the project. Technical support will be provided by Comics Beyond, within the limits of the affiliated budget.

What Comics Beyond offer?

• If selected, each selected duo will:
  • Receive a total of 3000 € – 50% upon signature of the contract and 50% after the first representation.
  • An artistic and technic follow-up of the project done by a partner for each duo.
  • Have their show programmed twice, once as part of the partner’s event and once in another event.
  • Take part in the kick-off meeting at Napoli ComiCon in April 2025 (for the first live comics show representation).
• Comics Beyond will cover the following costs for each duo:
  • Travel costs (to present the live comics shows as part of the project).
  • Accommodation costs (to present the live comics shows as part of the project).
  • Subsistence costs (to present the live comics shows as part of the project).

Eligibility Criteria

• Any person that lives and in one of the 27 EU Member States: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Tunisia, Armenia, Kosovo, Liechtenstein.
• Applicants need to have a good level of English. Duos can be made of two people living in different countries.

Conditions

• Each selected live comics show’s narration has to overcome the language barrier: the narration needs to be done with the fewest words possible or none at all.
  It has to be an indoor creation (not needing to be done outside) and its set design needs to be easily tourable as the shows will be shown twice.
• Each selected live comics show has to be presented by a duo, in example. a musician and a comic artist. It is not mandatory to have a comic artist as part of the duo.
• Applicants can be more than a duo, but the budget is for two-person-projects, and additional person’s costs (be it technical staff or artists) cannot be covered by the project. Technical support will be provided by Comics Beyond, within the limits of the affiliated budget.
• Projects have to be about the comics medium, even if they do not involve a comic artist. They have to be original projects, never presented before. If the project is about an existing comics artwork, applicants need to have confirmation that they have the rights to work around it and present it internationally (regarding copyright).

For more information, visit Comics Beyond.