BESC Comic Contest 2008

[Prophet Tenebrae]

So, here we are again...

This year there will be five judges. Myself - naturally, Miss Chievous - of infamy, resident artist of BE Avenger and general French person ryohji, GIJohn from the BEA and... THE MYSTERY JUDGE! Whose identity will remain a secret until the results are announced... Actually, it's all around comic drawer and Britain's captain Awesome, Manic.

The contest is for writing a script...

Prizes:

All the good scripts will be illustrated... and the three placing entries will get a years subscription to the BEA and BESC.

Rules:

1. Entries should be made in increments of 10 pages.
2. Naturally, they should be BE-centric but that does not preclude other transformations.
3. Entries must be written in a comic style - that is to say, each panel must be described with around 3 sentences and the dialogue.
4. Entries must be submitted to prophet.tenebrae@gmail.com by September 21st.
5. Normal BESC terms and conditions apply.

Any questions can be asked here or e-mailed to me or if you're feeling it's in need of real discussion, feel free to IM - if you PM me, expect a fucking slap.

Advice I have for people who may not have written comic scripts before... Think of it like directing a film, you've got to have the story but also know where things are going - expressed in the simplest but most articulate terms. Don't treat it as prose.

Other judges may chime in...

[Infection]

call me a lazy ass drunken retard panda, whats BESC?
personally i find 10 pages hard, but thats because I'm lazy ^__^
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whoops didn't see that, thanks, not a real story teller myself, but good luck!
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[Prophet Tenebrae]

Hmmm, I probably should have said that it's the script you do - not the actual drawing.

Also, just hit the 3rd link in my signature - that's the BESC.

[elmo]

whats the prize if there is one?

[ragemachine123]

Originally Posted by elmo

whats the prize if there is one?

I didn't really see anything about a prize. But I would also like to know if there is one. And what it is, I hope it's BE related. It probably would be.

[GreatDragon AD]

Got a question. Are previous winners from last year's contest allowed to enter? I'm asking since I'm one of them.

[humble.fool]

The Prize is you get paid.

[dsojourn]

Just chiming in here, but...10 pages? I'm not knocking anything about the opportunities the contest presents, and I fully understand and appreciate all the work that has to go into reading and judging the multitude of content contained within the various entries (almost 20 last year). And it was't exactly easy writing an entire comic story last year.

But there's just not much one can do with ten pages, at least in terms of what the contest is supposed to be judging and "rewarding". Case in point, last year's contest was supposed to be scripts for twenty pages. Other then perhaps "Spore", which was an EXTREMELY spartan and simple set of scenes, I don't think any of the the other entries became less then 30, and Great Dragon's made it up to 50 (although it can be argued that 30 pages could have been cut or edited without much harm being done).

And I'm not just saying this because I tend to be verbose, lol, I know my own weaknesses. Ten pages is enough for a scene, or perhaps the set up for the first chapter of an ONGOING story the BESC could pick up, but how do you judge set up? If that were the criterion, 2/3 of the comics from last year's contest would be cut for having no Process, let alone plot. Or, on the flip side, it seems to defeat the purpose of the contest to be asking "just design the single best/hawtest scene you can, and plot and development be darned".

I seem to recall a storm of accusations last year about how the contest winners were not selected via the supposed qualifications for judging listed that I'd rather not see repeated. TL:dR, is what you're looking for simply the best concept, to then be flushed out as a full comic once the judges select that set up with the most potential, or is this more about "design the winning wank-scene for instant gratification".

[Expansionist]

Originally Posted by dsojourn

Just chiming in here, but...10 pages? I'm not knocking anything about the opportunities the contest presents, and I fully understand and appreciate all the work that has to go into reading and judging the multitude of content contained within the various entries (almost 20 last year). And it was't exactly easy writing an entire comic story last year.

The entry says "increments" of 10 pages. As far as I'm aware that means the entries should be 10, or 20, or 30, and so on. It definitely does not mean a limit of 10 pages.

[dsojourn]

Ah, well if that's true then good point, and well made. It was quite late and now I shall feel appropriately like a moron for quite some time. Cheers.

[Lurking Guy]

I'm going to take a guess and assume that the comic would have to be fappan' material for you guys and not actually a good comic with BE included. *COUGHmanyuuhikenchoCOUGH*

[Prophet Tenebrae]

I can speak for the other judges, but I'm looking for something that's a balance of good story and sexy - the two are far from mutually exclusive.