Welcome!

The theme for this years Jam is: Bubbles.

Words and Pictures Comic Jam

Words & Pictures (W&P) is a comic jam hosted by Webcomics Hub. It's meant to be a celebration of our craft and a chance to let loose, challenge ourselves, or just create comfort comics for the sake of finding/re-finding your spark. Think of it like a comic contest but more fun. I hope you have an amazing time with this.

1st Place

  • 500 USD
  • Clip Studio EX License Perpetual
  • XP-Pen Artist Pro 14 (Gen 2)

2nd Place

  • 300 USD
  • Clip Studio EX License 1 Year
  • XP-Pen Artist 12 (2nd Gen) Little Prince Edition

3rd Place

  • 200 USD
  • Clip Studio EX License 6 months
  • XP-Pen Deco Pro (Gen 2)

Runner Up

  • Clip Studio EX License 6 months

Rules

  • No Pornographic Content
  • Team Size is infinite, from 1 - 1000000
  • One submission per team (reach out if you have questions about this)
  • Make sure to credit all participants as best you can on your work
  • Please make sure that at least your dialogue is in english. I don't care the quality of your english, just do your best.
  • All art for this contest must be original, please avoid using popular OC's. This is to keep everyone on an even playing field
  • NO AI (Both Writing AI and Art AI is not allowed, We are NOT interested)
  • NO NFTs (We are absolutely NOT interested)
  • No Hate Content
  • No Gratuitous Violence (Death and Violence is mostly fine, but there is a point where it adds nothing to the story at all)

Guidelines

  • Your comic must be related to the Theme
  • Feel free to use a pseudonym for your work if you wish to remain lowkey
  • You must give us a way to contact you that is reliable
  • For a page format comic it should be a maximum of 3 pages long
  • For a scroll comic it should be a maximum of 25 panels long
  • Your comic must adhere to the size restrictions in the image below. If you are making a page format comic the DPI should be about 300, for scroll you can do your usual 72 DPI you gremlins love so much.
  • Please upload your comic as a JPEG so as to maintain quality but PNG's should work too
  • Page Format
    7 IN
    10 IN
    Vertical Scrolling Format
    800px

Judging Criteria

Theme

How creatively you utilise the Bubble theme.
Doesn't mean it has to contain bubbles, you can talk about social bubbles, personal bubbles, economic bubbles. We're just looking for interesting takes on the theme, so yes you can write The Big Short in 3 pages if you want

Writing

This covers your scene direction, scene composition, dialogue and perceived narrative cohesion.

Art

Character Art, Background Art, Colour Composition, Overall Design & Technical Proficiency

Panelling & Lettering

Panel Layout and how it impacts the flow of reading. All typesetting and lettering will be considered, no matter how small

Audience Decision

This is the public voting category to count who has the most votes. Unlike every other category that is chosen by the judges.