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Who are the Winners of the 4th Manga Jiman Competition?
Posted: February 16, 2011
Who has won the top prize of a pair of All Nippon Airways plane tickets to Japan, or the fab runners-up prizes of a Toshiba laptop or a Ricoh digital camera? We’ll find out this Friday night, when the Embassy of Japan iin Piccadilly, London hosts a ceremony (sorry, invitation only) to announce the winners of their 4th Manga Jiman Contest.
Once again, I’ll be joining my fellow judges, including London-based mangaka (comic artists) Kiriko Kubo and Ilya, to celebrate with the winners and unveil the Embassy’s free exhibition of the stories by all of this year’s excellent finalists. The show is open to the general public from February 19th to March 31st, admission free. Go take a look - this contest gets better each year and offers more proof of the positive, stimulating effect of Japanese comics on creators of all ages across the UK.
The shortlisted entries on display at the Embassy are:
Angela Wraight/Gwen Kortsen: Yoshitoki’s Making Waves
Aya Kawamura: Rain
Carlos Felix: Sea
Clio Millett: Beyond Raging Waves
Jade Sarson: PP - Wave Space Time
John Blake/Mike Reid: A Mean Artopologist
Katja Hammond: To Sail A Moon
Karen Rubins/Andrew Smith: It Came From the Sea
Kharis Brown: The Wave of Fate
Lingxi Huang: Paintings of Life
Lorenzo Fruzza: Wave FM
Rachel Dunn: I Wish
Tania Thomas: Reach
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