If you have been working on a comic and aren’t quite sure what to do with it, or if you have an idea sitting on the shelf gathering dust, check this out: Comics Village, a new commentary and review site, is teaming up with Markosia Enterprises to host a webcomics competition. Unlike Zuda, where you are one of many, the winner gets their webcomic posted for a year on the Markosia site, then rendered in glorious print and distributed throughout the UK.

While you’re at it, check out Comics Village itself, which has a fresh selection of comics news, commentary, and reviews up every day.

Get Published at Manga Village!

Manga Village@Comics Village, in association with Markosia Enterprises is sponsoring a manga webcomic competition. The prize: Get your manga published online and in print through Markosia and distributed to bookstores in the UK and through Diamond Publishing worldwide!

Here’s how it works:

We’re looking for a creator or team of creators to make a webcomic to be published on the redesigned Markosia website. It must be one full page, upped 3-5 times a week, until completion. The total story length should be between 150-250 pages. At completion, the webcomic will be compiled and published by Markosia.

All submissions will be reviewed by the Manga Village panel of judges, who will make a short list to be presented to the Markosia Group Editor will have final arbitration on the winning entry. If more than one entry is deemed equally good, Markosia reserves the right to publish more than one webcomic.

Winners must commit to completing the project. We are looking for reliable creators. Stories must end within the stated limit of 150-250 pages. If you can not commit to this, please reconsider entering.

This competition is exclusive to Manga Village@Comics Village. No other website will judge or accept entries.

Entry must not have been previous published either in print or online. We are looking for completely original work.

To find out what to submit for an entry, send an email to mangavillage@gmail.com, with the words “Publish me!” in the subject line.

Deadline for submissions is March 10, 2008. Don’t wait! Get yours in today!

About the Sponsor:

Markosia Enterprises is a multi-faceted publishing company specializing in sequential story-telling. From well known properties like King Kong and Starship Troopers to creator owned works like The Lexian Chronicles, Breathe, Midnight Kiss and Of Bitter Souls, Markosia has become known for quality art and stories: www.markosia.com