A few days ago, the Japanese Embassy announced their shortlist for the Manga Jiman Competition 2011.
This year’s list has an impressive list of names, not least because it shows the enormous growth and progress in the independent UK Manga scene. Shortlisters include Jade Sarson, who has featured in Non Repro and our Manga Jiman special Nami, from last year’s competition. Also featured are members from Sweatdrop and Indie Manga, two of the best known and most successful independent UK Manga producers.
Congratulations to the shortlisters and well done to everyone who participated this year – the standards we set are ever increasing and making the competition more difficult to judge!
Non Repro would love to collect a few of the shortlisted entries for our next publication. If you have no plans for your entry and would like to contribute to our next edition, please send a low res (readable!) PDF or JPEG set to nonrepo (at) gmail (dot) com by January 1st 2012. If you’d like to pick up last year’s anthology, there are a limited number left in our online shop. If you didn’t make the shortlist, we’re equally interested in seeing your entry and would love to hear from you.
The short list is as follows and can be seen in it’s original format here.
Anya Zhuravskaya – ‘Storyteller Sisters’
Ami Clark – ‘The Flower That Held Its Breath’
Byron Reynolds – ‘Crash Course’
Dean McKnight & Jade Sarson – ‘Shear Brilliance’
Elena Vitagliano – ‘The Deep Needs Train’
Gillian Ha – ‘To The Girl With The Butterfly Ears’
Lorenzo Fruzza – ‘Heart’s Orbit’
Megan Wheeler – ‘A Harvest Love’
Rebecca Burgess – ‘Letters From England’
Sarah Burgess – ‘The Man and his Shadow’
Vivian Truong – ‘Moving On’
