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Jan 2020

At this thread18 I announced a competitions for Tapas veterans comics makers. After this, I received a lot of submissions - 36.

  1. The first stage of evaluation was a preliminary selection by a jury. We read and evaluated all submitted entries, and choose top 5 comics, which passed to the next stage.
  2. Now it's time for a second stage: open community voting among top-5 comics, picked by a jury!

49voters

Votes are public.

If you want to vote, then, please, read at least a part from each comics from the list and try to decide, which one will win the prize, thoughtfully. :point_up:

Brief info about jury's work

Besides me, jury consisted from those nice people: @Azifri , @BlueDragon , @writercynknapp , @jensrichard77 , @Rhonder , @skicoak , @TAMAnnoying .

Jury evaluated every comics by the following parameters:

  • GENERAL ART QUALITY/ SKILL
  • THE LEVEL OF INVESTMENT INTO DETAILS AND POLISHING ART (includes quality of shading, line art, backgrounds)
  • WRITING QUALITY
  • STORYTELLING QUALITY
  • USING OF COMICS FORMAT (paneling/use of the page/space)

and summarized the results in one final mark for each comics. Top-5 comics with the highest marks passed to the second stage.

A note:

I know, that the marks and process are arguable. But we had to come up with something more-or-less objective, and this is what we came up with. Also take into account, that for me, as an organizer, it was the first experience in organizing any competition; for some jury members this all was very new, too. We did really large amount of work for free to evaluate all these comics, to the best of our ability.

Why preliminary selection was needed?

Because there were a lot of entries, and it was obvious, that average forum reader will not be able to take a look on every comics from such a big list. That's why I called for those people, who were prepared to read a big amount of comics, they became a jury members and made all that big preliminary work, to narrow the amount of candidates.
However, I think, that it's realistic for average forum member to check ( not necessary read entirely, but, at least, take a look at ) 5 comics instead of 36, that's why top-5 were put into the open voting.

Info for all participants (i.e. for all people, who submitted their comics to the competition):

I want everyone to extract something useful from this competition, even if you didn't pass for the second stage. So, everyone who submitted their comics, can ask for:

  • a small feedback /critique (text, consisting from 3-4 paragraphs from each jury member, who read the comics);
  • their marks (numbers) for each parameter.

So if you want, you can learn something from it. Just PM me or other jury members to make such a request.


UPD: I think, 2 weeks will be enough for everyone who wanted to vote, so, poll will be closed 13 February. And in Valentine's day we'll know a winner! :heart::sunglasses:

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Oh wow. Thank you! I'm so excited to have made it this far! :flushed:

Wow, I'm genuinely surprised. Honestly, just thinking that you all read my comic and thought good things about it is the best thing.

Sorry, I'm so excited I can't read. How long will the voting remain open?

Oh! I forgot to assign a date for closing the poll :sweat_smile:

I think, 2 weeks will be enough for everyone who wanted to vote, so, please, vote before 13 February. And in Valentine's day we'll know a winner! :sunglasses::heart:
(I'll update the info in the main post now)

Thank you for choosing me as a contender. I'm genuinely surprised and grateful. Now vote for Smith, please.

36 is a lot of submissions! I was not expecting to make it this far ^^; That must've been a mountain load of reading for all of you to do! @tiredprogrammer thank you for giving us this opportunity :smiley: And thank you to all the jury members for taking the time to painstakingly go through and assess all the comics :smiley:

There is a ton of really talented creators on here and I really wish Tapas would make it easier for them to be visible to the casual reader. Just the fact that there were at least 36 creators that have dedicated their time and energy into making their series and have committed to keep them going really needs to be recognized.

On a different note, one of the jury let me know that my comic wasn't displaying on the app. I emailed and checked with Tapas staff and found out it had been delisted, but no one emailed me or contacted me to let me know that this had happened. They reinstated my comic on the app after they reviewed it as is and said it fell within Apple's guidelines. So, if any of you have had a drop in views over the past few months, see if a friend can check to see if your comic is searchable on the app. So a big thank you to the jury member that gave me the heads-up!

It was! We all spent a noticeable amount of time on it. I couldn't make it without our badass jury members :sunglasses:
So say thanks to them at the first place!

Yes, many cool creative people don't have enough recognition! I hope this little competition will be at least a liiiitle step toward fighting that problem and helping creators ✿ڿڰۣ—

Thank you, all of you. I think this made my whole week. I genuinely didn't think my story was good enough to have been selected. I'm beyond honored

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Don't forget read and vote for your favorite creators ✿ڿڰۣ—

Bumping for others to see, because if dreamDB doesn't win this then that's ok. I have about 10 options on what I could do with the money and that's 10 options too many, it's giving me anxiety, please vote for other comics :cry_02: :rofl:

There are still some hours left to check out these amazing comics and vote! :sip:

I changed my mind, everybody vote for dreamDB. If it wins, I'll be able to keep my TEETH. Investment!

Now, the poll has closed, and, on the results, the winner is:

@ryoko

with the comics

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:tapa_pop: ✿ Congratulations on winning! ✿ :tapa_pop:
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Thank you all who participated and voted. And, of course, special thanks to our jury once more.
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Well done @tired_programmer
The biggest and most thrilling indie competition I ever had been a part of.
Thank you for hosting this event.

Congratulations to The Cat, The Vine, and the Victory. A well deserved honour, and I've been subscribed to you for two years anyway. Also good to see it going to another cat. And a dragon, a sea monster, a cow, and a whole menagerie of other imaginative characters.