Comiket

Thanks to all at Comiket for setting up a fantastic day. It was great to meet up with some of the Adventures in Comics contributors and get such an enthusiastic response from potential contributors to next year’s challenge. (‘The Orb’ – in case you missed the last post 😉

 

The New Challenge

To coincide with our appearance at Comiket this Saturday, 20th April we are announcing the title for next years 2-page comic Challenge. Which is

(Drum Roll………………..)

The Orb

There, I’ve done it – made the decision!

Good luck!

Here is what Wikipedia has to say on the subject:

The word “Orb“, from the Latin orbis ‘circle’, is another name for a round object, especially a disk or a sphere.

Orb may refer to:

• Orb (astrology), the difference between the exactness of an astrological aspect
• Orb (optics), an unexpected, often circular photographic artifact
• Orb (software) is a free streaming software for the personal laptop
• Celestial orb, a central concept in ancient and early-modern astronomy
• The trademarked symbol printed on genuine Harris Tweed
• Orb Kaftan, a character from the Incarnations of Immortality novel series by Piers Anthony
• Orbing, a magical form of teleportation in the television show Charmed
• Orb (comics), a Marvel Comics villain
• The Orb, a British electronic music group
• Globus cruciger, a hand-sized sphere over which the Christian cross is set
  • Sovereign’s Orb, one of the best known Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom
• Castlewood Orb Drive, a 3.5-inch removable hard disk drive
• Orb (river), empties into the Golfe du Lion in southern France
• Bad Orb, a town in Hessen state, Germany
• Orbs (band), a rock band featuring members of Between the Buried and Me and Fear Before the March of Flames
• Orb Publications, an Australian publishing company
  • Orb Speculative Fiction, also known simply as Orb, an Australian speculative fiction magazine
• Orb web, a type of spider web

AIC at Comica Comiket

We will be at Comica Comiket independent comics fair this year on the 20th April 2013

http://www.comicafestival.com/
So please come and see us at our table if you can make it. We plan to announce our new  challenge title for next year’s AIC (which, of course, we will post here as well) and hopefully recruit lots more people to take part!