JUSTICE FRAMED:
JURISPRUDENTIAL COMIC
CONTEST
Calling all comic artists! Law Text Culture–a transcontinental
critical and creative legal journal based out of the Legal Intersections
Research Centre at the University of
Wollongong (New
South Wales, Australia)–is searching for comic
submissions and is launching a contest to find them. The contest is open to all
artists who create original strips or panels. We are looking for either a single
panel cartoon or a multi-panel comic (about a page or two) that addresses
justice or law with depth, beauty and wit. The work can be humorous or serious,
coloured or black and white, simple squiggles or high-tech computer art. We have
committed ourselves to giving a voice to interesting artists, and we are serious
about this! If selected, your comic will be published in a widely recognized,
international legal journal and you will be paid $500 CAD just for doing
something we know you love!
The fine print (we are lawyers, so you should
have expected this!): the entrants will be giving LTC the rights to print and distribute
their comic in its upcoming Volume 16 in December (a special issue about the
nexus between justice, law and comics), but the entrant will still retain all
rights to their work. In other words, we publish your comic, but afterwards you
are free to further publish your comic as you see
fit.
Artists should send us five copies of their
original strip or panel, under a pseudonym before May 31, 2012, by mail to the following
address:
Luis Gomez
Romero
Institute for the Public
Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI)
McGill University
3610 McTavish, Room
22-4
Montreal, Quebec
H3A
1Y2
Please enclose the following information:
name, address, telephone number and email address. Just make sure your name does
not appear on the comic itself! They will be blinded for the judgment
session.
We seriously encourage you to have a look at
the detailed rules and regulations of the contest at the Law Text Culture’s website before
submitting your work: http://www.uow.edu.au/law/LIRC/LTC/index.html.
Please address any enquiries to: comicsandlaw@gmail.com.
JUSTICE FRAMED: JURISPRUDENTIAL COMIC
CONTEST
RULES AND REGULATIONS
The conference is co-organised by The Protection Project at the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS),
the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction
Jurists, and the Tulane University Law School Eason Weinmann Center for Comparative Law.
