ANNOUCING THE VLP COMIC CONTEST!!! (With Slam update)
The POETRY SLAM last night was a FANTASTIC EXPERIENCE! Kudos to all the poets who participated and a special HURRAH! for our very own Lee Ann Roripaugh for her WORLD CLASS reading of orignal prose and poetry last evening! Top notch Lee Ann!
*thunderous applause and enthusiastic whistling*
Since I am also the PODCAST GOD, I will be working feverishly over the weekend to edit and post the POETRY SLAM at the VLP Podcast Site for so that everyone who didn't want to brave the frigid temperatures or had other obligation won't miss the highlights of this INCREDIBLE SHOW!!!
And now for something completely different...
24-Hour Comic
Contest
February 29, 2008
6:00 p.m. (arrive before 5:45 p.m.)
Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts
Graphics Lab Room 175
University of South Dakota
Vermillion, South Dakota
The Vermillion Literary Project and the U’s Art Department are sponsoring their inaugural 24-Hour Comics Contest. First place will receive automatic publication in the 2008 VLP literary magazine and $50. Additional prizes for the top three places will be provided by Rainbow Sportscards (of Sioux Falls and Sioux City) and the Art Department. Everyone is welcome to participate, including members of the University of South Dakota community and the general public. Contestants may enter the contest individually, or groups of contestants may enter as a team. The contest will begin in the Graphics Lab (Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts, on the north side of the University of South Dakota campus in Vermillion), room 175, at 6 p.m. on Friday, February 29 and conclude 24 hours hence on Saturday, March 1 at 6 p.m. Contestants should arrive no later than 5:45 p.m. Friday. A campus map is available at http://www.usd-DOT-edu/aboutU/campus.cfm.
A theme, image, or idea will be announced at the beginning of the contest and must figure prominently in the finished comic. Within the 24-hour contest period, contestants are free to come and go at will but must be present at the contest end with a completed 6 to 8-page black & white or greyscale mini-comic, reproducible within an 8” by 5” page. Computers with Adobe CS software, scanners, and printers will be available for contest use in the Graphics Lab, though contestants are free to create comics by any method, in any location.
A panel of judges consisting of USD English and Art faculty as well as the VLP Magazine's Editor-in-Chief will select the winners. Winners will be announced on the VLP website at http://www.usd.edu/orgs/projlit.
To register for the VLP 24-Hour Comics Contest, fill out the form available at http://www.usd.edu/orgs/projlit/comics/comicregistrationform.pdf* and mail the form with a check to: The Vermillion Literary Project, Dakota Hall 212, University of South Dakota, 414 E. Clark Street, Vermillion, SD 57069-2390. Registrations must be postmarked by February 23, 2008 for early registration rates; late registration available the day of the contest. Contestants can also register in person in the USD English Department, Dakota Hall 212. Registration fees cannot be refunded.Comic writers or illustrators looking for collaborators for the contest should send inquiries to dkofoed-AT-usd.edu. For other questions, call 605-677-5229 or e-mail us at projlit-AT-usd.edu.
*If you have difficulty opening the registration form, you may need to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, available at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." - Percy Bysshe Shelley; poet, liberal, democrat, athiest and social revolutionary extrodinaire
Just a very rare personal plug here - if you're interesting in experiencing some of my own original works (I'm far too shy to get up onto a stage like the bold and worthy poets at last nights Slam) and crave something completely different, radical, dangerous, controversial and sometimes even jaw dropping... visit my own personal creative writer's blog right here on the USD server: http://blogs.usd.edu/anai/ - Douglas Lee Bryenldson