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About Contest

To celebrate Pride Month, we’re asking participants to submit a single panel or strip that shows us your pride! Whether it’s a personal memory, a funny story, or a #relatable moment, show us your pride in your comic.

Anyone is absolutely welcome to submit! Your comic can be either digitally drawn, or drawn on paper.

Important rules to follow:

1. Plagiarized content will be disqualified. All work that you submit should be your own.
2. No Not Safe For Work (NSFW) content.
3. Previously uploaded work will be disqualified (more details below).
4. 1 submission per user only

How to Participate

1. Submit your comic via email to artcontest@tapasmedia.co (.co not .com) with the subject line “Pride Month Comic Contest”

   
   

2. Comic dimensions

1. Width 940px

2. Max height 4000px

3. File size limit 2MB

   
   

3. There are 2 ways to attach your submission:

1. Attach submission as a JPEG file, OR

2. Provide a direct link to the series episode that you’re submitting. You may submit a comic that you’ve published, as long as it was published no earlier than June 6th, 2019.

   
   

4. In your email, include a link to your Tapas profile (example shown below)

To locate your Tapas profile link, visit https://tapas.io and on the top right corner, click on your user icon. You will be directed to your Tapas profile wall. Please copy and paste that link.

Tapas profile link example: 


The submission period will run from June 6, 2019 to June 19, 2019 at 11:59PM PT.

Note: Episodes must have been uploaded no earlier than June 6th, 2019. Older episodes will be automatically disqualified.

How will the winners be selected?

• The Top 30 submissions will be selected by Tapas staff by June 21st based on how creatively you tell your story, not on the actual story itself. Tapas readers will then be able to vote for their Top 3 favorite comics. Voting will take place until June 24th (11:59PM PT).
  
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  What are the prizes?
  
  - 1st Place will win a set of 36 Copic™ Markers & a Tapas shirt!
  
  
  
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  - 2nd Place will win 20,000 Ink*
• - 3rd Place will win 10,000 Ink
  - All entrants will receive 500 Bonus Ink*
  
  

  1st place winner will be contacted via email. 2nd place winner, 3rd place winner, and all entrants will receive their rewards by July 1st.
  

  
  

  
  

  *Ink can be used to unlock episodes of premium series with paid content, and support creators directly
  
  

  **Bonus Ink can only be used to unlock episodes from premium series with paid content and will expire 365 days after receiving.
  
  

  We hope you have fun! We are excited to see your beautiful comics! 
  
  Best of luck!
  
  

  
  The Tapas Team
  

  
  

  
  

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  Contest Rules & Regulations

  
  

  1. Contest Period: The Contest begins on June 6, 2019 at 6:00 PM Pacific Time (“PT”) and ends on June 19, 2019 11:59:59 PM Pacific Time (“PT”) (the “Contest Period”).

  2. Eligibility: The contest is open worldwide to those who have an active email account and Internet access. Employees of Sponsors and their parent companies, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising, promotion, fulfillment or other coordinating agencies, individuals providing services to the Sponsors through an outsourcer or temporary employment agency during the contest period, and their respective immediate family members and persons living in their same household, are not eligible to participate in the contest. There is no cost to enter or win. Participation in the contest constitutes entrant’s full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Official Contest Rules (“Official Rules”). VOID WHERE PROHIBITED OR RESTRICTED BY LAW.

  3. Non-Sponsors: Copic™ is not a participant in or sponsor of this promotion. The Contest is not sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Non-Sponsors, and Non-Sponsors do not endorse the products or services of Contest prizes.