1. The Gen Z open call is closed now. We've received 244 submissions from around the globe. So much talent, slay Queens! We're happy to announce, that we chose the following artists: Abigail Tucker, Alessandro Camerotto, AmandaJ-art, Amorela Sobrero, Arthur Barth, Bebolina, Briciole, Bryan Arfiandy, Danay Gijzen, Ella-Mai Matsina, Emília Silva, Giordi, Henrique Moreira, Honoka Suzuki, Horacio Cisterna, Irmak Semiz, Iris Hautaniemi, Jona Lingitz, Julie Černá, Juntao Lan, Kseniia Maliuhina, Krāms, Lisa Ziborova, Marija Kozlova, Monkey, Mykhailo Shostak, Nina Schweizer, Pao Silva Lizárraga, Paspoach, Raphaël Schermann, Rebeca Marsan, Rodrigo Tiļļa, Sofija Estella Donga, Stázka Rainischová, Tīna Ērenpreisa, and Tony DiPasquale. Too many for one issue of course, the ones that don't fit in the Gen Z issue will be published in a later issue in 2027 and hopefullly we'll get to collaborate with many of the other participants as well in future! We'll announce the Gen Z issue on our start page, as soon as we've managed to send it to print.

  2. š! #60 ‘Gen Z’ open call! - CLOSED!

                                                                                                                            Illustration by Madara Krēziņa

    It's finally time for another open call! Everyone is talking about Gen Z, and now we want to give Gen Z a chance to talk about themselves! Our next issue is entirely dedicated to the labubu generation. If you were born between 1997 and 2012 then now is your chance to shine! Looking forward to publish your comics in the anthology š! #60 'Gen Z.'

    Details of Participation:

    • Theme: Gen Z (Please interpret the theme very freely, the main thing is you are a Gen Z artist yourself!)
    • Form: Comics
    • Page count: 4-14 (preferably an even page count)
    • Language: English
    • Format: DIN A6, width 10.5 cm × height 14.8 cm (It's quite small, but you still can fit a bunch of panels per page)
    • Bleed: In case you want your comics to be full bleed make sure to add 3 mm cut off space all around the comics (in this case the width of each page should be 11.1 cm and the height 15.4 cm). Don’t place texts and important details close to the page borders, they might be cut off!
    • Bleed: Did you read what we wrote just above? Please don't ignore the bleed! It's very important to have bleed to get your work properly printed. Here is a great tutorial by Norah Clous.
    • Colors: Yes, CMYK, b/w works are also welcome, color profile FOGRA52
    • Resolution: 300 dpi (1200 dpi for b/w works)
    • File format: preferably tiff or pdf
    • If we publish your comic, you’ll get 10 free copies of the anthology.
    • You keep the full copyrights to publish your story anywhere else.
    • Submit only low-resolution jpgs for our consideration (but big enough to read (approximately 900 pixels in width)! The high resolution files as described above we’ll ask you to send later.) Please don’t send zip files, don’t use google drive, dropbox or the like, we only want preview files now as simple attachments.
    • Please include a short description of yourself including your year of birth and a link to your website and or instagram.
    • Deadline: 01 August 2026
    • Send to komiksukonkurss@gmail.com

    Additional notes:

    • After receiving your work we’ll write you a confirmation e-mail within 14 days. If you don’t hear from us, please write us again, maybe your mail got lost.
    • Not all the works from the open call will be published! Usually we get around 200 submissions of which we can print around 20. As we usually get many submissions we enjoy, we often also use “rejected” pieces for later issues or try to collaborate with the artists on other projects.
    • The decision what we’ll publish will be made until the end of August. We’ll mail you if you’re in!
    • We’d prefer if you don’t publish the full comics on- or offline before we print it.
    • Please don’t send comics which are made for a bigger format. If your comic is unreadable in A6 format, it will not be published.
    • We are always happy to feature experimental approaches in storytelling and art. 
    • If you have any questions, just write us.

    If you are not interested to take part and just landed here because you are obsessed with comics, you probably should get some of our previous books. You can find them all on komikss.lv or maybe even at your local comics shop.

    Can't wait to see what y'all cook up!

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