Submissions are invited for Puchi Award for Unique Book Proposals. The last date of submission is November 27, 2024.

About the Award

Puchi Award is a publishing project held by La Casa Encendida and Fulgencio Pimentel.

Puchi Award seeks to reward the most free, brilliant and innovative book proposals in the graphic field: comics and illustrated albums. The aim of the award is to give visibility to works of great quality and originality.

Puchi Award is open to the most unique book proposals in the field of comics and illustrated books, as well as any hybrid projects. Puchi Award is aimed at audacious projects with their own personality and evident artistic interest, in which images play a principal role, never an accessory or complementary one, in the narrative or exhibition development of the work.

Eligibility

Any natural person of legal age, of any nationality, with an original and unpublished work may participate.

Requirements

  • Projects must be submitted using the form available at La Casa Encendida’s website.
  • Only finished works may be submitted, which must be unpublished or, at least, have been published in a limited way, without ISBN or commercial distribution.
  • Works with graphic elements may be submitted: comics or illustrated albums. There will be no restrictions on length or format.
  • Fulgencio Pimentel and La Casa Encendida reserve the final word on the design and production characteristics of the final edition of the winning project. Projects must be accompanied by either a pseudonym or the real name of the author (or authors, in the case of collaborative works).

Prizes

  • The winner will receive a prize of 10.000€ (VAT and other taxes included, as an advance payment for the publishing rights of the work) plus the publication of the work, which will be distributed by Fulgencio Pimentel.
  • Exceptionally, a Special Jury Prize may be awarded, which will involve the publication and distribution of the winning project.

How to Submit?

Interested participants can submit online via this link.

Submission Deadline

The last date of submission is November 27, 2024.

Click here to view the official notification of Puchi Award for Unique Book Proposals.