Deadline: 15-Jan-23
Want to create a comic about nature that saves the world? About nature-based solutions to the shared global challenges? The Nature of Cities is creating a new series of comics called Nature-based Solutions Comics, or NBS Comics; it’s a partnership between NetworkNature and The Nature of Cities.
Create a love story to nature. Tell a funny joke about how business-as-usual will be the death of us. Or a business or community taking an ecological approach. Convey a scene of nature solving the gathering problems, from floodwaters to urban heat, if they just let her.
This is an open call to EU-based creators for proposals for short comics that explore graphic storytelling about the challenges they face as people and societies — climate change, biodiversity loss, stormwater surges, urban heat, inequity of green space distribution, social justice, and more — and how working with and not against Nature can help them create a world that is better for both people and nature.
Themes
- They invite comic creators in the EU (citizens or permanent residents) — using any comic style, various approaches to storytelling, many languages — to imagine comics about nature and her benefits. Based on submitted proposals, they will commission up to seven comics and intend to publish them on both public platforms and on the own, purpose-built platform. After that, we’ll do it all again to build a series. NOTE: they are not accepting animations at this time.
- One of the hopes for this series is to tell good stories about nature that are both intelligent, entertaining, and change-making; from new voices; stories that reach more people. They want to create dialogue and raise awareness about nature and what essential role it plays in the daily lives.
Eligibility Criteria
- The NBS Comics Call is open to all comic creators who are citizens or have Permanent Resident status of an EU country (with a European bank account), aged 18 or older; submissions can be in any of 24 official languages of the European Union.
For more information, visit Open Call to EU-Based Comic Creators.
For more information, visit https://www.thenatureofcities.com/nbs-comicsnature-to-save-the-world/