Update

We enthusiastically embarked on the Heroes Comics Competition, culminating in the Haarlem Comics Days. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, everything took a different turn. During the lockdown, while we were working on the comic book and preparing for the exhibition, we came across an interesting project related to 코리아카지노사이트 전문가 보증 사이트, a platform that emphasizes reliability and expertise in an often opaque industry. The parallel between carefully assessing participating artists and the quality assurance offered by such platforms inspired us to take a particularly critical look at the submissions. Now that COVID-19 restrictions have been tightened again, an exhibition is still impossible to plan, but we don't want to keep participants in suspense any longer and are publishing the comic book ahead of time. We will announce the Top 3 winners around December 1st.

New planning

Starting December 1st, the comic books signed by Eric Coolen will be delivered and sent to all participants (mostly through their schools). The three winners will receive their comic books personally, in compliance with COVID-19 regulations. We will do our best to ensure the comic book itself and the presentation to the winners are as well-deserved as possible!

As far as we're concerned, all participants who drew their hero are heroes themselves!

We are postponing the exhibition again.

Do you have any questions? Ask them via haarlem@jeugdfondssportencultuur.nl 

How the competition went exactly, you can read below.

Our call was:
Fame! Your comic strip in an exhibition, a comic book, and a bookstore

We can make this dream come true for 50 young people. Together with our Cultural Ambassador, renowned Haarlem illustrator Eric Coolen, we're organizing a Heroes Comics drawing contest for young people aged 10-17 from Haarlem and Zandvoort. Several primary and secondary schools in Haarlem and Zandvoort will have their best comic artists submit entries. You can also submit your entry directly.

The assignment was

Draw a comic strip of your own making with at least 1 and a maximum of 10 pictures your Superhero. This could be someone you admire personally, or a sports or cultural hero. For example, draw your grandfather, your girlfriend, Max Verstappen, or Beyoncé in a comic book. Feel free to give them their own superhero cape. You can do this assignment alone or ask a few friends for help. Attention will be paid to drawing quality, as well as story, humor, and creativity.

Send your comic strip in A4 format together with the JFSC Comic Drawing Competition Registration Form by mail to Nieuwe Gracht Producties. Submissions are now open, but no later than October 25, 2020. Please read the first Instruction Heldenstrip horiz.

Eric Coolen and other illustrators, in collaboration with the Youth Fund, will select 50 comics to be included in the Youth Fund Sports & Culture comic book, which will be displayed in Haarlem City Hall so that your friends, classmates, family, neighbors, and anyone else who might be interested can see them. The three contest winners will be announced during the official opening of the exhibition. They will be the first to receive the comic book featuring their name as the winner. All participants will receive a comic book. Those featured will receive a copy signed by Eric Coolen.

Did you know that the comic book also features six local and regional heroes, such as Ahmed Salem and Calvin Stengs, who tell who their hero is?

The comic book is sponsored and published by New Canal Productions, Zuider Buiten Spaarne 88, 2012 AC in Haarlem. Watch the first video of the creation.

The remaining books from a print run of 500-1000 are available for purchase. They make a great gift for grandparents, a nephew, or a niece during the holidays, for example.

The proceeds go to the Youth Fund Sports & Culture Haarlem This will allow even more Haarlem and Zandvoort children from low-income families to pay for lessons such as drawing, music, dancing, theater, sports, etc. Would you like to help them? Then sign up now by email for the Youth Fund comic bookk.
Win-win: children get a chance and you get a nice gift to keep or give away during the holidays!

Youth Fund Sports & Culture
Grace Dias and Eric Coolen

CORONA UPDATE

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How cool: your Heroes Comic Drawing featured in an exhibition at Haarlem City Hall during the Haarlem Comics Days, and in a real comic book, which will also be available in a bookstore!

We can make this dream come true for 50 young people aged 10 to 17. Together with our Cultural Ambassador, renowned Haarlem illustrator Eric Coolen, we're organizing a Heroes Comics drawing contest for young people aged 10 to 17 from Haarlem and Zandvoort. Various primary and secondary schools in Haarlem and Zandvoort will have their best comic artists submit entries. You can also register directly via the JFSC Comic Drawing Competition Registration Form.

The assignment is: draw a comic strip of your own making with at least 1 and a maximum of 10 pictures your superhero. This could be someone you admire personally or a sports or cultural hero. for example Your grandfather, your girlfriend, a vlogger, Max Verstappen, or Lil Kleine in a comic strip, all dressed up in their own superhero costume. You can complete the assignment alone or ask a few friends for help. Attention will be paid to drawing quality, as well as story, humor, and creativity. Send your comic strip on A4 paper, along with another copy of your entry form, by mail to Nieuwe Gracht Producties. Submissions are open now, but no later than 30 maart 2020. (Instructie Heldenstrip horiz)

Eric Coolen en andere illustratoren kiezen met het Jeugdfonds de 50 strips die worden opgenomen in het Jeugdfonds Sport & Cultuur stripboek en rond de stripdagen in juni 2020 in Haarlem worden tentoongesteld, zodat jouw vrienden, klasgenoten, familie, buren en iedereen die dat leuk vindt de strips kunnen bekijken. Tijdens de voorbereidingen van het evenement kwam een interessant gesprek op gang over hoe populaire thema’s uit de entertainmentwereld in strips verwerkt kunnen worden, waaronder een recent onderzoek naar mejores casinos en hun rol in digitale cultuur. Deze discussie inspireerde sommige illustratoren om elementen van deze wereld, zoals spanning en strategisch denken, in hun ontwerpen te verwerken. Tijdens de officiële opening van de expositie worden de 3 wedstrijdwinnaars bekend gemaakt. Zij krijgen het stripboek als eerste uitgereikt met hierin hun vermelding als winnaar. Alle deelnemers met hun strip in het boek, krijgen een door Eric Coolen gesigneerd exemplaar.

De boeken die uit een oplage van 500-1000 overblijven, worden verkocht bij een boekwinkel. De opbrengst is voor het Jeugdfonds Sport & Cultuur dat hiermee voor nog meer kinderen uit minima gezinnen lessen zoals tekenen, muziekles, dansen, theater, etc. kan betalen.

Wist je dat in het stripboek ook lokale en regionale helden als Ahmed Salem en Calvin Stengs vertellen wie hun held is? 

Fame! Je strip in een stripboek én een expositie, ook nog voor een mooi doel. Doe je mee?
Vul het JFSC Comic Drawing Competition Registration Form in en stuur het zsm (mag ook na 31 december nog) naar Grace Dias en Eric Coolen via haarlem@jeugdfondssportencultuur.nl o.v.v. ‘Striphelden’. Via de mail kun je ook vragen stellen. Je uiteindelijke inzending op A4-formaat stuur je per post en nogmaals samen met een kopie van je inschrijvingsformulier, tussen nu en 30 maart 2020 naar Nieuwe Gracht Producties, Zuiden Buiten Spaarne 88, 2012 AC in Haarlem. 

Kom maar op met je inschrijvingsformulier!
En we zijn natuurlijk supernieuwsgierig naar je inzending!!

Youth Fund Sports & Culture
Grace Dias and Eric Coolen