Short Comics Competition 2023 Digital Anthology

Year Two — and what a year! Our Short Comics Competition is always a favorite over here at Negative Space headquarters. We spend a month pretending this is “work” while reading tons of amazing, creative, and well-crafted comics. I mean, woe is me, am I right?

On a more serious note, this year’s batch of short comics submissions hit it out of the park. Narrowing down to these 10 finalists was a tough task, but each one of these show what comics can do. So, enjoy the comics — and please, make sure you follow each of them on social media!

Our digital anthology below features the competition’s grand prize winner and all the finalists.

Negative Space Short Comics Digital Anthology 2023 Cover

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See the full list of creators below — and make sure to go and follow them on social media!

Here are the Short Comics Competition Creators
(in ranked order based on the competition judging)

GRAND PRIZE WINNER

IVORY & ADAMA
By Andrew Edwards

RUNNER UP

ELMER CODD
By Evan Hicks

FINALISTS

RAIN FOR US
By Mario Cau

ABDUCTION
By Jasmin Garcia-Verdin

THE BAT, THE SPIDER, AND
THE CHEST OF ANGEL FEATHERS
Written by Sadaf Faghihi
Art by Mahour Pourghadim
Lettering by Adel E. Talemi

THE PERISCOPE BAR
By Dan Hale

POSSESSIONS
Written by Chris Kipiniak
Art by Antonello Cosentino
Coloring by Josh Jensen
Lettering by Sean Rinehart

DEAR MALIK
Written & Art by Maurice Buckley
Lettering by Matias Zanetti

COMING OF AGE
By Patrice Garden

THE LAST LOLLIPOP
By Benjamin Larkworthy

Thank you to everyone who submitted to this competition, we were so proud of this work and honored to read these short comics. A big thanks to our judges — Andrew Drilon, Michael Coast, Fell Hound, Fabi Marques, and Alex Dvorak — for all their reading and hard work to narrow down this list of finalists. The cover and book design of the digital anthology were done by Nahuel Fanjul-Arguijo, Negative Space Co-Founder.

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