VII Puchi Award

La Casa Encendida and Fulgencio Pimentel present the seventh edition of the Puchi Award.

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 launches its next call for applications with a renewed approach, eminently graphic, and a biennial periodicity, also increasing its financial endowment to 10,000 euros.

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.

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Any natural person of legal age, of any nationality, with an original and unpublished work may participate.

Date
The deadline for submitting projects runs from 17 September 2024 to 27 February 2025 at 14:00h (GMT+1), inclusive. No submissions will be accepted after the deadline.

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.

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Only finished works may be submitted, which must be unpublished or, at least, have been published in a limited way, without ISBN or commercial distribution.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).

Each application must be accompanied by:

• Completed online application form.
• Curriculum Vitae of all authors.
• National identity card, residence card or passport.
• Descriptive text of the work and motivation (maximum 1,000 characters including spaces).
• Biography (maximum 1,000 characters including spaces).
• Portfolio (maximum 20 pages PDF format).
• Complete final work in its original language (PDF).
• Extract translated into English of at least two pages (PDF).

Projects may be written in any language, although a provisional English translation of at least two pages of the work must be provided. In addition, the application form, curriculum vitae, descriptive text of the work and motivation, and production requirements must be submitted in English or Spanish.
The formats of the materials that can be uploaded to the website are:
– PDF with a maximum weight of 15 MB.
Works submitted without observing these conditions will be disqualified by the jury.