IT’S BACK!
SPONSORSHIP UPDATE:
We are excited to announce that our prize packages will once again be sponsored by GKIDS, the US distributor of some of the world’s finest animation, including the works of Studio Ghibli!
They join Gutter Pop Comics in sponsoring the event, with prize packages as follows:
1st PLACE: A $100 gift card to GKIDS’s online store, store.gkids.com.
2nd PLACE: A $75 gift card to GKIDS’s online store, store.gkids.com.
3rd PLACE: $50 gift card to GKIDS’s online store, store.gkids.com.
COMIC BOOK CATEGORY WINNER: $40 gift card to Gutter Pop Comics.
Plus: ALL entrants will receive a temporary 20% coupon for Gutter Pop Comics, located right across the street!
We all found different ways of coping with 2020.
Some owe their sanity to baking bread. Others invented character arcs for their eye floaters.
But not YOU!
No, dear reader—you had a dream. It was a dream that carried you through countless lonely nights, a medley of anxious afternoons:
“One day…” you would whisper to yourself, “one day, this will all be over, the sun will come out, and I will join the coolest geeks in Buffalo chalking my Ghibli-loving heart out under the North Park marquee.”
Well, now is your moment, Ghibli fan!
NOW IS YOUR TIME!!!
Bust out that chalk and join us for Buffalo’s Annual Miyazaki Chalk Contest, now celebrating its EIGHTH continuous year as one of the coolest expressions of Ghibli love on the planet.
ENTRY IS FREE!
All skill levels are encouraged!
Some chalking supplies will be provided!
FREE water for chalkers!
PLUS: ALL CHALKERS RECEIVE A TEMPORARY COUPON FOR 20% OFF AT GUTTER POP COMICS ACROSS THE STREET!
New for this year, in honor of our festival sponsor Gutter Pop: a special COMIC BOOK CATEGORY. If you’d rather fill our sidewalks with caped crusaders, teenaged turtles, or any other 4-colored subject inspired by the last hundred years or so of comic art, please do so! Budding Jack Kirbies will be eligible for a SPECIAL PRIZE.
General prize packages TBA (they will be cool!) and will be partly sponsored by Gutter Pop Comics across the street.
NOTE: This year, the festival spans TWO days: August 21st – August 22nd. Except in extenuating circumstances, artists will be judged according to one day’s worth of work.
Chalking starts at 9:00 AM Saturday and Sunday. (But you can start any time after.)
Final judging starts at 9 PM Sunday.
(Take a break at 11:30 AM to catch LUPIN III: THE CASTLE OF CAGLIOSTRO on the BIG SCREEN!)
PLUS: If you missed any Ghibli posters over the years, KatyDid will have a table out with North Park prints, buttons, postcards, and all kinds of cool stuff…!
Here is some work from previous years:
4th Annual Miyazaki Chalk Contest @ The North Park Theatre in Buffalo, NY
