Fumetto International Comic Competition 2027 «Blubb» — Up to CHF 1,111 and an Exhibition at the Lucerne Comic Festival
Fumetto Comic Festival Luzern
Fumetto, the international comic festival in Lucerne, runs a long-standing comic competition each year. The 2027 theme is the onomatopoeia «Blubb» — schools of fish, bubbles of air or real estate, deep-sea dives, melting glaciers — and the shortlist is exhibited in the historic Swiss House of the Glacier Garden.
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Fumetto shortlists 45 works, shown as originals at the Fumetto Comic Festival Lucerne (6–14 March 2027) in the Glacier Garden; all other entries appear digitally in the exhibition. In the adult category the jury awards CHF 1,111, CHF 888 and CHF 666, plus a CHF 444 prize for the best scenario from the shortlist; the younger categories receive prizes in kind, and festival visitors vote a public prize. Awards on 6 March 2027. Originals are returned after the festival.
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International and open to all ages in three categories: 18 and over, 13 to 17, and up to 12 (age on 1 December 2026). One entry per person: a single comic (sequential art only) of up to four pages, originally A4 or A3, portrait or landscape, uploaded as jpg of at least 3000 px. Analogue and digital comics are accepted, but the use of AI is excluded. School classes may take part as a class. Last year's winners can enter but cannot win a podium place.
Dates & details
- Deadline
- uploads open from 1 November 2026
- Programme dates
- Exhibition 6–14 March 2027, Lucerne
- Results
- Jury in December 2026 / January 2027; awards 6 March 2027
- Costs to the artist
- Postage for originals if shortlisted
- Language
- Conditions published in German