BDFIL – CARAN D’ACHE PRIZE

Application Deadline: Monday, June 16, 2025

LOCATION: Switzerland

In 2025, BDFIL is partnering with Caran d’Ache and le Musée de la Machine à Écrire for its BDFIL – Caran d’Ache Prize for emerging comic artists competition. The theme of the 2025 edition is “Working Blues”.

ELIGIBILITY:

The competition BDFIL – Caran d’Ache Prize is open to anyone 15 years of age or older, living in Switzerland or abroad, whose work has never been published in the form of an album, regularly in a large-circulation
newspaper or magazine, or an expert-reviewed online platform or under any editorial license.

Participants whose work is being published when the jury deliberates (June 23, 2025) will be disqualified.

Each participant may enter only one project. The competition aims to encourage and reward complete artists; collective entries will not be accepted.

Winners of previous editions of the competition, except for special mentions, are not allowed to participate. READ

BENEFIT:

Three BDFIL prizes:

1st Prize CHF 2,000.- and the drawing of the 2026 Prize flyer
2nd Prize CHF 1,500
3rd Prize CHF 1,000

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