To allow for more time (especially for our entrants outside of the U.S.) for future rising stars to post their entries, IMPACT Books has decided to extend the deadline for the Rising Stars contest to Wednesday, OCTOBER 10.

It’s not too late to send your entries!

If this is your first time hearing about the contest, see below for contest details and to get an entry form visit [link] or email impactbooks@fwpubs.com.

Contest Summary
Impact Books (www.impact-books.com), the how-to write and draw comics, graphic novels, manga and fantasy art imprint of F+W Publications, Inc., is giving unpublished and undiscovered artists a chance to have their artwork featured in an upcoming book!

Impact: Rising Stars of Fantastic Art will collect the best 145 submitted unpublished pieces of art for this brand-new book publishing in July 2008! A panel of judges, comprised from the Impact editorial board, including dA's own Neondragon ([link]) will select the artwork that will be featured in the book. Two talented artists' work will be selected for the cover and back cover and will win U.S. $1000 and $500, respectively. Everyone published will win a copy of the book!

Any artist -- young, old, big or small -- is eligible to submit his/her best work with no entry fee! All we're asking is that the work be previously unpublished (website publication is okay) and not use licensed characters. All your copyrights and trademarks remain yours! If you are chosen for the book, IMPACT will send you a permission form to sign that grants us the right to publish your art in this book and to use your art to promote this book.

Again, the deadline has now been extended to OCTOBER 10, 2007!