The Manga Drawing Contest was first held in 2007 and everyone enjoyed it so much we had to have it again. The contest is sponsored by the Ann Arbor District Library and judged by professional comics artists. Drawings are judged in four different age groups: Grades K-2, Grades 3-5, Grades 6-8, and Grades 9-12. Prizes are given to the top three artists in each age group. Prize ribbons are also awarded in each age group for Best Fan Art, Best Original Character, and Best Comic Strip.

2008 Manga Drawing Contest

Over 70 artists submitted drawings for the 2008 Manga Drawing Contest. Awards were given out Monday, August 4 with winners chosen by judges Jerzy Drozd of Make Like A Tree Comics and Shannon "Roku-Chan" Townsend, artist of the webcomic Otaku-no-Yen. Click on the names of winners below to see entries from the winning artists or go to our image gallery to see every submission to this year's contest.

Grades K-2:

1st Place – Angela Wang
Runner-Up – Susanna Wu
Honorable Mention – Desiree Lu
Best Fan Art – Kareem El-Tawil
Best Original Character – Oliver Mayman

Grades 3-5:

1st Place – Rosa Chen
Runner-Up – Natalie Liu
Honorable Mention – Alice Wu
Best Fan Art – Eric Ren
Best Original Character – Sally Lee

Grades 6-8:

1st Place – Angela Wang
Runner-Up – Angela Huang
Honorable Mention – Zbyszek Sikora
Best Fan Art – Rujia Zha
Best Original Character – Genna Liu
Best Comic Strip – Connor Quigg

Grades 9-12

1st Place – Caitlin Dooley
Runner-Up – Lena Ji
Honorable Mention – Tracey Fu
Best Fan Art – Stephanie Mannheim
Best Original Character – Lauren Houser

2007 Manga Drawing Contest

Judges for the 2007 Manga Drawing Contest were Jerzy Drozd of Make Like A Tree Comics and Fred Gallagher, artist of the webcomic megatokyo.

Grades K-2:

1st Place – Duaa Aljirafi
Runner-Up – Domonique Littlefield
Honorable Mention – Samuel Wasserman
Best Fan Art – Kristen Umbriac
Best Original Character – Sophia Cho

Grades 3-5:

1st Place – Agnes Cho
Runner-Up – Samantha Linn
Honorable Mention – Bernadette Lamb
Best Fan Art – Lillian Xie
Best Original Character – Charlotte Cardon

Grades 6-8:

1st Place – Jena Li
Runner-Up – Kylah Thompson
Honorable Mention – Kyle Mink
Best Fan Art – Emily Ji
Best Original Character – Jessica Maronen
Best Comic Strip – Andrew Hocott

Grades 9-12

1st Place – Xin Gu
Runner-Up – Brittany Adams & Donovan Adams (Tie)
Honorable Mention – Michelle Lin
Best Fan Art – Désha Stewart
Best Original Character – Kaitlin Casternino
Best Comic Strip - Stephanie Mannheim