Helsinki Comics Festival used to give out an award for the Most Heavenly zine. Later the award was turned into Best comics blog of the year -award. In 2021 we have combined these two and are giving out two awards: Most Heavenly zine and Most Heavenly webcomic.
Competition is open 6/1/2025–7/13/2025
Application instruction
Small press category
- Any zine/small press/self-published comic is fine in this category.
- Very small publishers and collectives can also submit their zines here.
- Comics must have been finished within the last five years.
- If your comic was nominated in this award last year, don’t nominate it this year.
If you’re unsure, email us at helsinkizinefest@gmail.com
Webcomic category
- If it’s online, it counts! Any webcomic which is published on, for example, Instagram, Patreon, Webtoon, Tapas, Tumblr, ComicFury, your own website or blog platform is eligible.
- Ebooks, if they’ve never been printed and do not exceed 30 pages. If they have also been printed, please submit them to the Small Press category instead.
- Don’t enter your comic this year if it isn’t updating anymore and if it was nominated last year.
- If your comic has updated with new pages within a year, despite being nominated last year, feel free to nominate it again.
If you’re unsure, email us at helsinkizinefest@gmail.com
Instructions for sending
- Provide a link either to the website of the comic or to a downloadable PDF.
- The PDF should be max. 30 pages long.
- For longer comics, choose the best 30 pages for judging. For webcomics, judges will also judge the first 30 pages only.
- If your comic is published on social media, we recommend making a PDF collection of them, so the judges don’t have to search for the comics among your other posts
- Sign in to a Google account to fill and submit the form.
You can also email us the PDF at helsinkizinefest@gmail.com. If you email it to us, put the name of the artist and the name of the comic in the title.
This is probably needless to say, but if your comic has won the Most Heavenly Small Press or Most Heavenly Webcomic award, don’t nominate it again.
The award is meant for Finnish people, Finns living outside of Finland or people who are living in Finland right now regardless of their nationality.
Participating comics must be in either Finnish or English.
Generative AI
Zine Fest does not allow the use of generative AI in competition entries.
Competition is open 6/1/2025–7/13/2025
