Pat Lee has been a professional artist for over thirteen years. Currently based in HongKong, Pat was engaged at the age of 16 to work in the professional comic book industry. He was hired by Extreme Studios at Image Comics and worked on titles such as BloodPool, Extreme Sacrifice, Black Flag, Glory, DarkChylde, Avengeblade, Extreme Prelude and Prophet. Soon after, he was hired by Wildstorm Productions and worked on comic book titles such as Allegra, Wetworks, and Jim Lee’s Wildcats. Following that, Pat worked with Marvel comics on Iron Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four and Spiderman.

A year later, Pat formed his own company with his brother named Dreamwave Productions Inc. which launched popular titles such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Devil May Cry and Transformers - which ranked the #1 top selling comic book six months in a row and was acknowledged as one of the first indy publishers to reach this goal. He has created many successful properties such as Darkminds, Warlands, Garden of Blades, NecroWar, Sandscape and Banished Knights and has worked on hundreds of covers ranging from novels, comic books, trade paperbacks and magazines.

Most recently in comics, Pat’s work can be seen in Batman, Superman, Metal Men, X-Men, Cyberforce. He is also known for bringing an anime influenced hybrid style to the North American comic market and has hit the #1 artist on the top ten hottest artist list in Wizard Magazine. He has also worked with multiple toy companies such as Hasbro, Mattel, Spin Master Pro, and Cookie Jar, assisting them in conceptualizing and developing their brands and was a lead designer for the music video by Janet Jackson – “It Doesn’t Really Matter”. Currently at the age of 32, Pat’s primary initiatives is to be the most well rounded artist moving in the direction of film and game production, IP development, Photography, Concept Design and is currently in development of his own clothing label. Check out his works via his new studio - Pat Lee Productions, or through his deviantART page or MySpace page.

Dell Barras was born in Manila, The Philippines.

He started his career in comics in the 1970s, publishing titles such as 'Ang Taong Isda', 'Samsona' and 'Mariela Morena'. In 1984, he began working for USA publishers DC Comics and Marvel, on comics like 'Green Arrow', 'Batman', 'Superman', 'Blue Beetle', 'The Incredible Hulk' and 'Conan the Barbarian'. For Marvel UK he also worked on 'Death's Hero', 'Motormouth' and 'Battle Tide'.

Dell Barras has since switched to animation and now works as a storyboard artist and designer in his own studio - Media Blastoff.

Check out his full range of works, including character design, paintings, line art, illustrations, posters and storyboards.

Jerome Moo Wen Han, is a Malaysian artist currently living in Singapore and working for Lucasfilm Animation Singapore as a digital artist in the Digital Artist Group (DAG for short) since September 2006. He is working on various media: Film, TV and Games, doing mainly conceptual works and some 3d modeling.

Jerome graduated from The One Academy of Communication Design with a Diploma in Illustration in the year 2002, and was awarded the Dean's List Scholar of the Academy upon graduation. Thereafter, he worked at GameBrains Sdn. Bhd. back in Malaysia from 2002 to 2006 as a concept and graphic artist. Jerome has also worked as a freelance illustrator for various organization; McCann-Erickson Malaysia; Coca-Cola Malaysia; and so on. His latest clients include Imaginary Friends Studio, for which he did some fun and exciting works, including conceptual art for a game (by Timegate Studios), illustrations for card games (Warhammer 40k, Soul Calibur 3, Street Fighter), and comic colourings (Tales of Army of Darkness, Fear the Dead, etc). His work was also included in Ballistic Publishing's latest "Exotique 2".

Check out Jerome Moo's impressive drawings, ranging from concept art, to digital art, comics, and even traditional art.

Submissions for the 3rd Morning International Manga Competition are now being accepted. The deadline is September 30th, 2008.

Professional artists are also welcomed to this competition. Besides manga, all types of comics are accepted, including superhero comics, cartoons, and bandes dessine´es and so on.

'Weekly Morning', which celebrated its 25th anniversary last year and publishes over 500,000 copies weekly, is the biggest and most prominent manga magazine for grown-ups in Japan. Since its very first issue, the magazine has been host to such mega hits as "Vagabond", "Kami-no-shizuku", "The Silent Service", "Say hello to BLACK JACK", and "GON", and has had continual and significant influence on Japanese society.

Now, the organisers are expanding their horizons and holding a competition across the globe, including the U.S., Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand and China, in order to seek out and develop new talent.

As part of the grand prize, the winning manga will be featured in 'Weekly Morning', the most influential manga magazine for grown-ups in Japan, boasting a circulation of over 500,000 copies a week, or special issue 'Morning 2'. In addition, the most experienced manga editors of 'Morning' will be assigned to authors of the winning manga pieces, and assist in the development of their manga. There is also the possibility that the winning manga and more pieces of the winning author will be not only featured in 'Morning' or 'Morning 2', but could also well be published as independent comic books both in Japan and in other countries.

Chck out more details about submission from the official site.