Announcing the 2026 DCAF (re)Printing Prize!
Little Deer survives another year so the printing prize rides again! This year we're increasing both the number of winners and the number of comics printed!
Little Deer Comics & Way Bad Press are teaming up to print 4(!) mini-comics for the autumn DCAF! Your comic: RISO printed!
Submissions open June 11th and close August 1st
Submit your comic here!
https://forms.gle/6Rh8eoZmXZ3VWsMm7
Form is now: OPEN
Submissions must be:
- Original Comics
- 8-40 Pages Long
- 1 Submission Per Creator(s)
- New or Previously Self-Published Comics
From the Submissions 4 comics will be chosen for printing.
The 4 Prize Recipients Receive:
- 40 Page Comic | 1 Colour RISO | B6 Size | 40 copies for you & 20+ stocked @ Little Deer | 1 Free Exhibiting Table @ DCAF (October 11th)
- 24 Page Comic | 1 Colour RISO | B6 Size | 40 copies for you & 20+ stocked @ Little Deer
- 12 Page Comic | 2 Colour RISO | B6 Size | 40 copies for you & 20+ stocked @ Little Deer
- 8 Page Comic | 2 Colour RISO | Folded Zine | 40 copies for you & 20+ stocked @ Little Deer
* This is a Printing Prize *
- Little Deer + Way Bad are not editing or publishing the prize recipients, simply covering the printing costs.
- Creators Retain Full Rights!
- We simply ask to add the line: "Printed with the 2026 DCAF Printing Prize by Way Bad Press & Little Deer Comics" to the back cover.
I want to keep doing this as long as the shop is open so please consider shopping with Little Deer and Way Bad Press!
Random notes: please remember this is a comic printing prize. Submissions should be comics. I'm calling it a (re)Printing Prize, because I know there's a lot of Irish self-published comics over the last 25 years and I hope some come back into print someday! If you've got an old comic you're still proud of but is out of print, please submit it!
For the purposes of submissions it doesn't needed to be formatted for print (yet!) but it does have to be a PDF for easy viewing. It will have to be made print ready by September 1st. Please only submit finished comics, no works-in-progress.
Reminder that this printing prize is for the Dublin Comic Arts Festival! We're expecting artists who live in Ireland to submit, but we'll also accept artists outside Ireland who have exhibited at DCAF before! We want the winners to be able to attend DCAF with their comics!
Special thanks to Conor and Izzy at Way Bad Press for agreeing to this again! Here's hoping we can continue to do this every year!