corniche 8, a comic anthology

Sharjah Art Foundation announces an open call to broaden and diversify the creative scope of Corniche, an annual comic anthology.

Illustrators and comic artists from the GCC are invited to submit pitches for a six-page comic to be considered for publication in the eighth edition.

Selected artists will be invited for a three-day creative exchange in Sharjah. The ensuing comics will be compiled into a publication that follows an exploratory, free-flowing approach, enabling a range of genres to co-exist, from biography and art history to science fiction, fantasy and mythology.

Corniche was born out of a three-day comic-making workshop held in 2019, when the participating artists decided to compile their final comics into an anthology, titling it after the Sharjah Corniche overlooking the workshop space. It has since grown into a community-centred project, a crucial platform for local illustrators to meet, experiment and publish, and one of the Foundation’s core initiatives.

Corniche 8 will launch at Focal Point 2026.