To celebrate ScottishPower Foundation’s sponsorship of this year’s Wigtown Book Festival, the Foundation is launching the Comic Generation competition. It is challenging all 11- to 25- year olds in Dumfries and Galloway to channel their inner superhero and get creative and be in with the chance of winning an Apple iPad mini.

If you want to enter, you only have to do two simple things:

1. Develop your own superhero with energy-related powers

2. Incorporate this superhero into a short story line

To help you out we have developed some examples below:

Click here to view an example of an energy-related superhero

Click here to view an example of the story maps

Once you’ve got your idea, it’s time to put pen to paper and create your own superhero and story line. Please click below for templates.

Click here to view the superhero template

Click here to view the story map template

You do not have to follow these templates if you don’t want to, but they are here for you if you want to use them. It’s up to you.

The only rules we have are that you submit a maximum of two A4 sheets and these must contain an illustration and name of your superhero, along with a description of their power and the story line. Please include your own name, age and postcode along with your entry.

Once you have created your superhero and story line, take a picture / scan your entry and send to:comicgeneration@stripecommunications.com

Alternatively, you can post your entries to:

ScottishPower Foundation Comic Generation,Stripe Communications, 86 Commercial Quay, Edinburgh, EH6 6LX

If you have any questions at all please contact us at: comicgeneration@stripecommunications.com

Entries must be submitted by midnight on Sunday 9th November 2014.

Please click here for full terms and conditions.