It’s a new month and time for the next wave of Zuda Comics competitors to jump into the arena and battle it out for your vote.
Take the jump for the complete rundown of those hoping to take home the May title.
Another month is upon us, which can only mean it is time for Zuda Comics to roll out another monthly contest pitting web cartoonist against web cartoonist in a no-holds death match…to the death!
Actually, it is a little more civilized than that. Instead of giving the artists shivs and having them fight it out while we chant the fight theme from Star Trek, readers are encouraged to vote for their favorite series over at the Zuda Comics website (www.zudacomics.com).
Take the jump for the rundown of this month’s entrants.
Way back in the closing days of the 20th century, Matthew and I attended college together. It was a grand old time, full of happiness, carefree days, and really bad jokes.
There were of course other people that we met during our college years, including one Mr. Otter. Otter has discovered the joy of Bitstrips; conjuring up a short strip based on a joke one of our old professors would throw out during class to get a laugh.
Hey everyone! If you haven’t checked out the Major Spoilers Forum, you’re missing out on some great in-depth discussion on everything from SKRULLS! to your favorite comic titles, and other pop culture stuff like movies, podcasts, television, toys, and web comics.
To date the forum has 61 registered members with lucky #61 being Chris Flick from the Capes and Babes webcomic. Welcome aboard Chris!
If you get a chance, check out his webcomic - it’s quite funny, and then head over to the forums and chat it up about your favorite topic.
Zuda Comics, the web comic imprint of DC Comics, has announced Eddie Sharam and James Woodhead have won the February 2008 web competition with their entry Road.
About ROAD: Felix lives in a futuristic world where there is a road that you can travel down your whole life that will never end or repeat. Felix will attempt to solve the riddle of this Road.
Road will continue as a web comic at the Zuda Comics website.
With a new month underway, Zuda has announced the entrants for the next round of voting. Best of all, Wes Molebash of You’ll Have That is in the running this month with his The Litterbox Chronicles. I say we vote for him.
What started out as a web comic, then a series of books, is now heading to the silver screen. Fox 2000 is has purchased the rights to create a live action adaptation of the journal of Jeff Kinney’s best-selling title.
The studio purchased all rights to the five novels, composed of handwriting and animation, chronicling the daily indignities faced by middle school student Greg Heffley. Former Buena Vista president Nina Jacobson will produce the first feature, with more to possibly follow. Carla Hacken is overseeing the film’s development for the studio.
Since the rights have just been purchased, no director or writer has been attached.
Supertron made it to the top of the stack in the January installment of the Zudacomics.com web comic competition, and the DC endeavor has announced the entrants for the February contest.
Take the jump for the full list.
The Chemistry Set is really moving these last couple of months, adding yet another title to its collection.
In a city called Flint, almost as ugly as the real one, something has begun to stir in the pockets of wet shadow. Under hood and mask and clad to the toetips in red, a man has emerged in the alleyways with no memories of his person, his place, or his purpose. A prophecy-mangling amputee has taken to holding court in the street. Several stories above it all, a selfless psychiatric visionary is about to unleash a catastrophic new weapon in the battle with mental illness. Threads of Red Jack is a search for identity, a fable about anger that has outlived its usefulness, and a throwdown between the madmen in power and the madmen with none.
Threads of Red Jack is written by Daniel Kibblesmith with art by K. Thor Jensen.
DC Comics web comic imprint Zuda Comics will go live next week. October 30 is the launch date according to Richard Bruning, DC Comics Creative Director, SVP.
With the launch of the site, visitors will immediately begin to shape and define the Zuda experience. Online submissions will begin, allowing aspiring web comics creators to submit their work directly to the Zuda editorial team. The Zuda web community will be invited to vote on the first ever Zudacomics.com competition, choosing one from the ten webcomics offerings. In addition, all visitors will be able to read the first ever Zudacomics.com Instant Winner, which will have been selected by Zuda editorial in preparation for the launch.
The company will also be holding a launch party for the site that evening from 5:30 - 6:30 at Lansdowne Road, 599 10th Avenue, New York, NY. You must be 21 years or older.
via DC Comics
The webcomic site The Chemsitry Set announced Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood (from Silver Bullet Comic Books) are joining the list of Chemistry Set creators. The duo will be bringing their miniseries, The Gloom to the site soon.
The Gloom is the tale of Carson Kane, a 1940’s industrialist who, by night, takes to the street as an Angel of Vengeance, his two hellfire pistols in his hands. But, although it pulls from the best of 40’s pulp iconology, it’s been dubbed ‘A Mel Brooks movie of a comic’ for its parody and humor. From Nazis to talking monkeys in fez’s, to atomic terrorists to Britain’s first super team, The Gloom has it all. Silver Bullet Comic Books reviewer Reggie Rigby even said of it “buy this book - sell a kidney if you have to.”
The Gloom debuts October 19th.
The Chemistry Set has announced the upcoming release of Kid Houdini and the Silver Dollar Gang.
Kid Houdini and the Silver Dollar Gang follows the adventures of young Harry Houdini after he ran away from his family home in Appleton, Wisconsin in 1886. Caged and mistreated by the cruel circus owner, Professor Murat, Harry and his misfit friends Lydia the snake girl, Hans the legless boy and the Siamese twins Jacques and Joe solve mysteries under cover of night. No case is too daunting nor dangerous to sway their scrutiny… if you can pay their fee: one shiny silver dollar.
The series is created by Dwight L. MacPherson, the same mind behind The Surreal Adventures of Edgar Allan Poo. According to MacPherson the story will be a cross between Scooby Doo and HBO’s fantastic series Carnivale. If that is truly the case, then this could be one truly trippy web comic.
Kid Houdini and the Silver Dollar Gang debuts on October 31st, the 81st anniversary of Houdini’s death on the Chemistry Set’s website (www.chemsetcomics.com).
Wes Molebash has some video promos of his web comic You’ll Have That. God, I love that comic. Even though the promo has low production value, it’s the joke that makes me laugh and reminds me why it is one of the sites I must visit each day.
Besides being created by Kevin Church and Benjamin Birdie, The Rack is quickly becoming one of my top web comics of the year.
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