Interview: Zuda Champs Michael Jasper & Niki Smith Independently Launch IN MAPS & LEGENDS Today!

Papa Llama | September 1, 2010

Earlier this year, DC Comics ended the monthly competititions for webcomic creators to win contracts with their Zuda Comics line. Soon after that, DC pulled the plug on Zuda altogether. Some Zuda creators got to continue their comics in a new DC format, but the most recent winners generally got left out in the cold. Right after Zuda’s collapse, we [...]

Rocket Llama Crew at San Diego Comic-Con 2010: Panels on Digital Comics, Action Chicks, Batman’s Empty Nest, & More

Papa Llama | July 12, 2010

FRIDAY, JULY 23 11:30-1:00 Comics Arts Conference Session #6: Digital Comics— Nick Langley (Rocket Llama) gives a brief history of webcomics and evaluates online economic experiments from subscriptions to micropayments – with Brock Heasley (Super Fogeys, Zuda Comics’ Monsterplex). 2:00-3:30 Comics Arts Conference Session #8: Where Are the Action Chicks?— Katrina Hill (ActionFlickChick.com), Jill Pantozzi [...]

After Zuda Falls, Does Lily Leave the Valley? Interview with Adam Atherton (Lily of the Valley)

Papa Llama | July 9, 2010

Zuda Comics, DC Comics’ webcomic line built on the last couple of years’ worth of monthly competitions in which hopeful creators fought it out to see who’d win the vote and get contracts to produce another year’s worht of comics, is gone. Zip! It was there and then it was not. No fanfare, no forewarning, the website [...]

Interview: Ken Frederick, Artist (Aleksander Christov: Assassin, Zuda Competitor)

Nick | March 22, 2010

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Earlier this month, Papa Llama interviewed Janine Frederick, writer and creator of Aleksander Christov: Assassin which is an entry in this month’s competition for a contract with DC’s Comics online division Zuda. While he was in New York last week, Nick caught up with Janine’s husband Ken who does the art for AC:A. Here’s a little bit of what [...]

Interview: Michael Farah and Zane DeGaine, Bernie’s BOT (Zuda Competitor)

Papa Llama | March 17, 2010

Writer Mike Farah and artist Zane DeGaine have created the comic Bernie’s BOT for the current Zuda Comics competition, that monthly battle to see which of ten creative teams can win a contract to keep producing their story for DC Comics’ online division. Mike has been through this once before. His previous Zuda entry, the black and white [...]

Interview: Janine Frederick, Creator of Aleksander Christov: Assassin (Zuda Competitor)

Papa Llama | March 4, 2010

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We love talking to competitors in each monthly Zuda Comics competition, webcomic creators who are competing for votes, views, and 5-star ratings that will earn 1 of the 10 creators (or creative teams) a contract to keep producing that comic for DC Comics’ online Zuda division. Every month’s competition is a different story in and of itself. This month [...]

Interview: Goldilock Returns (Zuda Winner Adam Lucas)

Papa Llama | February 23, 2010

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In September we talked to Adam Lucas about his webcomic Goldilock, which he’d entered in that month’s competition for a contract with DC Comics’ Zuda online division. And lo and behold, Adam won! Tomorrow Goldilock returns to Zuda, launching its weekly run that will add 52 more pages to the 8 we already saw during the contest. [...]

Interview: Villain (Zuda Competitor Greg Smallwood)

Papa Llama | December 19, 2009

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Each month DC Comics pits comics creators against  each other to compete for a contract producing their webcomic series for DC’s online division, Zuda Comics. This month two different entries focus on costumed superpeople, and this week we’re interviewing the creators of both. A few days ago we spoke with Luciano Vecchio whose work The Unseen Tribe [...]

Interview: The Unseen Tribe (Zuda Competitor Luciano Vecchio)

Papa Llama | December 15, 2009

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Our series of interviews with competitors in DC Comics’ monthly Zuda contests continues this week with a pair of interviews with current competitors, featuring the creators of comics featured costumed superfolks. Later this week we’ll speak with Greg Smallwood, creator of Villain, but let’s start with Luciano Vecchio about his work, The Unseen Tribe. Llama: [...]

Interview with Sidewise Author Dwight L. MacPherson Part Three: Why Do Steampunk?

Papa Llama | November 22, 2009

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Previous Posts: Interview with Sidewise Author Dwight L. MacPherson Part 1: Why Do Webcomics? Interview with Sidewise Author Dwight L. MacPherson Part 2: Why Do Zuda? Here we conclude our interview with Zuda Comics webcomic competition winner Dwight L. MacPherson, author and creator of the series Sidewise along with quite a bit more.  Llama: Is this a story [...]

Interview with Sidewise Author Dwight L. MacPherson Part 2: Why Do Zuda?

Papa Llama | November 12, 2009

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Previous Post: Interview with Sidewise Author Dwight L. MacPherson Part 1: Why Do Webcomics? In part 1 of our interview with Dwight L. MacPherson, author and creator of the webcomic Sidewise which you can read at DC Comics’ online Zuda Comics, we discussed reasons for doing webcomics.In part 2, we discuss Zuda itself. Llama: Is [...]

Interview: Blitz (Ted Dawson, Zuda Competitor)

Papa Llama | October 21, 2009

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As fans of older comics, we’re always looking for comics that remind us of the classics, whether that means in terms of story, setting, or artistic style. This month’s Zuda Comics competiton from DC Comics includes two black-and-white comics – one currently at #1 in the contest and the other at #10, bookending the ranks. While Pluck [...]

Interview: Pluck Creators Gabe White and John Amor (Zuda Competitors)

Papa Llama | October 14, 2009

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After Walter Williams, creator of danger-prone clay hero Mr. Bill, became a full-time staff writer for Saturday Night Live, he said writers would arm wrestle to see whose skits would air. Instead of making online cartoonists arm wrestle, each month DC Comics’s Zuda line of online comics pits the creators of 10 different 8-page webcomics [...]

Interview: Lily at the Launch Pad (Adam Atherton, Zuda Winner)

Papa Llama | October 9, 2009

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In May we talked with cartoonist Adam Atherton about his 8-page entry in Zuda Comics’ monthly competition. At the end of the month, Adam’s creation, Lily of the Valley, beat nine other webcomics to win a contract to continue his story in DC Comics’ Zuda line. Adam won! And now, with summer having come and [...]

Interview: Goldilock (Zuda Competitor Adam Lucas)

Papa Llama | September 25, 2009

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Each month Zuda Comics (DC Comics’ webcomic line) strands the creators of ten online comics on an island in that great contest called Survivor – Zuda. We all get the opportunity to vote them off the island. At the end of the month, the sole survivor gets to go home alone and with a contract [...]