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Papa Llama | March 4, 2010

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 [...]

Category: Interviews, Zuda | 5 Comments »
Tags: Aleksander Christov: Assassin, Assassin, DC, DC comics, Janine Frederick, Ken Frederick, patricide, webcomic, Zuda, Zuda Comics

Papa Llama | February 23, 2010

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. So [...]

Category: Interviews, Zuda | 1 Comment »
Tags: Adam Lucas, art, artist, comic, Comics, competition, contest, creator, DC, DC comics, Goldilock, Interviews, sci-fi, science fiction, Survivor, webcomic, webcomics, writer, Zuda, Zuda Comics

Papa Llama | January 27, 2010

The popularity of our partner Action Flick Chick Katrina Hill has grown by leaps and bounds. One year ago this month, because her film reviews had grown so popular, she branched off into her own website, actionflickchick.com. Since last spring, her following on twitter has grown to nearly 34,000 and just keeps growing every day. [...]

Category: Site Report | 2 Comments »
Tags: action chick, Action Flick Chick, Action Flick Chick Katrina Hill, actionchick, G4, G4TV, Katrina, Next Woman of the Web, twitter, webcomic, Women of the Web, WotW

Papa Llama | December 19, 2009

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 [...]

Category: Interviews, Zuda | No Comments »
Tags: art, artist, comic, Comics, competition, contest, creator, DC, DC comics, Interviews, superhero, superheroes, superpowers, supervillain, webcomic, webcomics, writer, Zuda, Zuda Comics

Papa Llama | December 15, 2009

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: What’s [...]

Category: Interviews, Zuda | No Comments »
Tags: Abreme, anime, Argentina, art, artist, Avatar, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Brian Michael Bendis, cartoons, comic, Comics, competition, contest, creator, Cruel Thing, DC, DC comics, Doom Patrol, Drumfish Productions, Emmanuel Proust, France, Gail Simone, Grant Morrison, Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal magazine, Hulk, Interviews, Invincible, Luciano Vecchio, manga, Mexico, Norma Editorial, OGN Real Clohe, Rogue, Runaways, Saturday morning, Saturday morning cartoons, Sentinels, serialization, Spain, Stan Lee, superhero, superheroes, superpowers, supervillain, The Incredible Hulk, Unseen Tribe, webcomic, webcomics, writer, X-Factor metagene, Zuda, Zuda Comics

Papa Llama | November 22, 2009

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 that you’ve had brewing [...]

Category: Interviews, Zuda | No Comments »
Tags: art, artist, Byron, CBR, comic, Comics, competition, contest, conventions, creator, DC, DC comics, Facebook, fantasy, gadgetry, Girl Genius, Herbert George Wells, Howl's Moving Castle, Interviews, Keats, La Cité des enfants perdus, Lord Byron, Metropolis, muses, MySpace, Newsarama, sci-fi, science fiction, Shelley, Tennessee, The Anubis Gates, The City of Lost Children, twitter, vampires, Victorian Era, Virginia, webcomic, webcomics, writer, Zuda, Zuda Comics

Papa Llama | November 12, 2009

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 that why you [...]

Category: Interviews | No Comments »
Tags: agent, art, artist, artistic style, Celadore, coloring, comic, Comics, competition, contest, creator, DC, DC comics, Dual, Dwight L. MacPherson, Gulch, High Moon, Hollywood, Interviews, manager, online community, RSS, Sidewise, Time Travel, webcomic, webcomics, William Morris, writer, Zuda, Zuda Comics

Papa Llama | November 5, 2009

While our friend Action Flick Chick Katrina Hill celebrates Guy Fawkes Day with a review of V for Vendetta, we at Rocket Llama Headquarters wish to remind one and all that today marks the 54th anniversary of the invention of time travel.
“Here’s a red letter date in the history of science, November 5th 1955…That was [...]

Category: Articles | 1 Comment »
Tags: Action Flick Chick, Back to the Future, Christopher Lloyd, comedy, Doc Brown, external links, flux capacitor, Flux Capacitor Day, Guy Fawkes Day, Marty McFly, Michael J. Fox, science fiction, Stupid Inventor, Time Travel, V for Vendetta, webcomic

Papa Llama | October 21, 2009

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 [...]

Category: Interviews, Zuda | No Comments »
Tags: alien, art, artist, comic, Comics, competition, contest, creator, DC, DC comics, extraterrestrial, Interviews, Old West, webcomic, webcomics, writer, Zuda, Zuda Comics

Papa Llama | October 14, 2009

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 [...]

Category: Interviews, Zuda | 3 Comments »
Tags: arm wrestling, art, artist, Avatar, Battle Chasers, Christmas, comedy, comic, Comics, competition, contest, creator, Crossed, DC, DC comics, Dreda, Ellen Page, Entourage, epic fantasy, Evangelion Rebuild, fantasy, Gabe White, Gulch, House, Interviews, Jeeves and Wooster, John Amor, John Cameron, John Cameron's Avatar, Madlibs, Magic: The Gathering, Matt White, Mr. Bill, New Avengers, Pluck, Saturday Night Live, Tellos, TV, Walter Williams, webcomic, webcomics, writer, Zuda, Zuda Comics

Papa Llama | October 9, 2009

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 [...]

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Tags: Adam Atherton, art, artist, comic, Comics, competition, contest, creative process, creator, DC, DC comics, Facebook, George Lucas, Interviews, Jeff Smith, Lily of the Valley, Mike Mignola, Nick Cave, Paul Pope, serial killer, Star Wars, Survivor, The Death of Bunny Munro, Toronto, twitter, webcomic, webcomics, writer, Zuda, Zuda Comics

Papa Llama | September 25, 2009

 
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 [...]

Category: Interviews, Zuda | 8 Comments »
Tags: Adam Lucas, art, artist, comic, Comics, competition, contest, creator, DC, DC comics, Goldilock, Interviews, sci-fi, science fiction, Survivor, webcomic, webcomics, writer, Zuda, Zuda Comics

Papa Llama | June 2, 2009

Last month we interviewed Adam Atherton about his Zuda entry, Lily of the Valley. Now that he won, he’s sharing some exclusive art with us.

Category: Zuda | 1 Comment »
Tags: Adam Atherton, art, artist, comic, Comics, competition, contest, creative process, creator, DC, DC comics, Facebook, George Lucas, Interviews, Jeff Smith, Lily of the Valley, Mike Mignola, Nick Cave, Paul Pope, serial killer, Star Wars, Survivor, The Death of Bunny Munro, Toronto, twitter, webcomic, webcomics, writer, Zuda, Zuda Comics

Papa Llama | May 16, 2009

Interview with Adam Atherton, creator of the current #1-rated comic in DC Comics’ May 2009 Zuda webcomic competition.

Category: Interviews, Zuda | 3 Comments »
Tags: Adam Atherton, art, artist, Bad Seeds, Bleed, Blink 182, comic, Comics, competition, contest, creative process, creator, DC, DC comics, Disintegration, Donnie Darko, Facebook, Interviews, Johnny Cash, Lily of the Valley, Luiza Dragonescu, Marilyn Manson, Mechanical Animals, Nick Cave, Paul Pope, serial killer, Survivor, The Boys Next Door, The Cure, Tim Burton, Toronto, twitter, webcomic, webcomics, writer, Zuda, Zuda Comics

Papa Llama | May 9, 2009

We interview Zuda competitor Steve Bialik, creator of the online comic Beertown B’hoys.

Category: Interviews, Zuda | 7 Comments »
Tags: art, artist, comic, Comics, competition, contest, creator, DC, DC comics, Interviews, webcomic, webcomics, writer, Zuda, Zuda Comics