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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 [...]
Christopher Daley | August 9, 2010
I love comics. They taught me how to read as a young boy and were my constant companion growing up. In my world of despair and powerlessness comics gave me heroes. They gave a code. A sense of right and wrong and everything in between. I am still an active reader of comics and still [...]
Papa Llama | July 24, 2010
While at San Diego Comic-Con this year, I was given the opportunity to take an exclusive look at a comics program called Grapic.ly. Graphic.ly is a new biz spark company that has been around for about a year and half but is really just now coming to fruition. Dave Drach from Microsoft, who is in [...]
Papa Llama | July 19, 2010
Thursday, July 22 Fri, Jul 09, 07:35PM 10:30-12:00 Comics Arts Conference Session #1: Comics in the Classroom— Lisa Vizcarra (Carquinez Middle School) explores the pedagogy for creating a middle school biology curriculum based on the book Becoming Batman by E. Paul Zehr, who will join the discussion. Kathy Hall (El Camino College) gives an overview [...]
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 [...]
Alex Langley | April 12, 2010
Each month, DC Comics’ online division Zuda Comics pits ten teams of creative gladiators against each other in a vote-based arena where they fight to their webcomics’ deaths, with only one comic to get the thumbs-down and survive. (Yes, down. In the arenas of old, “thumbs up” was bad and “thumbs down” good even though Hollywood long ago mixed [...]
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. [...]
Papa Llama | February 12, 2010
Every month’s competition for a contract with DC Comics’ online division Zuda gives us interesting new turns of events as readers rate and vote on ten new comics. This week Shawn Aldridge’s Island, Alone has moved up into the #1 spot. We spoke with writer Shawn right before the comic reached the top. We started [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Papa Llama | October 29, 2009
Earlier in the summer, the 8-page webcomic “pilot” Sidewise by writer Dwight L. MacPherson and artist Igor Noronha won the monthly competition for a year-long contract to continue the series through DC Comic’s online division, Zuda Comics. Now, after Zuda’s normal three-month post-competition hiatus, Sidewise has returned for another 12 months and 52 more pages. We love [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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