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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Nick | March 22, 2010
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Papa Llama | February 23, 2010
![Zuda-Goldilock-3[1]](http://www.rocketllama.com/blog-it/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Zuda-Goldilock-31-150x150.jpg "Zuda-Goldilock-3[1]")
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 22, 2010
Early this month we spoke with SuperFogeys creator Brock Heasley about another comic he has written, Monsterplex, a comedic entry in DC Comics’ February Zuda competition. Monsterplex was #1 at the time. Island Alone has moved into first place, but Monsterplex is running strong. So this week we asked Brock’s Monsterplex artist Dave Schlotterback about the whole [...]
Papa Llama | February 14, 2010
We’re seeing plenty of Zuda this month. We’ve interviewed the creators of the both of the comics that are running neck and neck for 1st and 2nd place in the February, 2010, competition to win a contract with DC Comic’s online division. Brock Heasley talked to us about Monsterplex and then Shawn Aldridge wanted to [...]
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 | February 5, 2010
Check out out this pic from the Monsterplex team – as of this writing, it’s exclusive to our site. If you’ve read Monsterplex in the January Zuda Comics competition, spot the character that has not yet appeared in the comic. Monsterplex – http://zudacomics.com/node/1759 Also read Brock’s webcomic The SuperFogeys at http://www.superfogeys.com. Llama: In Monsterplex, you’ve given us a [...]
Papa Llama | January 28, 2010
The monthly Survivor-style competitions to win contracts with DC Comics’ line of Zuda webcomics regulary take some interesting turns. This month, we’ve seen Matthew Petz’s War of the Woods rise steadily up the ranks to reach the #1 spot. WotW had been galloping toward number #1 even before The Thunderchickens, which had held that rank [...]
Papa Llama | January 22, 2010
This evening, comic writer Chad Boudreau announced that The Thunderchickens would withdraw from this month’s Zuda Comics competition: cboudreau: I am writing to inform you all that in light of recent events Bill and I don’t feel comfortable proceeding and we respectfully withdraw The Thunderchickens from the competition. Bill and I have been in touch [...]
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