Contests
We Love Web Comics Contest 2007
It’s that time of year again. We’re not talking about Single’s Appreciation Day but the annual We Love Web Comics contest. The past two years have been successes and this year promises to be even bigger. What is the WLWC contest? It’s our love letter to the rest of the web comic world. Digital Strips is here to promote and cultivate what is good in the medium and we can think of on better of giving back to you then a contest where the prize if all your print material as the prize. Enough gushing and on with the contest!
Your Mission:
We’ve been trying to figure this out for months and we finally agreed on a theme. One opinion was to have a web comic drama hate/love fest but our egos are way to big for that. Why have a contest and not include ourselves in the strip? Then we thought we should have you tell us what happened last year in web comic news but then we are too lazy to figure it out ourselves. Of course we then settled on the easiest thing possible, having you introduce us to web comics characters. Hopefully you will use your own but you could use any web comic character and put the two groups in any wacky situation you can imagine.
To win the contest you must draw any number of Digital Strips staff in combination with any other web comic characters. This strip can be of any size and of any length. We like being easy and having as few rules as possible so keep on reading to find the rest of the rules and the prize at the end of the rainbow.
Should You Decide To Accept:
You already know what you’re drawing but there are a few more specifics. Although there is no size limit don’t go trying to break our servers with it’s size. Do us a favor and keep the width to under 800 pixels but what about length you ask? Just how infinite can I make it? Well if your strip exceeds 600 pixels in height submit your strip in parts or in pages. The extension can be jpeg, gif, or png. We know there are others but short of sending the original photoshop/gimp files we really don’t want the hassle of converting anything if necessary. Lastly, image wise, submit a thumbnail along with your submission. This will make turn around time on building the site page much easier for us.
Who are the judges? That would be the well informed DS staff you’ve all come to love. There’s seven of us: Daku, The Geek, Midnight, Phil, Brigid, Brandon, and Jerry. There is no tie breaker and each judge will get six points to assign to whatever strips of their choice. If you really kiss up to one of us we may just give you all of them. I bet by now you’re wondering what we look like? Would some nice pictures of us make you happy? Tough, but here’s the entire cast in our new studio drawn by our very own Midnight Cartooner:
What is the criteria? Each strip will be judge for three things. Artistic merit, writing, and ingenuity. This means a gag strip is just as likely to win as a entire page. The point of this contest is to promote all of web comics from graphic novels to fantasy, from single panel to photo strips. Anything goes as the presentation will matter as much as the delivery.
When is the deadline? How long do you have to dedicate your entire life to what is the best web comics podcast since 1853? Four weeks. A whole month starting today and ending midnight eastern time March 19th, 2007. An submissions should be sent to us via email by either sending us a link to it on your server or the actual image for us to upload onto ours.
In Your Best Interest:
The Prize! We’ve been telling you this for weeks now but we can’t promote ourselves too much. Just like the past two years this year the grand prize is pot of golden web comic prints. We started the pot with $200 of our own hard won gambling money and we’ve been receiving print material from you as well. But there’s more. The picture below is only the beginning as there are already 6 more books in the mail waiting for their close-up. On top of that everyone is free to send in their own prints to add to the pile and therefore get mention on the site. All prize winnings must arrive one week, March 12th, prior to closing date of the contest. Anything else will go towards next year. So here it is, the master list:
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This signed set of Yirmumah! monthlies includes issues 1-3 which covers all strips from January, February, March, and April of 2006 along with all the backup and bonus material including exclusive stories like “The Truth About Toothpaste”, “The Flying Whore”, and “Jesus vs Superman” — Each issue one will include a one of a kind inked Yirmumah drawing on the inside front cover. |
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The Dreamland Chronicles is the story of Alexander who finds a pendant that lets him travel back to the place of his childhood dreams. Rediscovering this magical world for the first time since his youth he meets his childhood friends who are also now grown up. The Dreamland Chronicles is an Epic Fantasy spanning SIX books. The Lab is about Livingston the Mole and Esteban the Weasel who work at Burns and Itchez Product Testing Lab where they have been asked to test Product X. Product X is a new wonder food that can taste like any combination of Foods. The problem is…there are still some side effects which cause Esteban and Livingston to shrink, turn invisible, dance uncontrollably, or simply burst into flames. |
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So it was written, so it shall be. The coming foretold, sealed into the hands of fate by the lips of the prophets from another time. The mystery is revealed and the great plan will now come to its fruition! Its number shall be three. From the far horizons, across the deepest reaches of the ethereal gulf, the thunderous echo of its name shall be heard! PENNY ARCADE! Penny Arcade, the most powerful webcomic in the universe, returns! The third volume of this cultural and supernatural phenomenon, The Warsun Prophecies, brings you every Penny Arcade strip published online in 2002 A.D., encased with the dark secrets of the mad prophets known as Gabe and Tycho. Behold! It has been foretold! |
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Tales of the Pimp #3 written by Phillip Chan, Joe Dunn & Kevin Gleason; art by Joe Dunn & Zack Gardner. Following in the tradition of Tales from the Crypt, Digital Pimp Productions is proud to present Tales from the PIMP! In every issue, you’ll find a little bit of everything, from drama to comedy to action and everything inbetween.
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Least I Could Do: The Complete Third Year Collection By: Ryan Sohmer & Lar deSouza “Because I Can ” brings a full year of Least I Could Do strips to print with this exclusive publication. In addition to bringing together all 320 strips of our third year in full color, bonus material includes original artwork, sketches, strip by strip commentary and a never before seen look at what goes on behind the scenes with bloopers and outtakes. |
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Flipside: Book 1
Maytag is a jester girl with split personalities. Bernadette is her knightly bodyguard. Together, these two women live in a world where magic is prevalent. They appear to be best friends, but there is more beneath the surface of their relationship than it seems, and trouble seems to follow them like a dark cloud… |
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Alpha-Shade: 8 1/2 x 11 Full Color Perfectbound book, 96 pages on high quality glossy paper, Full color inside covers
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You’ll Have That, Vol. 2 |
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In Inverloch meet Acheron, an innocent young pup from the horned work-like race the “da’kor.” After a chance encounter with a beautiful elf, Acheron sets out on a seemingly innocent quest - that of trying to locate another elf who has been missing for the past twelve years. Together with his newfound companions, Acheron quickly learns that the world is not the peaceful place he believed it to be, embroiled in prejudice, hidden danger and unexpected mystery. |
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Ctrl+Alt+Del is back and better than ever with the revolutionary sequel to the wildly successful volume one! Even more of your favorite comic strips, commentary on every page and a handful of comics that aren’t available anywhere but here!
Reading Ctrl+Alt+Del is clinicall proven to increase your gaming skills, train you in no less than seven deadly forms of Kung-Fu and enhance your sex-life while simultaneously allowing you to fly! So what are you waiting for? Start Reading! |
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Atland has 28 Pages ? Full Color Contains episodes 50-68 plus bonus story, pinup and sketchbook section! |
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The Good, The Bad & The Pugly: The second Sheldon™ book collection contains all the pop culture nerdiness and crazy family fun you’ve come to expect from the strip. This book includes the original storylines for Oso the pug and Flaco the lizard, as well as some unique content not seen on the web, like “The Ballad of Rex Chestington”. It’s the perfect book for long-time Sheldon fans and readers just discovering the strip! |
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You know the name. And if you don’t, it’s Checkerboard Nightmare, the five-year pop culture and webcomic parody that upset everyone, including itself. Here’s 160 webcomic parody strips from the classic series, along with five in-depth chapters about the history and future of webcomics, an interview with Chex, details on the CxN Movie, Hard Action Squad, the full “Fallen Down” storyline, select creator commentary and a comprehensive bibliography! |
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Jen has to survive yet another Black Friday adventure with Will’s family in issue ten of The Devil’s Panties. Then it’s Jen vs. the baby as she determines that babies are “the other white meat” and attempts to sauté one for Thanksgiving dinner. The baby is triumphant and goes on to drool another day. As if that’s not a big enough blow, Will’s mother says the most dreaded words ever: “You have baby now!” Does Jen manage to escape the weekend without spawning? |