DC's Zuda online-comics venture

DC is launching a hip new down-with-the-kids webcomics venture called Zuda Comics, for which they are soliciting content in, basically, a contest: You submit your webcomic in their 4:3 aspect-ratio format, DC select candidates to post online, there's open voting on which dozen webcomics DC will serialise online and eventually publish in print, and the DC editors choose an additional half dozen comics they like. Since I know a lot of fellow webcomics artists frequent this joint, I figured I'd post about it in case you hadn't heard.

I am cynical (on account of I am almost always in cynical mode, except when I'm in manic wild-eyed idealist mode, no in-between state), and the We-Are-Hip-Dammit! desperate tone of the website just makes me more of a cynic. But, who knows, this could be the big break some people need and want. Of course everyone should tread carefully over any contract and licensing agreements, once they are revealed, including the rules for just submitting a project. Cynic though I am, I have to admit that money and recognition are good, and DC can certainly bring eyeballs to our pages. Hm. I dunno. I think everybody should work for me. Me ME ME bwahahaha. Ahem.

Commentary abounds:

Newsarama
ComicGenesis (wherein I mouth off, a tiny bit)
Journalista, cynic like me (scroll about halfway down the page)
T Campbell suggests caution...well, calls it "slippery"
Lea Hernandez skewers
PW Beat seems upbeat, brings up licensing
...and in other places in the usual comics circuit.

SPQR Blues 3 part LXIV (all)

I didn't quite finish the inking, but will work on it more tomorrow. I hope you don't mind that I did a little cheating on this version.

( I need a vacation. Someplace by a bay, with a nice mountain view... )