You love to write, conceive and animate comics but just don’t know how to sell them. Zuda Comics is for you and will launch in October 2007.
DC Comics, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, announced yesterday that they will open up to new talents and let people upload and share their cartoons in a variety of segments : from humor, romance, science fiction, fantasy and superheroes. DC Comics publishes comics like Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman, Green Lantern and the Justice League of America. Paul Levitz, DC Comics President & Publisher says :
There is an explosion of creativity in web comics.
They will review them, make a selection, give them awards, produce some of them and hope to create new stars in the industry. Here is a good review of who and what Zuda is about. There is no evidence so far that they will take ownerships of rights of these new talents – which i guess would come down to a negociation – and i would give them a few months before saying that Zuda is a mistep. Here is another initiative to capture User Generated Talent and create revenues from that new content.
Zuda’s Full Press Release here