Comic Book Challenge
The Comic Book Challenge' is an annual, televised competition among aspiring comic book creators sponsored by Platinum Studios and NBC. The Comic book Challenge was started in 2006. Platinum Studios’ Comic Book Challenge is presented by AT&T.
The 2007 judge’s panel consisted of Scrubs regular, Donald Faison, Shrek producer John Williams, and Platinum Studios Chairman, Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. The judging is based on the quality of art as well as on the quality of writing presented by the over 1,000,000 applicants that enter the contest each year. After hearing all the pitches, the judges narrow the talent pool and turn over the final decision to the voting public. Winners receive prizes from software to graphics tablets and new PCs, while competing for the first prize award of publishing their comic with Platinum Studios as well as other possible media ventures. The winner of the first Comic Book Challenge in 2006 was D. J. Coffman, who wrote the Hero by Night comic book until suspending work on the book, citing late payments from the company as the reason. I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space by Megan Rose Gedris made the final and was subsequently also published by Platinum.
The 2007 winner was Jorge Vega with his series Gunplay, of which the first novel has just been released.
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