NYCC Part One: Zuda

The New York Comic Con wrapped up yesterday, and I think I've finally recovered enough to start talking about it. I'll start off by talking about Zuda.

First of all, unlike the Wondercon in San Fran, Zuda's table was a part of the larger DC booth. This was cool because of all the great DC talent that was walking around in our vicinity, but a little uncool because we didn't have as much room as we did before. In San Fran, the Zuda booth became a home base where we would hang and meet other Zuda creators, and there was plenty of room to sign stuff, even if you weren't officially supposed to be there. This weekend, we didn't have that luxury.

However, I learned that the Zuda community doesn't really need a home base to hang out in. Every single Zuda creator I met was AWESOME, in the full 80's sense of the word. Here's a brief run-down of the Zuda people we met and/or hung out with: David Gallaher and Steve Ellis of HIGH MOON, Jeremy Love of BAYOU, Nick Doan of PRAY FOR DEATH, Johnny Zito and Tony Trov of BLACK CHERRY BOMBSHELLS, Paul Maybury of MAXY J. MILLIONAIRE, Jim Dougan of SAM & LILA, Greg Delcurla of LEPRINOMICON, Mike Imboden of THOMAS: AGENT OF CHAOS, Chachi & Gabe Hernandez of JOE COMICS, Kevin Colden of STRANGLE/SWITCH, Tony Tobin of YULETIDE and Tyler James of SUPER SEED! Oh yeah, and also Zuda's newest addition, Dean Haspiel of STREET CODE!

On Saturday we had our first ever Zuda Panel! A big thank you to anyone reading this who managed to attend our panel, and an even bigger thank you if you got a question in! If you missed it, no worries. I have a feeling it might be podcast somewhere soon. Anyway, there were four big Zuda announcements at the panel, which you have probably heard by now, but here they are again:
1. NIGHT OWLS is now going to update TWICE WEEKLY!!!
2. SUPERTRON is live and updating!
3. There's a new Instant Winner in Dean Haspiel, and the first page of his comic, STREET CODE, is now LIVE! Congrats, Dean!
4. July is the ZUDA INVITATIONAL! Any comic that was on Zuda and didn't win is eligible for a rematch, with 8 new screens! So go to Zuda and tell them (via the Feedback link) which comics you'd like to see return!

Thanks to Ron and Kwanza and everyone else at Zuda!

That's all I have time for now, but as you can see, there's a "Part One" at the top of the post, which means I have more to say. Stay tuned.

Peter