May 31, 2007 - Comic contest entry...

Okay, I got the submission finished and submitted with 4 hours to spare. I had everything ready on Monday to submit the Lincoln comic, which I think is some of my best work. I was filling out the entrance form and when I clicked on the agreement link, to make sure I actually do agree with everything in it, I saw that the grand prize winner has to sign the rights to the comic and characters over to the sponsoring company. They'll still pay you to draw it, but if it is a raging success or someone wants to make a movie or Saturday morning cartoon out of it, you have no rights whatsoever. The way I read it, they could sell the toy rights for $200,000 and you don't get anything but the right to go buy the toys. There was no way I was giving up the rights to the Lincoln stories.

So I decided to submit a comic idea I had from many years ago. One that I think has a shot at making it into the top 50 (the prize for which is a plane ticket to San Diego ComicCon), but not the best shot at winning the grand prize. The ticket to ComicCon is what I really want, anyway. Anything beyond that is just gravy.

GC is convinced that it will be the Grand Prize winner, everyone will want it, it'll be a huge hit at the theaters, have 1,000s of toys for sale, and run for years as a Saturday morning cartoon, simply because it's just one more way for me to get screwed over, since I won't own any of the rights to it if it does win. "Dude," I says to him, "you know way WAY too much about my past." He tickles me (but not in a g@y way).

So, short story long, here's the submission (click it to enlarge it)...


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