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Montreal Gazette
Website launches comics venture
If all goes well, future blockbuster adventure movies and video games will come from a Canadian website.
Zeros 2 Heroes Media (Z2H), a Vancouver-based media company that publishes online comic books, has received funding from Telefilm Canada to launch Canada: Comic Creation Nation.
Zeros 2 Heroes is asking Canadians writers from all disciplines to submit storylines to its website Zeros2Heroes.com through an interactive pitch packager Z2H designed for Comic Creation Nation. Visitors to the website can vote on what stories they like.
The company plans to have its first comic story chosen by Oct. 31 and the story will be illustrated by Z2H studio artists.
Depending on the number and quality of submissions, Z2H hopes to publish a new comic weekly for up to a year. Z2H will produce, promote and represent the titles.
Telefilm Canada, which gave Z2H $60,000 for market research and to make a prototype early in the company's existence, will not state its most recent amount of funding.
But Earl Hong Tai, western regional director for Telefilm, thinks the company is at the forefront of something big.
"There's a real cross-platform opportunity for comics," he said. "If you look at the Marvel Comics history, it starts with the traditional comic book, then moves into film, television, the Internet and video games. This cross-platform entertainment opportunity is exactly what we're looking for in terms of our corporate mandate."
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