Image Comics to Publish Kurtz’s PvP
Image Comics has announced that it will begin publishing Scott Kurtz's
tremendously popular humor comic book series, PvP, in March. The
Image-published PvP #1 will feature a cover by award-winning cartoonist
Frank Cho.
PvP follows the staff of Player Versus Player Magazine on their daily routine of covering the world of pop-culture, but Kurtz is quick to point out that it's not a comic book about about socially inept geeks who can't get a date or manage to wear a clean shirt.
"PvP is about people like me who were raised as much by popular culture as we were our parents," said Kurtz. "We eventually grew up, but a part of us is still playing Atari somewhere."
Kurtz distinguished himself as a cartoonist early by choosing to bypass the traditional route of syndication by taking his comic strip, PvP to the Internet instead. Since its debut on the Web in 1998, PvP has grown to a daily readership of over 70,000 people and with Internet traffic of around eight million page views a month. He began collecting his cartoons and publishing them in comic book format through Dork Storm Press in 2001.
"This time last year, Image Comics was publishing a grand total of zero humor comics," explained Image Director of Marketing Eric Stephenson. "With the addition of PvP, we've got two of the best on the market. We're incredibly pleased that Scott has chosen to bring PvP to Image to join [Frank Cho's] Liberty Meadows in broadening the perception of what an Image comic is."
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PvP follows the staff of Player Versus Player Magazine on their daily routine of covering the world of pop-culture, but Kurtz is quick to point out that it's not a comic book about about socially inept geeks who can't get a date or manage to wear a clean shirt.
"PvP is about people like me who were raised as much by popular culture as we were our parents," said Kurtz. "We eventually grew up, but a part of us is still playing Atari somewhere."
Kurtz distinguished himself as a cartoonist early by choosing to bypass the traditional route of syndication by taking his comic strip, PvP to the Internet instead. Since its debut on the Web in 1998, PvP has grown to a daily readership of over 70,000 people and with Internet traffic of around eight million page views a month. He began collecting his cartoons and publishing them in comic book format through Dork Storm Press in 2001.
"This time last year, Image Comics was publishing a grand total of zero humor comics," explained Image Director of Marketing Eric Stephenson. "With the addition of PvP, we've got two of the best on the market. We're incredibly pleased that Scott has chosen to bring PvP to Image to join [Frank Cho's] Liberty Meadows in broadening the perception of what an Image comic is."
