Image Announces Reader Contest for PvP #7
Image Comics has announced that Scott Kurtz is offering fans of PvP the
chance to win original art by helping him finish PvP #7 by submitting
blurbs for the issue's cover, which is illustrated by top-rated artist Mike
Wieringo (Fantastic Four). PvP #7 will be solicited in the January
2004 issue of Previews.
The cover parodies old EC horror comics such as Tales From the Crypt, Vault of Horror, and others, which were often marked by a trio of cover blurbs. This contest asks readers to create their own humorous blurbs for Wieringo's cover, and to submit them to Kurtz's website, www.pvponline.com. The contestant whose blurbs are chosen and used will win:
• A credit in the book
• A copy of the issue signed by Kurtz and Wieringo
• The original art from one of the strips in the issue
"I wish I could take credit for the idea but it was all Mike Wieringo," said Kurtz. "He was familiar with the storyline and knew that a riff on the old EC horror comics would be perfect.
"I met Mike at a convention a couple of years ago and I was blown away to find out he reads PvP on a daily basis," Kurtz added. "This issue spotlights my only female character and I wanted her to get the royal treatment on the cover. Mike's art can have a cartoony edge that fits PvP and he really played that up for me. Mike manages to draw truly beautiful women without making them anatomical impossibilities, and I love that about his work."
"I consider myself very lucky to have 'stumbled' onto PvP on the Web," said Wieringo. "Scott's Web strip has given me hours of enjoyment and laughs over the past couple of years since. And I've also had the great fortune to meet Scott and become friends with him. He's a truly mega-talented, enthusiastic, hilarious fella, and I'm thrilled to know him. He's got a passion for his work and a love of comics and comic strips that's just infectious -- and evident to anyone who reads his work.
"Having watched his little empire grow over the time I've known him (and of him), and seen the great folks who have added their takes on his wonderful characters by way of covers or guest strips -- I was overjoyed that he would ask me to contribute a cover for his comic book. Scott's fond of saying that the different milestones in his career makes him feel as though he has 'arrived' -- well, getting to draw the PvP gang for Scott makes me feel that same way."
PvP follows the staff of the fictional Player Versus Player Magazine on their daily routine of covering the world of pop culture. Launched as an Image title in March 2003, Kurtz's PvP originally debuted as an Internet strip in 1998, before being published in comic book format by Dork Storm Press in 2001. A trade paperback collection of Kurtz's Dork Storm work, PvP Volume 1: The Dork Ages will be published in March 2004, and a compendium of the first two sold-out Image issues, PvP Collected Edition Volume 1: Replay (STAR20308D), is on sale now. Furthermore, PvP #5-#6 (SEP031295-NOV031266D) are both available for advance reorders, while PvP #4 (JUL031219D) is currently in stock -- confirm quantities of these titles for your store today!
The cover parodies old EC horror comics such as Tales From the Crypt, Vault of Horror, and others, which were often marked by a trio of cover blurbs. This contest asks readers to create their own humorous blurbs for Wieringo's cover, and to submit them to Kurtz's website, www.pvponline.com. The contestant whose blurbs are chosen and used will win:
• A credit in the book
• A copy of the issue signed by Kurtz and Wieringo
• The original art from one of the strips in the issue
"I wish I could take credit for the idea but it was all Mike Wieringo," said Kurtz. "He was familiar with the storyline and knew that a riff on the old EC horror comics would be perfect.
"I met Mike at a convention a couple of years ago and I was blown away to find out he reads PvP on a daily basis," Kurtz added. "This issue spotlights my only female character and I wanted her to get the royal treatment on the cover. Mike's art can have a cartoony edge that fits PvP and he really played that up for me. Mike manages to draw truly beautiful women without making them anatomical impossibilities, and I love that about his work."
"I consider myself very lucky to have 'stumbled' onto PvP on the Web," said Wieringo. "Scott's Web strip has given me hours of enjoyment and laughs over the past couple of years since. And I've also had the great fortune to meet Scott and become friends with him. He's a truly mega-talented, enthusiastic, hilarious fella, and I'm thrilled to know him. He's got a passion for his work and a love of comics and comic strips that's just infectious -- and evident to anyone who reads his work.
"Having watched his little empire grow over the time I've known him (and of him), and seen the great folks who have added their takes on his wonderful characters by way of covers or guest strips -- I was overjoyed that he would ask me to contribute a cover for his comic book. Scott's fond of saying that the different milestones in his career makes him feel as though he has 'arrived' -- well, getting to draw the PvP gang for Scott makes me feel that same way."
PvP follows the staff of the fictional Player Versus Player Magazine on their daily routine of covering the world of pop culture. Launched as an Image title in March 2003, Kurtz's PvP originally debuted as an Internet strip in 1998, before being published in comic book format by Dork Storm Press in 2001. A trade paperback collection of Kurtz's Dork Storm work, PvP Volume 1: The Dork Ages will be published in March 2004, and a compendium of the first two sold-out Image issues, PvP Collected Edition Volume 1: Replay (STAR20308D), is on sale now. Furthermore, PvP #5-#6 (SEP031295-NOV031266D) are both available for advance reorders, while PvP #4 (JUL031219D) is currently in stock -- confirm quantities of these titles for your store today!
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Item Code
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Description
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Price
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PVP COLL ED VOL 1 REPLAY
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$4.95
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PVP #4
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$2.95
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PVP #5
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$2.95
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PVP #6
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$2.95
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