The Contest is over!

The contest is over and no more scripts will be accepted.
We have received more than 80 scripts and accepted 68, the following is the list of the participants in alphabetical order:

Appelhans, Silke (Germany)
Armijo, Amanda (United States of America)
Arora, Priyanka (United States of America)
Bahat, Galia (Israel)
Balabascarane, Abirami (France)
Baptista, Lais (Brazil)
Bateman, Annelyn (United States of America)
Bell, Christine (United States of America)
Blau, Andrea (United States of America)
Blodnieks, Karina Blodnieks (United States of America)
Bondy, Rachel (United States of America)
Bouw, Manuel (Australia)
Brock, Lauren (United Kingdom)
Burnell, Simon (United Kingdom)
Chiam, Charles (Australia)
Cobb, Evie (United Kingdom)
Cooper, Joanna (United Kingdom)
Crespo, Carla (Spain)
Cunningham, Kristy (United States of America)
Duarte, Paloma (Brazil)
Evans, Marielle (United Kingdom)
Ferguson, Cara (Australia)
Gardella, Giordana (Italy)
Gerrity, Louis (United Kingdom)
Giardina, Riccardo (Italy)
Golden, Sascha (United States of America)
Gosai, Rupali (United Kingdom)
Hamilton, Casi (United States of America)
Harding, Brianna (United States of America)
Hewitt, Lisa (United Kingdom)
Hicks, Katie (United States of America)
Howe, Sky (United States of America)
Karmann, Angela (Germany)
King, Katherine (United States of America)
Koch, Kelsey (United States of America)
Mattossovich, Gianluca (Italy)
Micheal, Lynsey (United States of America)
Miklos, Molly (United States of America)
Miss, Riley (United States of America)
Mizuyuki, Atakiri (Armenia)
Moeller, Erica (United States of America)
Nordine, Beverly (United States of America)
Overfelt, Emily (United States of America)
Owen, Jessica (United Kingdom)
Penris, Yvonne (Germany)
Perez-crooks, Aileen (United States of America)
Redgrave, Sharon (United States of America)
Reilly, Brooke (Australia)
Riedel, Carol (United States of America)
Rivera, Rachel (United States of America)
Rodgers, Jonathan (United Kingdom)
Rogers, Elizabeth (United States of America)
Rubman, Aaron (United States of America)
Russell, Amy (United Kingdom)
Saliola, Dina Ester (Italy)
Santos, Enjolee (United States of America)
Scott II, Redginald (United States of America)
Skiles, Kim (United States of America)
Spencer, Dominic (United Kingdom)
Spielbauer, Elizabeth (United States of America)
Stokes, Catherine (United States of America)
Sulivan, Molly (United States of America)
Sullivan, Riley (United States of America)
Taylor, Shannon (Australia)
Trotter, Aidan (United States of America)
Vederman, Joanna (United States of America)
Vinnicombe, Faith (United States of America)
Wright, Jacob (United States of America)

Good luck to all of you!!

Script Contest 2012

@ComicWho #Contest 

Introduction

This contest is designed to engage Comic Who readers and make them part of the creative process behind the realization of the strip. Participants will be asked to write the script of a strip that will be brought to the attention of an international jury. The best one will be turned into a real strip and published on the Comic Who blog page.

The Subject

Each year we will propose a different subject on which the participants must rely to carry out their script. The subject this year is Smithy!

Every script must use our Eleventh Doctor as the main character; you can also include Tenny, Eccly and any other Comic Who character you want, but Smithy must be the protagonist. You can create parodies of events which occurred in the TV series Doctor Who, but original stories will be much appreciated.

The Jury

The jury will be composed by the following people: 

- Elisa Moriconi (Comic Who Illustrator) 

- Chiara Cavalli (The artist who realized the main price) 

- Francesco Spreafico (Doctor-Who.it webmaster) 

- Lady Soliloque (Writer and Video Editor)

- Luke Williams (The Doctor Who Site webmaster) 

- Michael David Key (Artist)

- Craig Hurle (Doctor Who and the Tardis by Craig Hurle administrator)

Contest Rules

- The contest will begin at 0:00 AM (GMT) on March 1, 2012 and will end at 11:59 PM (GMT) on March 31, 2012.

- Scripts must be uploaded through the automatic submit page at this link.

- All scripts sent outside of the validity period of the contest will be ignored.

- All scripts must be written in proper English (no slang will be accepted).

- It will be accepted only one script per person.

- The Comic Who staff will answer with an email by communicating the acceptance of the script or the reasons for which have been refused.

- Winners will be announced on April 8, 2012.

- The jury's decision is final!

Script Rules

- No obscenity and/or vulgarity and/or violence will be accepted.

- Every script must be divided into 4 (four) vignettes.

- You have to describe all the backgroungs as you are describing a picture.

- You have to describe exactly the laying and the facial expression of each character in the vignette.

- No more than 4 (four) characters are allowed into a single vignette.

- No more then 3 (three) balloons are allowed into a single vignette.

- No more then 30 (thirty) words are allowed into a single vignette (this includes onomatopoeia). Example: if you have two ballons into a vignette, you can write 15 words in the first one, 14 in the secont and use 1 onomatopoeia.

Tips & Tricks

- Strips are like puns, should make people laugh by saying a few things, basing mainly on the expressions and comic absurdities.

- Don't waste time creating complex stories, usually a simple situation is much more fun. Sometimes you do not even need words to make people laugh (think of the Valentine's Day spcial).

- Too many characters and dialogues are often synonymous with confusion and risk of boring the reader. Try to be as concise as possible.

- Remember that vignettes provide a limited space, so do not overdo the details, otherwise you may not have enough space available for carrying out the scene.

- Read this Facebook Note to understand how to create a script.

- If you have doubts or concerns, please send an email to comicwho@gmail.com. The Comic Who staff will answer soon as possible.

Contest Winner Award & Prizes

- The winning story will be drawn by Elisa Moriconi (the Comic Who Illustrator) and published on our comic blog (with all the credits to the original author). 

- The winner will receive a figurine of Smithy made in Polymer Clay (The one you can see on the flyer).

- The second place will win a Commission of a digital color illustration of a single character on white backgroung realized by Elisa Moriconi.

- The third place will win a Commission of a pencil sketch of a single character on simple backgroung realized by Elisa Moriconi.

The Fan Choice Award

After the contest scripts of stories that are classified by the # 2 to # 10 will also be published as Notes on the Comic Who Facebook Fanpage. The public will choose the best by putting the "like" on the favorite script.

- The vote will take place from April 8, 2012 to April 14, 2012.

- The winning story will be drawn by Elisa Moriconi (the Comic Who Illustrator) and published on our comic blog.

- The author will win a Commission of a digital color illustration of a single character on white backgroung realized by Elisa Moriconi.

Detailed picture of the figurine you can win!

Good Luck & Have Fun

Comic Who Staff

Contest Prizes

@ComicWho
The followings are the sketches Elisa made as rewards for our Christmas contest (the subject for the skecthes were chosen by the winners)! We waited for a while before post them here because we wanted to be sure the winners received the originals, but now it's time to share! Hope you like them!


    

December 2011 - Season Finale

This is the last chapter of our first year of Comic Who, call it the season finale! We chose to dedicate all the strips of this month to one of the most favorite character in 2011, we are talking about Simmy! We published three different stories connected each other which ended with the Christmas Special.

The first one was an old script which gives Elisa inspiration for this image. We sent Simmy back in the past without a TARDIS and without a DeLorean, so he is going to be stuck in the 70s and it's all Yana's fault.

This is a clear reference to Life on Mars... Did I already said we love that series? Well, it's not a secret, John Simm is a great actor and Gene Hunt is a great character!!!!!

Anyway we are now in the 70s, one year after the accident and Simmy is still stuck in the past. But every ages has its own Doctor and in the 1974 a new Doctor came in town with a baby version of himself (sounds familiar?). Welcome back Bakey (the 4th Doctor) with his young child Bakey Jr (the 6th Doctor).

We loved to introduce old Doctors, so we are planning to use them even in the next season...how cute are Bakey Jr and Baby Yana in the last panel?

Anyway, Christmas is coming and Simmy has no friends in the 70s, but as I said it's Christmas time and miracles happen and sometimes even foes become friends. This is our great finale for a great year of strips!

The year is gone, a long and wonderful year, but a lot of new stuffs are coming in this 2012 but before to leave you, I want to show you the images sent by our followers and selected by us as the winners of the Christmas contest. If you want to see them all just hit this link!

Single Panel category:

Johanne (16)
from Norway

Cinzia (26)
from Italy

Multi Panel category:

Justine (18)
from France

Anyssa (14)
from USA 

Nicolas (21)
from Colombia

The countdown is going on! Two days to the Comic Who birthday and we are not short of surprises yet!

See you tomorrow!

November 2011

It's time for a new contest, a bit different from the last one. We invited people to send us any kind of images about the Comic Who Doctors at Christmas, we received about 40 images and it was very hard to pick up a winner (yep, in the end we chose 5 images).

The participants were great, they sent us strips, pinups and all sort of things. We loved it. But we're going to talk about the results on the next post. Infact we announced the winners on Christmas day (it was a Christmas contest after all).

The awards consist in a group of skatches made by Elisa with watercolors. We have just sent them to the winners and we are planning to publish them on the blog in the near future. We asked them which character is their favorite: two of them asked for a Tenny sketch, while the other three opted for a Smithy's sketch!

Another month, another birthday, this time we celebrated Karen Gillan, best known as Amy Pond. Elisa created one of the sweetest (in every way) illlustration she have ever made for Comic Who. Judge by yourself:

Ok, stop with celebrations, we didn't have much time for strips on November but  the two we published are a great piece of our history. In the first one we also introduced one of the most favourite classic Doctors, we are talking about Bakey (the 4th Doctor). He met one of the greatest character Doctor Who has ever had: Rory The Roman!

It was a lot of time that I wanted to do a strip set near the Pandorica with Rory, and I think we centered the goal right in the middle! Our followers loved the introduction of Bakey, so we chose to make him back in the next set of strips.

For the next strip I just want to copy and paste the introduction I wrote in the relative post because it  perfectly summarizes the meaning of the strip: "The first question. The oldest question in the Universe. The question that must never be answered. Hidden in plain sight. The question you're running from all of your life: Why bananas?"

That's all for this month. Tomorrow we'll se the end of this year with a full set of strips dedicated to Simmy.

See you!

May 2011 - The First Contest

As you may remember, on March we started our first contest, on May 1st we published the results. Our wonderful jury selected their favorite scripts and you can find the top ten at this link.

It was a difficult choice to pick up the winner because there where a lot of good works! The top three received some of our goods as rewards and the first script was finally realized by our great illustrator Elisa.

But there's more... Infact, the top ten scripts were published on our Facebook page where our followers were able to choose their favorite. The winner was published on our blog with the strip drawn by Elisa. You can download the complete collection of scripts at this link.

Anyway, it's time for a new strip! We scheduled the strips taken from the contest starting from the second week of May, just to give Elisa enough time to realize them. The first strip of the month was originally scheduled as the Easter special, but we decided to postpone it because we wanted to remember Elisabeth Sladen with this strip.
Well, originally I had the idea for a Carnival special but then I realize that Carnival was already over. I was about to discard the idea when I though: 'Hey, they are the Doctors, they have a time machine!' so I just adapted the story to fit into the new time setting:

The Torchwood reference came from the fact they were airing some rerun on satellite TV. Even Limeykins was a late addition to the strip (he didn't exists when I wrote the script) but this was an occasion to point out the fact that he's living with the Doctors and he is afraid of coming back to Simmy's house!
As you can notice the Doctors are dressing like other classic Doctors (8th, 5th and 4th) and even Simmy is dressed like a Doctor (the 6th) while Baby Yana is dressing like a Time Lord. Inside Simmy's house you can see all the companions dressed as other Doctors even if the image is too small to understand it (Rose as the 1st, Amy as the 7th, Donna as the 2nd and Martha as the 3rd).

The next two strips are from the contest winner Jonathan Hodges and the Facebook award winner Faith Marie Vinnicombe.

We loved how they came out and we're just planning a new contest like this one! We hope to have the same success of the 2011's.

May was a month full of surprises, infact we introduced also a new series of strips... a sort of Extra strips... we wanted to do something like the Doctor Who Confidentials... showing a sort of behind the scenes of Comic Who. We named them Comic Who Confidentials and we started with a guest wirter, a freind of us: Michela Magnani.

If you didn't understand, the two guys talking with Sherlock are Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat... Actually there were more things in this months, but we're going to talk about that in a separate post!

See you tomorrow!

March 2011

Here we are with another appointment with the Comic Who history! March was a very special month with a lot of new stuff.

We started with one of my favourite strips: At the beginning, we faced the problem of Eccly and Tenny's screwdriver. In the TV series they share the same one, only Smithy has his own. So we thought it could be funny to make them fight for it. The idea was simple but Elisa made it great:

In the second panel they break the "blu" screwdriver, this is a tiny element we carried on in the next strips. Everytime we had a close-up on that screwdriver, we drew it mended with a plaster. We loved the fact that some followers noted it... thanks guys!

One of the biggest events on March was the beginning of our first contest. We invited our fans to join the creative process that gives birth to our strips. Every participant sent us a script (like the one I use to write) and we (with the help of a great jury) choosed the best script. 

There were rewards and Elisa has realized the winning strips (yes, plural, other than the prize of the jury, we let our Facebook followers to vote for their favorite script)

The competition was held the day of John Borrowman's birthday, so we decided to dedicate it to his Doctor Who (and Torchwood) character: Jack Harkness!

We received more then twenty scripts, but we're going to talk about the results in one of the next posts, when we are going to show you also the strips realized for it.

Just one last thing, warm up your keybords and be ready, because we're going to held a new script contest in the next months and this time the first prize will be something extremely special, I'm sure you're going to fight for it!

The next set of strips was our first story divided in different parts. As we told in the last post, we decided to introduce more then one Master. The idea came from the end of series three, when the Master regenerates inside the TARDIS. He told "If The Doctor can be young and strong, then so can I"... young... younger then ever... too much young!!!!

Yana will be a regular character as Simmy, they are going to live together as a family... a very strange family, but hey, this is the Comic Who world!
In the second strip we introduced for the first time alle the companion and we tried to outline the nature of each Doctor (Exterminate! :D)
The last strip  is very important because it was also the first appearence of a new character: Limeykins, the green teddy bear you can se with Simmy! It began as a sort of mistake from Elisa and became suddenly one of our favourite characters! Read The Truth Behind Limeykins to know more about it!

That's all folks! See you tomorrow!

Christmas Contest Results

It was difficult to choose the winners, because the temptation to reward everyone for their efforts and for their excellent work has been strong. In the end we tried to evaluate the entries basing on the sympathy, the originality and also the age of the competitors. We have divided the entries into two categories, one composed by simple images, the other composed by multi-panel images and between these we selected those that we believe were the most beautiful, funny but above all, more Christmassy. I hope you enjoy our choices, in addition all competitors will receive shortly a little surprise.

Following the winners for the Single Panel category:

Johanne (16)
from Norway

Cinzia (26)
from Italy

And now the winners for the Multi Panel category:

Justine (18)
from France

Anyssa (14)
from USA 

Nicolas (21)
from Colombia

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Here is the gallery of entries for the Single Panel category:

Stella from Italy	Hattie from USA	Markéta from Czech Republic
Alexis from USA	Elisabetta from Italy	Nadia from UK
Roberta from Italy	Luca	Agostina from Argentina
Natalia from USA	Eloise from France	Milly from UK
Rebecca from USA	Alani from USA	Rita from Poland
Meghan from USA	Rachel from Georgia	Nell from USA
Moni from USA	Jessica from Italy	Angela from USA
Hannah from UK	Mike from New Zealand	Dina from Italy
Gaby from USA	Rebekah from Australia

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Here is the gallery of entries for the Multi Panel category:

Kristin from Japan	Renzo from Colombia	Nicole from Australia
Benedetta from Italy	Jeane from USA	Becky from UK
Riley from USA	Alanah from USA

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All winners will receive an email from us asking for some information on the award. The drawings will be sent via e-mail as soos as they are ready and then the originals will be mailed to your home address. Congratulation to all the participants and thanks for all the Christmas wishes we received.

Merry Christmas from the Comic Who Staff!