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Planetwide Media and Brickfish Announce the HyperComics.com Comic Book Contest
Make Your Own Comics With Comic Book Creator Software and Enter to Win Cash and Prizes!
| Source: Planetwide Media
NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- February 23, 2007 -- New York Comic Con 2007 - Booth #111 -- Planetwide Media and Brickfish
announce today the HyperComics.com Comic Book Contest. This contest fuels
the current user generated content craze by giving the comic book creators
a free trial version of Planetwide Media's Comic Book Creator, plus the
chance to have their finished masterpiece published free online at
www.hypercomics.com and www.brickfish.com.
HyperComics.com is the new online destination for digital comic book
creators. Brickfish is ideally suited to conduct this campaign as the
market leader in Digital Engagement -- the art and science of enabling
consumers to form digital communities with the brands they love. In the
contest, comic book creators can submit their best original digital comics
to HyperComics.com and Brickfish starting February 23, and enter to win one
of two grand prizes of $250 cash plus a complete bundle of Comic Book
Creator software! Memberships for both websites are free. Contest ends on
March 31, 2007.
For contest details, see www.hypercomics.com or www.brickfish.com.
About Comic Book Creator™
Comic Book Creator interactive digital entertainment self-publishing
software delivers the functionality of a complete digital art studio,
complete with fully licensed artwork, speech bubbles, animations, and sound
effects. Users can drag and drop images, icons, tag line symbols, clip art,
audio clips and artwork into a selection of over 500 different layout and
design templates, then combine their creations with a personalized
storyline to make their own comics. The completed creations can then be
posted to blogs or social networks, emailed to friends, printed in a comic
book form or published to Planetwide's comic fans online social network at
http://www.hypercomics.com
Comic Book Creator is also available in a variety of licensed and branded
editions including Marvel, TOKYOPOP, Paramount Pictures, Sony Online
Entertainment, Virgin Comics, National Geographic and Speed Racer to name a
few. In addition to the current series, Planetwide Media is expanding Comic
Book Creator brand into world-class entertainment, video game, sports,
music and lifestyle markets.
About Planetwide Media
Planetwide Media, (a division of Planetwide Games, Inc.) provides a unique
and patent pending, interactive, self-publishing personalized media
platform for a wide audience of emerging consumers in the digital media
space. The company provides web enabled tools, software applications and
video games that provide personal interactivity. The company's signature
product Comic Book Creator™ is a best of breed digital media platform
that embraces User Generated Content (UGC) and enables users to blend their
creations into their social networks, their blogs and across the web. Comic
Book Creator is an easy to use platform that provides the consumer with a
richly enhanced interactive digital experience.
About Brickfish
Brickfish is the first digital engagement company to provide a platform to
connect brand owners with consumers through licensed user generated
content. This approach creates a positive feedback loop between
advertisers and consumers. Consumers are recognized and rewarded for
participating in Brickfish campaigns as they create, review, vote on, and
propagate content across the Internet. Brickfish campaigns motivate and
reward consumer brand participation, and provide sophisticated reporting
tools that benefit brand owners.
For more information, please visit www.hypercomics.com,
www.mycomicbookcreator.com, www.myplanetwide.com or www.brickfish.com.
Comic Book Creator & © 2007 Planetwide Games, Inc. All rights reserved.