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Platinum Studios' The Comic Book Challenge 2008!

2008 Prize List:

Grand Prize Winner

Winner's entry published as either a comic book miniseries or a graphic novel to debut at a 2009 comic book convention.

Cintiq 21UX interactive pen display
from Wacom

CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4, Painter X, Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, VideoStudio 11.5, WinDVD 9, WordPerfect Office
Plus 50% off any single product
from Corel

Comic Book Creator 2, TOKYOPOP MANGA Creator 2, Virgin Comic Comic Book Creator 2, Speed Racer Comic Book Creator 2, and National Geographic Kids Comic Book Creator
from MashON

$150 in movie tickets
from Fandango

Line Rider 2: Unbound game
(Wii, DS & PC versions)
from Genius Products

Finalists (2)

Cintiq 12WX interactive pen display
from Wacom

Paint Shop Pro Photo X2, VideoStudio 11.5
Plus 50% off any single product
from Corel

Comic Book Creator 2, TOKYOPOP MANGA Creator 2 and Virgin Comics Comic Book Creator 2
from MashON

$50 in movie tickets
from Fandango

Line Rider 2: Unbound game (Wii, DS & PC versions)
from Genius Products

Semifinalists (7)

Comic Book Creator 2, TOKYOPOP MANGA Creator 2 and Virgin Comics Comic Book Creator 2
from MashON

Line Rider 2: Unbound game
(Wii, DS & PC versions)
from Genius Products

Painter X, WinDVD 9
Plus 50% off any single product
from Corel

Top 50

Comic Book Creator 2
from MashON

Line Rider 2: Unbound game (PC version)
from Genius Products

50% off any single product
from Corel

2008 Prize Sponsors:

Wacom

Founded in 1983, Wacom® revolutionized the nature of digital creativity when it introduced the world’s first cordless, battery-free, pressure-sensitive pen.  Today, Wacom’s Cintiq® 21UX interactive pen display and its Intuos®3 family of pen tablets provide photographers, designers, and artists with the ultimate platforms to enhance creative control, comfort, and productivity.

Corel Corporation

Corel is at heart a creative company. We believe in the power of choice, the freedom of self-expression. By offering a comprehensive choice of Photo, Video & DVD, Illustration & Design and Office & Utilities software, we put the tools at your fingertips to help you creatively express yourself. Corel market leading product for illustrators is Corel Painter™ X, which mimics traditional painting and illustration better than any other software. Its unique digital brushes, art materials and textures help artists achieve the perfect composition, color palette and brush stroke. Ideal for professional artists, designers and photographers, it's a complete digital art studio.  

Genius Products

Genius Products, Inc. (OTCBB:GNPI - News), along with The Weinstein Company Holdings LLC, together owns Genius Products, LLC, a leading independent home-entertainment distribution company that produces, licenses and distributes a valuable library of motion pictures, television programming, family, lifestyle and trend entertainment on DVD and other emerging platforms through its expansive network of retailers throughout the U.S. Genius handles the distribution, marketing and sales for such brands as Animal Planet, Asia Extreme, Discovery Kids, Dragon Dynasty, Dimension Films, Entertainment Rights group companies (Entertainment Rights, Classic Media and Big Idea), ESPN®, IFC®, RHI Entertainment™, Sesame Workshop®, TLC, The Weinstein Company® and WWE®. Genius Products, Inc. is the managing member of Genius Products, LLC, in which it holds a 30% equity interest.

MashON

MashOn.com is an exciting and unique web based suite of tools which allows users of all ages to combine their own photos, videos and sounds with premium licensed content ,to easily create engaging, multimedia comic strips and animated novels. The resulting mashup can be shared with friends via email or posted to popular social networks using the MashON widgets, thereby maximizing brand awareness through exposure of the content and creating an immersive advertising environment.

Fandango