Recent Comics Competition Winners

ROK Comics, the global mobile entertainment company, has announced that the overall winner of its 2008 Humour Comic Competition is David Fletcher, for Pitter Patter, a strip that features a crazy, ever-hungry blackbird.

External judges for the competition were the editorial team at top British comic Toxic. Editor Matt Yeo describes the strip, starring Crumb the blackbird and his rat friend as "A punchy quick-fire gag, with simple yet effective illustrations!"

For his winning strip, David Fletcher won a Nokia 95 mobile, worth almost £500.

The strip can be viewed at: www.rokcomics.com/full_player.php?comicid=5072323138

Meanwhile BICS Got Talent ran over both days at the recent Birmingham International Comics Show allowing potential writers to pitch their ideas for a Future Shock strip to be publishing in the popular British science fiction comic 2000AD.

The contestants took part in a live first round elimination round on the Saturday before a panel of judges featuring Mark Farmer, Dave Gibbons, Tony Lee and 2000AD's editor Matt Smith. Those who survived were allowed to expand upon their ideas that the panellists then took down to a final three contestants, with the final winner voted upon by the studio audience.

The eventual winner was John Howson of Leicester for his original idea of "Getting to work in a paranoid and terrorist filled world." How that develops readers can find out in a future issue of 2000AD.