Ok, to be a hit, it probably would have to win the monthly contest, but come on! This sweet, charming, funny comic should have won that month, no question. Regardless, Estrada has decided to do what he usually does and just turn it into something amazing on his own.

Already in the works, The Kind You Don’t Take Home to Mother: The Motion Picture will be a 90-minute full-length animated tale spun out of the 8-page Zuda entry (found here or here, if you prefer the Flashed up, Zuda site version). The look will be both familiar and different, as the Estrada-produced cartoons will be laid over real-life backgrounds, shot in downtown Royal Oaks, Michigan.

All three of our ZudaWatchers (one former) agreed unanimously that this concept needed to continue in some form, so kudos to Estrada and the team he’s assembling to make this thing happen!

In a move that is certainly causing mixed reactions across the board, Webcomics.com, helmed by Brad Guigar, announced Sunday that the site content will now be available to all who register for a pay account for the price of $30 a year. The post declaring this new business model for the community-driven webcomics information hub has a lengthy comment thread that is well worth reading if you’re trying to decide whether or not to give it the ol’ college try.

The question that strikes me as particularly intriguing is one posed by David Gallaher:

Clicking around, I didn’t see a Terms of Service notice or anything that guarantees my rights as a consumer of your information. How do I know that Brad won’t take all of my money and build a dream house in Florida?

In terms of this being a business decision, this does seem like a make-it-or-break-it point. The Internet has proven to be anything but stable, so is there any way to ensure subscribers they will get their money back if the whole thing goes tits up tomorrow?

Oh, and some dude talked to Brad himself about the whole thing. Maybe he has more info you should check out.

Remember that webcomics community I was just praising? It’s opportunities like this that make that group such a good one to be associated with.

Via yet another tweet, Scott Kurtz has asked all bloggers to help spread the word about his latest calendar, featuring a Skull plushie traveling around the world, which will help to improve the lives of many Cambodian children.

Nothing more to say about it that hasn’t already been said: it’s a product you were probably going to buy anyways and it benefits a great cause. So click here, get your calendar, help out the children of Cambodia, and tell a friend.

Just a friendly reminder to all you aspiring webcomickers out there to send your strips to digitalstrips@gmail.com so we can give ’em a once over to see if we’d like to use them in a future podcast! We’ve gotten a lot of submissions recently and many of them are going to be featured soon so we can share these relative unknowns with the rest of you ‘Net navigators out there!

As a disclaimer, however, entering your strip does not mean a review is forthcoming. We take a look at the overall quality and determine, based on many complicated algorithms, whether or not we will review the comic. I say this not to discourage but because, if we were to do reviews of strips that didn’t measure up in terms of technical skill, they would be a) too numerous to count and b) overly negative.

So if you think you’ve got the chops to stack up with the big boys, submit your comic to us! If you want more shows, we need more strips, so you’re really only helping out yourselves in the long run.

Given how readily giving webcomics readers have proven to be already, I’d say we need plenty more strips just like this one. Daniel Lafrance has started a new webcomic with the specific purpose of raising money for the Starthrower Foundation, a charity geared towards providing the means for young Haitian adults to finish their educations and move out into the workforce and out of the poverty so many are stricken with.

The strip, titled Starthrower in Haiti,  has already been praised by Brad Guigar, so you know that Daniel is doing at least something right in this endeavor, and a quick glance shows that the art and story are at least competent enough to warrant passing along some money to this great cause. Read a bit more about the comic straight from Daniel himself and make sure to give at least a little in this season of glad tidings:

Starthrower in Haiti, a Fundraising Webcomic

We are thrilled to announce the launch of a webcomic completely dedicated to raising funds to a charitable cause!

Starthrower in Haiti (www.starthrowerinhaiti.com ) introduces us to the work of the Starthrower Foundation, a Canadian-registered charity in Haiti.  All funds raised by the webcomic go directly to sponsor young Haitian adults who wish to complete their education and/or apprenticeship enabling them to move into the workforce, and out of poverty.

Starthrower in Haiti is created by Daniel Lafrance (www.danlafrance.com ), a professional storyboard artist working in animation for over 24 years.

[…] Starthrower in Haiti is updated twice weekly.