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Inventure Cloud ‘incubator’ site issues comic art challenge

By John Freeman on September 27, 2013

Inventure Cloud, a new web space for collaborative invention which aims to help creators transform your ideas into physical products, is celebrating its launch with a comics-inspired supercompetition.

Inventure Cloud is one of the 14 startups chosen from a pool of over 4000 projects to be accelerated and invested by Lanzadera, a startups incubator in Spain with the aim of enabling people to develop ideas into products you can actually touch and enjoy; from prototyping, to funding, production and distribution.

The competition challenges creators to devise a superhero or supervillain character, then encourage friends to vote for their creation, much like the current LEGO competition whose particpants include ace artist Kev Levell, which will see the eventual winner get their LEGO creation offered for sale.

Although the original concept suggested they were asking for 3D models, entries so far include line art entries.

The winner will receive a high definition 3D model of the superhero/supervillain, a WACOM Cintiq, a WACOM Inkling and a 3D-printing voucher, so it’s definitely something worth checking out.

• More about Inventure Cloud’s Supercompetition here

• How Inventure Cloud works

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.