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Kicking ass in six frames
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Posted by Mark Sinclair, 1 March 2010, 14:58 Permalink Comments (12)

David Rigby has won Little White Lies' competition to condense a favourite film into a six panel comic strip, with his take on Zombieland (detail shown, above). We have his comic, plus a selection of some of the other best entrants here on the CR blog...
Sporting a cover by comics legend John Romita Jr., the new issue of Little White Lies has new film Kick Ass as its featured title; a tale of a high school student who decides to become a super hero, despite having no special powers, adapted from Romita Jr's and Mark Millar's comic book.
To coincide with having Kick Ass as its lead film, LWL ran a readers competition to transform a favourite film into a six panel comic strip. The winner was David Rigby, who cast an ironic eye over the nuances of the film Zombieland, and whose entry features in the new issue of LWL out March 4 alongside two runners-up strips. The best of the rest will also be included in a special digital edition published March 5.
Until then, Rigby's work plus the two runners-up are shown in full below, followed by several of the best entries, which include six panel digests of Total Recall, The Wicker Man, Seven, Adaptation, Flash Gordon and The Road.
The new issue of Little White Lies is available to buy, here.

Zombieland by David Rigby (winner)
Seven by Mat Bond (runner up)
Total Recall by Matt Boyce (runner-up)

American Psycho by Claire Murray
The Road by David Pye

The Wicker Man by Hurk

Man On Wire by Jack Noel

Flash Gordon by Mark Taplin

Adaptation by Phil Marsden

2001 by Rich Johnston
And here's John Romita Jr.'s fantastic cover for the new issue:

12 Comments
Love the Seven entry by Mat Bond. I only wish I'd known about the competition before it had finished.
2010-03-01 17:34:14
I thought the rules said you could only use black and white, no greys. Just a thought.
Great strips though, some really good stuff.
2010-03-01 23:05:06
All good, especially Wicker Man....
2010-03-02 00:59:26
Wicker Man is cool.... I entered Apocalypse Now, didn't get anywhere, there's a lot of talent out there..
you can see it here if you want.....
http://www.apaganza-art.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Apocalypse.jpg
2010-03-02 07:41:07
Loved Wicker Man and 2001 although the baby is a bit scary.
2010-03-02 14:15:41
Seven by Mat Bond is lovely.
2010-03-02 14:47:54
Loved Wicker Man and 2001 although the baby is a bit scary.
2010-03-02 16:49:36
wicker man is excellent.
2010-03-02 20:56:59
Looks like the most clunky, laboured one won.
2010-03-03 08:09:24
Ace entries. Here's my Escape from the Planet of the Apes.
http://philcorbett.blogspot.com/2010/03/escape-from-planet-of-apes-full-comic.html
2010-03-03 11:10:42
Love Se7en!
2010-03-04 10:06:56
Our John Romita Jr Kick-Ass cover is now a very awesome print (signed and numbered by the great man himself)
http://shop.littlewhitelies.co.uk/product/john-romita-jr-kick-ass-print
2010-03-06 18:03:39
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