Yesterday DC announced that it would shutting down Zuda permanently after their 2 and a half year run as a competition and digital publishing experiment. According to the Zuda blog, the program is going to be rolled into DC’s larger digital initiative and the big company continues to lumber into the 21st century.
If you have any experience in publishing at all, you know that this sort of reorganization happens all the time; some times it’s a good thing and some times it’s bad. In this case it seems like a good thing for DC. They’re taking the opportunity to gather their digital resources together and create a greater whole. The comics published by Zuda should, hopefully, get better treatment as well as they will be more closely aligned with the central imprint. I’ve never been much of a fan of the Zuda project, but a few great comics have come out of it and I hope they are continued.
You can continue following Zuda-related news via their website: The Collective.
UPDATE: I didn’t realize it, but Storming the Tower pointed out that the end of Zuda also means that the comics have all be taken down and, at least for now, are not going to be put back up. Instead they will be transitions primarily to mobile devices. That’s a pity. Since my only mobile device is an Android and I don’t like reading on that tiny screen, I hope they do decide to get the comics back up on the web proper.
