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Penny Arcade’s Strip Search to debut next month

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Alan Gardner January 22, 2013 1 minute 3 comments

Earlier last year, the Penny Arcade creators Jerry Holkins, Mike Krahulik and Robert Kho, president of operations and business development, launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise enough money to eliminate ads from their website. One of the stretch goals was to create a strip search contest to find a worthy up-and-coming cartoonist. The contest, which was already conducted late last year, was set up and filmed as a reality TV show. The show will debut on PATV next month.

Robot6 interviewed Jerry and Robert about the endeavor:

You recently announced your 12 finalists ? what exactly will they do in Strip Search?

Holkins: They?ll be made to suffer terribly in a fine house we rented for them, while they do battle with one another for cash and prizes. Literally.

What are the challenges and eliminations like?

Khoo: The vast majority of events are designed to stress test the different facets of a professional webcartoonist. For instance, one of the earlier challenges is to work with Penny Arcade?s design team to create a real-world product. To put even a little more skin in the game, we?ll be offering said product for sale online, with the profits going to the winner of that specific challenge.

The winner takes home a $15,000 cash prize and is also given office “space in Penny Arcade?s Seattle offices for a year, complete with support from the company with merchandise, marketing and infrastructure.”