Script2Comic Winners 2022 - Screenplays That Became Hit Comic Books

SCRIPT2COMIC 2022
WINNERS

We are pleased to announce our winners for 2022. CGC® is our partner in designing and presenting the amazing award slabs that each of our winners will be receiving. The books inside the slab will be printed by Comic Impressions with a cover design by Diana Naneva highlighting premiere sponsor's PICTURESTART "Discovery of Voice" award.

Thank you again to all of our entrants — and to all of our judges and sponsors. We could not have done this without you all.

GRAND PRIZE

DEATH'S ASSISTANT by Brian Gene White

After his fiancé is fatally injured, Phil makes a deal with Death to spare her life and ends up becoming Death's Assistant.

Brian Gene White is a writer, playwright, actor, director, and producer. Originally born in Chicago, he lived on both coasts and the Midwest before getting his BFA at the Conservatory Theatre Arts at Webster University. He is a company member of the Great River Shakespeare Festival and Ensemble Shakespeare Theatre. He eventually ended up working for the Emmy-Winning team at NASA/JPL (don't ask him how, he doesn't know either.) His play "Future Tripping" opened to rave reviews in Los Angeles while his screenplay “A Jersey Christmas Movie”, co-written with Laura Napoli, was a Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist. In addition, he has won the Fresh Voices Award, as well as finalist awards in ScreenCraft and more. As an actor, he has played Hamlet, Malvolio, a History Boy, Lou Costello and many others in his career while his plays and screenplays, usually dark fantastical and sci-fi dramedies, have received readings around the country.

1ST PRIZE

BOT by Gregory B. Lemmons, J.D.

Robot sympathizer and detective Jesuit Swiss uncovers a conspiracy to illegally upgrade robots when he investigates the murder of a senator at a robot cat house.

Gregory B. Lemmons, J.D., is an American writer. A native of Oakland, California, he attended Columbia University in New York where he studied American history. He obtained a law degree from Santa Clara University in California. His work is as diverse as his interests, incorporating the historical, science fiction, manga / comics, and auto sports. A stylistic outlier, his storytelling leans towards the unconventional to the outright weird. He loves the craft.

2ND PRIZE

UNDEATHABLE DEAD DUDES by Winston Han

Two young dudes wake up undead and must solve the mysteries of their own murders and the coming zombie apocalypse before they rot away.

Winston Han is what happens when a Mongol horse lord breeds with a North Korean peasant. His immigrant parents told him, whatever you do, don’t be a WRITER. But did he listen? NO: instead he studied film and literature at UC San Diego, and then he became a writer and TV editor, working with the likes of Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, and Tom Petty. Between gigs, he sharpens his craft and collects stories by way of adventure: hitchhiking across Europe, motorcycling through Southeast Asia and Latin America, otherwise disappointing his parents, who wanted a doctor, an opera singer, a Nobel-Prize-winning scientist, but preferably all the above.

3RD PRIZE

MISS DEMEANOR Ruby Mainieri

Once famous superhero, Little Miss Wonder, has been rebranded, Miss Demeanor, due to years of alcohol abuse and frequent sexual encounters with supervillains. Now, she must overcome her narcissism and hypochondria in order to help her crew and reclaim her place in the spotlight.

Ruby Mainieri is an award-winning screenwriter and actress specializing in trauma-dumping comedies. She won the Worldwide Play Festival, founded by David Letterman, and most recently won 'Best TV Pilot' at the Vail Film Festival. In addition, she was a finalist at The Big Apple Film Festival and The Nashville Film Festival in 2022. When she's not distracted by altercations with strangers on the NYC sidewalks, or subways, or restaurants, etc... you can find her pacing back and forth in the middle of the night, talking to characters in her head and creating new and exciting worlds.

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

WEEKEND WARRIORS by Danny Hogan

When a mysterious overnight event turns humanity into hordes of mindless violent drones, two hard-partying office rivals—still inebriated from the evening before—discover the drugs and alcohol in their systems are the very things preventing them from becoming infected. The only way to stay alive will be to party like it’s the end of the world. ZOMBIELAND meets OFFICE SPACE.

Danny Hogan is a scientist turned screenwriter and currently works as the Writer’s Assistant on the upcoming Amazon series, Clean Slate. Danny holds a B.S. from UCLA and an M.F.A. from Loyola Marymount University, where they won the school’s annual showcase for their writing. Danny went on to put their penchant for exploration, science, and all things uncharted to use by working as a story developer and producer for National Geographic TV and Discovery Channel before landing in the writers room of the HBO Max reboot of Gossip Girl. Danny has developed original material for Zoic Studios, Intrigue Entertainment, and Zero Gravity, and their work has been distinguished by numerous organizations including the Austin Film Festival, Screencraft, Launch Pad, and HRTS.

FINALISTS 2022 (OCT 17th)

Title	Writer(s)
ALEXANDRIA	Diego Sacramento
Apples	Rodolfo Salas
BOT	Gregory Lemmons
Body Slam	Alexander Messana, Adam Messana
Brennan's Way	Carlton Welch
DEAD PEOPLE	Douglas Rappaport
Dawn	Alexandra Ruggieri
Death and Jesse	Rob Shafer
Death's Assistant	Brian Gene White
ERGOSPHERE	Martin McLoughlin
Exercises in Assassination and Defence	Melissa Calderone
FIVE SWORDS UNDER HEAVEN	Logan Shaw
Falls the Hammer	Douglas Corleone
Future Tripping	Brian Gene White
JEN-16	Craig Berger
Journey to the Enchanted Inkwell	LD Green
MARYAM P.I.	Zack Siddiqui
Marcel	David Soll
Miss Demeanor	Ruby Mainieri
Neurodivergents vs The World	Rikki Bleiweiss
Nick Normal (And the Academy of Monsters)	Jan Schwaid
Otherworld, NJ	Matthew McLachlan
Our Vision	Liam Hale
Peter Piper	Jonathan Young
Righteous	Kathy Patterson
Sam Katt, Detective	V. R. Marianne Zahn
Saturn's Return	Sam Callahan
Shadow Realm	Reenita Hora
Storme	John Lowe
Superseded	John Dorney
Supervillain	Dustin Schmidt
The Devil and Dick Gregory	Sean Slater
The Explorer's Club	Garrett Rowe, Joe Varkle
The Passion of Pauli Murray	Sean Slater
The Rental	Ariel Ehrlich
The Second Law	Marcos Soriano
The Undeathable Dead Dudes	Winston Han
WHERE THE BOYS ARE	Matthew Ravey
Weekend Warriors	Danny Hogan

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SEMI-FINALISTS 2022 (AUG 30th)

Title	Writer(s)
The Duna Hotel	Ryan Berry
Chikamatsu Endgame	Federico Sanna
Miss Demeanor	Ruby Mainieri
MARYAM P.I.	Zack Siddiqui
Throne of the Earth	Garrett Mistoler
Time Will Tell	Jonathan Winehouse, Terry Newman
Water & Spark	Nick Harron
Righteous	Kathy Patterson
Body Slam	Alexander Messana, Adam Messana
Earthbound Misfit	David Oliver, Francesca Parodi
Falls the Hammer	Douglas Corleone
Prince	Jessica Rowlands
WHERE THE BOYS ARE	Matthew Ravey
The Passion of Pauli Murray	Sean Slater
Beyond the Horizon	J.D. Moore
First Blooded	Kenya Collins
Marcel	David Soll
Guardian Angel	Carlos Pozo
Future Tripping	Brian Gene White
The Button Man	Christopher Colburn
Dawn	Alexandra Ruggieri
Mi and the Kid	Wahid Reza
Otherworld, NJ	Matthew McLachlan
Peter Piper	Jonathan Young
TARO: Legend of Japan	Blue Spruell
Chainsaw Samurai	NEIL MACKAY
Nick Normal (And the Academy of Monsters)	Jan Schwaid
The Explorer's Club	Garrett Rowe, Joe Varkle
Here Lies Tommy	Rodolfo Salas
The Undeathable Dead Dudes	Winston Han
Bad Blood	Geno Marx
Sam Katt, Detective	V. R. Marianne Zahn
JEN-16	Craig Berger
Apples	Rodolfo Salas
Lucid	Dan Williams
Superseded	John Dorney
The Demon Job	Robert Husted
Weekend Warriors	Danny Hogan
The Affected	Shane Harbinson
Exercises in Assassination and Defence	Melissa Calderone
Saturn's Return	Sam Callahan
Not Super Legal	Carrie Fishbane
Wolf Candy	Richard Stringham
Thunderfoot	Carlton Welch
Brennan's Way	Carlton Welch
The Cosmic Tour	Samara Poche, Christopher Redd
The Underground	Anika Shakir
Supervillain	Dustin Schmidt
Storme	John Lowe
A Ghost Story Of Christmas	Eddie Yaroch
The Devil and Dick Gregory	Sean Slater
Death's Assistant	Brian Gene White
THE DOOLING TWINS	Robert Rogers
Captain Psychonaut	Tess WS
SYNERGY	Andrew Frank
The Children: The Fall of Lala Island	Luca Valente, Astride Noel
BOT	Gregory Lemmons
Uncle Black	Aaron Pinchback
Neon Tears	Xxavier Robertson
Neurodivergents vs. The World	Rikki Bleiweiss
Red Dawn	Kathryn Loveless
Our Vision	Liam Hale
Loophole	Enrique Rosado
Haven	Nya Clarke
The Bookish Dark	Matthew Brady
The Rental	Ariel Ehrlich
Legends of Tíshíā	Joshua Redfield
The Second Law	Marcos Soriano
SCARLET LETTERS	Lisa Scott
ERGOSPHERE	Martin McLoughlin
FIVE SWORDS UNDER HEAVEN	Logan Shaw
THE CHRONICLES OF ALESTAIR CADE	Russell Ward, Scott Miller
DEAD PEOPLE	Douglas Rappaport
The Pit and the Pendulum	Andrei Burke
Shadow Realm	Reenita Hora
Across the Stars	Tim Kontje
Neural	Sarah Granger
Kiki & the Dokkaebi	Da Eun Kim
Death and Jesse	Rob Shafer
Alexandria	Diego Sacramento
New Earth	Devon Sharma
Journey to the Enchanted Inkwell	LD Green
The Conduit	Owen Busch, Robert Walcott
Skinned	Carlos Perez
Luna Live	Yaniv Ronen
BLADE & BONE	Eduardo Vincenzo Pannozzo