This is it, cartoonists!  Here is your call to action!  You have the opportunity to ignite the revolution!

I’ve already told you about Zingerding’s lofty goal and the incentives for the Zingerding Six. We’ve now launched a site for you to submit your comic strips for the big chance. Here’s how it works:

– Visit http://zingerding.crowdcampaign.com

– Click ‘Submit your Comic Strip’ to… well… submit your comic strip.  :)

– Upload one to five examples and provide a link to more.

That’s it! It’s set up like a contest where people can vote on the submissions. However, we’re not running it like a traditional “contest”. We have yet to establish closing dates, and we’re planning to leave it open for a while.

The final selection for the Zingerding Six will be based on a panel of professional cartoonists as well as votes on the contest site. Therefore votes matter but they aren’t going to have the final say. Why? This sort of voting can be greatly imbalanced by many factors like a cartoonist’s ability to spread the word, or by the timing of when a strip was submitted compared to others. However, we want the voting to provide feedback to us about what people like. Public opinion still plays a part.

The contest platform is integrated with Twitter, so for you cartoonists with followers, it’s a good opportunity to garner support. And we’ll be tweeting all we can too!

One important note is that we’re going to market the hotcakes out of this contest! (Read my comments about how Amazon/Andrews McMeel failed to create fanfare.) We may not have the following that Amazon has but we’ve got the passion and guts to put your work out there! We run this blog. We’re on Twitter and Facebook. We’ve sparked a cause called Free the Comic Strip! We have our own site, Zingerding.com. We’ve got more plans and we will create the fanfare!

The Zingerding Six are more than just a group of six cartoonists. They will be a league of revolutionaries. You can be one!