Last year, Penny Arcade founders Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins -- perhaps better known as their fictional counterparts Gabe and Tycho -- launched a massively successful Kickstarter campaign to make their site ad-free. Since they reached their initial goal of $250,000 with ease, they launched a few stretch rewards, including one at the $450,000 level for a new Master Chef-style reality competition based around web comics called Strip Search.
The series is now set to premiere online this Friday, March 1, at www.stripsearch.tv. The series hosts a slew of talented up-and-coming cartoonists and pits them in challenges to display their skills and acumen for the business of comics while living in a house together, leaving one ultimate winner to receive $15,000 and space in the Penny Arcade offices for a year to operate out of, including access to the company's widespread resources.
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