Online Cartoon Wants to Kill Its Viewers Off

In a first ever, DrShroud.com, a web site created and operated by Robert Feldman that follows the Flash animated adventures of Dr. Shroud, announced a contest where one lucky winner will get a chance to have his or her virtual likeness reproduced and then killed off in an upcoming episode of the Dr. Shroud online animated series, "The Boy in the Box".

Milford, NJ (PRWEB) July 8, 2004 -- It's a contest most people are dying to win---or die winning. In a first ever, DrShroud.com, a web site created and operated by Robert Feldman that follows the Flash animated adventures of Dr. Shroud, announced a contest where one lucky winner will get a chance to have his or her virtual likeness reproduced and then killed off in an upcoming episode of the Dr. Shroud online animated series, "The Boy in the Box".

The "You Oughta DIE in Pictures" contest idea is a spin-off from the Dr. Shroud web site's already interactive nature, where viewers get to collectively vote on what happens next to the main character as he searches for his missing daughter in the vampire infested city of Necropolis. Creator Robert Feldman expects that integrating actual viewers into the Dr. Shroud animations will create a further investment for his viewers.

"I set up DrShroud.com with the intent of engaging viewers by allowing them to vote what happens next", Feldman said. "This seems to be the next logical step."

The contest is set to launch in August 2004, when 1,00 premium Dr. Shroud vinyl stickers will be distributed via the Dr. Shroud website and at various horror and comic book conventions. Each sticker will bear an Encryption code on the back of it, providing DrShroud.com visitors with a chance to open the "Vault of Dr. Shroud". The lucky winner will have the opportunity to have their likeness reproduced in the next Dr. Shroud cartoon, "The Boy in the Box" and get killed off in a very gruesome manner, chosen, of course, by the viewers. The event will be commemorated with an Official Dr. Shroud Death Certificate and a box of Dr. Shroud swag, including a signed DVD copy of the episode. The contest will continue until someone wins.

Feldman believes his macabre idea will catch on. "It's something that I have never seen. Where else can you become a cartoon and then watch your own gruesome death, chosen by the other people? It really is the ultimate in interactivity---sick, but interactive."

The "You Oughta DIE in Pictures" contest kicks off in late July exclusively at DrShroud.com, when viewers can obtain Official Dr. Shroud entry stickers through a special Dr. Shroud "tangible affiliate" program.

Dr. Shroud Adventures at DrShroud.com, operated by Robert Feldman, sees about 15,000 viewers a month from all over the world in approximately 52 countries.