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College Roomies from Hell!!! or CRFH!!! as it is known to fans, is a webcomic

Webcomic

Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are comics published on a website. While many are published exclusively on the web, others are also published in magazines, newspapers or often in self-published books....

strip by Maritza Campos-Rebolledo. Running since January 1, 1999 and featuring a new comic strip every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday (theoretically - in practice it's about once a week), College Roomies from Hell!!! depicts the lives of six college students attending an unnamed college somewhere in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

. Forced out of their dormitory by a gas leak explosion, Mike Green, David Jones, Roger Pepitone, Marsha Hart, Margaret Browning, and April Sommers now live in an apartment building near their college and suffer natural, supernatural, and academic indignities and drama in this alternately humorous and dark serial comic strip.

College Roomies from Hell!!! was formerly hosted by Keenspot

Keenspot

Keenspot is a webcomics portal founded in March 2000 by cartoonist Chris Crosby , Crosby's mother Teri, cartoonist Darren Bleuel , and Nathan Stone.-History:...

. Its author, Maritza Campos-Rebolledo, is a resident of Yucatán

Yucatán

Yucatán officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Yucatán is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 106 municipalities and its capital city is Mérida....

state, Mexico

Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...

, and actively participates on the comic's message boards. The comic is part of the Create a Comic Project
Create a Comic Project
The Create a Comic Project is a youth literacy program and webcomic created by John Baird. The program uses comics, many taken from the Internet, to encourage children to write their own narratives. The program began in November 2006 at the main branch of the New Haven Free Public Library as an...

.

Funky horror

Funky horror is a meme within this webcomic, its audience and its forum. The phrase "The horror! The funky horror!" is one of the catchphrases in the comic - adapted from the last lines of Francis Ford Coppola's

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...

film Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American war film set during the Vietnam War, produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The central character is US Army special operations officer Captain Benjamin L. Willard , of MACV-SOG, an assassin sent to kill the renegade and presumed insane Special Forces...

: "The horror... the horror...", which in turn was adapted from Joseph Conrad's

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-born English novelist.Conrad is regarded as one of the great novelists in English, although he did not speak the language fluently until he was in his twenties...

novel Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the "100 best novels" and part of the Western canon.The story centres on Charles...

. "Funky Horror" itself is both a roller coaster within the plot and a space station within a what-if plot.

Off-line media

College Roomies from Hell!!! is available in other media as well as on the Internet. Archived strips from past years are available on compact discs (along with exclusive bonus stories), and a line of comic books has also been printed, featuring stories not told on the web site. These additional publications are written by Maritza Campos-Rebolledo and have been edited by Jerry Alan Sayers and Clint Boskey. Shirts and stickers are also available through the main web page.

Awards

CRFH has been nominated for and won various awards, including:

Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards
- 2001
  - Best Comic
  - Best Writing (Winner)
  - Best Serial Comic (Winner)
  - Best School Based Comic
- 2002
  - Best Comic
  - Best Writing
  - Best Male Character
  - Best Romantic Comic
  - Best Serial Comic
- 2003
  - Outstanding Character Development (Winner)
  - Outstanding Romantic Comic
- 2004
  - Outstanding Character (Writing)
- 2005
  - Outstanding Character (Writing)

External links

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