KeenCribs: Spotlight on Steve Troop
It’s Friday again and that means another peek into the studio of one of your favorite Keen creators! This week it’s Steve Troop of Melonpool fame. Check out his swank crib!
Month: March 2003
Guest Week At Achewood
Achewood has been having a week chock full of guest artists like James Kochalka, Jeff Rowland and John Allison. Continue Reading
Traditional Comic Book Companies Reportedly Ever So Slightly Less Evil to Creators Than Record Companies
Journalista! has a long entry today on Marvel Comics’ new Epic line which Marvel has been touting as a place for riskier work. It’s also making noise about creators’ rights or as it puts it “creative control.” Unfortunately, Marvel is sounding a little like Microsoft would if it were pitching “open source” software. Continue Reading
Another PHP Automation Script: RazorNav
There are two versions of RazorNav. RazorNav Lite is a simple forward and backwards PHP script – it appears to be lacking a dropdown menu and a full archive calendar page like the ATP script. RazorNav Pro has not yet been released but will apparently be sold on the website soon (no pricing available yet). While there really aren’t any solid details about the capabilities of RazorNav Pro, it doesn’t look like it will do anything more than ATP, which is available for free.
Now if someone would take the extra step of creating an ATP-like script that automated the management of multiple comics on one site and allowed for the option of creating a unique home page that could show some or all of the various comics (for example, the most recent comic of any of the independently archived multiple comics on the site), that might be worth something extra. Continue Reading
Alan Moore’s Writing for Comics
According to Small Press Magazine, Avatar will soon offer the long awaited Alan Moore’s Writing for Comics. This book combines writings of Moore’s which were first serialized in a British fanzine back in 1985, just prior to the release of Moore’s stunning Watchmen
“Alan Moore was one of the first comics authors to write extensively and intelligently about the underpinnings of the craft,” says writer Warren Ellis. “I know people who’ve been waiting fifteen years to see this reprinted. It goes right next to Eisner and McCloud on the smart reader’s shelf.”
The book is scheduled for a June 2003 release.
Thanks to the Small Press Magazine for the links
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Classic Webcomic Cross-overs
It doesn’t seem to happen like it used to but back in the day all the hep kids were dropping science in each others’ backyard:
1999
Sluggy Freelance and User Friendly: AJ drops in on Riff; and Torg gets a job with Columbia Internet.
User Friendly and Superosity: Dust Puppy visits Superosity-land.
Bobbins and Waiting For Bob: The Bobbins crew met up with Waiting for Bob’s Bernie and Sean.
Bobbins and Goats: Jon from Goats meets Holly from Bobbins. Small sparks gain a little altitude. Later Jon and Philip actually make it to England.
2000
When I Grow Up and Waiting For Bob: Zoe investigates Sean.
Bobbins and Superosity: Holly and Shelley visit Boardy and Bobby goes to England. Somewhere along the way Professor Ash shows up.
2001
When I Grow Up and Diesel Sweeties: Roger finds true robot love! (not entirely sure where in the DS archives its half is)
I’m sure there’s lots more I’m forgetting – feel free to post more classic crossovers below. Thanks! Continue Reading
Panel on Women in Contemporary Comics
In conjunction with the Cartoon Art Museum’s exhibition “She Draws Comics: Great Women Cartoonists,” featuring more than 60 talented artists, there’ll be a panel discussion in which the following cartoonists will discuss their work and the challenges and rewards of being a woman artist in the comics industry:
Madison Clell (Cuckoo)
Molly Kiely (Diary of a Dominatrix)
Caryn Leschen (Ask Aunt Violet)
Lee Marrs (Wimmen’s Comix)
Laurenn McCubbinn (XXX Live Nude Girls)
Trina Robbins (The Great Women Cartoonists)
For more information on the presentation or the Cartoon Art Museum, please visit www.cartoonart.org or send me an e-mail at gallery@cartoonart.org Continue Reading
Not Just Another Vice
We obviously need a topic icon for “Genre: Intoxicated Wildlife Webcomics” if we’re going to even come close to properly categorizing the webcomic creation of the highly erratic Roger Sims. Following a “lost weekend” lasting almost a year, Just Another Vice has returned to the computer screen and managed to complete almost an entire month of daily strips.
JAV – it’s like the “Old School” of webcomics! Continue Reading
Pulse Interviews Evan Dorkin
Shouldn’t Evan be making webcomics? Pulse interviews Evan Dorkin. Continue Reading
Small Press Reviews Gibson Dent Strip
Small Press has a review of AdventureStrips.com’s Gibson Dent by Brian Meredith and Jesse Moore
Mix “Indiana Jones” and “Shaft” with a spice of “Sherlock Holmes” and what do you get? A fun if not dumb hybrid called “Gibson Dent”; an African-American adventurer who journey’s
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