The reclusive Lee Adam Herold, rumoured to be working on a CB book, has returned to post two new webcomics (here and here). This is a big deal to Chopping Block fans currently in deep freeze during Herold’s hiatus. Continue Reading
An article called ‘Hate Mail: Comic Strip Controversies‘,in the Amarillo Globe-News, looks at those comic strips that ‘pushed the envelope’.
“‘Hate Mail: Comic Strip Controversies’ is an attempt by the 16-year-old museum to illustrate the often anachronistic relationship Americans have with the funnies. The show features reader responses and inflammatory debated cartoons by seven artists, ranging from Doonesbury’s Garry Trudeau, who is in his 33rd year as a comic strip rebel, to such young muckrakers as Frank Cho, creator of the racy ‘Liberty Meadows,’ and Aaron McGruder, the satiric mind behind ‘The Boondocks.’
“Dietzen said the public’s image of cartoons as a purely G-rated medium recalls a time that never was. Early versions of “Brenda Starr” showed a reporter as buxom as Cho’s latter-day heroine, Brandy, while “Dick Tracy” fans were treated to a steady diet of violence. Harold Gray used “Little Orphan Annie” as a platform for blasting Roosevelt’s New Deal politics, and “Pogo” openly lampooned communist-baiting Sen. Joe McCarthy.” Continue Reading
“Superheroes & Pretty Girls,” an exhibit of work by Kenn Minter, started today at the Gallerie Soleil in Lexington, KY. It runs until April 11th. More details can be otained from Kenn Minter.
His online comic, “I’m Not From Here” is an auto-biographical work and can be read at http://www.geocities.com/kennminter. Continue Reading
A graphical approach to Google results can now be obtained with the Google Browser. It’s actually pretty interesting to see the web of links around a site.
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The Montreal Comix Jam is holding another session this Wednesday, March 26th. This is a pretty cool idea – any other cities holding regular comic-making sessions like this? More info from Max of the Montreal Comix Jam is below… Continue Reading
The modern history of art has been largely the history of artist subcommunities, bound by common interest and usually but not always by geography. Michelangelo fraternized with colleagues, burned with rivalry for Leonardo, and clucked his tongue at Titian. To be in Paris in the 1920s was to glimpse Pablo Picasso in conversation with Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway. Continue Reading
Scott Kurtz is the creative force behind PVP, and Wedlock, his brief stint with an autobiographical comic on Modern Tales. Kurtz, known for being one of the few webcomics creators able to actually live off his comic, recently started a print run of PVP with Image Comics. Continue Reading
Scott Keuhner advertises Look What I Brought Home as the “world’s most hated webcomic,” but he won’t fight you for the title. Ranging from the raunchy to the disgusting, the subject matter of LWIBH has offended and intrigued many. Keuhner and his wife Amanda (who originally had a writing credit on LWIBH) run a site listing the potentially most offensive comics out there here. LWIBH isn't there – but it could be.
If there’s any doubt whether art and humor are global concepts, Vicho Freidl’s webcomic is a topical solution that gets to the root of the dilemma. But perhaps we’re getting a-head of ourselves…
Cabezas Que Brillian (literally "Heads That Shine" in English) features Chilean roommates Cesar and Oscar, whose adventures are the centerpiece of the comic. The vertically, follically-challenged boys are nearly identical, except Cesar has thicker eyebrows and facial hair. They star in two types of comics: one is a gag strip format, and the other, newer addition is an ongoing storyline.
Story-telling is cyclic. The good guys are up, the bad guys are down. The bad guys are up, the good guys are down. It’s a distillation of the rhythmic nature of the human experience. But this pattern becomes a problem when it’s circular and repetitive, instead of progressive. Like people, some characters do the same thing over and over, repeat the same shtick or fail to grow despite the wealth of experience heaped upon them by the authors of their webcomic plotlines. Continue Reading
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