New Webcomic at Movie Poopshoot
Sal Cipriano unloads a new semi-autographical webcomic, Broken Donuts at the Poopshoot.
Month: September 2003
More SPXPO Recaps & Photos
Pulse has photos of SPXPO, and Toby Craig has lots of photos – start with one of Todd Webb. Continue Reading
New full-length Roger Langridge graphic novel @ MT Longplay
Ignatz and two-time Eisner Award nominee Roger Langridge (“Fred the Clown”, “Legends of the Dark Knight”) has posted an original, world-premiere graphic novel, The Thirteenth Floor, on Modern Tales. Subscribers can read all of it.
To read The Thirteenth Floor, whether you’re at work or not:
http://www.moderntales.com/longplay
To read an interview with Roger Langridge about The Thirteenth Floor, conducted by Joe Zabel:
http://www.moderntales.com/series.php?name=newsletter&view=current
The interview, of course, is free.
Click the “read more” link to see a sample page of “The Thirteenth Floor.” Continue Reading
What About Flash Introductory Pages for Webcomics?
Another good thread at Talkaboutcomics.com focuses on the use of Flash animation as the “splash” page for a webcomic. Good? Bad? Although the general consensus on this thread is “bad” there is an acknowledgment that Flash in general may be a big part of the future of the web and therefore of webcomics. Continue Reading
Conflicts of Interest in Webcomicland?
Scott Kurtz asks on this thread at Talkaboutcomics.com whether there is a conflict of interest with Graphic Smash editor T Campbell placing two comics he’s writing on the new subscription site. It’s an issue Modern Tales has dealt with before according to publisher Joey Manley:
It’s an issue that has come up before (Tom Hart has comics on serializer.net, which he edits, but Lea has specifically decided not to put her own comics on girlamatic). We’ve had conversations, each of us, about this issue, but ultimately it’s the individual editor’s decision.
If it’s an issue at all (being fair and balanced and all I won’t offer an opinion here) it’s common in webcomicland where many sites are run by webtoonists. Continue Reading
Opus for President in 2004
It’s official. Berke Brethed returns to the funny pages in newspapers nationwide. The Washington Post will syndicate the new “Opus” strip featuring Opus the penguin. No word whether Opus will bring Bill the Cat back with him… Continue Reading
WirePop announces the addition of Cat Boy // Mouse Girl
WirePop — www.wirepop.com — announced today the new webcomic “Cat Boy // Mouse Girl,” by Nancy Duong, will be joining the webcomic line-up on WirePop.com, the growing Manga and Manga-styled webcomic subscription magazine.
“I really love Nancy’s art style and story humor. When she submitted her comic ‘Cat Boy // Mouse Girl’ I knew we needed to have her on WirePop.” said George Panella, WirePops’ Publisher “In the mist of fantasy and sci-fi titles, ‘Cat Boy // Mouse Girl’ will add a much needed romantic comedy flavor to the WirePop line-up. Her comic will have you grinning in no time.”
Yahoo Japan to publish Manga on the web.
Yahoo Japan will be bringing works of manga greats such as Osamu Tezuka (of “Tetsuwan Atom” AKA “Astro Boy” fame), Shotaro Ishinomori (“Cyborg 009” and “Kamen Rider”) and many more to the web.
Complete details can be found in this article at Anime News Network
The original Yahoo Japan Article is also availible on the web (for those who can read Japanese). Continue Reading
New Scary Go Round Book
Available today, Girl Spy is the new Scary Go Round book by John Allison. It’s all new material, laboured over with a similar level of intensity to that employed by the builders of the Brooklyn Bridge. For more on the book, click here! Continue Reading
Pants Press’s SDCC comic anthology now available online via Bitpass!
Pants Press’s comic anthology “Wary Tales” is now available for online viewing via Bitpass at this link.
“Wary Tales” – a collection of pseudo-tragic reinterperitations of fairy tales – first premiered in printed form at this summer’s San Diego Comic-Con International, and is now made available online for the first time as a result of encouragement and support from everybody’s favorite webcomics guru, Scott McCloud. Continue Reading
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