Month: November 2003

What Hyung Sun Kim is Reading

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Hyung Sun Kim is the creator of Kung Fool X. He also reads webcomics.

1. 10 Commandments of Simon (part of Small Stories online). It’s about how to be a 29 year old virgin.

2. Cat and Girl. Existential, self referential, hip and phat. Can yo dig it? If you can, then you haven’t been reading enough semiotics. I recommend some Chomsky or at least Umberto Eco.

3. Bob the Angry Flower. Bob, the flower is angry. Absurd mix of politics, science, and the aching need for heartfelt communion.

4. Oh My Fantasy Epic. RPG World with teeth.

5. Stoopid Pigeon. Like, Purple Pussy, but distant, abstract, sort of. Continue Reading →

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Another Slashdot Thread on Bitpass and Micropayments

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Missed this thread about Bitpass on Slashdot, but Scott McCloud noted it on his website. Here’s the lead-in post:

I have been following the story of BitPass for some time now. The micropayment solution provider has been featured on Slashdot before. That article focused on Scott McCloud, and his comic The Right Number. Since that story, BitPass has added a number of sites using their service. From this netizen, it looks like the idea is really taking off. Continue Reading →

New Modern Tales Series Debuts Today

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Not only is there a new Vicious Souvenirs up at ModernTales (and with all of book 1 still available from BitPass), but Location Location Location, the new series, is live and daily!

For one brief, shining moment, they were the most popular all-robot band on Earth. Now, ten years later, a documentary film exhumes the bloated corpse that once was…Suspicious Package!

And you, too, can syndicate the strip on your website, for free! Continue Reading →

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Groovy Ass Alien Kreatures Invade DrunkDuck.com

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The alien invasion adventure G.A.A.K: Groovy Ass Alien Kreatures (www.drunkduck.com/GAAK) by Darryl Hughes and Monique MacNaughton invades DrunkDuck.com (www.drunkduck.com) with its first series of installments: “Talk about a Sigourney Weaver Nightmare”, where a group of 6th grade misfits named Zach, Jemmy, Plato, and Chubs come face to face with what looks like the supporting cast from a Sigourney Weaver movie. Continue Reading →

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Leah Fitzgerald Interviews Bob The Angry Flower’s Steven Notley

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Stephen Notley planted his first comic seeds the mid 90s while drawing weekly strips for the University of Alberta’s Gateway (a student newspaper that managed to churn out not only Notley’s work, but also Cigarro & Cerveja, Deathworld, and the now-defunct but fondly-remembered Space Moose all in the same span of time). It did not take him or his comic idea about a disgruntled sentient weed – umm, sorry – flower to take root and bloom brightly in the still-Edenic Garden of Webcomics. Now already releasing his fourth book, the creator of Bob The Angry Flower can be seen on the comic convention circuit sporting large yellow petals on his head and pollinating truths about life, the universe, and political everythings as only an angry, petal-bedecked person could. Continue Reading →

Open Soapbox: Let’s Step On Some Toes

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Get Fuzzy creator Darby Conley recently drew the ire of Pittsburghers when referring to Pittsburgh in a recent strip as a place that smelled. (Story here.) Since the comic was published, he has been receiving hate mail and death threats. If something so benign as saying a city smells can cause such a bad reaction, what does that say about comics that handle REAL controversial issues?

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