January – 2004 – Comix Talk

Kid Radd by Dan Miller

January 4, 2004Justinpie 2 Comments

It was the dawn of the Litigious Age when the sprite comics began to fall. It began with Capcom, and their massive swipe at any and all unauthorized Mega Man and Chun Li sprites. Other companies would follow: Square and Sega, Namco and Tecmo. Finally, Nintendo did it as well, though they would claim they were first, and did it the best.

One by one, the sprite comics vanished from the web, leaving behind only shattered shards of their former glory. But there was still hope — for among the brightest and sharpest of these shards was Kid Radd.
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L33t Pixelz by Q-Tip, reviewed by Shaenon Garrity

January 4, 2004Shaenon Garrity Leave a Comment

Nerds need to learn how to spell. L33T-speak is the single most annoying mode of discourse in human history, narrowly beating out the otaku patois created when American anime fans pepper their conversation with broken Japanese. While reviewing L33T Pixelz, I am afraid to speak the title aloud, for fear that the sheer irritating geekiness will cause jocks to spontaneously generate out of thin air and beat the crap out of me. Continue Reading →

Makeshift Musings and Comic Book Bliss: Building Our Cast

January 4, 2004Zubkavich 1 Comment

Continuing our talk about building stories and crafting characters, let’s touch upon character personality. When building a character, we need to decide upon character traits, empathy, flavor, motivation and contrast. All three are fancy ways of saying "What does this character portray to the audience?"

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The History of Online Comics by T Campbell (Part 4)

January 4, 2004 1 Comment

Five Horsemen of the New Genesis

In they rode like heralds of the new era. The next fifteen months saw the approach of five sites that would define the webcomics scene for the next three years and remain important parts of it to the present. Call them the Five Horsemen.

The Five Horsemen were each a commercial success… five of the very few such successes online. This made them influential over both the art form of webcomics and its developing commerce. In this chapter, we'll concentrate on their artistic influence; later, we'll pick up the path of webcomics commerce.

Tellingly, each of them began in front of a computer screen. Continue Reading →

Blogging

January 2, 2004Xaviar Xerexes Leave a Comment

Welcome to 24 Hour Pixel People – the blog for Comixpedia. In one sense, Comixpedia is one big weblog but it also a magazine that happens to be published online. Articles for Comixpedia, even news stories need to be researched, reviewed and rewritten before they ever see the light of day.24 Hour Pixel People will be less formal – some news, some opinion and hopefully some dialogue with the many other blogs covering comics now. You should be able to bookmark http://24hour.comixpedia.com pretty soon (if not already) as a way to directly jump to the blog. Since blog entries won't show up on the main page of Comixpedia you'll have to remember to check out the blog itself. (Somehow I will also try to wrangle an RSS feed for just the blog sooner or later).We'll, hopefully, also have some guest bloggers on here sooner or later. Let me know if you're (a) sane; and (b) interested.- xerexes Continue Reading →

The Blue View by BoxJam B. Boxjam

January 1, 2004 6 Comments

Here's a survival scenario for humans (or whatever sentient species we have become, or has replaced us) in a couple of billion years, when it gets too hot to live here on earth. I'm going with the assumption that interstellar space travel is either impossible or very, very sucky.

We're going to build our own star. Continue Reading →

Month: January 2004