Month: August 2004

Nominees for this year’s Ignatz Awards were announced. In Promising New Talent, Svetlana Chmakova of Chasing Rainbows (www.girlamatic.com, www.svetlania.com) grabbed a nomination.

In the Outstanding Online Comic category:

American Elf, James Kochalka, americanelf.com
Apocamon, Patrick Farley, e-sheep.com
Desert Rocks, J.J. Naas, dr.ungroup.net
The Pain … When Will it End?, Timothy Kreider, thepaincomics.com
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Jon Rosenberg writes how the Wall Street Journal picked up on his effort to hand out Republicans for Voldemort stickers outside the Republican convention. Not a bad publicity effort for Goats (how much overlap is there between the Goats audience and subscribers to the Wall Street Journal?) as the Journal actually wrote a bit about the webcomic as well as the sticker campaign.
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The Guardian reviews Art Spielgelman’s In the Shadow of Two Towers. This is a really detailed piece with the depth I don’t think you usually see given to comics.

(link from bugpowder)
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WirePop is now almost a year old! The first and only subscription site to offer nothing but great Manga-styled comics is opening its doors to new talent once again. Continue Reading →

Neil Cohn has started a forum on visual arts theory. Just getting underway so it might be a few days before the place is humming but I suspect it will indeed hum.

In fact, I already found a link there to a blog on visual arts that may be of interest when it too begins to hum. Visual Culture and Language is Professor Kevin Brooks new blog. Continue Reading →

Gutterflycomix.com has gone through many changes in the four years since its inception, but Gutterfly’s founders are letting us know that those changes are only the beginning. Video games, a public comics listing, and a new server are all in the works for this pop-culture comics hub. Continue Reading →

The Kingdom of Loathing is quite addictive. It’s free and the funniest RPG since Zork. Continue Reading →