Something Awful Parodies the Watchmen
Something Awful
gives The Watchmen a fark-over. Funny, juvenile. NSFW. Continue Reading
Month: August 2004
Graphic Smash Updates: UNA Frontiers Debuts and New Artist for Aces High
Begining next month, John Holtgrew will be the artist for Aces High. Season 2 of the serial begins at GraphicSmash on September 15th, 2004. Aces High will continue to be written by the Marvelous Patric. Previews of John Holtgrew’s artwork can be found at marvelouspatric.com.
UNA Frontiers, the post-apocalyptic comic that cut its teeth on DrunkDuck, debuted on GraphicSmash this past August 13. The creator, Monique MacNaughton, hopes to present her epic storyline to a whole new group of readers in addition to those who are already loyal fans. Continue Reading
Flash Animator Contest in Canada
CBC television in Canada is looking for 4-6 minute Flash animated cartoons for a contest. From the website:
We’re looking for animated shorts to air on our new program, “Maple Shorts,” a TV series that features short animated films competing for a chance to win a pilot project with the CBC.
Here’s the deal: We want animators from across the country to submit original Flash cartoons, no more than 6 minutes in length, for an animated festival to be aired on national television this fall. Continue Reading
Just 1 Page: A Comics Magazine That Benefits Trinity Hospice
Just 1 Page is a comics magazine produced for the British Comics Festival, which is held annually in May in Bristol. All proceeds from auctions of the original art and profits from sales of the magazine will go to the Trinity Hospice in London.
Art is donated from a range of artists, from professionals to amateurs, from small press and webcomics to the “big two and a bit”. Each issue has a theme, the latest being British comics. The magazine is sold at the Bristol and London Festivals, and is available to buy online. There have been two issues so far. Continue Reading
More Weekly Geek Webcomic Interviews
The Weekly Geek has two new webcomic creator interviews: Jeff Rowland from Wigu and Scott Ramsoomair from VGCats.
Check them out on the Weekly Geek website (scroll down and look to the right). Continue Reading
Gone for a Week – The Catch Up On Everything Post
Did anyone realize that I was gone for a week offline and asleep at the beach? Well I’m back.
Lea Hernandez (girl-a-matic patron saintess) and others chat it up in a Ninth Art article.
Found a copy of McSweeney’s Quarterly #13, edited by Chris Ware. This is the comics issue and it’s a must have. I’ll post more when I finish it but it is a revelation so far.
Went to Borders (where I did not find the McSweeney’s) and bitched to the manager about dumping all the graphic novels in one poorly maintained section. Why not shelf comic book with “word books” under the appropriate subject matter? I don’t think the guy gave a shit actually but he blamed it all on corporate. So perhaps a letter writing campaign to Borders and B&N and all the other graphic novel carrying chains is necessary.
Good post from Joey Manley on Work for Hire versus Creator Owned work. One thing I think worth mentioning is that Manley’s post doesn’t venture beyond books. That is to say most people would think of creator owned books as more artistically valuable than WFH. This doesn’t hold up in other creative endeavors. Plays, movies, music all have a more varied history of artistically meritorious WFH efforts.
If you missed this catch the NY Times article on further cost cutting in the newspaper comic strip biz.
Everyone seems to be talking about Peter Bagge’s latest webcomic attacking “fine” arts and public funding of high-culture art.
And last but not least for now – Sean Collins of Attention Disorderly seems to have landed a mysterious new gig which will preclude him from blogging about comics. That’s a bummer for me, I enjoyed his writing on comics, but congrats to Collins. I hope we hear from him again. Continue Reading
Damonkey Business by Damonk
Tired of hearing this yet?
DRAW. Continue Reading
Webcomics Are From Uranus: The Importance of Being Timely
Not having grown up with comics, I still don’t see the magic in Wednesdays that some people do. Continue Reading
Tallying Up a Sheep’s Accolades: An Interview with Adrian Ramos
If popularity were sheep, Adrian Ramos would be counting to infinity.
Count Your Sheep surfaced very recently on the sequential dream scene, only to leap over the hurdles of obscurity and into the greener grass on the popular side. Now part of Keenspot, Ramos' webcomic is winning awards and gaining new readers faster than you can knit one or pearl two.
In the ensuing interview, a non-sheepish David Wright lets Ramos spin a few yarns about CYS's amazing success, its beginnings, and its inspiration. Some Moo-ish wisdom is shared, and perhaps a tear or two shed in the process.
One thing is certain: Ramos' recountings will NOT put you to sleep.
Plotting the Vectors by T Campbell
I raise my hand and flap it in the air, quickly, but not too hard. I want to look a little eccentric, but not crazy – just weird enough that I might have something interesting to say.
The Otakon panel moderator takes interest in (or pity on) me. He passes me the microphone. I arch an eyebrow challengingly at the guests – cartoonists from Applegeeks, Little Gamers, Paradox Lost, Mac Hall, and the "other" Avalon – and say…
"Webcomics. 2009. Where are we?" Continue Reading
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