Month: September 2004

The Webcomic List Presents Comic Awards

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The Webcomic List is going to have a vote for The Webcomic List Awards. It appears to open to all comics listed with the site and voting is open to all (or maybe those with membership on the site?).

Unlike other comic awards comics do not need to be nominated, all comics* included on this site are eligible for each category. Hopefully leading to a fair and unbiased vote.

Please read down the page and select one comic for each section. In order for your vote to count you will only be able to vote if you select a comic from section. Continue Reading →

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Howard Tayler Goes for Webcomic Self-Employment

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Howard Tayler, creator of popular webcomic, Schlock Mercenary let slip two big news items recently. The first being that Tayler has quit his day job and will give full-time webcomicing a go.

Tayler also noted in the comments to his post that he is not doing a book with Keenspot. If and with what publisher he didn’t mention but hopefully there’ll still be a Schlock Mercanary collection in print at some point. Continue Reading →

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Goats News forum thread on Webcomic Rippers

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Jon Rosenberg has a message for makers of webcomic ripper programs, “You All Suck.” I think Jon is also recommending that Comixpedia (and others) stop linking to examples of this trend. It’s something to think about as we’re not trying to promote the use of them per se (just wanted to meet my lawyer word quota for the day). However just to take the other side, as far as I can recall everytime Comixpedia has highlighted a particular program readers have convinced the creators of said programs to rethink their functionality and try to work with creators.

But I”ll definitely think about it some more. I will hopefully run into Jon at the upcoming SPXPo so maybe I can talk to him about it some more. Continue Reading →

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Why Do Online Comics by Iain Hamp

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On a bustling Friday night at the mall recently, I wandered into the Barnes and Noble to see what was new.

My wife and I set a small allowance aside for ourselves, for fun non-necessities we want to purchase now and then. Not surprisingly, most of mine gets spent on comics and graphic novels. I have a fairly set pattern when I go to one of these massive bookstores, and I was following it to a tee that night despite never having been in to that particular store location. First, I perused the magazine racks, checking out all of the latest Hollywood gossip, video game reviews, incredible toys I wished they would have been making when I was a kid, and of course, the new issue of Wired. From there, I scanned the bargain book tables on my way over to where they keep the computer books. I then proceeded to swear a lot about how expensive all the programming books I wanted were. Once I was done there, my next destination was the science fiction racks, where I would of course find the graphic novels and… manga? Continue Reading →

Shadowplay: an interview with Intershadows’ Kathleen Jacques

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Since February 2001, fans of complicated and intertwining relationships have been reading the adventures of an ensemble cast originally in a strip called Coolville and recently reincarnated as a strip called Intershadows. Defying easy categorization and cliche, its characters often take off into their own metaphorical inner landscape. On top of that, the author herself is having a relationship with another webcomic creator, Justin Pierce of Killroy and Tina. Kathleen Jacques recently gave us this interview about Intershadows and getting into the heads of her characters." Continue Reading →

Benjamin River’s Empty Words, reviewed by Matt Trepal

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Audrey, the main character in Benjamin Rivers’ Empty Words is a Registered Practicing Nurse in a long-term care facility. She is a new employee, and has just experienced her first on-the-job death, an aspect of the job that she finds difficult to deal with. In fact, she’s having trouble dealing with her job period, with what she sees as the warehousing of old people until they die — so much so that it is starting to affect her relationships with friends and family. Continue Reading →

Measuring the Webcomic Audience Version 0.5

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It’s been almost a year since our last effort to measure the webcomic audience. While in a perfect world we would have spent that time developing proprietary measurement tools capable of providing a highly accurate list of webcomic audience numbers this, in so many ways, is not a perfect world. Plus, we spent the development money on Mexican vitamins. But that alas is another story. Continue Reading →