Over at SUPEROSITY.com they celebrated Chris Crosby’s 27th birthday yesterday. Happy Birthday to the keenest webtoonist ever!
And a few days earlier Ghastly of Ghastly’s Ghastly Comic celebrated his 39th. Happy Birthday to the ghastliest webtoonist ever! Continue Reading
The September issue of the Webcomics Examiner is up. The “cover” comic was cute. More on the contents later today if I have time to read them.
UPDATE: Joey Manley reads the latest issue before I get a chance too. His take is probably right on the money. Continue Reading
A couple of thoughts this morning on Michael Jantze’s break from the syndication model. I had an exchange of emails with his wife Nicole yesterday. Apart I think from a naive enthusiasm that the Jantzes were trying something new in the world of comics (although everything in the world of webcomics is still “newish” Jantze is trying out several revenue strategies already pioneered by others) she seemed to be passionate about working with Michael to support his ability to continue creating The Norm. Without naming a specific figure she did say that Michael desired to match his salary (from syndication revenues I guess. Any takers to try and calculate something like that?) and that as of yesterday they were 10% to that goal.
Scott McCloud weighed in on Tuesday with a supportive comment. T Campbell was also supportive in concept but made the fair point that we can “subscribe” to every comic (he indicated he would be giving his money to Jamie Robertson instead. Robertson, while never syndicated, is in a similar situation to Jantze).
I also noticed that the pitch for money on The Norm subscriber page is pricey by webcomics standards. I will be interested to see how that goes? Is Jantze asking too much? Are other popular webtoonists asking too little? How much cache comes from being a previously syndicated cartoonist?
UPDATE: Saw that Eric had also posted some similar thoughts on these recent developments earlier this week. Continue Reading
Just wanted to post a quick note: T Campbell is starting a group for local to Washington DC area webtoonist types to meet in real time/space. If you’re interesting in joining or helping shoot him an email (I think it’s pretty much anything at tcampbell.net will get to T).
A preliminary idea is to get together for an organizational thing sometime around SPXPo – (Oct 1-3). I am going to try and help if I can, although I suspect T could use folks with more time than I have. It seems to me that grabbing coffee or beer once a month – maybe just drawing sometimes, other times getting some local celeb like Frank Cho to say hi, that this could be a cool thing.
As a general matter, I would offer a “home” on Comixpedia to anyone wanting to start a “local” group across the world – just shoot me an email and we can talk. Continue Reading
Wizard People, Dear Reader by Brad Neely (NOT Harry Potter) is a funny re-imaging of the first Harry Potter film through the creation of an alternate sound track. This is kind of like pairing Dark Side of the Moon with the the Wizard of Oz. Um, ok not so much “like” as the only other example I could think of that is remotely similar. Continue Reading
The final installment of the prologue of Benjamin Birdie’s webcomic Genre City: Plan B, hit the streets today, September 14. The first chapter of Plan B, “Oxygen” begins on September 16, with new installments every Tuesday and Thursday at Modern Tales, until Plan B is done, approximately 300 pages from now. Continue Reading
Your chance to enter the Sluggy Freelance Art Contest ends this Friday. Winner gets a plushy Bun-bun thing. Continue Reading
Michael Jantze has announced that he has ended his relationship with his syndicate, King Features. The last installment of The Norm appeared in newspapers this past Sunday. Jantze had already begun to follow in the footsteps of Frank Cho by reprinting The Norm strips in comic book format and Jantze announced that The Norm Magazine would continue its bi-monthly publishing schedule (Issue #5 is due next month). Continue Reading
Catherine Harrell’s webcomic, Jen, is now available in print. Her new book, “The Best of Jen,” highlights the most recent samples of the strip, with over three hundred comics collected from the 2004 archives.
Jen is a humorous comic about the adventures of four children, a quirky group of friends named Jen, Madison, Sparkle, and Avery. The characters encounter peculiar situations throughout the book, including radical haircuts, lost cats, irresistible soap bubbles, and missing smoothies. The strip appears in soft pastel colors with simple line art, and each cartoon is kid-friendly.
“It’s the world as I’d like it to be,” says Adrian Ramos, author of the popular webcomic Count Your Sheep. “It’s very brave. It has no edge, it’s just purely soft and sweet and pastel.” Continue Reading
Recently Jamie Robertson of Clan of the Cats lost his job. What else is new in this economy?
His unemployment may lead to the demise of the five year old fantasy comic, Clan of the Cats. Currently a donation drive is underway, however, Robertson has also put forth another idea to help. For $2.50 a month, you can subscribe to Sebo’s Kitty Klub which will garnish you 4 Sebastian oriented B&W strips and one COTC wallpaper a month. Other things may get thrown in with time. Yearly subscriptions are available for $25.00. The humor of SEBO, the weekly SKK strip, is very reminiscent of the early days of COTC only with better art. That means it’s funny and looks good too.
“I don’t want to end COTC.” said Robertson. “I don’t think anyone would want to end their dream, but if something doesn’t change by Christmas I’ll have to.” Continue Reading
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