Month: July 2005

Konfabulator, Yahoo! and Webcomics

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Yahoo! has recently announced that they have acquired Konfabulator and plan to make it available to the public as a free download in the near future. For those unfamiliar with this application, there is a very lovely webcomic at the Konfabulator website (with art by none other than Vera Brosgol) that will bring you up to speed; in short, it enables users to place small but useful programs called “widgets” on their desktops.

One such program is a webcomic-ripping widget.

Xerexes: Just a note that Brosgol’s webcomic is very well done. After reading it and enjoying it try to imagine how boring that history of Konfabulator could be if it was just typed out. Continue Reading →

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Week Three of our July 2005 issue of Comixpedia

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Welcome to week three of our July 2005 issue of Comixpedia!

Our feature this month is a cranky soapbox rant written by yours truly, Kelly J. Cooper.

Our reviewer, RJ Astruc, read through and commented upon Reckless Youth by Claude TC.

Al Schroeder interviewed Sarah Ellerton of Inverloch.

In this month’s Feeding Snarky, Eric Burns contemplated history and hair.

And Ping Teo’s Essence of… took on… well… “freedom” might be the best way to put it.

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Soapbox: Getting the Comics to the People by Kelly J. Cooper

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I was in Japan a couple of weeks ago – mainly in a small part of Tokyo. And one of the places we visited is a little shop in Roppongi, just a few feet down one street from the main intersection. (Like any other big city, Tokyo has neighborhoods that are referred to by name – Ginza, Roppongi, Shinjuku, etc.)

My boyfriend had found the place when he visited (briefly) back in April. So, while wandering around Roppongi (which he wanted me to see because it’s apparently a popular tourist haunt – complete with its own Hard Rock Café – and has a memorable sort of atmosphere) we decided to stop in at the place where he’d seen a sign that said Webcomics in English (surrounded by Japanese). The sign also says Comics and Internet in smaller letters. Continue Reading →

Feeding Snarky by Eric Burns

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I’ve talked, a few columns back, about Superguy. Superguy was (and still is) a mailing list for amateur fiction, started in the late eighties. Not really ‘fanfiction,’ since the stories and characters were original, but instead a wholesale satire on superheroes, Superguy let people who loved the media, or loved humor, or just loved typing a chance to build an audience, create, experiment, learn the craft of writing, and in general build whole new worlds. Also, there was a supernatural talking fish.
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Reckless Youth by Claude TC, reviewed by RJ Astruc

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The British have a different sense of humor. There’s no easy way to explain its subtleties, but it’s the reason shows like Red Dwarf and Coupling failed miserably when "translated" for an American audience. Perhaps it’s the almost-casual mixture of normality and weirdness, or the quirkily irreverent characters, or the knowing self-parodies – or maybe just the Brits’ readiness to lampoon anything, including taboo subjects like religion, in such a way that it comes across as cutely inoffensive.
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