A fan of Ryan North’s Dinosaur Comics has created a script that presents the news of the day in Dinosaur Comics panels.
Maybe CBS should get in touch with T-Rex about that anchor opening… Continue Reading
The AV club has an interview with Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder who talks about the Boondocks animated tv show and the demise of the newspaper market. Continue Reading
I’m not sure I want to see an actual 3-d PvP logo everyday (looking at 3-d anything without 3-d glasses is annoying) but this 3-d rendering of today’s strip works pretty well if you have a pair of 3-d glasses laying around. Continue Reading
U.N.A. Frontiers, part of the Graphic Smash lineup, commemorates its first print collection with a launch party on November 25th, 7:30 at Molly’s Coffee House, 554 Queen St., Fredericton, New Brunswick. The author and a couple of copies will be on hand, as well as original art from the novel.
Reports that the top list site, BuzzComix, is returning an account suspended page upon attempted access.
(Xerexes: Currently, I’m getting a mySQL error when trying to load the site.) Continue Reading
Tim Broderick posted an essay on his blog responding to part of T Campbell’s feature this month, “Faith in Science: Detective Stories In A Confused World”. Broderick, the creator of the mystery webcomic Odd Jobs, makes some interesting points in his post. Continue Reading
The second installment of Joey Manley’s column at the Pulse (Webhead) is up and while it’s nothing that would be new to a regular reader of Comixpedia, it’s a great primer about the “webcomics business” for the rest of the comic medium’s faithful.
I’m pretty excited about Manley’s column at the Pulse (which otherwise tends to give webcomics awfully short shrift) and hope it helps to bring more comics fans to webcomics. Now all we need is Eric Burns in TCJ and we’ll be set!
We’re going to try a little experiment here… We’re running two reviews (independently submitted, as it happens) of the same comic, Will Eisner’s John Law by Gary Chaloner.
Compare. Contrast. Discuss.
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NOTE: This is a parallel review in which we have two reviewers looking at the same comic. The other review is by Xaviar Xerexes.
During the 1940s, when pulps were at their height, the concept of the hardboiled detective (usually a private eye but occasionally a police investigator) was ingrained in the public imagination. Since that time, the atmosphere, the language, and the characters have been evoked in pastiche and parody.
Will Eisner’s John Law by Gary Chaloner (whose current strips can be found here, and whose main site, with cast info and extras, is here) is one of the few modern detective comics to focus so heavily on that mode, at least in style, using the stark grays of the best film noirs. Though scripted and drawn by Gary Chaloner, the character himself was created by the late great Will Eisner.
Two long-running webcomics hit milestones this month: Skinny Panda and Todd and Penguin.
Skinny Panda hits strip number 500 this week and Todd and Penguin celebrated five years this Nov. 12. Continue Reading
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