Dave Sherrill interviews Josh Mirman of Punks and Nerds for Comixpedia. Mirman's previous webcomic efforts include JoshBabes and Stubble. and Mirman is a member of the Bag of Chips webcomic collective. Mirman is also responsible for publishing in 2005 the anthology comic book, Disposable Parts which featured several webcomic creators on its roster.
Craig Taillefer has been impressing us for years with his strong illustative style and storytelling skills, and his webcomic, Wahoo Morris, about a rock band and its psychic protagonist, has been a delight. Al Schroeder talked with him about combining his musical background and artistic background into a very unique strip.
The Webcomics Examiner takes a look at Count Your Sheep by Adrian Ramos. Still going strong 3 years after its debut on Keenspace (since moved to Keenspot).
I haven’t paid a lot of attention to this previously but the next "world-wide SketchCrawl" is scheduled for April 22nd. If you want to participate it sounds like there’s more info on their forums. (Let Comixpedia know what it’s all about if anyone does get involved.)
The latest Digital Strips podcast is an interview with Joey Manley who is behind sites such as Modern Tales, Webcomics Nation, GirlAMatic, Graphic Smash, Talk About Comics and Serializer.net. (I haven’t listened to it yet though)
While I know there are some problems with the current top sites script at the Comixpedia portal (and once I get Comixpedia.com and Comixpedia.org "right" I’ll turn back to reinvigorating that portion of Comixpedia-land) I just wanted to point out that Clan of the Cats (Library Entry) has been #1 on it the entire time. If you haven’t before, go check out Jamie’s comic. It’s got an epic storyline with love, betrayal and a back-drop of pagan magik.
I’ve got a new calendar system working here at Comixpedia.com. Please submit conventions, online events and local meetups to it. It’s very straightforward – when logged in, click on create content (upper right-hand side, under your username) and then choose EVENT.
Fill in all of the relevent detail in the box (especially the website URL if available) and then add in the start and end date/times for the event.
I really appreciate The Comics Reporter – it’s an invaluable resource for what’s going on in the comics world as a whole and it’s a great service to webcomics that Tom Spurgeon tries to treat them on an equal footing with the rest of comic-dom.
Spurgeon has posted his top 50 comics of 2005 and he has included a few webcomics in the mix. Read on for a list of those webcomics:
SXSW is a huge music/film/stuff festival in Austin, TX (it seems to expand borg-like into new mediums every year). This year they had bloggers and cartoonists on some panels talking about blogs and money I guess. A great webcomic called OK/Cancel did a comic on a panel between two well-known bloggers and also a write-up of a panel called "How to Blog for Money by Learning From Comics".
Kevin Cheng of OK/Cancel (which is part of Off-Panel Productions) was on the panel along with Bill Barnes (Unshelved), Dave Kellett (Sheldon), and a blogger named John Gruber along with moderator Nicole Lee (blogger and "comics fan"). Continue Reading
DJ Coffman has a post today on SPUN, a webcomic on the CBS Sportsline website. The new comic by John Moore is apparently a paying gig with CBS.
This point has been pushed a lot this year by multiple folks – if you want to get paid as a cartoonist one avenue would be to tailor a comic very tightly to a specific subject matter and then approach companies and communitys relevant to the subject matter with it.
It would be interesting to get more examples of success with this approach – post ’em in the comments here if you know of any…
More articles posted for the March issue of Comixpedia magazine: a new Checkerboard Nightmare, a new The Antecedent, a review of the webcomic Stuff Sucks and a great feature article on how music and comics fit together (or don’t) by Tym Godek.
We’ll have more posts to the magazine throughout this week. I’ve also added a box that lists the most recent magazine articles up there on the right.
Chances are you like comics and you like music, but do you want them fused together?
Tym Godek takes a look at music and comics and examines how they interact, what creators have come up with to date and where we might go in the future.
Chex takes on music… in a webcomic.
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