It looks like Cool Cat Studio (webcomic circa 2000ish) is coming back with creator Gisele Lagace on art and T Campbell on words. T’s blog suggests the restart or an announcement about it is coming this Thursday. It was a popular comic for the web at the time but out of sight for several years now so it’ll be interesting to see how it’s received. Continue Reading
Bomb Shelter Comics Collective is holding their Webcomics Idol competition again. I’m doing the judge thing which for me at least boils down to plug the comics that I like and try to say something constructive about the ones that don’t totally float my boat. Here’s more from Bomb Shelter:
It’s that time of year again, folks. That’s right, time for the second annual Bomb Shelter Comics Webcomic Idol competition. We did this last year as a spur of the moment kind of thing, and while it didn’t turn out very well, we weren’t prepared for how big it was going to get.
This year, we’ve geared up and got ready for the event in advance. We’ve got a hand-coded voting application being tested right now, we’ve got some co-sponsorship for the event this year, and we’ve got some really top-notch judges lined up so far.
DJ Coffman & Xavier Xerexes are returning as guest judges while we welcome Wilson Ramos Jr. & Gary Tyrrell as new editions to the judges panel. We’ll probably have a couple more before the actual competition.
Submissions will be open from October 1st until October 14th. A link to the submission form will be posted on the morning of October st so keep an eye out. Be sure to sign your comic up when registration opens.
You may have heard stories about network neutrality over the last year or so. The basic debate is whether or not we need law to enforce the nondiscrimination and openness of the current Internet now that there are drastically fewer ISPs in business in a high-speed/broadband world.
So this is not webcomics but something for every independent artist to think about. Here’s David Isen’s post on what a non-neutral Internet service might be like.
Let me just take this brief moment after reading this comment thread at FLEEN to remind everyone that all posts and comments at ComixTalk should be civil and treat others with respect. We had some drama-filled days here before I began enforcing some minimums on common decency and I have no intention of letting things devolve around here again.
You can thank me later 🙂
UPDATE: Look the point of this wasn’t to pick on FLEEN. It’s obvious that FLEEN itself isn’t responsible for the intemperate remarks of a commenter and FLEEN (Gary) handled the situation pretty well. The point is that kind of stuff isn’t welcome here at ComixTalk and if you make uncivil comments they’ll get deleted and you’ll get banned.
Yes, yesterday was Talk Like a Pirate Day… Aargh and me hearties and polly wanna cracker…
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Modern Tales announced the addition of five new comics to its lineup for the second half of 2007:
Editor Shannon Garrity promises interviews with the new creators – she’s already posted one with Chris Baldwin here.
Hey it isn’t everyday you get a webcomic-related Websnark post anymore so let’s link to Eric’s recent post on Something Positive and the passing of author Robert Jordan. A good read and an interesting point about being more upset about losing a novel-to-be then about the actual death of the author.
Are there any comic stories going on now that would provoke that kind of response? (My not-serious suggestion below):
What? Jim Davis died? Now we’ll never know the ending of Garfield and whether Jon gets it on with Liz…
Sid picks his 5 funniest webcomics (link just slightly b/c of cartoon nudity NSFW): Xkcd; Basic Instructions; Wulffmorgenthaler; Ctrl+Alt+Del; and JOHN AND JOHN.
I’ve read all of those except for John and John and while I’ve laughed at all of them I’m not sure any of them would make my list for the 5 funniest webcomics. For me those would be the comics that flat out make me laugh the most and the most consistently. What 5 comics would you pick?
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