Month: September 2007

Five karma points for every link to a guest comic by Ryan Estrada from this week (really yesterday I think is when the Estrada-bomb was unleashed). There are a lot (so get reading)…

FLEEN has a pretty good list of where to find the Estradamania (and has a bit more today in this post plus some MOCCA Webcomic Exhibit Reception reportage as well).

And just to make it easier Ryan is in the process of posting all of the guest comics he did at his own website.

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The Kid’s Book Project is close to completion! The project is raising money for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Every single book bought raises over £3 for the charity (that’s somewhat more than $6)! Right now pre-orders are available. It’s £6 per book, with £1.50 P&P for UK and £2.50 P&P for International Orders.

The project is comprised of over 50 webcomic artists — each making one single page within a story and none of them know the start or the end to it (they only get to see the page previous and after their own page). With artwork from Mitch Clem, Frank Page, Brandon J Carr, Ryan North, James Hutchinson and many many more, this book will be spectacular whether the story makes sense or not.

There is only going to be 500 editions ever printed so don’t miss your opportunity to find out what happens inside!

Do it for Make-A-Wish!

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Damn Good Comics blogger Mr Myth says:

Stunning upset of the day: It isn’t unheard of for two popular gaming strips to happen to make near identical jokes on the same day. What was a shock, however, was the realization that on this day, Ctrl+Alt+Del managed to thoroughly out-humor Penny Arcade.

Both make jokes about a Halo-branded Mountain Dew called "Game Fuel". I’m not that sure CAD (which goes for a more straight-forward parody of the concept of a main Halo character endorsing ever more ludicrous products) made me laugh more than Penny Arcade here. Penny Arcade, as usual, took an approach to this "joke" that wasn’t as expected as probably most gaming webcomics (including CAD) would do and it’s that "left turn" aspect to PA that usually gets me, even if I’m not super-familar with the videogame they’re mocking.

What do you think?

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Jack is having a contest asking his readers to design a new logo for his webcomic review site. Jack has lots of reviews of good webcomics worth checking out. The winner of his contest gets (1) a review if you have a webcomic; (2) a month-long ad on his site; and (3) a t-shirt with your logo on it (note to Jack: you’d better be clear about and put the copyright arrangement with the winner in writing; otherwise you run the risk of the creator changing his/her mind about your use). And here’s the key rule for the contest (and probably why I’m linking to it):

It can be any style, any theme, with just one little catch. You must incorporate a chimp. That simple. One chimp, two chimps, three, four, however many you want, doing whatever you want, somewhere in the logo design. It also has to be 638px(width)by 237px(height),in jpeg format. You can have a chimp at a desk, chimps at a computer, heck, chimps doing Pilates, I don’t care as long as it’s original.

The contest will run until Oct. 12th so check out Jack’s site and email in those entries!

UPDATE: Jack’s changing the name of his site to the "Webcomic Asylum" but otherwise the contest continues.

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This is so totally my new approach to playing the guitar! Continue Reading →

I’m not sure if I’ve ever plugged The Non-Adventures of Wonderella one of the smartest, funniest strips I’ve read.  It’s superficially a bit of a superhero-parody but the humor goes far beyond that narrow description.  Continue Reading →

Improbable Marriage of Classical Music and Comic Book Characters Gives Birth to Caffeinated Opera!

This September 29th at 3pm at Stumptown Comic Fest in Portland Ore Shannon Wheeler announces and discusses the sequel to the first opera based on a comic book; Too Much Coffee Man Opera. Stacey Murdock and accompanist Joey Prather will perform snippets from the opera, Shannon will give a brief talk and answer questions from the audience.

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The long-running webcomics podcast Digital Strips was started by Zampson and Daku. Daku Zampson left the site awhile back, but apparently he hasn’t left webcomics as he has his own site called Bramble Vine Comics where he posts his own webcomics. (link from Zampson Daku at DS). 

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