Month: July 2008

That intern does look familiar, doesn’t he?
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Piperka is a pretty cool webcomic list and bookmarking site — I read 99% of my webcomics through it.  I’m not sure how many users Piperka has currently so take this list of the most subscribed comics there with a grain of salt:

1. xkcd
2. Questionable Content
3. The Order of the Stick
4. Penny Arcade
5. The Perry Bible Fellowship
6. Girl Genius
7. Ctrl+Alt+Del
8. VG Cats
9. Sinfest
10. Dresden Codak
11. The Adventures of Dr McNinja
12. Gunnerkrigg Court
13. Something Positive
14. PvP
15. Megatokyo
16. Looking For Group
17. Erfworld
18. Dinosaur Comics
19. 8-Bit Theater
20. minus.
21. Sluggy Freelance
22. Shortpacked!
23. Inverloch
24. Applegeeks
25. Dominic Deegan

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I thought of this falling asleep last week.  Good thing I wrote it down — I never remember anything in the morning…
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PLATINUM-WOWIO
Tim Tyler calculates the new site launches July 31st and Gordon McAlpin adds his two cents in a comment to this thread at FLEEN.

INTERVIEWS
Lore Sjorberg interviewed R. Stevens at Comic Con about the end of newspaper Diesel Sweeties and what he’s going do with all of his newfound free time.

Shaenon Garrity interviews writer Stephen Geigen-Miller and artist Patrick Heinicke on their new series on Modern Tales, Cold Iron Badge, which combines fairy-tale fantasy with police procedural.

WRITING
Christopher Moshier writes about writing webcomics (link via Journalista!)

CONTESTS
The Webcomics Beacon posted the winners of the Jenny Everywhere cartoon contest.

DEAD TREES ON THE LCD SCREEN
Slave Labor Graphics new webcomic program is working – check out the comics at their website.

JUSTIFY MY HYPE
Have you checked out Gisele Legace’s new webcomic yet?  Menage a 3 is kind of like Porky’s meets 3’s Company.

I’ll admit it — I’m a big fan of Cat and Girl. Still this very recent one is one of my favorites.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

I think I forgot to link to this – Sean Tevis is running for office in Kansas and he used an xkcd-style comic as part of his fundraising efforts.

Another jam comic from the guys at Boxcar comics.

I laughed at this webcomic featured on Joystiq’s webcomic wrap-up.  I’m sure the  age of web-savvy cartoonists is still heavily skewed towards the twenties but I’ll wager it’s much more diverse than it was at the beginning of the naughts decade.

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I have a book I’m working on a review for that I think would be a really useful tool for many artists.  It’s called Facial Expressions: Babies to Teens.  Mark Simon has put together a huge book filled with head shots of babies to teens from all kinds of angles and with all kinds of expressions. I’ve already put my review copy to use — using it in drawing different characters and adding a bit more variety to how I compose panels.

Here’s a link to Mark Simon’s site — he has created several reference books actually and I’d imagine there all quite useful.

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Halfpixel at Comic Con:

Smattering of San Diego Clips from Scott Kurtz on Vimeo.

That Dave Kellett is a funny guy. Little bit… a little bit.

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The Eisner Awards ceremony was last night in San Diego.  Webcomic-related hightlights include:

• Joss Whedon and Fabio Moon won Best Digital Comic for Sugarshock!
• Nicholas Gurewitch won Best Humor Publication for Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories.
• Dan Clowes won Best Short Story for Mr. Wonderful which was serialized in New York Times Sunday Magazine.

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From Lines and Colors Blog:  The Philadelphia City Paper has posted an open invitation for cartoonists and illustrators to submit their comics for the weekly paper’s Second Annual Comics Issue.  All submissions will be posted on the paper’s web site, and editors’ picks will be published in the August 14th issue.  The deadline is August 6th.

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BUISINESS
Publisher Devil’s Due announced a partnership with Kevin Spacey’s Triggerstreet.com for webcomic competitions at the Triggerstreet.com site.  Stephen Cristy from Devil’s Due compared it favorably in terms of financial rewards and creator freedom to the DC Zuda site.

The Platinumized Wowio is set to relaunch in less than a week (there’s a countdown timer on the site now).  Comics Worth Reading comments on the new Wowio business plan (one quibble though – Johanna says "WOWIO worked for everyone: free comics for readers and real payments for creators of 50 cents a PDF download."  – well yes, but apparently it didn’t work for the owners of WOWIO very well as it appears they have yet to make any profits)

With all of the Platinum and WOWIO news, I’ve missed mentioning DJ Coffman’s recent "I’ll draw anything for $2" promotion.  It seems to boil down to the equivalent of selling sketches at a convention and I’m sure others have done similar things before but Coffman seems to be particularly happy with his effort and its results so far.

DEAD TREES
AppleGeeks signs with Dark Horse to do a book in 2009.  Congrats to Hawk and Ananth.

TECHNOLOGY
Everyone seemed to be linking today to this article on webcomics through the Nintendo Wii.  Four Japanese publishers are teaming up to do this in Japan.

WANT ADS
Laurent Q writes at Panels and Pixels: I’m a french writer (novels and comics-books) seeking artists. Several project accepted by french publishers are awaiting their artist.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
Ouch – get better soon Aaron Diaz!  (He had a bike accident and got hurt).

Looks like DrunkDuck webcomics site is running an awards program this year.

Last not least: an animated version of the caustic clip-art webcomic, Get Your War On.

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I like having all of that music on the computer but sometimes I don’t know how I want to listen to it all.  I’ve got a lot of music I like but I don’t like any of it all of the time.
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