Month: June 2009

CONVENTIONS
Fleen has the breakdown on where the webcomics at for this year’s MoCCA 2009.

INTERVIEWS
A good interview with cartoonist Kate Beaton.  She did get web-famous pretty quickly, didn’t she?  Also another good interview with Beaton at Comixology.
Daily Cross Hatch has an interview with Achewood‘s Chris Onstad.
Comics Worth Reading has an interview with Tara Tallan of Galaxion.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
The K Chronicles asks cartoonists why can’t we be friends?
Rick Marshall reports that several members of ACT-I-VATE, including Josh Neufeld, contributed to last night’s ABC News special Earth 2100.
Brigid Alverson has a good article about her Zuda rule:  making sure the reader can make sense of the comic in the first 8 pages.

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I really like a lot of Angela Melick’s Wasted Talent.  It’s kind of a journal comic but a little stranger-than-life at times and much tauter in execution than the typical pace of a journal comic.  The latest one about how her job is like an RPG is classic.  

You upgrade your equipment with — Chair of Awesome Rollingness!

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Ah Tuesday!  One day after Monday; too many days before Friday.  Our top story today — aAfter much public demand, James Turner reveals his new comic: Brunel and Stovie.  Hip Hip Hurrah!

CRAFT
Joey Weiser shows you the process from scripts to finished pages.

MILESTONES
Heroes of a Lesser Earth hits 500 strips.

JUSTIFY MY HYPE
Checking out Heroes Inc – art looks good.  (Which reminds me we once did a list of superhero comics on the web; feel free to update it!)

BUSINESS
Kickstarter looks like another vehicle for pre-funding projects that conceivably could be of use to web/comic creators.

NOT COMICS
Kris Straub and David Malki! are doing a talk show.

And as always, be sure to read Journalista!, Webcomics.com and Fleen for more links and stories.  I tend not to link as much to those sites anymore simply because it’s easier for you to go read them yourself.

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Thanks to Onezumi for a great cover piece for this month.  Be sure to check out her comic Stupid and Insane Defenders Against Chaos.

Brad Guigar has been posting a number of useful tips for creators over at webcomics.com.  You really ought to have that site bookmarked by now.

Also everyone seems to be linking to Rich Johnston’s new comics gossip site so what the hey – it’s called Bleeding Cool.

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