Archive - Aug 2003
August 1st
Marv Albert Says: NBAddict Tastes Better Than My Ex-Girlfriend
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on August 1, 2003 - 10:52
It seems to me that comics tackling sports is somewhat rare. NBAddict by Richard Rempel is a weekly webcomic poking fun at the NBA, basketball and its players. Right now it has some kind of pseudo-Pulp Fiction plot going on but if you dig through the archives there are plenty of stand-alone comics worth checking out.
Beat Rush the Show, Yo! or Some Random Thoughts on Making Webcomics
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on August 1, 2003 - 10:28
An entertaining, if not entirely helpful, rant on how one guy makes webcomics.
Where Have All the Short Story Comics Gone? Young Girls Have Picked Them, Everyone
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on August 1, 2003 - 10:02
Over at Ninthart, Alex Dueben laments the disappearance of the self-contained short comic book. (Dueben is zeroing in on something smaller than a graphic novel, able to stand apart from an ongoing serial, essentially the comic equivalent of the literary short story). Perhaps he hasn't checked out Modern Tales Longplay?
Death of A Comics Syndicate Salesman
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on August 1, 2003 - 09:54
Okay not death exactly, but the slow, painfully analog rituals of the newspaper feature syndicate sales market. An interesting story about selling comics to newspapers caught by Dirk Deppey today.
