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Week 4 of the XXX Issue is Up

Mon, 05/31/2004 - 21:16 — xerexes

Week 4 leaps cat-like from the rooftop, landing behind its intended victim with a soft NC-17 Webcartoonist List sound. Without a word, it pulls out a long, sharp interview with Partially Clips' Rob Balder, and thrusts it expertly through The Heart of Abracax review.



Witnessing the whole event, all Meaghan Quinn and John Barber's columns can do is scream.



Week 4 is coming for them next. Then for YOU.


Website woes

Mon, 05/31/2004 - 19:26 — Michael_Harker

For the last couple months that my site has existed, it has pretty much just been me messing around with comics and ideas. I've decided to up the seriousness this summer and make it into a more professional looking site.

Now that's all well and good, but one problem I'm having is that the main page looks like crap. I'm not particularily good with html, which is part of the problem, but I'm having trouble coming up with a decent layout for the site. I'm not sure I can do it in the style where the latest comic shows up on the front page, because my site is made up of various short comics rather than one, long-running-often-updating-dealie-strip. Anyways, if any of y'all wanted to look at what I have now and offer any advice, I'd be very grateful. The link's in the signature.


Be Kind, Please Rewind

Mon, 05/31/2004 - 14:09 — Chris_C.
Hank Burns has just purchased the old video store downtown with dreams of rental success. But will this venture prove to be disasterous or will he succeed where others have failed?

From the twisted mind that brought you the The Asylumantics comes a story of one man's dream to hardly work in an industry he loves. Updates five days a week in glorious color. Come help us celebrate our launch at Please Rewind!

NY Times Catches On to Manga Craze

Mon, 05/31/2004 - 11:55 — xerexes

In this article in the Sunday magazine, the NY Times notices that manga is selling really well because girls read it and because it's carried in bookstores.


May 30th

Loserz Brings the Offense this month

Mon, 05/31/2004 - 02:02 — xerexes

Looking back on Loserz from this comic to the current one it's as if Eric anticipated the Comixpedia theme of NC17 for the month of May and decided to play along. Not so much funny ha-ha, as funny-"dude I can't believe you put that in your comic".


Jon Towers' The Heart of Abracax, reviewed by Damonk


Department: Reviews

Have you ever had one of those really vivid, epic dreams, one where the first thought that crosses your semi-conscious mind when you wake up the next morning is, "Damn... that dream would make a great book! Where's my pen, I gotta write this down..."?

When you try to write it out on paper, however, it comes out all clumsy, incoherent, and incomplete. You look at the words inked there and know that they are supposed to be brilliant, but you just can't seem to make that crucial jump from dreamagination to readality. Sound familiar?

Welcome to Jon Towers' The Heart of Abracax.

Webcomics Are From Uranus: Sex in a Box

By: Meaghan Quinn
Department: Webcomics Are From Uranus
Issue: May 2004 Issue

Last November, Hard, author of Sexy Losers, asked in his comic's Livejournal why women read his comic. He was asking because he had so many women writing to him, and as he put it: "…sometimes they will add 'Yes, there are females that read your comic' as if I am suddenly shocked that there would actually be females that would find sex humour at all interesting…"

Form Is Function by John Barber

By: John Barber
Department: Columns, Form Is Function

Taking a look at my bookshelf, I find the two best books ever on the subjects of writing and drawing comics. Both are written by director/screenwriter/playwright David Mamet.

The books are On Directing Film (which is about writing comics) and True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor (which is about drawing comics). I don’t know why the titles make them sound like they’re about directing films and acting in plays; maybe the publishers figured they could sell more copies that way. Whatever. They’re about making comics.

At A Fast Clip: Rob Balder Talks to Comixpedia


Department: Interviews

Rob Balder has been delighting webcomics readers, readers of independent newspapers, convention-goers, and booklovers for several years now with his Partially Clips. He paused long enough in a busy schedule to answer ten questions at some length – with his observations on the current state and future of webcomics, of his trials and tribulations in book publishing, and what started him on this path... and his plans for the future.

NC:17, or 17 Notorious Webcartoonists

By: Xaviar Xerexes
Department: Features
Issue: May 2004 Issue

Webcomics have wasted no time in taking advantage of the unfiltered, uncensored, and plain uncontrollable nature of the Internet. Webtoonists have also in their own small way acted out like smaller-scale rock stars, now and again trashing a virtual hotel room.