Archive - Oct 2, 2007
Publisher's Weekly Spotlights CTRL-ALT-DEL, Staccato and Snafu-Comics
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 2, 2007 - 15:55
Publisher's Weekly has a short review of webcomics making a living which includes well-coverted Tim Buckley and CTRL-ALT-DEL, but also includes Shawn Handyside and his comic Staccato; and Dave Stanworth and his comic Snafu-Comic.
News To Use for Tuesday, October 2, 2007
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 2, 2007 - 09:16
We're having this giveaway content for BLADE: HOUSE OF CHTHON and the deadline is this Friday October 5th. I am giving away 5 copies so until we get more than 5 entries you can't lose by entering... details on the contest here.
RECENT FEATURE ARTICLES
- Recent interviews include Cool Cat Cartoonist: An Interview with Gisele Lagace; Filling the Void: An Interview with Shayna Marchesei; and Talking with PC Weenies Creator Krishna Sadasivam. Recent features include Integrating Text And Images In Comics; and Out of the Inkwell: Print Comics Now on the Web.
BUSINESS
- The most excellent band Radiohead left their label a year or so ago. Instead of signing with a new label they've decided to release their latest album over the intertubes. And, shades of webcomics, the price you pay for the download version... is up to you. You can pay zero or ten dollars or thirty pounds -- it's up to you.
OTHER HEADLINES
- Bomb Shelter has a podcast up on this year's Webcomic Idol.
- Brandon Carr is back, working on Weird Adventures in Unemployment, which according to credited creator Mike Strang, is a Platinum Studios-owned webcomic that Strang no longer has any thing to do with.
Justify my Dead Tree Hype
- Faith Erin Hicks (creator of the webcomic Ice) has a comic coming out of SLG in November called Zombies Calling with a great nod-to-the-Clash cover. It was also just her 29th birthday. Happy Birthday!
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- Editorial cartoonist Andrew Wahl recently launched “An Off the Wahl Perspective,†a new blog featuring his latest cartoons. The OtWP Blog also includes Wahl’s behind-the-toon commentaries, along with news about Off the Wahl Productions other projects.
- An interview with Max Estes, creator of My Life As a Bunny. (h/t Journalista!)
- Brian Roney reviews Shortpacked!
