Author: GiantPanda

If you haven’t already checked out Vera Brosgol’s new website in general and the short animated film Snow-bo, made by her and Jenn Kluska, in particular, I implore you to do so.

Limited edition Penny Arcade prints have begun popping up on eBay. The one with the currently highest bid is at $200 with about 24 hours left to go on the auction. Still a decent investment for the seller considering the original price of $80.

Newsarama has a preview of Spell Game, a comic book with Ramon Perez of Butternut Squash fame handling the pencils. Spell Game is published by Speakeasy Comics who is also the publisher of the first Butternut Squash comic book. Continue Reading →

Flatwood has a new domain.

Ctrl+Alt+Del has apparently been featured on CNN.

Another example of the mutual love between Videogame companies and gaming webcomics is Bioware’s poll regarding their visitors favourite webcomics. This is also another example of the size of the Penny Arcade fandom.

The Fourth Rail has a snapshot review of Scott Kurtz’ PvP #0. The issue is a “best of” issue collecting 16 strips and a five page “Secret Origin of Skull” story. The issue only costs 50 cents with the aim of introducing new readers to PvP. The cover features the PvP cast busting through a drawing of syndicated cartoon characters recoiling in fear and also sports the tag-line “Kicking the funny pages square in the groin”.

Tom Spurgeon has an article on THE PULSE regarding King features newly announced shift in its online business model. Apparently, most of the complaints came from the “comics as art” side of the spectrum, proving (if anyone doubted it) that the art vs entertainment struggle is as alive and kicking in print/syndication as in webcomics. Continue Reading →

The latest installment of Meanwhile, the comics podcast by T Campbell and Dave Belmore, consists of an interview with Joey Manley regarding Webcomics Nation. Continue Reading →

Sean “Squidi” Howard has announced his intention to close down his comic A Modest Destiny as well as disappearing from the internet. Howard cites several reasons including becoming a father and the Penny Arcade incident a while back.

Comixpedia interviewed Howard in January 2004. Continue Reading →

Digital Strips noted some days ago that Zoinks!, the webcomic magazine helmed by Bill Charbonneau, is returning to print (yes, it’s a print magazine) in October and is accepting submissions.

Joey Manley has updated the Webcomics Nation website with descriptions of its features. For those of us that has been keeping an eye on the forums there seems to be no completely new features announced. But does anyone know if WCN’s business strategy is completely reliant on advertising now or are there some kind of premium accounts?

UPDATE:Joey Manley has commented in this post clarifying the business strategy of WCN.

A blog by the name of Ponderance has interviewed both John Allison and Jeph Jacques. The questions cover both their webcomic businesses and interaction with their readership. Interesting stuff.

Penny Arcade has made another line of limited edition prints. 250 were sold at Comicon and 500 were available through their ThinkGeek store. The previous set of prints sold out in under eight hours and some later appeared on eBay. The second set became available through the store yesterday and sold out in under two hours. Each print was priced at 80 USD. Continue Reading →

The Lazy Grind Challenge is a comic ironman challenge modeled after The Daily Grind Ironman Challenge, but with three updates a week as its goal instead of weekdays. The stakes are much lower though, with only glory and the right to demand drawings for the winner.

There is an interesting discussion in the Kilroy and Tina forum about the pros and cons of being a part of a subscription site. Several Graphic Smash creators have joined in the discussion.

City Newspaper, a Rochester alternative paper, has an interview with Perry Bible Fellowship creator Nicholas Gurewitch. Continue Reading →

The silence surrounding Keenspots San Diego ComiCon panel has been deafening and since Comixpedia did not have an operative in place we have been patiently waiting for word on what was announced at the panel. Thankfully Wednesday White took it upon herself to make a public inquiry or we might never have found out. In the comments Aeire outlines what was revealed.

Keenspot will implement an incentive program intended to reward Keenspot comics that update regularly, Keenspace will change name to Comic Genesis and finally there is a TV show in the works.

Update: More announcements made at the panel is now available in the Websnark thread.

Update #2: Chris Crosby posted a list of news from the Keenspot panel at the Keenspot homepage. Continue Reading →

Animation World Magazine has an article looking at digital comics in general and the Eisner awards new digital category in particular. The article contains a lot of interesting stuff, including that all the Eisner nominees for Best Digital Comic, except possibly Kibuishi’s Copper, have print versions of their comics in the works. Continue Reading →

San Diego ComiCon has promted Wired News to takes a look at webcomics. It is pretty much your average overview of the field, but with some interesting quotes from various people. The Talk About Comics blog post on the subject has a few comments on a quote made by Scott McCloud.

And apparently someone spat on Scott Kurtz at Comicon.

*update*: Kurtz has commented on the spitting incident on his website Continue Reading →

Some time ago, Amber “Glych” Greenlee announced that she was consolidating her comics on a site of her own, Panel2Panel.com. Now comes word that she will be joined there by Barb Lien-Cooper and Ryan Howe. Lien-Cooper and Howe brings their comic Gun Street Girl, which was previously part of subscription site Graphic Smash.

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