Author: GiantPanda

Newsarama has an interview with the creative team behind Viper comics’ upcoming mini-series The Middle man. Artist on the series is Les McClain, creator of the Eisner Award nominated webcomic Jonny Crossbones.

Sequential Tart also has an interview with a creator published by Viper comics, Otis Frampton. Oddly Normal started its life as a webcomic before being picked up by Viper.

Update from Xerexes: I was working on a post when I saw Erik’s so let me just add that The Comics Reporter has some thoughts on Comicon this morning (as well as an entertaining interview with James Kochalka) and as Erik mentioned Dale Ingram has some comments on the plethora of webcomics panels this year (Ingram also has a promising webcomic Hold My Life). Continue Reading →

The Beat has the complete list of the winners of this years Eisner Awards. The winner of the new Best Digital Comic category is Mom’s cancer. Continue Reading →

Two Lumps, by James Grant and Mel Hynes, has apparently been invited to join Keenspot. No formal announcement is available at the Keen site yet, which leaves the question of whether any other comics have been asked to join this time around.

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Comicbook publisher Dark Horse has announced a number of new titles, including the first Penny Arcade collection. Dark Horse is also the publisher of the very succesfull MegaTokyo collections. Continue Reading →

Warren Ellis has made another call on his Bad Signal email list for webcomics to read.

His post goes on to list a number of webcomics he reads regularly and to talk about the need for more sites aimed to curate webcomics.

Ellis is a comic book writer, his work includes Transmetropolitan which is published by DC and Desolation Jones which is published by Wildstorm. Continue Reading →

A full version of the Clickweel has been released. Clickweel is an application for reading comics on an ipod photo.

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Tokyopop has announced its sixth Rising Stars of Manga competition. Continue Reading →