Rich Burlew, creator of The Order of the Stick, has announced that he is quitting his dayjob to do OOTS fulltime. This as a result of getting more than 2000 preorders for the OOTS compilation.
News found through Websnark. Continue Reading
In its latest show On The Media, a radio show broadcast on NPR, covered among other things the current state of newspaper comic strips. The report, entitled Strip Down?, also looks at the impact of the internet on comic strips. Continue Reading
According to a news post by Gabe, the Penny Arcade Expo 2005 website is now online. Due to the succes of the 2004 expo, larger quarters have been secured this year. Continue Reading
The dutch webcomic convention Clickburg is to take place in Tilburg on May 1. Most of the site is in dutch, but the welcome page has some information in english.
ClickBurg is an event that will take place in Tilburg, The Netherlands, and is intended for people of all ages, for comics affectionado and comics layman, for everyone!
It will be a great opportunity for webcomic artists to get together and show the audience their stuff. Meet one of the youngest art forms in the world: webcomics.
In connection with the convention, the Clickburg Webcomics Award will be handed out. The Clickies is an award for the best dutch and flemish webcomics. An early list of nominations can be seen at the Comic Base blog. Continue Reading
The latest case of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is the arrest of a comic book retailer for “distributing material depicting nudity” and “distributing obscene material to a minor.” The offending material in question is a part of Nick Bertozzi’s The Salon, available online at Modern Tales sister site Serializer. Continue Reading
ComicNexus.com has an interview with Danielle Corsetto, creator of Girls with slingshots. The interview covers, among other things, the recently announced partnership with Bill Jemas’ 360ep.
The way 360ep found Corsetto sounds a bit like the webcomics equivalent of “Waitress-working-in-diner-is-discovered-by-movie-director”:
Teresa, my first contact from 360, spent a VERY long time looking through those millions and trillions of webcomics and hit Keenspace one day. Now, I don’t have anything on Keenspace, but I was about to put Ramblers on Keenspace after I’d finished about a year of it. Well, I never actually got around to that, but somehow Teresa stumbled upon the BEGININGS of what would have been Ramblers on Keenspace, and did a bit of SE work, found me, and then e-mailed me.
Scott Kurtz has announced on his website that, starting April, well known gaming magazine PC Gamer will once again include exclusive PvP strips.
PvP ran in PC Gamer some years ago and I’ve always felt that I let that opportunity slip through my fingers. I’m thrilled to have PC Gamer welcome PvP back! It’s going to feel great to pick the mag off the shelf and find PvP inside.
January saw a hint of Justine Shaw and Patrick Farley’s The Mother of All Bombs. Today Kean Soo and Hope Larson reveal The Secret Friend Society, and Sara Turner and Jerzy Drozd break the news of their new joint venture Make Like A Tree Comics. Continue Reading
Comings and goings from Dario Carrasco and Mike Barr, Amber “Glych” Greenlee, Steve Hogan and Ursula Vernon. More after the break: Continue Reading
Pulse has a full report on the arrest of two children at a Florida school for drawing a violent stick figure comic.
The report contains comments by the Excecutive Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund Charles Brownstein.
I get one of these every five or six weeks, like clockwork. […] Three weeks ago I fielded a call from a girl in New Hampshire who was expelled for bringing a Penny Arcade comic to school parodying the Liefeld-style ‘babe’ costumes.
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