Inverloch tied with Order of the Stick for Outstanding Fantasy webcomic at the 2005 Web Cartoonist’s Choice Awards and was nominated for outstanding art, web design, and environment design. Sarah Ellerton, the creative talent behind Inverloch, gave us a glimpse into crafting this long-running (literally – 320 pages out of a proposed 750 pages) webcomic.
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The British have a different sense of humor. There’s no easy way to explain its subtleties, but it’s the reason shows like Red Dwarf and Coupling failed miserably when "translated" for an American audience. Perhaps it’s the almost-casual mixture of normality and weirdness, or the quirkily irreverent characters, or the knowing self-parodies – or maybe just the Brits’ readiness to lampoon anything, including taboo subjects like religion, in such a way that it comes across as cutely inoffensive.
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Welcome to week two of our July 2005 issue of Comixpedia.
Our feature this month is Phil Kahn’s record of the Keenspace Meetup.
Our reviewer, Andrew Bonia checked out Demian5’s When I am King.
Al Schroeder interviewed Ghastly of Ghastly’s Ghastly Comics.
And Welton Colbert took on Whispered Apologies.
[Note that Eric Burns’ column, Feeding Snarky, will be delayed one week.] Continue Reading
When you talk about infinite canvas, you’re walking a fine line between cliché and getting publicly attacked as an artsy-fartsy idealist. Still, while the majority of webcomic artists stick to tried and true printed page formats, a few have emerged to really try to grasp the narrative possibility of digital space without descending into pretension or inaccessibility. In the case of Demian5’s When I am King, the creator manages this in addition to plenty of dick jokes. Continue Reading
Ghastly of Ghastly’s Ghastly Comic (link NSFW) is one of the most popular strips on Keenspace, lampooning the more adult themes in Japanese anime and hentai, and now he is moving into Web Comics Nation/Adult Webcomics, flexing his creative muscles in new ways. In a chat, he gave us more information about his current comic and his future projects. (NOTE: most of these links are Not Safe For Work.) Continue Reading
Phil Kahn’s narration of his experience at the Keenspace Meetup (shindig, gathering, what-have-you) in Washington D.C., starting at Union Station. The original proposal to meet came way back in September 2004. Our story begins on Saturday, July 9th, 2005, sometime in the morning… Continue Reading
Welcome to week one of our July issue. We are themeless this month – utterly and completely without theme. There have been many debates, on Comixpedia and elsewhere, about whether our themes help or harm us. So we’re trying an experiment this summer. Neither July nor August will have themes. And please – no arguments about whether themelessness constitutes a theme itself.
This week we have a feature piece from Neil Cohn called “Reframing ‘Comics'” in which Neil explores new levels of visual language, in particular the vocabulary we use. Our interview is with Stephen Crowley, creator of Loxie and Zoot as well as Magellan. Our review is from Alicia Curtis, who read through Jeffery Stevenson and Seth Damoose’s horror humor comic Spook’d. Regular columnist Erik Melander peered through his Looking Back Glass at June and early July. And finally, we’ve got Modern Humor Authority from Kristofer Straub poking around the idea of webcomics awards. Continue Reading
Flamewars are certainly fairly common in the small world of webcomics, and this month's column will be devoted to the one that took place at the beginning of June. The instigator was this strip by Penny Arcade, which in turn was a response to this Comixpedia news post. Things soon escalated as more and more people became involved.
Although a public brawl such as this is usually made up of hot air, there are often at least some interesting discussions within it. Continue Reading
Stephen Crowley chronicles the doings in a group of nudists in Loxie and Zoot as well as the doings of super-powered, gaudily-costumed superheroes at the academy where they train in Magellan on Graphic Smash. He manages to cover an equally wide variety of subjects in this interview.
Remember Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the campy horror video from the days when Jackson himself wasn’t so terrifying? Complete with zombies, Vincent Price, and dancing, Thriller crossed genres and became a huge success. Jeffery Stevenson and Seth Damoose’s horror humor comic Spook’d, hosted at Movie Poop Shoot, provides a similar experience, only in two-dimensions. Continue Reading
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