Damonk’s Own Quickie Personal Webcomic Year In Review
2003. The Year of Stuff. One Year after 2002, and 365.23 Days before 2004.
Backwards, it would be 3002…
…which time-wise, would actually be forwards.
After having been exposed no doubt to the bajillions of other media’s own versions of Year In Reviewstravaganzas, it’s clearly obvious that the one thing you would now crave most would be to hear YET ANOTHER person’s own thoughts on the year.
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Fish Muffin Scream Asphalt: Funny?
I remember with great fondness the first time I stumbled upon a totally surreal webcomic. I won’t say which one, just that it was one of the originals, something mindbogglingly bizarre that, over time, picked up its own cult following and is now a Minor Institution among webstrips. Continue Reading
I knew my wife was the person I was going to marry two weeks before our first date. We got together for coffee as friends, talked until one in the morning, and I walked her to her car. As she drove off, an overwhelming peace came over me, and I knew down to my core she was the one. It wasn’t like lightning striking or fireworks going off. It was as though I had just learned a new fact, like two plus two equals four or that water is wet. That’s how convinced I was. Continue Reading
I had to make a phone call today to the town of Hawthorne, California – yes, to the town itself. The woman who acted as the town's agent was disappointed to talk to me. I'm shutting down a store in a famous chain there. Continue Reading
You probably know that a court can prevent shops from selling certain materials. Did you also know they can prosecute retailers for selling adult comics to other adults? That retailers can be prosecuted and convicted for selling obscene material even if those comics are in a separate part of the store from regular comics? Did you know that law enforcement and the District Attorney’s office can make life very difficult for a private individual, for selling comics that are not obscene to minors? Did you know they can prevent you from drawing or creating anything, even if it’s for yourself in your own home?
You’d know all these things if you follow the thrilling exploits of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. You’d also know that sometimes, but not always, justice wins out over stupidity and repression. Continue Reading
Brad Hawkins’ Monkey Law is an excellent example of the kind of genre-hopping that webcomics makes possible. One part social-political commentary, one part funny-monkey stories, Monkey Law is an occasionally awkward marriage of seemingly disparate parts, that delivers a powerful punch. Continue Reading
I don’t know whatever possessed me to try and write a column about burnout. It’s like being assigned a term paper on nihilism: you’re really, really tempted not to turn in anything at all. Nobody can say that you failed to grasp the concept at hand.
Luckily (?) for you, my work ethic has risen, phoenix-like, from the ashes. But I have been to the Edge: and I can tell you what lies beyond.
The Internet is a wonderful thing. As a culture, not only do we have access to more Photoshopped pictures of naked celebrities now than at any other point in history, but we are also inundated with pornography’s ugly sister: Internet news.
Brad Hawkin, the creator of Monkey Law, talks to Leah Fitzgerald about his art and politics, and the business of making monkeys homeless. Continue Reading
Small Stories Online creator and serializer.net contributor Derek Kirk Kim’s Same Difference and Other Stories was recently chosen by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the best books of 2003, in their Comics category.
Here’s a full list of the Comic laureates:
The Sandman: Endless Nights, Neil Gaiman (DC/Vertigo)
Palomar, Gilbert Hernandez (Fantagraphics)
Same Difference and Other Stories, Derek Kirk Kim (Alternative Comics)
Nightmare Alley, Spain Rodriguez (Fantagraphics)
The Fixer, by Joe Sacco (Drawn & Quarterly)
Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon)
Blankets, by Craig Thompson (Top Shelf)
“Small Difference” and the other wonderful short stories found in Kirk Kim’s compilation book first appeared exclusively on the web on his Small Stories site.
You can find the full Publisher’s Weekly awards feature here.
NOTE: Thanks to Fetus-X‘s Eric Millikin for the story lead! Continue Reading
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