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Juxtapose This: I Am A Webcomics Evangelist

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So, here I am, a student at a liberal arts college, majoring in a liberal arts department. Part of this department’s "cool" is that its logo involves an interwoven Hebrew Aleph and Greek Omega.

Yes. It’s that kind of major.

After two years of this, you might think that I’m ready for some concrete, real-world learning. Yet from personal experience, I can tell you that I am gaining in something that will help me throughout my adult life. Screw employability! I’m not paying over $30,000 dollars a year to qualify myself for a paycheck, my friends! I’m paying for a lifetime supply of high-minded pet-peeves.

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Webcomics Are From Uranus: Looking For Some Good Heroine

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I feel like a drug addict these days, searching for some good heroines.

Seriously, if you look at film, books, comics – heroines are scarce and even scarcer is a *good* heroine. I’m not looking for a Lara Croft who is a man with boobs. I’m not looking for girls who save the day with cute antics. I want a heroine who is a woman with her own skills, who is uncompromised by super powers or a need to appeal to men. Continue Reading →

Gasps and Guffaws: Balancing Humor and Drama in Webcomics by Jeff Darlington

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Free from the stranglehold of syndicate and newspaper editors, webcomics have the luxury of unfettered imagination, allowing creators to develop their characters however they wish, catering only to their own (and presumably their readers’) whims. The protagonist may be a lighthearted loveable oaf, a brooding anti-hero with deep psychological scars, or a seductive vixen with dubious motives. Continue Reading →

Makeshift Musings and Comic Book Bliss by Jim Zubkavich

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Expanding Your Comic-Reading Horizons

It’s easy to let your comic-reading patterns become stagnant after a while. Everyone has their favorite comics that they read every month in print or multiple times a week on the web. These are familiar characters, reassuring faces, and a standard that you can count on. But with that set pattern comes a slippery slope: You stop looking for anything else.
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greeneyes by William Van Hecke et al.

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greeneyes, an independent webcomic encompassing several simultaneous plotlines and artists, is run and primarily written by William Van Hecke. It tells of the events surrounding one of the more unusual classmates of Wilkinson School, Urbanite, Mars — the intriguingly-named µ, a young girl with luminescent green eyes, bone studs rather than eyebrows, and a nasty habit of collapsing in inconvenient places.

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It’s Nifty! Pete Abrams Answers Comixpedia Readers’ Questions

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Pete Abrams started Sluggy Freelance in 1997 and has been producing the daily strip (Sunday to Saturday) ever since. Along with producing some memorable characters like Bun-bun the knife-welding lop rabbit and Kiki the hyperactive ferret, Sluggy has created some pretty sharp parodies over the years, lampooning movies and pop culture regularly. Sluggy has also attracted a rabid legion of fans known as "sluggites" who run the Sluggy Zone where fans of Sluggy Freelance gather to talk all things Sluggy.

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