Half Pixel Highlights from SDCC
Halfpixel at Comic Con:
Smattering of San Diego Clips from Scott Kurtz on Vimeo.
That Dave Kellett is a funny guy. Little bit… a little bit.
Author: Xaviar Xerexes
Eisner Winners!
The Eisner Awards ceremony was last night in San Diego. Webcomic-related hightlights include:
- Joss Whedon and Fabio Moon won Best Digital Comic for Sugarshock!
- Nicholas Gurewitch won Best Humor Publication for Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories.
- Dan Clowes won Best Short Story for Mr. Wonderful which was serialized in New York Times Sunday Magazine.
Philly City Paper Comics Issue
From Lines and Colors Blog: The Philadelphia City Paper has posted an open invitation for cartoonists and illustrators to submit their comics for the weekly paper’s Second Annual Comics Issue. All submissions will be posted on the paper’s web site, and editors’ picks will be published in the August 14th issue. The deadline is August 6th.
Around the World With Three Dog Webcomic
BUISINESS
Publisher Devil’s Due announced a partnership with Kevin Spacey’s Triggerstreet.com for webcomic competitions at the Triggerstreet.com site. Stephen Cristy from Devil’s Due compared it favorably in terms of financial rewards and creator freedom to the DC Zuda site.
The Platinumized Wowio is set to relaunch in less than a week (there’s a countdown timer on the site now). Comics Worth Reading comments on the new Wowio business plan (one quibble though – Johanna says "WOWIO worked for everyone: free comics for readers and real payments for creators of 50 cents a PDF download." – well yes, but apparently it didn’t work for the owners of WOWIO very well as it appears they have yet to make any profits)
With all of the Platinum and WOWIO news, I’ve missed mentioning DJ Coffman’s recent "I’ll draw anything for $2" promotion. It seems to boil down to the equivalent of selling sketches at a convention and I’m sure others have done similar things before but Coffman seems to be particularly happy with his effort and its results so far.
DEAD TREES
AppleGeeks signs with Dark Horse to do a book in 2009. Congrats to Hawk and Ananth.
TECHNOLOGY
Everyone seemed to be linking today to this article on webcomics through the Nintendo Wii. Four Japanese publishers are teaming up to do this in Japan.
WANT ADS
Laurent Q writes at Panels and Pixels: I’m a french writer (novels and comics-books) seeking artists. Several project accepted by french publishers are awaiting their artist.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
Ouch – get better soon Aaron Diaz! (He had a bike accident and got hurt).
Looks like DrunkDuck webcomics site is running an awards program this year.
Last not least: an animated version of the caustic clip-art webcomic, Get Your War On.
iTunes Medley
I like having all of that music on the computer but sometimes I don’t know how I want to listen to it all. I’ve got a lot of music I like but I don’t like any of it all of the time.
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Brian Wilson Ain’t Got Nothin’ On Me
Actually James Turner is working on other paying-type comics projects right now but we can all hope that someday he will return to the (art) studio to craft one more Beaver & Steve album (of artwork).
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Baby’s First Internet
Baby’s First Internet is a comic/illustrated story by Kean Soo and Kevin Fanning that is solid gold baby! It’s very funny: a laundry list of ‘net bad behaviors told through rhyme.
New Wowio Deal?
DJ Coffman has posted some comments on the new Platinum-owned WOWIO deal and he explains why he’s passing on it. From DJ’s explanation it does seem like WOWIO is becoming a bit more like a webcomics portal and it also seems to shift the risk of getting advertising onto the publisher (that’s you the humble webcomic creator under WOWIO’s contract speak).
Time for Glam Justice!
Noddy Holder is to fun to draw not to do a two-parter.
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Crazy Little Thing Called Webcomic
INTERVIEWS
UPDATE: Rick Marshall interviews David Willis of Shortpacked!
Joey Comeau from A Softer World interviewed Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics — sort of like webcomics own version of Interview magazine.
Rick Marshall has an interview with Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content.
TIPS AND TOOLS
JOURNALISTA points to an article by Ben Towles on artist supplies worth perusing.
Daniel Whiston has an interview with Alan Moore on writing that is awesomesauce. (also h/t to Journalista!)
AROUND THE WORLD IN A BLOG
FLEEN points to a strange website called mezzacotta that apparently Irregular Webcomic creator David Morgan-Mar has something to do with. Funny, cryptic or what: the website states that the asking price for the URL and the "idea" is €1 million prior to launch and €5 million afterwards.
JUSTIFY MY HYPE
A few folks pointing to Capes and Babes a comic about comic book culture. A topic ripe for tackling (I like SubCulture which also hits this subject) and if anyone else has some sugested comics in this area fire away. (Thanks)
The Fragile Gravity crew did a week of strips at Sluggy Freelance recently. Go check it out!
Anyone been reading My Life In A Cube? Funny autobiographical (?) stuff from about first job (thereabouts) working in a cube farm.
ALSO – Melonpool creator STEVE TROOP has a new comic called CryptoZooey! He plugged it here last week but I don’t think a lot of folks saw it over the weekend. Full press release for the new strip — click "read more"
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