Premiere of OUTBOUND, A SCIENCE-FICTION COMICS ANTHOLOGY

The Boston Comics Roundtable, in partnership with River Bird Studios, is pleased to announce the release of the premier issue of Outbound, a Science Fiction anthology. Outbound is a spin-off of sister publication Inbound, the anthology of comics from Boston. Outbound contains comics and short stories from a mix of Boston-based creators and artists all over the world, from Australia to South America, including a cover from talented Uruguayan artist Marcelo Buchelli.

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Demand Only The Finest In Webcomics Hype!

HORROR!
Brigid Alverson writes about the lifecycle of webcomics, especially the zombie-like state of so many not-done but not-live anymore…

VILLIANS!
Midnight Cartooner reviews the first two volumes in print of Brad Guigar’s webcomic, Evil Inc.

MAYHEM!
Webcomic Planet’s Webcomic Readers’ Choice Awards are now open for voting.  You need to register as a member of Webcomic Planet to vote.

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Silly Daddy hits 500 Comics Online

500 webcomics is still a pretty tough milestone on the road of webcomics.  And perserverence in comics is nothing to sneeze at. Congrats to Joe Chiappetta on 500 installments of his all-ages family webcomic Silly Daddy!  Here’s the press release:

The family comic series, "Silly Daddy," posts its 500th online cartoon November 9th, 2009. Started as a print comic book in 1991 with the birth of his first child, cartoonist Joe Chiappetta has received much award recognition for the series, including Harvey and Ignatz nominations. When his story arc combined science fiction with real life family drama and humor, he won the Xeric Award.

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Comics on the To Write Something About List

Ideally anyhow.  Just a reminder that ComixTalk does review comics in all forms now (not just webcomics) so if you want to send us a review copy of a book send it to ComixTALK world HQ care of Robert Tanner, P.O. Box 3362, Arlington, Virginia 22203.

Right now I’ve got a review copy of Malice by Chris Wooding on my desk – extremely cool packaging of this book (a molded cover gives it a little extra heft); I also got a review copy of The Good Neighbors: Kith (Book Two) by Holly Black and Ted Naifeh but it’s a sequel so I may try to pick up the first volume before reading it.  I just finished the print collection of Rice Boy from Evan Dahm which I bought from Dahm at SPX this year. A little expensive for a paperback (although it is in full color) but factor in the fact that you already read it for free on the web.  Rice Boy deserves more review and praise online (unless I’m just not googling it right) — it’s has this demented Dr.Seuss artwork that creates a sustained other world from Dahm’s imagination.  I was struck by how much more I enjoyed it as a book — taking a long chunk of time to sit in a comfortable chair and just read it through.

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Ten Finalists in Amazon’s Comic Strip Contest

Daily Cartoonist and Webcomics.com report on the ten finalists in Amazon’s win possibly, maybe someday get a newspaper syndication deal contest.

  • "Belle Plaine" by Eric Gapstur
  • "Büni" by Ryan Pagelow
  • "CounterCulture" by Kory Merritt (this one is out of the running b/c it signed a deal with a different syndicate)
  • "Evil Twin" by Alexander Matthews
  • "Girl" by Dana Simpson
  • "Hemlock Heights" by Todd Machen
  • "Joe 6-Pack" by Mike Floyd
  • "Lil Wit" by Andrew Paavola
  • "Nutz n’ Doltz" by Michael Underhill
  • "Thatababy" by Paul Trap

In this round it looks like they will pick the winner based on who gets the most votes from the Internet. You can vote through November 6th; the winner will be announced on the 9th.

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The Comics Journal Moving to the Web

Tom Spurgeon reports on a letter The Comics Journal sent to its current subscribers outlining its plan to move to the web.  TCJ will still publish two semi-annual editions of the magazine on paper but for a promised price of at least $20 per edition that doesn’t sound at all like the current paper version of TCJ.

It’s a smart, probably inevitable, move for TCJ although adjusting the business plan to the web will take serious work.  No word yet on whether Dirk Deppey’s role there changes at all with these moves.

UPDATEDirk provides more detail this morning, including that it will be a "free" model (no subscriber wall).

correction: changed the headline from "The Comic Reporter" to "The Comics Journal".  The Comic Reporter is Tom Spurgeon’s online blog and has been online for most of the past decade.

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ComixPress 2.0 Launches

Logan DeAngelis wrote to let me know that his print-on-demand company, ComiXpress, has launched a major upgrade of its service:

Happy Monday, and welcome to the all new ComiXpress! Pardon our dust as we continue to roll out all of the new features.  We’re very excited about this fresh new day in Indie Comics, and thank  each and every one of you for being a part of it with us. You can now follow us on Twitter, become a Fan on Facebook, subscribe to our RSS Feed, and you’ll soon be able to Friend us on MySpace.

More details from Logan here at the website.

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Comix Events Calendar and Friday Hype

I’ve started up a Google Calendar for comic events: things like conventions, book signings, local meet-ups of comics folks.  I’m looking for co-maintainers to help me add events (also feel free to tweet or email me suggestions and I’ll add them if they’re appropriate).  Are you interested?  Beyond the (hopefully) collaborative effort of updating this thing, it’s also available for anyone and everyone to use – you can add it to your own gmail/calendar account, can subscribe to its RSS feed, read it here, embed it in your own site. 

JUSTIFY MY HYPE
Bicycle Cop starts October 28th.

Also, you can now download the entirety of Book Two of Derik Badman’s Things Change at his Books and Download page.

And last but not least — a pretty cool fan-animation for xkcd:

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Technical Rodeo… Get Along Lil’ Webcomics!

If you didn’t realize I am an awful headline writer by now….  A lot of interesting technical type articles today…. Webcomics being in the middle of the VENN diagram of comics and DIGITS…  I am apparently tweeting this article?

Anyhow in bigger than a phone, smaller than a laptop news, Barnes and Noble is going to sell NOOK, their answer to Amazon’s KINDLE. The buzz is also getting louder about Apple’s alleged iTablet.  We’ll see I guess.  And the Chicago Sun Times has an article/interview on LongBox, a digital comics reader. I’m withholding judgment until I find time to try it out.

The Graphic Novel Reporter has a roundtable on PIRACY and comics…. it is an AGE OF DIGITAL PIRACY!!!

Last but not least is this article from SEED magazine on the rise of authorship in the world.  Not comics-specific but given the high rate of creative participation in webcomics, I thought you might find it interesting.

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