I really like a lot of Angela Melick’s Wasted Talent. It’s kind of a journal comic but a little stranger-than-life at times and much tauter in execution than the typical pace of a journal comic. The latest one about how her job is like an RPG is classic.
You upgrade your equipment with — Chair of Awesome Rollingness!
Ah Tuesday! One day after Monday; too many days before Friday. Our top story today — aAfter much public demand, James Turner reveals his new comic: Brunel and Stovie. Hip Hip Hurrah!
CRAFT
Joey Weiser shows you the process from scripts to finished pages.
MILESTONES
Heroes of a Lesser Earth hits 500 strips.
JUSTIFY MY HYPE
Checking out Heroes Inc – art looks good. (Which reminds me we once did a list of superhero comics on the web; feel free to update it!)
BUSINESS
Kickstarter looks like another vehicle for pre-funding projects that conceivably could be of use to web/comic creators.
NOT COMICS
Kris Straub and David Malki! are doing a talk show.
And as always, be sure to read Journalista!, Webcomics.com and Fleen for more links and stories. I tend not to link as much to those sites anymore simply because it’s easier for you to go read them yourself.
Thanks to Onezumi for a great cover piece for this month. Be sure to check out her comic Stupid and Insane Defenders Against Chaos.
Brad Guigar has been posting a number of useful tips for creators over at webcomics.com. You really ought to have that site bookmarked by now.
Also everyone seems to be linking to Rich Johnston’s new comics gossip site so what the hey – it’s called Bleeding Cool.
Rho is a great magical realism style comic about a teenage girl. It careems between real life hassles of having divorced parents and wonderfully loopy sequences where realism… stretches out a bit, including a cockroach/slime demon and a videogame inspired trek.
Created by Slyvan Migdal in 2006, it is also available at a book. I had missed it until this week – Migdal has been creating comics and posting them online for nearly a decade now (earlier work includes Spork) – but noticed a link to it at the very new comic Curvy. Migdal is apparently the creator of the NSFW (but funny and interesting) comic Curvy under the nom de plume of Mary Magdalene.
Just a huge number of great artists will be at this year’s MoCCA in New York. Gary Tyrrell points out some of the webcomic-friendly folks on that list as well as some of the panels not to miss.
UPDATE: IT’s NEXT WEEKEND Dangit. (Never post while on cold medicine…) MoCCA 2009 is June 6-7th.
Fan fiction is alive and well in this comic called The Ten Doctors. I’m in the middle of reading it still but it is complete and is a complicated but well-handled mashup storyline incorporating all of the various incarnations of Doctor Who from the teevee series(s). And if you’re interested over at Two Minute Time Lord, they have an audio interview with the comic’s creator Rich Morris.
Hope you all gots good stuff going today. Me? I got a cold. But here’s some reviews of some good stuff I found around the web this morning:
Book: Cory Doctorow on Bayou.
Book: Mark Frauenfelder on Nancy.
Book: Johanna Draper Carlson on DAR: A Super Girly Top Secret Comic Diary.
Web: Midnightcartooner on Super Fogeys.
Be sure to check out my interview with Caleb Sevcik!
EMERGENCY!
Onezumi got in a car accident this weekend! OMG! But she’s okay. Whew! Her car is not and she’s having a donation sale — go spend some cash if you can!
CONVENTIONS
If you’re going to the San Diego Comicon this year, you need to read Tom Spurgeon’s Survival Guide for Comicon. Also while you’re there say hi to Mr. Fleen!
A WHOLE BUNCH OF HYPE
+ Just random hype – I’m enjoying this new character in Multiplex — she’s a bigger movie snob then main character Jason.
+ Sordid City Blues has had a good storyline going with three of its characters who are in a band ("Owns Big Mecha") on a tour on the road. It’s good stuff. Not sure if the storyline is nearing its end or taking a turn in another direction.
DIGGING YOUR SCENE
Got a review copy of the latest anthology from the Boston Comic Roundtable group. Should have a review of it (and a couple other books) very soon. Would anyone be interested in more articles on local scenes? I would say maybe – "webcomic-friendly" or "webcomic-aware" scenes but more about groups and collaboration in different cities?
CRAFT
Otis "Petie" Frampton paints an awesome fantasy scene and has a video showing how he did it.
BERMUDA TRIANGLE
One of the Snarkoleptics notes that the website for Malfunction Junction has gone away. That’s too bad – Matt Milby’s comics were very funny stuff – hope they resurface soon.
Caleb Sevcik is a fun artist with a wicked sense of humor and a really energetic style. I first encountered Sevcik while reading Zap Jones, which was a funny steampunk western back in the days of Keenspace.
He's working on a new comic he's planning to debut next month — I'm looking forward to Caleb' Sevcik's new project and you should be too! Read on for our recent interview:
Enjoy the weekend — I am working on wrapping up an interview I did with Caleb Sevcik which I expect to post after the weekend (probably late Monday night since it’s Memorial Day here in the ‘States) and we’ve got a new cover coming for June from Onezumi. Here’s the news I found newsy enough this morning:
Let’s Get Ready to Webrumble!
The new webcomic blog and podcast Webcomics Rumble looks mighty impressive. Better add it to your RSS feed.
CHASING THE DREAM
James Turner (of Beaver and Steve) has a great comic about making (or not) comics.
REVIEWS
Digital Strips has a review of a collection of PHD (Piler Higher and Deeper) comics called "Piled Higher and Deeper: A Graduate Student Comic Strip Collection" that is pretty indepth. This is the early years of that comic, including many that focus on the creator’s time at Stanford University.
CRAFT
Anthony Clark, the newest colorist for Dr. McNinja, goes over how he does the coloring for that comic. This is a useful tutorial – check it out.
JUSTIFY MY DEAD TREE HYPE
John "Union Jack" Allison just dropped his seventh volume of Scary Go Round on paper — go forth and acquire the goodness! Also if you’re in Londontowne this weekend – John will be at the MCM Expo.
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