Make your plans now! 🙂 Well it does look interesting and if you’re already in the neighborhood OF Ravenna, Italy on October 10-11th, I’d bet the Komikazen comics festival will be pretty cool. More details in the official press release below:
Google gets Scott McCloud to do a webcomic to help introduce and explain Google’s new web browser Chrome. It’s very well-done and very McCloudian (he’s not credited until the very end but you know right away it’s him, or someone trying to ape him).
And Scott McCloud has a page up on his own website about making the Chrome comic.
It’s funny that a webcomic (ignoring McCloud’s comment that it’s a comic — it is on the web) about a browser is McCloud’s big webcomic project of 2008 but it is well done. Not many could make a comic about building a better webrowser be compelling but McCloud just about pulls it off.
With the news that Faith Erin Hicks is getting close to completing a new graphic novel, The War At Ellsmere, it might seem odd to be running a review of her previous graphic novel, Zombies Calling. Really I should have reviewed this when it came out last fall from Slave Labor Graphics or more recently when it won a Joe Shuster award for Hicks (although I did get a chance to interview Hicks right after that news came out so I guess I'm not a complete slacker.) But you know what, I'm doing it now. So um, there! I mean over there… look over there!
Oh, you're still here I see. I guess a little bit of Grover-style misdirection isn't going to work with you, is it?
I’ve had You So Loco: the Second Crying Macho Man Collection book by Jose Cabrera to read and read again this summer and it’s about time I get on my ass and write the review for it. I interviewed Jose Cabrera about his comic earlier this year and my impression of his work hasn’t changed much. He likes to take bits of pop culture (and political figures as well) and mix them up, usually with a visual pun.
Time to wrap up the August issue and launch the September issue. Happy Labor Day and good luck to those returning to school this week (or even if you’re already there!). Our cover art this month is from J. Continue Reading
Back in January of this year, I reviewed Runner’s Paradox by Steve Peters. I think it’s fair to say I didn’t love it. Very recently, I received a review copy of Peters’ newest book, Awakening Comics #0. You can read a preview of it here.
Randy Reynaldo is back with another issue of his all ages adventure comic, Rob Hanes Adventures. Issue 11 is titled "Rob Hanes and the Pirates" and is a quick-paced adventure story putting the main character Rob Hanes through an adventure in a thinly veiled version of North Korea and its movie-obsessed dictator. There’s a preview up at ComicSpace here.
I may be in Phoenix the first half of the week of Sept. 15th and in Tucson the later half of the week.
Who out there lives in Arizona and might want to meet up to talk comics and pop culture?
Well take with a grain of salt, but ComicList noticed some twittering that WOWIO hadn’t made its second quarter payments ot creators. If true, well, that’s not a good sign…
Lots of coverage of Apple banning a comic from distribution thruough iTunes (even more links to stories on it at the comic publisher’s site here). Apple says the content can’t "offend" but The Register correctly notes that Apple doesn’t seem to apply the same standards to movies or tv shows (and I’ll add music as well). The comic called Murderdrome was put out by Infurious Comics (and is available at their website now if you’re curious at to it’s "offensive" content)..
TechRadar has an interview with the creators — England-based Al Ewing and Belfast-based Paul J Holden, where they seem to be asking Apple to adopt some kind of rating system. I have no idea if that’s a good idea or not at this point but given the iPod/iPhone dominance these days, it’s troubling to me that Apple is setting itself up as a censor for comics content on a platform that potentially could be huge if handled right. (Although Charlie Sorrel at Wired says no thanks to comics on the iPhone. h/t Journalista!)
I exchanged emails with Tim Demeter, the Editor-In-Chief of iPod/iPhone comics pubhlisher Clickwheel this morning, asking about how Clickwheel’s model was different and if he had any reaction to the story. Here’s his comment:
Clickwheel’s iPhone App is a free reader while our content is sold via the Clickwheel site, not the App Store, so it’s a different set of rules. The truth is, the App Store is something new for all involved and everyone still seems to be feeling out what can be done – including Apple. Either way, I’m confident Apple will ultimately resolve this situation. Anything that helps them sell iPods is in their best interests and there’s a big cross over between the comic reading and gizmo buying audiences so I wouldn’t expect this to be an issue for long.
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