Blogs
A Doom Baby and a Cat
Submitted by michaelwhitney on July 7, 2004 - 13:08
Newsarama has posted an interview with Joey Comeau and Emily Horne, the creators of A Softer World.
Among other things, they talk a little bit about how they work, how Warren Ellis slashdotted them and why they're no longer updating their short-lived news-related comics.
More media mentions
Submitted by michaelwhitney on July 5, 2004 - 17:36
A profile in the Singapore-based Straits Times under the headline "Dawn of the dot.comic" ("dot.comic"?) discusses webcomics and the crazy kids who draw them. The creators mentioned are Johnny Tay, John Chua, Xie Menggeng and Ms Jocelyn Yik.
The 'Pedia also gets dropped in the links column:
COMIXPEDIA is a useful collection of interviews, forums, links and reviews related to Web comics. It also contains tips for producing your own dot.comics.
("Dot.comics"?)
Also in the dead-tree media, Keenspacer Melissa Durnil was written up in her hometown paper for her work on her webcomic, Tourniquet.
Scott Mcclouds new link section
Submitted by Erik Melander on July 5, 2004 - 11:06
Scott Mccloud has made a new link section.
After letting my links page languish for two years, I figure I owe it to you to give a more in-depth set of pointers than last time. Here are some notes on current trends and the cartoonists that are driving them.
Free Comic Book Day
Submitted by michaelwhitney on July 2, 2004 - 12:56
Free Comic Book Day 2004 is tomorrow, July 3. Stop by your local shop to get free promotional editions of selected comics, including Keenspot and Keenspace samplers. It's all part of a desperate, last gasp attempt to lure normal humans into these funk dungeons.
If you can't make it to the event, try looking online. There might be a few free comics you can download on the Web.
Webcomics Haiku 1
Submitted by TCampbell on July 2, 2004 - 10:50
Sluggy Freelance
What's the common theme?
Bunnies? Pop spoofs? Zoë? Slugs?
Freelancing? Nope. Fun.
Remembering Kitsune
Submitted by TCampbell on July 1, 2004 - 14:53
Comixpedia recently reported the death of Selena Ulrich, AKA Kitsune, an avid fan of several webcomics and a promising cartoonist in her own right.
I realized that the picture that kept coming back to me was that of the character "Selena" named after her in Cool Cat Studio, and while that rendition pleased her, I was more interested in getting to know the real her.
Her own strip, C.Ulture Shocked, seemed a good place to start. I'd checked it out before, but not in a couple of years. The homepage still bears the mark of her last, hastily-dashed-off update, but she thoughtfully described the first couple of years' worth of material in her archive page, and if you only have time to read one, her last story, showcasing the disabled Carla pulling off a somewhat successful kidnapping, is a hoot. Prickly and megalomaniacal, Carla definitely feels like a part of the Kitsune that was. (Note: Later stories were drawn by Jo Wilson.)
Selena had done some fan art for Everything Jake, Clan of the Cats and most impressively, five other strips simultaneously.
She also leaves us a few Buffy fanfic. This one, proceeding from Season 3, is particularly sobering just now, as Buffy confronts friends' absences.
It helps.
A little.
Punk band webcomic
Submitted by michaelwhitney on July 1, 2004 - 13:44
Skatey-Eight is a punk band whose drummer draws a Webcomic. It's kind of like the James Kochalka story (comic-guy-in-a-band) in reverse.
The Skatey-Eight comic isn't exactly genius, but it's not bad either. It's nice to see online comics making inroads among people who were too cool to talk to us in high school.
Demographics Study Monthly
Submitted by michaelwhitney on July 1, 2004 - 13:04
Exclaim Magazine -- apparently a Canadian youth (Youth! YOUTH!) rag -- did a brief article on PVP recently.
They also dropped some links to Butternut Squash, Return to Sender and White Ninja with brief, unintentionally hilarious summaries.
Their "Return to Sender" link is wrong. Oh well. They're young! For youth! They can make mistakes!
Alexander Danner on MOCCA
Submitted by Erik Melander on June 30, 2004 - 08:26
Alexander Danner has a big fat report, or several big fat reports depending on how you look at it, from this years MOCCA at his blog.
Chris Bishop's webcomics blog
Submitted by michaelwhitney on June 29, 2004 - 02:46
Chris Bishop, the creator of Her!, has a new blog code-named "Double Agent" that focuses on webcomics.
From the site:
Double Agent is a site where I can review webcomics, comment on trends and experiment with ideas and techniques. I've wanted to do this for a while. It was important that I keep it separate from my webcomic HER! - although my experiences doing that strip since 1998 and exclusively on the web since 2001 would definitely influence my views. That is why I decided to call this site Double Agent. I'm sort of playing both sides - creator and analyst.
He's already posted interviews with Michael Lalonde, Joycelyn Yik and Michael Zole. Bishop is a talented illustrator, web designer and webcomicker. This should be a great site to watch.
