Comixpedia’s List of 25 People Of Webcomics for 2005
A simple list of people of webcomics based on their contributions to the medium in 2005. And we have no doubt that we left off someone we shouldn’t have. We’re sorry. We’ll try harder next year.
Features
Versus Guest Artist Week
These webcomic kids today, they just love drawing other people's comics for them. They can't make their own updates, but they seem to make time to make other people's. Well heck, if they wanna do my work for me for a week, that's fine by me.Guest week? Pah! Back in my day, you drew your own comics. You didn't let just anyone go around drawing your comics for you. Why, if you found out someone else was drawing your comics, you'd take them to court! And back then you didn't take them to some namby pamby courthouse, where you'd whine to a judge and he'd make them give you money, no sir, back then you'd take 'em to a courtyard, so you could challenge them to a duel. Continue Reading
Faith in Science: Detective Stories In A Confused World
The game is afoot.
- — Sherlock Holmes
There’s just one more question I’d like to ask you.
- — Columbo
And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for those nosy kids and their mangy dog!
- — innumerable Scooby-Doo villains
Forget about making a hundred, forget about the victim, forget about the suspect and focus on the only thing that can’t lie: the evidence.
- — Gil Grissom, CSI
O photoprocessing machine, I command you to reveal to me that which is hidden!
- — Bee
Like most good ideas, mysteries and detective stories have many ancestors, but they didn’t really get to take a place in entertainment until the Industrial Revolution. It’s not hard to see why. The underlying message behind the traditional mystery—and the traditional detective story, its most famous subgenre—is always the same. That message: our world may seem confusing, but patience, pluck, and especially reason can lay its secrets bare, punish the guilty, and reveal the monsters as aged men in latex or clockwork springs. Continue Reading
The Essence of… Whodunnit
In this month’s Essence of… Ping Teo takes aim at mysteries.
Mystery Webcomics: A List
Detective, suspense, parlor game, crime, noir, police procedural… these are all different ways to slice the mystery genre. But how to organize the Mystery WEBCOMICS? Alphabetically by title? By author? By sub-genre? Or perhaps semi-randomly, as the whim takes me? Yep. That’ll do. Continue Reading
Feeding Snarky by Eric A. Burns
The theme this month is mystery webcomics. And for the first time since I took this gig…
…well, I have no freaking clue what to write. It’s like they said "this month, the theme is finbotz comics," and I’d smile and nod and sit down in front of the word processor. Continue Reading
Welton Colbert vs. Digital Strips
You may have noticed that last week, Zampzon and Daku, hosts of the webcomics podcast "Digital Strips," were trying their darndest to snag an interview with Welton Colbert. Well, they finally got a hold of the old coot. The following comic rendition of the interview that took place was written by Estrada and Zampzon, and illustrated by Zampzon and Estrada.
Modern Humor Authority #8
This week at Modern Humor Authority, Kristofer Straub takes on Mysteries.
An Introduction to Writing Mystery Webcomics
While every genre offers its own inherent challenges, especially when reworked for web publication, mystery stories offer concerns unlike those of any other genre. All stories raise the tension about what’s going to happen next, but mysteries are unique in being primarily concerned with unraveling events that have already happened. (This is the primary factor that distinguishes mysteries from other types of crime fiction, where the killer is already known, and the goal is simply to catch him or her.) This unusual structure leads to a number of complications in dealing with serialization, improvisation, and other commonplace facets of web publication. Continue Reading
Through the Looking Back Glass by Erik Melander
The last couple of months have seen a fair amount of fiddling with revenue models from businesses that make their money from webcomics, but not individual webcomics per se. What I'm thinking about here are what one could refer to as the publishers of webcomics. The launch of Joey Manley's Webcomics Nation back in August and Keenspot's announcements at Comic-Con are the ones that spring to mind.
But it is not only the big dogs of webcomic "companies" that are re-examining their businesses. Clickwheel has been covered previously as a promising idea. Combining the photoIpods ability to show images and RSS 2.0 to easily syndicate content. As I remember it, the original business model was to charge for the Clickwheel application. The user could then subscribe to the different comics Clickwheel provided. The comics were created by various artist paid for their work. Continue Reading
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