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Art & Narrative: Splitting the Atom Or A Comic Call to Arms

BIll Duncan 9 Comments

Love him or leave him, no one has set the comics world on its ear in the last several years like Scott McCloud. His books Understanding Comics, and its sequel Reinventing Comics have challenged many preconceived notions of what comics are and still might be. Like a general marshalling his troops, McCloud has invigorated discussion and debate, and inspired a host of people to take up their pencils, markers and tablets to become part of the push towards whatever it is that Comics may become.

So, what are they becoming?

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Shiga Shiga Ko Ko Bop

Shaenon Garrity 1 Comment

I draw a comic strip about mad geniuses. You know, evil-scientist types, with the insane laughter and the bubbling vats of unwholesome chemicals and the tampering in God’s domain. One of the themes I try to get across, and probably don’t most of the time, is the idea that genius isn’t just a matter of brains. Genius, the real rare deal, is all about seeing the world in a way no one’s ever seen it before.

Jason Shiga’s a mad genius. A real one.

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What This Chick Looks For In A Comic

Leah Fitzgerald 5 Comments

When I look for a comic, I’m most often attracted to the things published with girls in mind. When I was younger, it was Archie. I read so many digests and individual comics (which are still in my parents basement in a large box) that I could tell you what era a story came from based on what Betty and Veronica were wearing.

And man, did I love the pin-ups in the Betty and Veronica comics.

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The 27th Letter

T Campbell Leave a Comment

They look freakish. The noses are askew, the nostrils invisible. The eyes are beady little pinpricks, and the mouths have no lips, just parabolic cracks. They exist independent of anything else; they're just a few bits of black on endless white space.

Yet without the “emoticons,” the webcomics of today would be slower to recognize a fundamental human truth. We all recognize them – they look like typographic versions of the first faces any of us ever drew. And to understand their use, we have to go back in time to discover their prototype: the smiley-face.

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Makeshift Musings and Comic Book Bliss: Transmetropolitan Town

Zubkavich Leave a Comment

I read some Transmetropolitan while on the streetcar this morning. It’s a great story about these people who’ve been revived from cryogenic sleep and suddenly realize that society has no place for people from the past — just as they themselves can’t come to grips with the evolution that has happened around them. When it’s over, you feel the loneliness, confusion and heartache that grip these people. After I finished reading it, I looked at the people on the train and wondered how many of them could relate to that story.

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Why Do Online Comics?: Webcomics Are Alternative

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You know those jokes about how "alternative music" isn’t really "alternative" if it’s listened to by the mainstream public? At one point, alternative music was really alternative. If you happened to be into it, you were kind of on the fringe. People thought of you as marching to your own drummer. Have you ever really thoroughly enjoyed something that not a whole lot of other people had ever heard of, then once it "hit it big" and everyone was talking about it, you sort of lost interest?

If you get what I’m talking about, if the idea of being on the cutting edge of something before the edge gets dulled from being used too much is appealing, then I’ve got something that may just interest you.

It’s called…

Online comics.

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Why Comixpedia?

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Because the WORLD is noticing that there is such a thing as a webcomic and is expressing a desire, a NEED for MORE.  Because webcomics ARE a viable art form, a new medium branching off from our print foremothers and fathers – a medium in which to expand, elaborate, experiment, and perhaps most importantly, enjoy.

Because there are now THOUSANDS of hobbyists, young and old, trying their hand at placing images in sequence, on an infinite canvas.

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Publisher’s Note

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Comixpedia Yellow Mouse LogoWelcome to Comixpedia, your destination for news, interviews, reviews and articles about webcomics. We have worked hard to put together not only a tremendous first issue for you, but an infrastructure and staff that will ensure we keep bringing you quality issues. Our mission, simply stated, is to bring to your attention the best and the brightest of webcomics and in the process, promote this new art-form. We welcome your comments on our site and our coverage.

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