Wow I was completely zapped by three days of con-mania this past weekend. In any event, I've posted some photos, my first "live" interviews – well first I've recorded and shared with peoples like yourselves. I've got a few more to edit and post — hopefully by the end of the week along with a convention-report style wrap-up. There's been a lot of posts on SPX (Tom Spurgeon's round-up of such posts is here). I missed the panel there with Richard Thompson, creator of the best new comic strip in recent years — Cul de Sac but moderator Mike Rhode posted the audio from the panel.
iWEBCOMICS
Warren Ellis posted a little blurb about ideal digital format and pricing for comics. There were some recent posts about the current price of monthly comic books pamphlets floppies 32 pages with staples thingees lately — prices have gone way up and that format is really not a cheap buy for entertainment anymore. Digital comics could be. Webcomics surely are — free is the ultimate sampler price. I also missed posting about the speech on this future for comics that Mark Waid gave at the Harvey Awards ceremony — Waid followed up with a blog post containing a more polished version of the speech here — it's well worth reading.
NEW!!
David Willis — who I got to meet at Intervention — launched his brand spankin' new Dumbing Of Age webcomic.
DIFFERENT!!
John Allison writes that he's going to stop posting Bad Machinery as a webcomic, but instead turn towards finding a publisher for it. Presumably to put out a print version that would help it to find more younger readers?
MILESTONES
Co-creator Eben E.B. Burgoon writes that the 3rd anniversary of Eben 07 was this month plus they have a 3rd print collection out, titled Operation: 3-Ring Bound. To celebrate, they're holding a contest for a $20 amazon gift card & the line art of a celebratory anniversary poster drawn by D. Bethel — anybody that comments on a comic during September will be entered to win.
HISTORY
El Santo writes a round-up of attempts to chronicle the history of webcomics including T Campbell's series on it here at ComixTalk.
MAILBAG
- Charles Cutting wrote to let us know that the Illustrated Ape website is hosting the first installment of his webcomic The Dream Quest of Randolph Carter. The next episode will be posted as soon as it is finished (Cutting says hopefully no later than November the 1st).
- J.T. Yost debuted some new mini comics at SPX including It's Dream Time, Snoop Doggy Dogg. I got a review copy and hope to have a review up later this month. I interviewed Yost at SPX — it's part of the 5 interview video here.
- Stan Wojohowitz wrote that he's launched a new webcomic after 18 months of development called The Psychotic Episodes. It's about characters exploring issues of psychiatry and mental health. The first issue, including related blog posts, seems to be about mental health issues for U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.
- Stefan Strasser writes out with a different pitch for his webcomic, "Most webcomics start out with a lavish update schedule and then cut down the number of new strips during the course of time. Chicken Wings is now going the opposite way. Starting this week, the comic will update three times a week instead of just one. Chicken Wings is a comic aimed at aviation enthusiasts and about a bunch of chickens working in a small aviation company.
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