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News & Views for Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on April 11, 2007 - 10:33

First a quick thanks to current advertisers: The Learn to Draw the Human Figure video course; The Lethal Lady website and blog; the webcomic Life on the Fringe and the DrunkDuck Civil War Webcomic Event. Thanks also to all of our PW sponsors including the very current ones: Freaks N Squeeks; Alma Mater; and Cartridge Comics, Lummox. PW ads appear depending on who is the top bidder right now. You should still check out Cartridge Comics though! :)

Also be sure to check out contributor Joel Fagin's webcomic tutorials site and this month's cover artist Michael Lalonde's very funny webcomic Orneryboy.

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JUSTIFY MY THEIR HYPE

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

Todd Goldman Rips off Artist.

Submitted by Jamie Robertson on April 10, 2007 - 12:20

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2416213 This seems to be making the rounds.  Fellow Keenspotter, Dave Kelly, had his work royally ripped off by some t-shirt guy.  Th...

Todd Goldman Ripping Off Purple Pussy

Submitted by Black_Kitty on April 8, 2007 - 19:28

As an artist and an art educator, there are very few things out there that I find more deserving of scorn then an art thief. Especially if it's an art thief that steals other people's work then display it in an art gallery as their own. Like what Todd Goldman did with Purple Pussy.

If what they say about Todd Goldman is true, then we should not only heap scorn at him but as Randy Miholland of Something Positive suggest, we should throw rocks. Big rocks labeled "stop stealing and profiting from other people's work!"

Biggie Panda: Old Skool Webcomics

January 28, 2007 - 23:03 | Xaviar Xerexes

One way to think of the history of webcomics is as the big bang of comics. At the beginning there were far fewer webcomic creators and they were (virtually) clustered together much more tightly (hence all the wistful talk of "webcomic community") and then, if the inflationary webcomicology theory is correct, those early webcomic exploded into the universe of comics online we have today.

Forgotten Gems of the Web's Early Years?

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on January 10, 2006 - 16:48

I'm working on a feature for our February issue and I'd like everyone's help!

A working title for this feature might be something like: "golden era classics of the web you might have missed." The idea here being to draw attention to early favorites, fan or critic-wise. Although some of these might be popular today many of them will be gone or no longer updating for various reasons. And I'm really looking for a broad approach here - for example an early favorite that's gone is Mr Chuck Show by Jon Myers - not exactly high art but in it's time a fairly popular webcomic. Others you could dig up might not have been well known at all but are notable for artistic, technical or other reasons.

To play, reply with title, author, url and briefly, why you picked it! Thanks!

Small Press Expo Memories

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 2, 2005 - 00:12

The Small Press Expo is all about the art of the comics medium. Comics from every type of genre, style and format. It's the face of the comics medium without the distortion of the obsessive focus on the superhero genre most comic conventions would give you.

Plus, it's been well infiltrated by webcomics creators.

I spent all of Saturday at the convention this year and at times the floor was fairly crowded. Unfortunately since then I've been away in the Golden State and just didn't have a chance to write up a proper feature on it. So consider this a bit of a rambling remembrance of people, moments and most importantly, comics.

(And there's a lot of pictures after the jump so it'll take more than a second for the full page to load.)

Animation Sensation

Submitted by Flatwood on January 23, 2005 - 14:52

Since I've started my comic, I've started incorporating more and more animated .gif comic pages. It's something that I try to do in the more dramatic parts of the comic where waiting two days for the next update is just going to ruin the effect. The best advantage, I've found is that you can display your panels one at a time and build up suspense. I think it's worked really well.

For example:

http://flatwood.keenspace.com/d/20040726.html
The first one I ever attempted.

http://flatwood.keenspace.com/d/20040929.html
A more comlext one

http://flatwood.keenspace.com/
The Latest One

So yeah, the POINT is: I've never really seen anyone else who does this sort of thing. I know it would probably be simpler (if the person knew how) to do a flash type movie (probably be a smaller file and a better animation.)

But I was just wondering if anyone had ever run across any other comic that used animated pages and how they did theirs.

That's it.

Google ads

Submitted by KrazyKrow on January 7, 2005 - 13:25

Am I the only one getting all the gastric bypass/coronary artery banner ads? I know us comic readers aren't the most physically active bunch in the world, but isn't that a bit much?

Justin Offers More Webcomic PREviews

August 8, 2004 - 23:00 | Justin Pierce

Newbie comics are both cursed and blessed by their, well... newness. Spinoffs like Scary Go Round and Lizard taken aside, most webcomics are the author's first steps onto a new shore. Some creators will spend years, even decades developing their creative abilities before jumping onto the Web. Others may be borne of the online community, having yet to earn their artistic "sea legs". Whatever the basis of a webcomicker (and, by extension, their webcomic), we're all evolving, and it's usually most evident in the beginning.

Nipples and webcomics

Submitted by Rebelsun on July 14, 2004 - 23:21

It is a question that must be discussed. It is a question that I dread to ask yet I had to ask. It is a subject every men & women need to know:

Why aren't there (women's) nipples in most webcomics? I notice that most webcomics made in North America are quite shy of showing them, heck even in the most self-proclaimed "mature" or "extreme" webcomics.