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Serializer Is Alive!

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 24, 2006 - 09:27

Eric Millikin writes that Serializer.net relaunched today! New comics today include:

  • Jen Sorensen's "Slowpoke”
  • Rick Smith and Tania Menesse's “Shuck Stripped”
  • Spike's “Templar, Arizona”
  • Eric Millikin's “Fetus-X”
  • Tom Hart's “Hutch Owen”
  • Ryan North's “Dinosaur Comics”

Here is a full list of all the wonderful artists contributing to Serializer. It includes Patrick Farley with "Apocamon," Renee French with "micrographica," Sam Henderson with "The Magic Whistle," and Emily Horne and Joey Comeau with "A Softer World."

Publisher’s Weekly refers to many of serializer’s artists as “art comics favorites” and “critical darlings.” London’s Sunday Times has called serializer “high art,” and The New York Times thought some of our comics were “Well drawn and funny.” The Comics Journal found some Serializer comics to be “daring, entertainingly perverse” while The Guardian found artwork on serializer that “threatens to seriously tamper with one’s smug equilibrium.”

The Gathering... of the News!

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 12, 2006 - 10:22

Fetus-X Returns to Serializer.netFinally, the impending return of Serializer - the art comic outpost in the Modern Tales kingdom - is near (Eric says end of October). This would be the last of the MT sites to return after server crash/upgrade issues. A partial list of the artists on the roster for the relaunch include:

  • Nick Bertozzi, Drop Ceiling
  • Patrick Farley, Apocamon: The Final Judgement
  • Matt Feazell, Amazing Cynical Man!
  • Renée French, micrographica
  • Merlin Goodbrey & Douglas Noble, The Rule of Death
  • Tom Hart, Hutch Owen
  • Eric Millikin, Fetus-X
  • Casey Sorrow, Feral Calf
  • Joda Thayer, Few and Far Between

MOST READ

Joystiq, a popular videogame blog has a weekly poll on its readers favorite webcomics. Naturally these are all gamer webcomics but I was surprised to see in the most recent poll that Press Start To Play is essentially tied with Penny Arcade in popularity and another webcomic I hadn't read before, Fanboys In Love, was in third place.

CONVENTIONS

SPX Update: Jeph Jacques (Questionable Content) will be sharing a table with Malki (Wondermark). Fred Grisolm (Hate Song) also will be there.

BUSINESS

Andy Bell (Creatures In My Head) is having a launch party for his Zliks toys on Friday 13th in New York City.

Good news at the Fortress of Dumbrellatude: R Stevens is looking for help with his t-shirt n' swag shipping empire.

Exciting tasks include folding t-shirts, filling orders, counting things, moderate computer use and discussing the paranormal at length. Perks include being away from the general public and occasional free goodies. Also, money.

MISC...

We're closing in on NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) and like others I am thinking about giving it a try this year...

Funny, but this was exactly like a lot of my sports practices as a kid. Only for baseball...

Subtlety, thy name is Willis...

More Attitude From Ted Rall: A Review of Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists

September 28, 2006 - 23:10 | Xaviar Xerexes

Ted Rall talks up and talks to webcomics with attitude for Attitude 3: The New Subversive Online Cartoonists. It's a great addition to the ongoing Attitude anthology series that pays some well-deserved attention to webcomics.

Contributors to Comixpedia

We've had many contributors to Comixpedia over the years - here's a full list through the end of 2005:

Eric Millikin

2006 Eisner Award Winners Announced, PvP wins Best Digital Comic

Submitted by Chris Crosby on July 22, 2006 - 05:30

Full list of 2006 Eisner Award winners here.

WCCA Winners Announced

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on July 17, 2006 - 08:38

Winners listed here. (Hat tip to Gilead for the catch)

The Outstanding Comic winner is The Perry Bible Fellowship and the Outstanding Newcomer is Gunnerkrigg Court.

Eric "Fetus-X" Millikin Is New A-League Blogger

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on May 6, 2006 - 15:20

Eric's been mentioning that he was getting a high-profile blogging gig; now he's officially off and running with a new blog "Bizarro News" at the Detroit News website.

On his livejournal Eric writes:

The Detroit News is the 11th most read newspaper in the U.S., with a circulation of about three-quarters of a million, and is the 10th most read newspaper website according to Wikipedia. The Detroit News is owned by Media News Group, which also owns the Denver Post, L.A. Daily News, San Jose Mercury News, etc. If I get fired from this gig, it will be the largest newspaper I've ever been fired from.

Eric Millikin seeks beta testers for new major news media blog

Submitted by EricMillikin on May 3, 2006 - 14:52

Fetus-X creator Eric Millikin will soon be blogging for a major media news group. He says "Well, my webcomics-and-vampire-killers-who-mail-cat-poop-sandwiches-to-courthouses blog is ready for beta testing. They've built an entirely new Cold Fusion blogging engine for this, and so I need people to test out the comments system, the category system, look for busted links, measure how hard it rocks, whatever. If you're interested in getting a sneak peak at this project as well making sure it's only bizare in intentional ways, then leave me your e-mail either here or at eric-at-fetusx-dot-com."

Dueling Apologies

Submitted by pclips on May 1, 2006 - 12:04

The other shoe just dropped at last. Over at Whispered Apologies, Alexander Danner has written the canon version of the comic featuring the Deadmouse art I chose when I was writing a contribution there.

There was an odd mix-up. Normally, a pool of writers choose a piece of art from the submissions archive, and create a comic from it. Unbeknownst to me, Alexander had already made a comic with that art when I sent mine to Ryan, and Alexander's strip was queued to load next.