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Webcomic Wire - 11/2/07

Submitted by NightgigTim on November 2, 2007 - 13:42

Drawn from seven seconds into the future…

Dave Kellett, Kris Straub and Brad Guigar are leaving Blank Label Comics to form the new HalfPixel, previously a hub for Straub and Kurtz’s joint efforts. Good luck guys! ComixTalk has an interview with Howard Tayler about this week’s changes to BLC and the future for the collective. Best [...]
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Webcomic Wire - 11/2/07

Submitted by NightgigTim on November 2, 2007 - 13:42

Drawn from seven seconds into the future…

Dave Kellett, Kris Straub and Brad Guigar are leaving Blank Label Comics to form the new HalfPixel, previously a hub for Straub and Kurtz’s joint efforts. Good luck guys! ComixTalk has an interview with Howard Tayler about this week’s changes to BLC and the future for the collective. Best [...]
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Friday

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on November 2, 2007 - 10:17

NOVEMBER ISSUE OF COMIXTALK

CONTEST

  • I've got another Karas the Revelation DVD to give away...

REVIEWS

JOURNALISM

ADVERTS

  • Joey Manley writes that as an experiment for the month of November, you can now buy via Project Wonderful the top banner spot for all of the major user-generated content sites on the new ComicSpace Network (TalkAboutComics.com, OnlineComics.net, the WebcomicsNation.com, and ComicSpace.com). It looks like Eric Milikin (Fetus X) had the spot this morning for about $45 per day (Project Wonderful works on a real time auction basis).

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

Filling In The Blanks: A Short Interview with Howard Tayler

November 2, 2007 - 09:50 | Xaviar Xerexes

Earlier this week ComixTalk posted an interview with the new line-up of Halfpixel (Scott Kurtz, Kris Straub, Brad Guigar and Dave Kellett). Since as part of the creation of the new Halfpixel, Kris, Brad and Dave left the Blank Label Comics collective, I wanted to get a comment from someone on the Blank Label team. Howard Tayler, the creator of Schlock Mercenary, was kind enough to answer quickly some questions about this week's changes and the future of Blank Label Comics.

Just Got Back from SPX Day One

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 12, 2007 - 21:05

I'm only doing one day of SPX this year (today) which is too bad because it was chockfull of cool people and good comics. I just got home from spending the afternoon there and I'll have a more "formal" (yes I'm making the air quote with my fingers in my head as I write that word) convention report later this weekend but I thought I'd do a quick post right now.

Join me in "read more" land if you dare!

What's On My Monitor for Thursday, September 20, 2007

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on September 20, 2007 - 09:48

Yes, yesterday was Talk Like a Pirate Day... Aargh and me hearties and polly wanna cracker...

MILESTONES

INTERVIEWS

  • Eh it's from last month, but I forgot to link to it. A pretty entertaining if short interview with Warren Ellis, around the release of his Black Summer comic from Avatar. For all of the scattershot musing and ideas Ellis blasts across cyberspace every FREAKIN' day I wish he could channel a little bit of it into a serialized webcomic. (Is Freak Angels ever going to...well get its freak on?)

REVIEWS

  • Jack Carter reviews Boxcar Astronaut by Marc Lapierre and Jeff Carter and Kidnapped By Gnomes by Kathy Peterson. I've read and heartily recommend Boxcar Astronaut - which is almost Calvin & Hobbes-esque in its ability to capture innocent wonder at the world.

JUSTIFY MY HYPE

  • Someone pointed out Idiot Comics on a thread yesterday. It is largely good although as much funny-wha?! as funny-ha-ha... Definitely worth checking out.

Still going

Submitted by scarfman on September 2, 2007 - 22:58

Today, Sunday, Arthur, King of Time and Space celebrates its 1200th daily update without ever missing a day. At this rate I'll catch up with Howard Tayler ... uh, three years eleven months and seven days after he dies. Plus his buffer.

What's Your Amazon Rank?

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on August 6, 2007 - 09:44

So many webcomics into print nowadays it got me to wondering how some of them are doing sales-wise. One metric that is easy to pull is a book's ranking on Amazon.com's sales list. This website actually makes it extremely easy to find out a ranking based on author, title, publisher or ISBN number.

Plug in Howard Tayler's name, for example, and you'll see his Schlock Mercenary books (currently 194,385 and 195,437) are doing much better than his Administering Groupwise tome. Laughing

Updates On Entries in the Ill-Fated Webcomic Directory Project?

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on July 24, 2007 - 14:31

I built a "library" of webcomics and creators back in the fall of 2005 which I put into beta before realizing it was too much editorial work to deal with and the same information could be better provided through the community edited webcomic wiki - COMIXPEDIA.

Nevertheless looking back on the assortment of names collected (some from me, some sent in from you) I wonder if anyone has any significant updates on these creators 18 months later. Maybe we should interview some of them?

A World of Fantasy

June 26, 2007 - 21:33 | Michael Payne

Fantasy webcomics this month, is it? A large topic.

And we can make it even bigger. I mean, depending on how technical you wanna get, all fiction is fantasy. It's stuff that never happened, at any rate, and that's as basic a definition of fantasy as I can think of.