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NCWCCC July Meeting and Seafood Boil

Submitted by Jamie Robertson on July 8, 2008 - 14:20

Hi all,

The Clatch has been invited to have a meeting at Hero's Haven on Saturday, July 12th from 4:00 pm until whenever.  Mike Jernigan, who works at the shop, wants to provide us with a free meal for that evening consisting of a seafood boil. Hotdogs will be provided for the folks not into seafood.  This will be our July meeting. 

Hero's Haven has moved, so please see new directions to store.

NCWCCC and Free Comic Book Day

Submitted by Jamie Robertson on May 2, 2008 - 13:11

Free Comic Book Day is tomorrow and a few of us from the Clatch will be attending the festivities at Hero’s Haven in Burlington, NC.  Please stop by and say “hello” if you are in the area.

New webcomics in print!

Submitted by mckenzee on February 13, 2008 - 23:59

Just wanted to let everyone know, my webcomic, Cðulhuviða, and an anthology from the North Carolina WebComic Coffee Clatch are both now in print. They can be found, along with Sinister Bedfellows: Anthology, at http://lulu.com/mckenzee.

The NCWCCC features and introduction by Shannon Wheeler of Too Much Coffee Man as well as:

The North Carolina WebComics Coffee Table Book

Submitted by Jamie Robertson on January 31, 2008 - 15:51

The North Carolina WebComics Coffee Table Book

Submitted by Jamie Robertson on January 31, 2008 - 15:51

Monday Update

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 21, 2007 - 21:51

COMIXTALK

LEGAL BEAGLES

INTERVIEWS

REVIEWS

JUSTIFY MY HYPE

  • I thought David McGuire's Webcomics Are Awesome is pretty funny as a parody of webcomics community (not sure if he's going to update it further) on the level of "lots of this absurd stuff happens and it's always healthy to make fun of yourself" since McGuire is a comic creator himself and as part of the now defunct Bag of Chips collective has certainly been "in" the webcomics community as much as anyone. On the otherhand I don't really know David (met him once at SPX) so I'm not sure how he views this comic.
  • Everyone's making comics about the latest videogame Portal. This one's from Hijinks Ensue (whose creator Joel Watson also makes comics that appear on the website Apple Insider)
  • Tough Guys is a pretty good concept for a comic (or probably more likely an Adult Swim animated series) but the execution of this webcomic by Zac Marshall and Nuno Teixeira is all wrong. The art is strange and largely looks cut and pasted. Maybe a chibi style would have worked better here. It's also largely not funny nor interesting yet. You're aiming at a huge chunk of American pop culture over the last 30 to 40 years (the "action movie") -- that's a big fat softball across the plate, if you're doing jokes you ought to be hitting multiple base hits everytime out.
  • The Tower by Saki Miyamoto and Brendon Bennets is a textless comic about a princess who escapes her intended role in search of adventure.
  • David Wright (creator of Todd and Penguin) has a new webcomic out called The Best Kids Show Ever - sort of if Fox News decided to get into the children's television business.
  • Butternut Squash versus Mahna mahna. (Original muppet song here!)

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

Monday's Starting To Happen

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 8, 2007 - 16:40

COMIXTALK

COMICS JOURNALISM

BUSINESS

INTERVIEWS

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

Catching Up With Jamie Robertson

October 7, 2007 - 22:32 | Xaviar Xerexes

There's an incredible wealth of articles in the ComixTalk archives: features and columns on craft, theory and business, insightful reviews and interviews with some of the most interesting folks in webcomics. We'll be taking a regular look back at past issues and catching up with creators we've previously covered.

In our October 2003 issue on Halloween and other spooky subjects, contributor Jamie Robertson wrote a popular feature story titled Witches and Webcomics. If you missed it go read it -- we'll wait until you get back.  In this short update, Jamie talks about his own webcomic Clan of the Cats and he provides some new suggestions for witches in webcomics.

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?

Trinoc*coN

Trinoc*coN is an annual speculative fiction conference held in North Carolina and covers many aspects of the science fiction/fantasy genre including literature, art, comics, real science, gaming, costuming and much more.