Jennie Breeden

NCWCCC February Meeting - Reminder and Update

Submitted by Jamie Robertson on February 4, 2009 - 22:21

The February meeting of the NCWCCC will be held at What the Hell?! Con, located at Guilford College in Greensboro, NC. The meeting will be in conjunction with the WTHC panel in the Theater. To see a tentative schedule for WTHC, please see the Schedule Page.Â The meeting/panel will be on Saturday, February 7^th from 1:30 to 3:00 PM.

The NCWCCC February Meeting

Submitted by Jamie Robertson on January 26, 2009 - 20:06

Hi all,

North Carolina WebComics Coffee Clatch Minutes for January, 18th, 2009

Submitted by Jamie Robertson on January 19, 2009 - 16:26

North Carolina WebComics Coffee Clatch
Date: January, 18^th, 2009
Location: Chapel Hill Comics' Event Room, Chapel Hill, NC

In Attendance:
Alan Welch
Larry Holderfield
Ursual Vernon
Kevin Sonney
John and Justin Lapoint
Ben Carter
Robert Cameron

Most Read: Final Version

October 13, 2008 - 22:01 | Xaviar Xerexes

Back in 2003-2004, ComixTALK ran a series of articles under the banner of "Most Read" trying to work through how to measure the respective audience shares of various webcomics. More recently, T Campbell borrowed the idea to generate a list of such webcomics for the former version of webcomics.com.

I've pulled together one more Most Read list, this time relying fairly heavily on Project Wonderful data. Mostly though I went to the trouble of compiling this to point out how someone else could do a better job of it in the future.

Paper Heroes Con - October 17 â€“ 19

Submitted by Jamie Robertson on October 5, 2008 - 16:52

Hi all,

Paper Heroes Con - October 17 â€“ 19

Submitted by Jamie Robertson on October 5, 2008 - 16:49

A friend of mine is hosting his first convention and I'm trying to get the word out for him.

Hero's Haven is proud to present Paper Heroes Con, Burlington's first comics and gaming convention! They'll be bringing you gaming, comics, toys and much more! Come join us on October 17 – 19 at Burlington Square Mall!

Stuff - October 3rd, 2008

Submitted by Jamie Robertson on October 2, 2008 - 23:17

Hi Cats!

Finally! I finally got my computer back. And there was much, MUCH rejoicing. COTC starts back up again tomorrow, (Friday, Oct 3), and it will remain weekly for the foreseeable future. Thanks for your super powerful patience. I do appreciate it very much!

Jennie Breeden

A Tip O' The Hat For the Last Game At Webcomic Stadium

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on September 22, 2008 - 10:26

Welcome to ComixTalk... may I take your order? I've got an interview with the elusive Pokey the Penguin up and Brigid Alverson talks with Jeremy Ross of TokyoPop about its Manga Pilots program. You may also want to check out my weekend post chock-filled with links to interesting stories and a new comic worth checking out. (What exactly is a "chock" and how would you fill it?)

INTERVIEWS
Missed this, but Creative Commons has an interview with Mr. Diesel Sweeties, Rich Stevens. Back in 2005, ComixTalk held a roundtable on creative commons licenses and comics with T Campbell, Lawrence Lessig, Neeru Paharia, Mia Garlick, JD Frazer, and Cory Doctorow.

ComixMix has an interview with D.J. Coffman, currently working on Flobots. (Folks should also check out D.J.'s very recent post on hosting your webcomic yourself - a short guide to getting started online independently.)

Digital Strips has a short interview with Zach Weiner - of SMBC and Captain Excelsior infamey.

Rick Marshall had a great interview with Jennie Breeden of Devil's Panties.

Gaming Angel has an interview with Randall Munroe of xkcd and Benjamin Birdie and Kevin Church of The Rack (h/t Journalista!)

LA TIMES interviews Josh Neufeld on his webcomic A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge.

Tom Spurgeon had a great interview with Scott McCloud on the new collection of his ZOT! comic.

CBR had a two-part interview with Aaron Diaz of Dresden Codak - click for part one and part two.

REVIEWS

Artpatient.com has a review of Chasing the Sunset.

BUSINESS
David Rothman looks at the decline in traffic to Wowio.com but as Dirk Deppey notes, Wowio was essentially off the air for a good chunk of the summer.

AWARDS
I neglected to mention Andrew Wahl won first and third place in the International Cartoon contest at the Homer Davenport Days festival in Oregon earlier this month. Wahl is a talented cartoonist - check out more of his work here. Also, I just think it's cool that a town has an entire festival to celebrate Homer Davenport - an internationally respected and pioneering political cartoonist from the turn of the century.

CONVENTIONS
Two East Coast events coming up fast. First this coming weekend is the Baltimore Comicon (with, as FLEEN notes, the only East Coast appearance of all four How To Make Webcomics authors) The Baltimore Comicon is where the Harvey Awards are presented - Shaenon Garrity has the scoop on a contest to win tickets to the Harvey Awards.

Next from October 4-5th is my hometown (close enough anyhow) convention, the Small Press Expo (SPX) over in Bethesda, Maryland. The Ignatz Awards are presented at SPX. Guests include Bryan Lee O’Malley, James Kochalka, Richard Thompson, Tom Tomorrow, etc!

JUSTIFY MY HYPE
Dirk Deppey links to this pretty cool idea -- The Superest wherein Kevin Cornell and Matthew Sutter take turns creating superheroes and villains that defeat each other’s creations. And Tom Spurgeon links to news of a book deal for the site.

Not back yet.

Submitted by Jamie Robertson on September 9, 2008 - 19:41

Comic Stuff: I’m updating COTC once a week for now, but I don't plan to announce any return on the site or anywhere else, (other then my blogs), until I can sustain it. Not sure how long that will go on, but count on it for Friday’s this fall. ;)