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Lea Hernandez Relaunchs Rumble Girls

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on April 14, 2009 - 10:34

Lea is on my list of people I've been trying to interview -- it's going to happen sometime this year, but for now life has kept her pretty busy (see her LJ for many details).  Her latest news is the the re-boot/re-launch of Rumble Girls on a subscription basis.  Since she's aiming for 300 fans to subscribe maybe it's best to look at this as more of a hybrid fundraising drive/subscription than the straight ahead sub models once employed by Modern Tales, etc.  

Click here for more details - RUMBLE GIRLS: Runaway Lightning Ohmry Subscriptions & Re-Launch.

Obamanos Day Two: Webcomics

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on January 21, 2009 - 14:46

Obama!  It's day two of your presidency... why haven't you solved global warming yet!!  How about some webcomic-y news in the meantime:
TOP STORY
Kris Straub has a really good post on why he essentially did a reboot of his comic Starslip recently.  For anyone hoping to have a popular strip the advice on "the pitch" is well worth reading.
INTERVIEWS
Brian Warmoth has an interview with Jon Rosenberg of Goats.
An interview with Zach Weiner of the screamingly funny Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
REVIEW
Ping Teo takes a look at Shi Long Pang.
THEORY
Herve St Louis has an article on his definition of comics which includes a survey of other approaches as well.
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Lea Hernandez has a new website at http://divalea.net/.
Has anyone used this site called Komix! - it appears to be a piperka type of comics update/reader.

I'm LOLCAT, Dammit!

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on September 3, 2008 - 10:42

How about a Wednesday round-up of webcomic-related stories you might be curious to peruse? Yes?  Good...

AHOY THERE BE PIRATES!
Tucker Stones tucks into the issues surrounding online piracy of comic books.

SCHOOLS IS IN

Lea Hernandez dishes up lettering lessons at Panel and Pixel.  (And Mark Evanier offers a tip on how to use the letter "I" in most computer fonts.)

INTERVIEWS
ComicNewsi interviews the Philadelphia Phablist, Evil Inc.'s Brad Guigar; and Eliza Feliz of Alice in Nightmareland.

Jennifer Contino interviews Daniel Merlin Goodbrey on his comic Necessary Monsters.

Chris Arrant interviews Roger Langridge about his new webcomic Mugwhump The Great which debuts this month on ACT-I-VATE (h/t Journalista!).

Mark Mason has an interview with Jennie Breedon of Devil's Panties (h/t Journalista!).

MILESTONES
Missed it but Andy Weir's Casey and Andy wrapped up at comic # 666 last month.

AWARDS
Meet your panel of judges for Frumph.net's Webcomic Readers Choice Awards:  Philip M. Hofer, JT Shea, Kurt Sasso, Tony Camper, and Steve Hamaker.

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The Scienteers round-up the world of Drunk Duck comics.

Scott Kurtz and Mike Krahulik paint! 

This new art for Anne Frank Conquers the Moon Nazis is indeed bad ass, Bill.

Shortpackedblowschunks.com!  David Willis strikes again.

What's In Your Copyright?

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on June 27, 2008 - 09:22

Newsarama interviewed some of the creators, including Park and Barbara Lien-Cooper, who entered Tokyopop's comics contest.  Heidi MacDonald comments on the ongoing Platinum and Tokyopop stories and  Lea Hernandez weighs in again on the Tokyopop contracts.

While I'll admit I do get annoyed at the more judgmental commentators on these stories, I do think that work-for-hire contracts giving the publisher the copyright to original material is horribly horribly wrong for comics.  It's great for companies interested in amassing IP for sales to Hollywood.  But that IP-centric model -- especially when such companies don't really get around to publishing comics -- somedays it seems a lot like the company that buys up a lot of patents without any intent to actually manufacture anything.

Webcomic Jones and the Cintiq Skull

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on May 30, 2008 - 09:10

LEGAL
If you haven't read enough about how bad the new Tokyo Pop contest contract is read Tom Spurgeon's straightforward breakdown of the various flavors of crap contained within it.  (Lea Hernandez also has links to most of the posts on the subject here.)

JUSTIFY MY HYPE
Will Wheaton and Greg Williams have a webcomic up about nostalgia -- Star Wars action figures to be specific.

Joe Infurnari who does the Eisner-nominated webcomic, The Process, announced he will also be posting a new webcomic titled The Transmigration of Ultra-Lad on the ACT-I-VATE site.

DEAD TREES
Comics Worth Reading has a short review of the print collection of the webcomic America Jr.

Word Balloons has a review of Kean Soo's Jellaby book.

The Chemistry Set webcomics collective is set to publish an anthology of their comics called No Formula.

SWAGALICIOUS
I really like this t-shirt from Dorothy Gambrell (Cat and Girl).

NOT WEBCOMICS
NerdWorld has a post up about the freshly released Penny Arcade game and the almost here Homestar Runner game.

You Say You're Just a Webcomic

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on May 29, 2008 - 09:32

LEGAL

Lea Hernandez (and lots others) has been commenting on how bad the new contract from TokyoPop for their superstars of manga contest is.  Does every freaking comics publisher now hold "contests"?

INTERVIEWS

The Scienteers intervew Josh "Girly" Lesnick.

JUSTIFY MY HYPE

Hey! New Boxjam's Doodle!

Hey! New update to Fear My Dear, the sequel to Dean Haspiel's Immortal.

Webcomic Wire - 4/14/08

Submitted by NightgigTim on April 14, 2008 - 14:54

Drawn from sources that stayed up late doing taxes…

A review of Comic Book Creator 2 by Geeks of Doom.
An interview with Anne Thalheimer. 
Lea Hernandez answers questions about webcomics for students who are writing papers on the subject.
Editor and Publisher posts about Syndicates and the reduced size of comics space in newspapers. 
Dave Kellett, creator of Sheldon, [...]

GirlAMAtic's Fifth Anniversary

Submitted by Lisa Jonte on March 30, 2008 - 23:04

From the desk of GirlAMAtic editor, Lisa R. Jonté:

Light the candles, GAM is now FIVE YEARS OLD! Hey! We're almost old enough to cross the street by ourselves!

It's been an entertaining ride these last five years. GAM has seen it's share of ups and downs and has happily been the online home of many an excellent comics creator. Sure, we've had some growing pains and toddler tantrums, but we've also had some supremely shining moments, and I wouldn't trade a minute of it for anything.

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?

Life In Links: Tuesday , July 10, 2007

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on July 10, 2007 - 09:14

BUSINESS

INTERVIEWS

REVIEWS

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