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Thursday

It's been an exhausting week but all worth it! Let's get back to the webcomics!

NEWS & VIEWS

  • Neil CohnNeil Cohn checks out what's available in "comics making" software and concludes: they all suck. (Never having used any of them myself I don't have an opinion to offer on them.)

EVENTS

INTERVIEWS

  • I may have linked to this before but Sequential Tart has three webcomic-related interviews this month: Gene Yang, Batton Lash, and Onezumi.

REVIEWS

DEAD TREES

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

Onezumi interviewed at Sequential Tart

SequentialTart.com has just posted an interview with Onezumi, the artist and writer of the webcomic at www.Onezumi.com. It details her thoughts on the webcomic field and what motivates her.

MangaNEXT

This weekend is MangaNEXTwhich is held at the Crowne Plaza Meadowlands located in Secaucus, NJ.

This year's Artist Alley includes Onezumi and Harknell. Onezumi will also be hosting 2 panels on Saturday. At their 10am panel they will be discussing how they got into webcomics and at 6pm they will be answering questions about digital art creation.

 

Onezumi.com Releases Their First Video Tutorial

Onezumi, the writer and artist of the webcomic located at www.Onezumi.com has created and released her first Video Tutorial showing how she creates her webcomic on her Toshiba Tecra M4 Tablet PC. It shows the start to finish creation of one of the comics from her site, and is part of her "Drawing Comics, Onezumi Style" tutorial series.

Newest WebComic Audio Commentary up on Onezumi.com

Onezumi and Harknell of the webcomic Onezumi.com have posted the latest in their Audio Commentary series on their early comics. The latest commentary along with all of their previous commentaries can be accessed from their commentary archive here. Feedback and comments are always welcome on their Harknell.com forum site.

News, News on the Range...

Hey!  The WCCAs nomination round is underway until May 29th.  If you're a working webcomic creator, go forth and nominate.

Benjamin Birdie has a new project: Nitroglycerin to be published online at Boom! Studios. Birdie is handling art and words will be by comics blogger Kevin Church. Birdie's webcomic Genre City, while unfinished is very funny and a nice indie twist on the staples of superherodom.

Shooting War is described as a webcomic about the Iraq War.  Haven't read it yet but I plan to.

T catches an interview with Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics).  He also adds his two cents to the discussion of Joe Zabel's webcomics community essay.  I wrote a reaction yesteday but for me its squishy I guess - today I'm not even sure I agree 100% with what I wrote yesterday. 

Scott McCloud posted the cover to his coming soon Making Comics book

Mansion of E hits 1000 strips.

Reacting to the recent coverage of the alleged Brownstein/Soma incident, Onezumi writes an essay about her thoughts on the matter.

And last but not least, I present the newest idea for webcomics merchandise: custom printed toilet paper.

Onezumi gives her own take on on the Brownstein/Soma assault controvery

Onezumi, the artist and writer of the webcomic Onezumi.com has published her thoughts on the recent Brownstein/Soma sexual assault controversy in a news post on her site. Onezumi, with her background in police training and self defense, has a new take on the issues raised by the alleged assault, and what the results of any "empowerment" need to be for a real change to occur in the comic and convention scenes.

New Webcomic Production Tutorials up on Onezumi.com

Onezumi, the artist and writer of the webcomic at Onezumi.com, has posted her next series of webcomic and art production tutorials entitled "Drawing Comics, Onezumi Style".

Onezumi.com begins development on a webcomic/art site setup package for non-techincal people

Harknell, webmaster of the webcomic Onezumi.com, has begun work on a new system to install and set up an art/webcomic website for non-technical people.

This website package will be comprised of a few open source database website systems, but with an installer that requires very little technical knowledge on the part of the artist. The goal of the project is to help out artists who want to have a website, but are unsure of how to create or set up one due to the difficulties of learning PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and other internet protocols. Along with a simple set up and install interface, there will be extensive user documentation explaining how to make the webpage look the way the artist wishes, all explained in easy to understand language.

Onezumi.com's first monthly podcast to go out this Monday

Onezumi.com will be sending out to all of our mailing list members our first monthly podcast. This is an exclusive that will only be available to our mailing list members. The podcast will be a freewheeling discussion of all of our upcoming events and current affairs. Expect insane rants of epic Onezumi s