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Thanks Pear-Pear Readers!

Submitted by Pear-pear on June 1, 2009 - 20:58

After four weeks of successfully making time to update Pear-Pear on the weekends, it's more than a little gratifying to see our site stats on the rise this month.

Pear-Pear drew over a thousand unique visitors (1240) for the first time since January. Where does this traffic come from? We like to think in part from the product, but we know its mostly because of others linking and blogging on our behalf.

To the Bat-Zeppelin Robin!

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 23, 2008 - 09:59

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

I Feel Fine At The Corner of Webcomic and Catastrophe

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on July 7, 2008 - 10:46

COMIXTALK
We've got a new cover for July from Dave Wright, creator of Todd and Penguin and a new column from Derik Badman reviewing the short webcomic The Lady's Murder.

Also please check out our sponsors: the Learn to Draw course; and Atom's Upload Showdown contest.

MILESTONES
Ryan Armand announces that his webcomic Minus is done.  What do you think of the ending?

INTERVIEWS
Pop Culture Zoo interviews David Malki! of Wondermark.  I sometimes forget that Wondermark appears in The Onion as well as the web.

REVIEWS
ArtPatient.com reviews Josh Nickerson's The Nolans.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
The Escapist dissects gaming webcomics.  In this video, Yahtzee Croshaw shows how to make millions of gamers happy with the minimum amount of effort.

Two Left, One Book To Go

Submitted by moovok on November 3, 2007 - 08:59

The Kid's Book Project is only two pages away from the end which means that soon enough the pre-order page will change as the book will be finally get ready to get printed with the wonderful cover by Liz Greenfield. The wonderful pages, all 55 artists have contributed to one individual page, all spanning either backwards or forwards.

A Big Plus For Minus: Creator Ryan Armand Gets An Eisner Nomination

May 29, 2007 - 10:41 | Xaviar Xerexes

This year's nominations for the Best Digital Comic category of the Eisner awards is a strong group with a mix of styles and genres. Ryan Armand is a first time Eisner nominee and he got the nod for his webcomic Minus. Minus is a wonderful tale of a slightly mischievous girl named Minus and it features Armand's beautiful dream-like artwork.

Congratulations on the Eisner nomination. How does it feel to get this kind of recognition?

Thanks. It feels pretty good, I think? I don't think I've really wrapped my head around it just yet.

 

Go Check Out Eisner-Nominated Minus

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on April 26, 2007 - 15:45

Of the Eisner nominees this year for Best Digital Comic the one (I am embarrassed to admit) I hadn't gotten to reading yet was Minus by Ryan Armand. The first impression I had of reading it was how much it reminded me of Kazu Kibuish's Copper. Probably that was because of the formatting, the wonderful color scheme (although Minus is subdued compared to Copper, relying on more faded tones) and the similar viewpoint of a young person in a world more magical then our own. Minus is a bit more impish than Copper though. I think I really liked this one with Minus playing Cupid, this one waiting to play baseball with an asteroid, this one with bathtub mermaids, and this one with the littlest perrito.

Minus represents webcomics extremely well. It's a great read.

2007 Eisner Award Noms!

Submitted by Coffman on April 19, 2007 - 15:23

Congrats to all our webcomic brethren! Tough lineup this year!

Best Digital Comic

Full list of other nominations here.