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Post Thanksgiving Day Weekend Roundup

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on November 25, 2007 - 12:12

BSC WEBCOMICS IDOL 2.0

  • This week was the final round (maybe something to tweak next year to avoid having it during the week of Thanksgiving) and it all ends tonight at midnight (pretty sure about that anyhow). It's down to Templar, AZ and Lucid TV - both well done comics in every aspect and good examples of work that is thriving on the web that might not have found their audience without the web. Go vote and check out both comics if you're not already reading them.

WEBSITE WONDERLAND

  • Scott Kurtz redid his pvponline.com site -- this time working with Tyler Martin and his comicpress theme for Wordpress. If you've got a webcomic site you ought to check out Wordpress+comicpress as a solution. Wordpress is possibly the most popular piece of blogging software around (so it's not going away) and Tyler has made it work well for webcomics with the custom comicpress theme. All of it open source and free.

INTERVIEWS

JUSTIFY MY HYPE

WIKI WATCH

  • The entry for ComixTalk is still up at Wikipedia so if you're at all wiki-inclined what would help it would be adding any citations to Comixpedia or ComixTalk from other media (preferrably in print as that's Wikipedia's bias).
  • My advice to all webcomics is still to start an entry at Comixpedia.org and let it evolve organically there for a good chunk of time (especially if you're just starting out) so that you have a very solid article with citations ready to port to Wikipedia if and when your webcomic is getting enough attention that it might be considered "notable" at Wikipedia. My opinion is that debates at wikipedia over notability and deletion in a lot of cases have much more to do with the actual state of the article on Wikipedia than the subject of the article itself.

AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS

Filling In The Blanks: A Short Interview with Howard Tayler

November 2, 2007 - 09:50 | Xaviar Xerexes

Earlier this week ComixTalk posted an interview with the new line-up of Halfpixel (Scott Kurtz, Kris Straub, Brad Guigar and Dave Kellett). Since as part of the creation of the new Halfpixel, Kris, Brad and Dave left the Blank Label Comics collective, I wanted to get a comment from someone on the Blank Label team. Howard Tayler, the creator of Schlock Mercenary, was kind enough to answer quickly some questions about this week's changes and the future of Blank Label Comics.

2007 Weblog Award Nominees Announced

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on November 1, 2007 - 16:30

I don't know much about the Weblog awards for blogs, but this [edit:] is the second year they've included a "comic strip" category. The nominees are:

And here's a link to the full list of award nominees if you're interested.

UPDATE: I've gone ahead and fixed the list of nominees here to add the creators' names and webcomic URLs. I have no idea about "Attack" though - please post a comment here if you know which comic the nomination is for. As noted in the comments below it appears that the "final nominees" are selected subjectively by someone(s) at the Weblog Awards (from a list of nominations by the public). Last year's winner - Least I Could Do plus Day by Day and Sluggy Freelance are all repeat nominees (they were on the 2006 list of final nominees).  [I guess it's also somewhat interesting that both years two conservatively-slanted opinion comics have been included in the nomination list, but no progressively-slanted comics have been picked for inclusion.]

Half Pixel Times Four: An Interview with Kurtz, Straub, Kellett and Guigar

November 1, 2007 - 02:14 | Xaviar Xerexes

Today, Brad Guigar (Evil, Inc.), Dave Kellett (Sheldon) Scott Kurtz (PvP), and Kris Straub (Starslip Crisis) are announcing that they will be working together under the Half Pixel brand. Part and parcel of this announcement is that Guigar and Kellett are leaving Blank Label Comics, the webcomics collective that they both have been associated with in recent years.

I got a chance to interview the four of them at the end of October about this and other projects on the horizon for them. At their request I've delayed publishing this interview until the day of their announcement regarding the new Half Pixel. It's an interesting move for all four involved and hopefully the interview that follows conveys some of the excitement all of these guys seem to have for this new partnership.

Webcomic Wire - 10/29/07

Submitted by NightgigTim on October 29, 2007 - 13:32

Drawn from a very long weekend…

Webcomics Idol 2.0 results of round one.
Homemade comics from International 24 Hour Comics Day. 
Honoring cartoonist Milton Caniff.
Brian Warmoth has a conversation with David Malki over at Wizard. 
Alex Dueben interviews Scott Kurtz of PVP for Comic Book Resources.
I can’t remember if I linked to this article about webcomic artists making a [...]
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Webcomic Wire - 10/29/07

Submitted by NightgigTim on October 29, 2007 - 13:32

Drawn from a very long weekend…

Webcomics Idol 2.0 results of round one.
Homemade comics from International 24 Hour Comics Day. 
Honoring cartoonist Milton Caniff.
Brian Warmoth has a conversation with David Malki over at Wizard. 
Alex Dueben interviews Scott Kurtz of PVP for Comic Book Resources.
I can’t remember if I linked to this article about webcomic artists making a [...]
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A Decade of PvP

Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on October 27, 2007 - 12:22

Comic Book Resources interviews Scott Kurtz about a decade of making the web/comic PvP.

Webcomic Wire - 10/3/07

Submitted by NightgigTim on October 3, 2007 - 19:32

Drawn from sources freshly swept under the carpet…

Todd Allen has an article in Comic Book Resources about Platinum Studios, Inc. and their filing for IPO.
Sheldon creator Dave Kellett along with Kris Straub, Scott Kurtz, Brad Guigar will be collaborating to author a new book from Image Comics called How To Make Webcomics.  Exact release date [...]
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Baltimore Comicon

It's the Baltimore ComicCon in Charm City - Baltimore, MD.  Home of the Harvey Awards Dinner and setting for my favorite canceled/ended detective tv show, Homicide.

YHT in Wizard Magazine

Submitted by Wes Molebash on August 3, 2007 - 17:24

The You'll Have That one-shot is featured in this month's Wizard Magazine (#191) in the Indie Buzz section of the Secret Stash. Here's what Wizard has to say about my little comic strip:

It's not often that webcomics make a successful transition from online to the printed page, so it speaks volumes that this heavenly little bastard has become one of the favored comics around the Wizard offices. Spotlighting the hilarious life of newlyweds Andy and Katie, this one-shot collects the best of 2006's online strips by Wes Molebash, with a brand-new cover from Scott Kurtz (PvP) so easily accessible for new readers it may as well be the first issue. With a precise vision of male geek life and the hotties who love us, YHT will have you cracking up and wondering how Molebash snuck a camera into your life.