Shaenon K. Garrity
Drama Day by Day
Submitted by Erg on May 1, 2007 - 15:01
The drama of Chris Muir's black face faux pas continues at a furious pace.
News & Views for April 30, 2007
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on April 30, 2007 - 16:14
HEADLINES
- Shaenon Garrity may not agree with me that Chris Muir's recent Day By Day comic is offensive but in her blog she entertainingly lays out the argument for why it is "the worst damn comic in the world"!
BUSINESS
- The Silent Penultimate Panel Watch (a pretty funny concept for a blog actually) steps aside from its normal fare of spotting silent comic panels to pitch an all webcomics-in-print alt-alt paper idea. I've heard this idea before but I've never heard rumblings of anyone actually running with it. In a way, however, the parody news newspaper The Onion is, as it expands its paper edition into new markets.
MILESTONES
- Kristy Vs. The Zombie Army hits 100 pages. (link from the Webcomic Collective blog)
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- Derik Badman "live-cartooned" the Computer In Libraries conference. (link from Yet Another Comics Blog)
- Gilead Pellaeon posts his wish list of webcomics books.
- Comixpedia blogger Robert Anke writes a guest column for FLEEN called "The Good Kind of Stealing".
- Missed this but earlier this month Comixpedia columnist Brigid Alverson posted at Digital Strips about Postmodern Haircut -- a webcomic devoted entirely to the critic Noam Chomsky.
- Obiwan Kirk writes about a year of Knight Quest-Online on its current host and recent updates to Last Chance and The Dark Bane.
- Jonathan Dalton gives good grades to Dylan Meconis' current comic Family Man.
A Story That May Knock Todd Goldman Out Of the Headlines For Awhile
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on April 26, 2007 - 21:47
Chris Muir is the creator of the webcomic Day By Day, which I think has been described as a "conservative Doonesbury".
His most recent comic puts Hillary Clinton in blackface.
I don't think I can add anything to this take from the blog Pandagon: "Um... really?" Well, except, this cartoon is ridiculously tasteless and I can't see how it's not racist. I wonder how Muir's three newspaper clients (Hemingford Ledger, Knoxville News-Sentinel, North County Times) will react to this?
News & Views for Thursday, April 26, 2007
Submitted by Xaviar Xerexes on April 26, 2007 - 12:18
HEADLINES
- Scott McCloud's brilliant The Right Number is now free (previously it was available for purchase through Bitpass). Go read, enjoy and then email Scott to encourage him to finish it.
- I haven't seen more updates on the cease&desist style letters from Todd Goldman's attorneys that FLEEN reported on recently, but it does seem clear that the immediate effect has been to revive the Todd Goldman Copied Dave Kelly's Artwork story and spread news of it well beyond the world of (web)comics. UPDATE: Cartoon Brew has an up-to-the-minute, snark-filled update on Todd Goldman.
INTERVIEWS
- The Pulse interviews Josh Newfeld, creator of the new strip A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge. (link via Dirk Deppey)
REVIEWS
- Joey Manley offers up a review of Flipside.
- The Ferret reviews Bobby Crosby's +EV. (Comixpedia reviewed +EV last fall.)
- 4 Color Rebellion spotlights Questionable Content, "the Friends of the Internet".
- UTNE Reader offers up a short review of Chris Onstad's The Achewood Cookbook: Recipes for a Lady or a Man.
MILESTONES
SYNDICATION
CONVENTIONS
- The Ferrett has a funny write-up of the recent Penguincon convention. Please feel free to add any and all conventions to our EVENTS CALENDAR.
AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 BLOGS
- Tym Godek shows how to be a webcomic creator in 4 easy steps. (part of Godek's awesome daily sketchblog)
- The Kea's Nest catches up with Bill Mudron's never-finished Anne Frank Conquers The Moon Nazis. (Shaenon Garrity reviewed it for Comixpedia way back in March 2003)
- Kris Straub notes one of his Starslip Crisis characters, Vanderbeam, making a cameo in Slither & Friends.
- FLEEN's Anne Thalheimer has a short post on how social networking leads to finding new comics.
NOT COMICS
- A nice interview with the creator and one of the stars of the teevee show Heroes. (Still haven't watched this though - should I?)
- 4 Color Rebellion reviews the latest episodes of the videogame Sam & Max. The comic version of Sam & Max was recently nominated for an Eisner. (4CR also has an interview with Telltale Games, the publisher of the S&M games.)
"Sheesh" Joins Modern Tales
Submitted by Shaenon Garrity on April 23, 2007 - 03:56
Modern Tales, one of the Web’s premier webcomics sites, is proud to announce the addition of a new comic strip to its lineup. Sheesh, written by Jim Keplinger and drawn by Steve Musgrave, follows the creative staff of Sheesh Studios in its efforts to produce the comic book Fish of Justice.
Alternative Press Expo
Details for this year's APE convention are here. Special guests include Hope Larson and Gene Yang. The dynamic duo of Shaenon Garrity and Andrew Farago will be moderating panels, including the interesting sounding "Socially Relevant Comics" panel.
Plus, a whole mess of folks from Cartoonists With Attitude group will be there:
- Matt Bors ("Idiot Box")
- Keith Knight ("The K Chronicles")
- Stephanie McMillan ("Minimum Security")
- Steve Notley ("Bob the Angry Flower")
- August Pollak ("Some Guy With a Website")
- Ted Rall (Silk Road to Ruin)
- Mikhaela Reid ("The Boiling Point")
- Shannon Wheeler ("How to be Happy")
- Masheka Wood ("Not Just Knee Deep")
Smithson: "Keep Your Eye on the Ball, Part 2"
Submitted by Brian Moore on April 12, 2007 - 12:39
This week in Smithson:
All-pachinko action in downtown Osaka! Well, there's probably a pinball arcade nearby too, but we don't see that.
(And remember we've got a new, easier-to-remember URL: http://www.smithsoncomic.com!)
And a new panel is added to Chapter 4 (So Far), The Short Version.
Smithson: "Keep Your Eye on the Ball, Part 1"
Submitted by Brian Moore on April 7, 2007 - 13:50
This week in Smithson:
Chuck and Micki have made their escape, and bonded a little in the process.
And now for something completely different ...
(And remember we've got a new, easier-to-remember URL: http://www.smithsoncomic.com!)
Narbonic Volume 4 now on sale!
Submitted by Shaenon Garrity on April 4, 2007 - 21:57
San Francisco, CA.—The fourth collection of Shaenon K. Garrity's award-winning webcomic Narbonic is now available through Garrity's website, www.narbonic.com.
Smithson: "Flash! Aaaah!"
Submitted by Brian Moore on March 29, 2007 - 17:45
This week in Smithson: Chuck and Micki make their way to safety through the campus steam tunnels.
Now you can get to the site by typing in http://www.smithsoncomic.com. Tell your friends!
